A new development company named Nice Mohawk with a pretty new list app.
Ita is a list-app ($0.99 on the App Store) for iPhone and iPad that syncs over iCloud. It is gorgeous. I'm not usually a fan of simulated paper on iOS but this design just makes me smile.
It's a very simple list app. There is no Dropbox syncing and the settings (all two of them) are only in the settings app (a pet peeve of mine).
This is part five in this series and likely the last. The previous parts can be found here:
Part 1: The Browser Part 2: Reference Material Part 3a: Sketching Apps Part 3b: Sketching Workflow Part 4: Plain Text This installment is broken into a few parts. No one in their right mind would read this entire article so I am including an index. The first is concerned with why I prefer working with PDF’s over eBooks.
Erik over at TheMindfulBit has a nice tip for quickly connecting an ordinary keyboard to an iOS device by way of the Mac application Type2Phone.
I made one little modification. I added AirServer into the mix (no scripting to connect automatically though). Voilà, Tweetbot on the Mac.1
I can't really handle using it like this though. I keep trying to click on it with the mouse. It did let me pretend that I had Tweetbot for the Mac, which was a moment of bliss.
The Tweetbot 2.4 update brings more advanced mute filters. It provides options to mute specific or general1 keywords as well as various Twitter clients and people. But Tweetbot makes mute filters a social interaction which is both funny and useful. Tap and hold on a filter to tweet it and allow followers to use the same filter. This is a trend I can really get behind. I look forward to the day when technology is sufficiently advanced to filter based on intelligence.
Today I noticed something odd while viewing a post I made. in Safari on my iPhone, an image was rotated incorrectly. Here's what it look like on my iPhone and iPad:
I'm not sure why, but I decided to check with Firefox 12 on Win7. No rotation.
Safari on my Mac also displays the image in landscape (not rotated)
What the heck is happening here? I snapped the original image in Lumin on my iPhone.
I'm adding to the cacophony of Coda blogging. It's good. It always been good. Every tweak on this site has been done with either Coda on my Mac or Textastic on my iPad. But Textastic is my least favorite way to work. Diet Coda1 is my new favorite.
Coda on the Mac is significantly better.
I kind of wish Panic made a note app for Dropbox. I guess if Dropbox ever provided direct SFTP login then Coda would work with it for text editing too.
I've accepted that eBooks are the future of reading. I say "accepted" because I was once a trophy reader. I prided myself on displaying the spoils of reading. I still have a large library of books on wood-pulp but I've abandoned them to their fate in my attic. There are thousands of books up there.
I stopped valuing the atoms in exchange of the ideas. The pleasure I once felt perusing my taxidermied collection of first editions and rare prints has been overwhelmed by the memories of moving boxes and cramped apartments.
Lumin has been out for awhile but I only recently discovered how useful it can be. Lumin is an electronic magnifying glass that uses the iPhone camera. I've used it a couple of times when I needed a close look at something while not at home. When I am at home, I have a jewelers loupe a retina-quality display.1
Here's the tip of my Adonit Jot snapped with Lumin.
A couple of weeks ago, my daughter was playing with a reflector rod used to mark my drive way.
Looks exactly like the kind of app I would have drooled over before I became a jaded ex-chemist. A bit pricey at $5 but incredibly cheap in the world of chemistry software. 1
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Simperium is the company behind Simplenote. It's now also a data syncing service. Simperium announced the Simperium API and it looks nothing short of amazing.1
Here's a fantastic example from their API Samples page:
Simperium is offering libraries to incorporate this impressive data sync into iOS, Javascript and Python based apps.
There are a number of other concept videos showing how developers can think about the Simperium service. I'm not sure if this could be done with iCloud in iOS, but I do know that this is not something that can be done with JavaScript and iCloud.
