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iPad journals – the losers

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

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 for iPad – the winner!

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

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 [...]

Readers Digest Magazine

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

I used to read Readers Digest Magazine, and now I can read it on the iPad – the print magazine is small format, so it’s transfer to iPad works very well in portrait mode (although rather less well in landscape): There’s a few oddities with this first release – downloading is too ready to fail [...]

(Not) cooking with Epicurious

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

First … I’m not a cook, but I like food! My next door neighbor does like cooking though, so we checked out Epicurious; start it up and it opens with a list of featured recipe categories: There’s lots of ways to find a recipe – I fancy “decadent desserts”, so touch the tab and you [...]