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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
