You might be an OmniFocus guru or a Things aficionado. But the Due app for iOS is a valuable addition to any toolbox (TUAW review). It's not for scheduling your life or planning a project. It's for those times when you really don't want to forget something but it's just not going to make it into your task list. Those unplanned imminent tasks.
Due is more of a timer than a scheduler.
Ridiculous Fish has blog that is very good reading for beginners. It might well be good reading for more advanced Cocoa programmers but I’m not one to say since I am a beginner.
Make sure to start at the beginning of the posts and work towards the more recent articles.
This is some really high quality work and attention to detail. If you add the tag "@done" at the end of a line in NVAlt, the text is automatically displayed with a strikethrough line, a la TaskPaper. It's not reformatted. It's still just plain text. But NVAlt displays it as if it was formatted with a strikethrough.
Also, don't forget the double brackets automatically create links to other notes.
Another great update for iThoughts HD on the iPad. This app just keeps getting better and better. Not just little needless tweaks either. They keep improving the core functionality and responsiveness. iThoughts HD on the iPad beats pretty much every mind-mapping application I've ever used on a desktop machine.
Just look at this list of ways to get data out of the app:
And just check out the fantastic looking email export if you use the new task settings in a mind-map:
I tried Paprika (Mac AppStore link) awhile back on the iPad but I did not like their paid syncing solution and there was not a corresponding Mac application. Both of those issues are now gone. Syncing is free and the application is available across iPhone, iPad and Mac. It’s a lovely looking app and has some nice features like meal planning and shopping lists.
The Financial Times recently introduced their new HTML5 web-app as an alternative to releasing a native app for iOS. Now the Zuckernaut is purportedly building an HTML5 web app for Facebook. There’s been a bit of FUD floating around that this is somehow a stick in the eye to Apple.
This is exactly what Apple has always wanted. Steve said 4 years ago that there are two development platforms for iOS.
I recently attended a four day conference. The subject isn’t all that important (generally, the interface of science and IT). What is important is that I decided to take the opportunity to test a number of iPad apps that I had only noodled around with previously. The experiment was really about testing the idea that the iPad can replace both a laptop and a pad of paper for taking notes. I’ll always be a pen-geek and a notebook snob.
Reeder is a terrific, albeit unique, RSS feed reader. The unusual take on organizing feed groups into stacks of unread articles takes some getting used to. I have been using it exclusivley on iOS for some time now. However, I’m always eager to check out a new app that is garnering some attention so I gave Mr. Reader a try.
Over all, Mr. Reader is quite good.The feed organization is logical and easy to navigate.
The iPad keyboard works quite well for general typing. Where it falls short is accessing the extended keys such as @, *, #, [ and alike. Forget trying to type a tab character on the standard iOS keyboard. It’s not available in most applications. The tab requires a developer to implement a custom keyboard like Nebulous Notes (which is rare). Consequently, a user is required to tap the “.?123” key on either side of the space key to access most of the special keys.
I listen to a large number of Podcasts. My queue of podcasts has almost doubled since Dan's 5by5 really started pumping out quality material. While I love the increased variety, managing and sycning has become a mjor stumbling block to getting the latest content. Even if I charge my iPhone all night, I still need to connect it to Mac to sync with iTunes every morning before I leave for the office.
