MakeUseOf has a nice review of Whitelines notebooks and iOS apps. It’s similar to the latest Evernote and Moleskine collaboration.
The paper is subtly marked to allow the scanner app to auto orient and correct image layout and color. It’s a nice idea and I’m sure it works great. I’d still prefer a better sketching and handwritten notes app on iOS. I’d really love to see an industry standard that can be adopted by paper manufacturers.
What an amazing home brewing controller.
By way of Hackaday
I have very little to say about the iPhone 5 announcement that has not already been said by a dozen other people. But I do have a strong opinion about the lack of NFC.
I’ll skip the rumor mongering that lead to the NFC speculations and get straight to it. I’m glad Apple is not using NFC in the new iPhone. My iPhone already has one of the best data transmission options available, a retina display and a high resolution camera.
The Fujitsu ScanSnap is a marvel of engineering.1 I use mine every day. There are a few things that I can’t send through a ScanSnap though. Documents found on the floor of a car, covered in glitter, or just not flat and smooth enough to go through the ScanSnap rollers all require more care.
Using a scanner on the Mac has never been easier than in Lion and Mountain Lion.
UPDATE: I failed to define my limitations at work. I’m stuck on Windows and must go through Exchange. My iPhone connects to corporate Exchange. I have no Mac access to Exchange email. Sorry for the confusion.
My job requires that I respond to urgent system outages in a timely manner. Fortunately “urgent” is well defined and does not happen often. But I do need to know when it happens. As a result I have my iPhone set to alert me of email messages.
I've been using the Logitech K760 keyboard for two weeks and I am very happy with it. This is not a full review of the keyboard because Dan Frakes at Macworld already did that admirably. This post is to highlight a couple unique features and talk about keyboard layouts.
Until the Apple Bluetooth keyboard, I actually despised all wireless keyboards. The major shortcoming with most wireless keyboards is that they take time to wake up and reconnect and often have a barely perceptible lag when typing.
Only four mice?
I use a WiebeTech v4 connector and it is great. The entire kit with all the adapter can be expensive but it's the multi-tool of hard drives.
I’m part of the 1%. That is, I have access to FiOS here in the US which grants me the privilege of ridiculous Internet speeds at home. I recently upgraded to the Verizon 75/35 Mbps plan.1
Of course the Verizon Speedtest always shows amazing speeds. In reality, I experienced a slowdown a couple of weeks after upgrading. I quick call to Verizon produced a curious suggestion. “Go to this Apple support page and download their Tuner installer”.
Excellent review from Dan Frakes about the Logitech Solar Keyboard.
I've used the K750 on my Windows machine for almost a year. It replaced a Das Keyboard and I have been very happy with it. This new one looks perfect. I won't lament the lack of the Logitech Control Center like Dan does. I've got Keyboard Maestro and LCC is an abomination. One of the only controls that ever killed a Mac when I upgraded the OS (Snow Leopard if I recall correctly).
A clever tutorial for controlling an LED from an iPhone. The tutorial includes the ObjC code too.
