Negative Space: iPad
- Dark Thursday’s iPad goes far
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Give them this: when everybody else’s cell phones were dying, my iPad and Verizon allowed me to make fun of SDG&E’s twitter feed throughout the night.
- Esmerelda and me: road trip with iPad
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My friends call it my girlfriend, because I trust its directions more than theirs. And because it’s right, baby.
- A gaming library in my pocket?
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The iBooks application, like, I suspect, all good e-reader software, lets you drag and drop PDFs and images into it.
- iOS Handwriting calculator that solves equations
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MyScript Calculator is a calculator program for the iPhone and iPad that lets you write your calculations by hand—and you will even solve them for you!
- The iPad as a dealership-locked automobile
- Yes, computers need to get easier to use just like cars did. But the iPod Touch model is nothing like the automobile market.
- iPad audio blogging answer: Pocket Wavepad HD
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After searching for an audio recording app that would save in MP3 format and do email, I kept a few of the apps that didn‘t do what I wanted but that showed promise. One of them was Pocket Wavepad HD. NCH Software has a feedback page, and I think I made two suggestions, as I recall: allow saving in mp3, and use the internal filename as the e-mailed filename.[I sent a similar message to the writer of SmartRecorder, so I don’t remember exactly…
- It’s a wonderfully Eerie life
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We live in an amazing world. When the Internet first arrived to our workplace, I would take notes during the con and then stay up late rewriting them into con reports. Sometimes I would try bringing a laptop, but they were heavy, I had to carefully track battery time…
- 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.
- Nothing is obvious on a computer
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Some things are only obvious after we know about them.
- One great iPad music app, and one good iPad music app
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I don’t remember how I ran across Guitar World’s Lick of the Day app. I might have been looking around for MusicNotes.com’s app, which I ran across while looking for sheet music of America, the Beautiful. There was surprisingly little good, simple versions I could use for guitar, for free. MusicNotes.com put the full first page of their version online, and it worked, so after a few weeks of internal whining about the lack of a good free version,…
- Pocket Gods & Monsters
- Quick access to common tables from the Gods & Monsters rulebook. This is an HTML 5 web app, so it should work on any iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. It’s set up as an off-line app, so you should be able to bookmark it and then use it on your laptop or mobile device even when you don’t have network access.
- Preflighting blog comments in the Pythonista share screen
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I now use Pythonista’s sharing extension to ensure that comments on other people’s blogs are appropriately formatted.
- Spread your wings: the new iPad
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Looks cool. Looks better than anything else out there. Now, when can I start writing my own programs for it?
- Still-life with electronics
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The Belkin mini-surge protector in use.
- A tale of two keyboards: iwerkz and Logitech K760
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Several months ago I replaced an aging Apple wireless keyboard with a Logitech K760 solar keyboard and an iwerkz portable folding keyboard. Both of these bluetooth keyboards do great in their intended purpose.
More Information
- Textastic
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This is a “powerful and fast text editor” both for iPad and Mac OS X. The iPad version has built-in SFTP support making it very useful for editing files on remote servers.
- 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.”
- Native Union Moshi Moshi Retro POP Handset•
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This is a faithful reproduction of the old-style telephone handset, perfect for use with the iPad 2 on Skype.
- Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either)
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I generally agree with Cory on this, although I doubt that the iPad will be as useless as he claims at the end. Just because we can’t create software for it outside of web apps doesn’t mean that other creative applications won’t be written. If Nisus makes an iPad version of Nisus Writer, for example, I’ll probably get one. Depending on how useful web apps are, I may get one for programming—JavaScript, CSS, and XHTML is a powerful combination. I’m just into programming, though. Cory sounds like he’s into hardware hacking, too, and so for him the iPad is completely unsuitable. (It’s also unsuitable for you if you expect to benefit from…
