The beauty of attracting smart people to the comments section of Macdrifter.com is that they write smart things. "Mo65" mentioned ZoomNotes in the comments to my Real World Note Taking post. I've been fascinated with it ever since.
ZoomNotes is a sketching app. Its unique feature is a virtually unlimited level of zoom, but with a couple twists. Rather than drawing with a super-magnified line when zoomed in, the line autoscales with the zoom level.
Since the iOS 5.1 update, my iPhone 4S has had terrible battery life. I joked about it being related to the new "4G" label displayed on the phone. That joke stopped being funny to me when I needed to charge my phone three times a day.
Next, I noticed that the slide to unlock would occasionally stutter. At least once a day I observed app icons randomly displaying a loading progress bar when they were not being updated.
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.
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.
Double tapping on the Messages selector will provide an option to mark all DM's as read.
Double tapping on the Timeline selector will jump to the top of the timeline.
Double tapping the Profile selector will open a web view to Favstar for the current account.
There's a lot of speculation about the Apple TV display. I think there will eventually be one but I also think there are greater opportunities for Apple. A computer display with built-in Airplay would help to transform iOS into a full fledged computing platform. But the display must be paired with a changes in iOS mirroring.
I agree with Viticci's assessment of the iOS-ification1 of OS X. But there is one feature missing from iOS that will prevent it from ever being effective with an external display: a cursor.
This is the first thing I have seen that made me consider jail breaking my iPhone. Just turning off WiFi by voice is worth it.
I'm not a fan of jail breaking. I've done it but quickly reverted. It's just not worth the hassle of waiting for an updated jail break to upgrade the OS. I'd rather accept iOS as it is and be confident I'm installing trusted applications and that I am fully supported by Apple.
I've been noodling away on a review of Twitter clients for the iPad, but Viticci did a great job. Read his instead.
Clark seems to like the official client. For me, I've stopped using the official client because I no longer trust Twitter's design sense. I've been using TweetCaster Pro on the iPad for basic twitter use. I like the simple conversation and attachment view. On the iPhone I use Tweetbot.
WritePad is probably the definitive handwriting recognition app for iOS. It’s been updated to version 6. It’s a very capable note taking app. WritePad supports Dropbox syncing and Google Docs access. There is also support for Spanish and French recognition (in app purchase) as well as a user dictionary and shorthand support. There’s really no training necessary although it does allow some minor tweaks to how recognition is performed.
There’s a good round of discussion about the appropriate way to implement a mute switch. Gruber favors the current design. Andy doesn’t.
I agree with Gruber on this one. According to Andy’s design, I would have to go in and manually disable all audible alerts in the settings every time I wanted to use an alarm. Otherwise, the damn phone would be dinging every few minutes from incoming email. Yes, I have audible email alerts.
