Browsing Productivity category.

LogMeIn on new iPad

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Another App that is hugely improved by the “retina” display of new iPad is LogMeIn which allows remote access and control of any PC/Mac from your iPad. I don’t see that LogMeIn has been updated, but it seems to automatically take advantage of the increased resolution to give a much clearer view of my home [...]

Road Trip MPG logging

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Since I got my iPad, one thing I’ve really wanted to do is track my car MPG; I’ve been doing it since I owned a car, but using a spreadsheet on my home computer – and by now it’s clear that I should be able to do it on a portable device! I checked out [...]

Remote PC / Mac access

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

One of the things I regularly need to do “on the road” is access my office Mac computer – which also runs Windows XP in a Parallels install; a while back I tried the free Mocha VNC Lite, but there were a few issues. I’ve tried a few other VNC Apps, and settled for now [...]

Desktop

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Desktop is curiously named, as it basically divides your iPad screen in two and lets you load a different (or the same) function in to each half – most usefully perhaps, two browsers looking at two different web pages, or a browser and a notepad … The App offers a number of choices to load [...]

Perfect Web Browser

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Atomic Web Browser remains my favorite App browser, but last night I purchased Perfect Web Browser after reading it’s claim Perfect Browser can spoof user agent string and render web pages like the target browser of your choice: Chrome, Opera, Firefox or IE, with a startling 1:1 level of similarity; I contacted the author to [...]

Sketching with Calc & Draw

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

An amusing little App I tried today, because it’s on special offer FREE for the weekend, Calc & Draw; you’re offered a “blank slate” (slate, green, or lined), and a set of colored “pencils” to draw with – you can adjust the line thickness – as well as an eraser; you simply point on the [...]

Recommended: Atomic Web Browser

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Even before getting my iPad, I’d been thinking about developing a better browser than Safari – and especially once I got my iPad, since switching from one “tab” page to another in Safari is much too inefficient. I was thinking that it would be great to be able to swipe left/right, maybe with two fingers, [...]

Feeddler – a solution for Google Reader

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

When I got my iPad, I expected to be able to use it instead of my Macbook Pro for most quick tasks – accessing mail and websites from a comfy chair, etc. But one thing that’s frustrated me is RSS feeds! I’ve set up Google Reader to track RSS feeds from various forums and websites [...]