The original authoritative review by Serenity Caldwell at Macworld. Serenity also provides a followup resource at Macworld with a complete buying guide.
The Verge gives the same overview in case someone doesn't read Macworld.
I'm sure Serenity will get her hands on the Adonit pressure sensitive stylus soon to provide a full review.
I use the Cosmonaut stylus but the Adonit looks superior for drawing fine details.
I was as excited as Eddie about this update to Scanner Pro for iOS. It's now universal. If you're still using a photocopier to digitize short documents, you are doing it wrong. Scanner Pro is very good.
Nice update to the best calculator on any hardware. The latest update for iOS looked small, but it now launches lightning fast on the New iPad.
I've been noodling around with Drafts since it was released this weekend. Drafts is a basic note app that allows a user to jump right into making words and doing something with them. I love the concept. It reminds me a bit of OmniFocus for iOS in it's ability to quickly get to the reason for its existence.
When OmniFocus first launches, even before the data has loaded, I can start adding a new action item.
I don't know how Jesse Grosjean did it, but somehow WriteRoom for iOS is syncing at an unbelievable rate with Dropbox. It's as if it is constantly syncing after every keystroke. It's syncing faster than Simplenote, which would make it the first Dropbox based text editor on iOS that could compete with sync on Simplenote.
To check it, I turned on Growl to notify me of Dropbox changes. As I wrote in WriteRoom on my iPad, I could see Prowl on my iPad flashing every second or two, indicating an updated file.
Today my family celebrated another spring together, or as some spiritual folks call it, Easter. We had a great time. Unlike the Easters of my childhood, today we shared it with family all over the country and my daughter will have videos of the entire affair when she is my age.
Grandma was able to join us over FaceTime. From the first sleepy steps out of bed to the delightful giggles of a three year old discovering a basket of goodies, Grandma could be with us.
I was a huge Filemaker user back in the mid-nineties. I built chemistry databases on Filemaker and truly enjoyed it. The application has felt stagnant for the past couple of releases and I had lost track of how it was evolving.
Filemaker 12 is out and it looks like they took all of the polish from Bento, added the power of Filemaker and threw in an iOS app (additional purchase). They've definitly piqued my interest again.
This post is only going to be interesting to someone that lives in plain text. More specifically, someone that creates and maintains a large number of plain text files.
I killed Simplenote awhile ago. They're working on a fix for the problem, but in the meantime I had the "opportunity" to look for Dropbox-centric options. There were few apps that could handle a large collection of notes.
Requirements I have some minimum requirements for an iOS text editor.
I’ve written before about the subtle changes I’ve witnessed in large corporate IT sensibilities. What was once subtle acknowledgement of Apple is becoming an awkward embrace.
Exchange Apple’s full support of Microsoft Exchange has meant many executive and mid-level employees have been able to access corporate email and they could easily configure it themselves. iOS Exchange support does not require a technical understanding of what Exchange email and calendars are. A typical user can connect and sync with Exchange with little assistance.
I like OmniOutliner for iPad1 quite a bit. It is a truly unique and powerful outlining tool. But I'm tired of waiting for better document management. Manually uploading and downloading documents to a webdav is no longer sufficient. Having a flat view to many dozens of documents is no longer tenable.2
CarbonFin Outliner CarbonFin Outliner is $5 for iPad and $3 for iPhone. If you have used CarbonFin Outliner in the past, then I may have little of value to offer you in this post.
