Right since I got my iPad, I’ve been wanting to use it as a daily journal – but I have MANY years of paper journals that I also would want to enter in to the iPad, so I’ve been looking for a journal App with easy entry capability, including a simple way to enter “past” [...]
Maxjournal was the “dark horse” of journal Apps; when I first tried it, it had very limited capabilities but a major update in October brought it to the point where it was very close to exactly what I wanted! The user interface is clean but very informative and useable: The main part of the screen [...]
While AirPrint might be available one day, right now it’s missing. I’d already found that my HP printer is not new enough for the iPad to recognize it, though it works fine with various iPad printing Apps; so I’d hoped that it would be possible to print via my iMac, but last nights 10.6.5 update [...]
Google Instant is quite an interesting new feature; when you search at Google.com you are given actual search results rather than the previous search suggestions. On a large screen computer it makes some sense: The new feature is now being made available on portable devices like the iPad – but it’s pretty pointless when most [...]
With iOS 4.2 on iPad, we can finally play Pandora “custom radio station” music in the background. A nice trick is that you can double tap the home button to access play controls (and the sadly stolen-from-switch rotation lock setting), without exiting any running App – it just slides up out of the way temporarily [...]
After a few hours, I’ve been able to get iOS 4.2 on to my iPad – some effort is needed to find a useable torrent for iPad1,1_4.2_8C134_Restore.ipsw, and also to download iTunes 10.1 beta (without iTunes 10.1, you will get an iOS 4.2 iPad which cannot be used!) First thoughts … folders are finally available! [...]
