Negative Space: iOS apps
- Apple goes to the Swift
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The most exciting part of the WWDC keynote last Monday wasn‘t the new operating systems for the Macintosh and iDevices. It was the announcement of the new Swift programming language for MacOS and iOS. A new programming language is my equivalent of “one more thing…”
- Apple TV review
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The Apple TV brings app-store functionality to the big screen. It beats the hell out of all built-in Smart TV interfaces I’ve seen. I’ve not only cut the cord with cable television, I’ve cut the cord with all monthly fees.
- HotPaw Basic on iOS
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Looks like there’s a minor renaissance in programming languages on the iPhone and iPad. HotPaw BASIC is one of the first.
- Must-have iOS app: Editorial
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Editorial stands out among Markdown editors by being far more flexible and at the same time easier to use.
- Must-have iOS apps
- Apps for the iPhone and iPad that make doing things incredibly easier.
- Must-have iPad app: Inkpad
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The Inkpad app makes it easy to not only create vector (SVG) graphics on the iPad, but also to add them to existing photographs.
- Photo Resize, Rotate, Flip & Compress
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This is a simple app that fills a surprising gap in Photo apps: it allows resizing and compressing images with automatic recalculation of file size.
More Information
- Classix for iPhone, iPad & Apple TV
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“Watch classic TV shows and movies recommended just for you. Classix has something for everyone. There’s even cartoons and movies just for kids with family-friendly entertainment.”
Classix is a nice app; the only problems I see are that (a) it doesn’t seem to let you rate movies, despite showing a star rating in the description, and (b) it doesn’t seem to share the watch list automatically between iOS devices. But it has some great old (public domain) movies and it makes it easy to browse and watch them.
- Pythonista
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“Bring the Zen of Python to iOS.”
- Editorial
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“Editorial is a plain text editor for iPad and iPhone with powerful automation tools and a beautiful inline preview for writing Markdown. You can combine a large selection of simple text processing actions into your very own workflows—all in an intuitive drag’n’drop interface that makes it easy to see what's happening.”
- Inkpad
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“Inkpad is an open-source vector illustration app. It was designed from scratch for the iPad. It supports paths, compound paths, text, images, groups, masks, gradient fills, and an unlimited number of layers.”
