Review: Delicious Library 3

Way back in 2004 Wil Shipley left the famous Mac development company Omni to found Delicious Monster. It was a simple app for cataloguing your media and books. What made it unique was a real bookshelf with cover images for all your books. An UI Apple later “borrowed” for iBooks on iOS. This was long [...]

Review: Reflector

One problem I’ve had with podcasts is getting the dang things to sync. I often listen to podcasts when doing non-mentally engaging busy work on the computer. It’s not the sort of thing you could do when programming but if you’re just doing bills it works great. However at the time Apple’s podcast app sucked [...]

Evernote Quick Entry

I’ve meant to comment on Gabe’s list of third party Evernote apps for iOS from a few weeks ago. Unfortunately I’ve been in the middle of a big remodel at my house and then we had a bunch of illness. (Baby had rsv & my wife had to have surprise surgery to remove her gallbladder [...]

Filmic Pro: Giving Up?

Filmic Pro is one of those apps that I absolutely loved. Then they made a change. Now I rarely use it and may take it off my phone entirely. Why? Because their last major update changed a key component of the workflow. Originally you could set an option so it would save it’s data to [...]

How to Read in the Tub

I’m a recent convert to e-books. Part of it was that I found a bunch of free e-books with some stories I actually wanted to read. Part of it was deciding to try out books I was already going to read as e-books. I read two of Brandon Sanderson’s1 novels, The Alloy of Law and The [...]

ControllerMate

So this week in my spare time I tried to set up a Master Meta Key using the caps lock key. Lots of people have written about this, including Dr. Drang. It’s been on my todo list for ages. I use a lot of macros and it’s nice to have keys that don’t conflict with [...]

BlueStacks

BlueStacks lets you run Android apps on OSX. I was surprised how well this works. Sadly it has no shared clipboard like Parallels offers. That meant that typing in some of my long complicated passwords from 1Password were quite the pain. Since I was more just curious I wasn’t about to purchase 1Password for Android. [...]

Google Maps Initial Review

Like nearly everyone I downloaded the new Google Maps for iOS. This removes several of the limitations the old Google Map app had. (That app was written by Apple and Google limited what they could do with it) It now has turn by turn directions, vector graphics, a pseudo-3D mode, and Google Earths true 3D [...]

1Password 4

So as many of you know 1Password 4 for iOS is out in iTunes. They can’t do real upgrades with the app store they are simply providing a new app. They are however doing upgrade pricing so for the next week or so at $7.99. It seemed a little steep to me but now that [...]

Instapaper Mac Clients

I kind of fell into using Instapaper. Originally I was using Read It Later which became Pocket. Then someone on Ars offered me their Starbucks coupon for Instapaper. I went to use it but unfortunately tried it late at night when exhausted. Without attempting to justify myself in the least I accidentally bought Instapaper. Having [...]

Initial Google Voice Search Review

I’ve not done a long list of queries. But when I was picking my kids up at school I ran a bunch of queries on both Siri and Google.  Probably about a couple dozen repeated for both services. I should note I tend to use voice actions only when I’m driving. Honestly I don’t need search [...]

Microsoft Ergonomic 4000

So I broke down and got a new keyboard. I’ve been looking at keyboards for a long time. Years really. My old MS Office Keyboard, which I love, has started to have problems. My last gen Apple full keyboard1 has its shift key not working anymore. I have one other, but I have it hooked [...]

Lightning 30 pin Adaptor

My 30 pin adaptor for the lightning connector arrived today. I was pretty anxious about this for several reasons. First, it’s been a real pain carrying the USB cable around. But since it doesn’t really fit ideally into a pocket I’m also pretty paranoid about losing it – especially when there are so few cables [...]

Maps Revisited

I nearly posted this a week and a half ago. But I realized I was burnt out on map discussions and it seemed like everyone else was too. I finally decided it was still worth sharing. About a week and a half ago I drove to Seattle for several days on business. I’d already tested [...]

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