For almost the first year I owned an iPad, my browser of choice was not Safari, but Atomic Web Browser; I find the tabbed browsing much better than the scheme used by Safari – especially the ease with which links can be opened “background”. But now, Atomic is off my iPad, replaced with iCab Mobile! [...]
Unfortunately, iDOS was a short-lived visitor to the App store, but (thanks Josh) I did grab a copy … iDOS is a quite full featured DOS emulator running on iPad, good enough in fact that someone got Windows 3.1 running within it! I didn’t go that far, but I did get Lemmings The Tribes running [...]
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 [...]
A quick reminder about Atomic Web Browser. My habit when web-surfing is to visit a site (TUAW, Google News, whatever), and open all interesting links in a new tab, while reading the main page; then I can go to those other tabs to follow the links I opened. This works fine in Safari on my [...]
Just now, I almost had to use my desktop machine to post a weblog entry on GBMINI.net; I needed to “right-click” to get the address of an image, but no way to do that on my iPad! But a quick App search gave me IHTMLplus which easily displayed the raw HTML from my Gallery page, [...]
This App was one I downloaded and wrote about early; it doesn’t do much except display memory statistics, battery remaining (which you can see on the top status bar of the iPad if you configure it) and a few other things. But it’s main downsides (overrun with mini adverts and portrait mode only) have been [...]
One thing I definitely have to do when away from the office, is access my office computer; on my Macbook Pro portable, I use Chicken of the VNC to log in to Windows XP running RealVNC; both free and very useable solutions. On the iPhone I had tried Mocha VNC Lite, but it’s almost useless [...]
I don’t buy into the iPad as a laptop replacement—not quite. But it is fantastic at tapping into your computers to access video and audio, documents, and even your full desktop, remotely. Here’s how. GIZMODO discusses Air Video, StreamToMe, GoodReader, Mocha VNC Lite and Desktop Connect. I’ve used VNC Lite, but it can’t handle 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, [...]
Are you a techie / geek that needs to know the insides of everything? You might like Pad Info, which is free (but offers advert links) and does one task only – displaying a pile of internal iPad data: So now you know all about the iPad memory usage, although the rest of the info [...]
