I've only had an iPad for 4 days, but Zite is my favorite news aggregator / personal magazine so far.
― waxing gibbous (Sanpaku), Thursday, 11 August 2011 02:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, I've tried a lot and Zite's my favourite.
― Alba, Thursday, 11 August 2011 08:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Any good Tower Defense for the iPad besides Plants vs Zombies?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
a couple dozen. i'd start with anomaly, which is an inverse tower defense
― A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 September 2011 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
The geodefense games are good if you like vector graphics.
― polyphonic, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fieldrunners.
― Alba, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
so I got 1 of these w/ keyboard and am gonna use it as my 'primary computer' (I have a v. old laptop to use when necessary but my life involves v. little non-text content creation / programs that can't be ipaded)
onlive is...amazing? how is this even legal?
― iatee, Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
ya that program kinda weirds me out that it even exists
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
gj buying an ipad 3 weeks before the new ones come out i guess
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
I bought a refurbished ipad 2 for $419 because I needed a tablet right now for day-to-day stuff and I did not think that whatever money I would have saved when the price goes down a tad was worth not having an ipad now. I would have also bought a refurbished ipad 2 'when the new ones come out'.
― iatee, Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
wtf at onlive desktop.when did this go live?
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
1) what is onlive2) what is the latest on ipad3 release/ipad2 price drop
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
onlive streams a windows desktop to your ipad, a desktop w/ word, powerpoint, excel and a mouse
― iatee, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
the pay version also lets you use internet explorer, with which (I think?) you could use flash stuff
― iatee, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/technology/personaltech/onlive-desktop-plus-puts-windows-7-on-the-ipad-in-blazing-speed-state-of-the-art.html?_r=2&nl=technology&emc=cta1&pagewanted=all
― iatee, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
ipad 3 march 7, nothing about 2 price drop
― caek, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
uh, that 1 gig per sec element is news to me; that's sick.
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
thanks dudes
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks to
- iThoughts HD (for Freemind-like mindmaps)- TouchDraw (for Visio-like flowcharts and org charts)- iMockups (for Balsamiq-like screen mockups)- Notes Plus- iDesk- wireless keyboard
my workflow at work is suddenly insanely awesome.
Also picked up Notability the other day. Looks like a really good competitor to Notes Plus and Note Taker HD, but I need to play with it a bit more.
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 25 February 2012 08:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
love flipbook
― iatee, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 05:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
er flipboard
Paper is really good. The simplicity makes it easy to just open and draw stuff. No pen thicknesses, no colour pickers etc. The colour tool (watercolour brush thing) is fiddly though, and the provided colours aren't labelled, so people like me draw orange grass.
― TURPS-DEFCON1.jpg (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 2 April 2012 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
cloudon - onlive stripped down and easier to use
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm after an app that scrapes out the videos from my Facebook wall and will play them in turn as a background process. Does anyone know if an app like this exists?
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 15 April 2012 09:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Anyone who fancies a drawing app, get Procreate. Zero lag on ipad 3, ridiculously comprehensive brush customisation, lovely interface, e.g. sliders for brush size & opacity unobtrusively right there on the screen. Sketchbook is pretty well thought out too but it has slight lag and the ui just feels slightly less friendly, although it's hardly thrown together. ArtStudio actually wins on the toolset - dodge/burn, blur, gradient fill, select tools, all missing from procreate & sketchbook, although you can kinda fake them with smudging, opacity & layer effects - but the ui is cartoony and unwieldy. iDraw has massive massive lag.
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 10:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
otm, procreate is really quite incredible
― o s– man (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 11:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Any recommendations on a text editor with Dropbox integration that can open text files with any extension, not just txt? In particular I want to edit Tex files (not run Tex, just edit the files.
― Euler, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
notesy does that (just checked it will open a tex file)
― caek, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
cool, thanks!
― Euler, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 14:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't use it for serious editing (ON IPHONE) so not sure if it's up to that
― caek, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah not really into serious editing ON IPAD just on flights etc I might wanna tweak my beamer nahmean?
― Euler, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
caek, dl'ed this & synched it with nv on my mbp via Dropbox but don't see how to access my full Dropbox file system. Is this doable?
― Euler, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's a bit hacky, but under settings > dropbox, you can change the folder there. you have to type the name.
― caek, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
it seems like it's kind of geared to using NV ON IPHONE (i.e. flat directories)
― caek, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah I dig that, have been using simplenote that way for a while, but I sometimes just wanna f with tex files on the run too. The hack will do!
― Euler, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
could I also add some kind of symbolic link in my notesy folder to my other db folders that I want to access in notesy? my unix majick is weak
― Euler, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, that works. just checked.
e.g. open up terminal and do something like
ln -s ~/research/writing/importantpaper/ ~/Dropbox/notes/importantpaper
where you change the two paths as necessary
― caek, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
first path is the directory you keep your paper in, second path is going to show up as a subdirectory of your notesy db.
― caek, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
it will also show PDFs in that directory. it lists them as "not a note", but if you tap them it shows you the PDF
― caek, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah I can do that; would be even sweeter if I could just navigate to my dropbox folders & edit what I'd like, but I'll take this. feel like "folder structure" isn't really a thing in the new iOS world & maybe I should try living more in that world but I have lots of papers & talks in various stages of completion & I'm used to keeping them separate. & I still keep multiple drafts of docs in progress b/c I want to know what version I sent to so-and-so so when they give me comments I know what they're talking about, & so things get messy. gotta figure all this out. anyway thanks!
― Euler, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
i tried putting "/" as the notes folder path in notesy's settings but i think it got confused. you could try that though?
multiple drafts is, in the long run, enormously simplified by using version control, although that doesn't obviate the need for folders, and there is a learning curve.
but yeah, folders are old school. my adviser has a separate folder for everyone he's ever got email from. smdh.
― caek, Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just how good is NoteTaker? And are there any decent apps that convert handwriting to typed.... words? For some reason I'm finding it hard to phrase this very simple question. I'm going to bed.
― ljubljana, Friday, 8 June 2012 03:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
note taker hd is good but looks like it was designed by a linux user. notes plus has decent handwriting recognition but performs like shit on the retina ipad.
― that's not kewell (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 June 2012 03:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
Linux-esque design = unintuitive?
― ljubljana, Friday, 8 June 2012 11:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
it's not the most attractive or minimal design you've ever seen
― that's not kewell (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 June 2012 12:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/uplink/id522659218?mt=8 <- i don't have an ipad but the orignal was awesome so i presume this is too :D
― DG, Friday, 8 June 2012 15:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
If anyone is interested in really attractive iPad digital magazines, check out the German magazine Done or the Japanese magazine Katachi.
― Darin, Friday, 8 June 2012 16:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
suddenly the ipad is usefull
http://www.retronaut.co/2011/10/icade/
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:32 (10 months ago) Permalink
played w/one of those in a store the other week. the stick is a bit too loose, but it's otherwise p. good. Paperboy was spot on, and I died in the usual locations.
― stet, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
ios 6.1 has killed a load of adobe-based magazine apps (they crash on opening if there's no data connection). fast company and gq中国 have issued app fixes so far.
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 February 2013 22:12 (3 months ago) Permalink