Finally. I’ve been waiting for Apple to produce a new large-scale Cinema Display for a few years. I got mine today. Perfect size for viewing multiple documents at the same time and amazing color depth.
August 21st, 2010
RipIt – Great DVD ripping software
Rip/backup movies to your Mac, iPhone and iPad. I’ve tried other ripping software but was always disappointed. This is the first one that worked on every DVD I tried. I prefer to watch moving on my iPad so I really like to rip the DVDs I buy or rent and then watch them later on my iPad (at home, on a plane or in a hotel room).
Here’s a Daring Fireball link to a coupon code for RipId.
August 16th, 2010
Don’t be messin with P ≠ NP
June 30th, 2010
How Google Search Works
Cool and informative infographic by Dan Nosowitz on the inner workings of Google’s search system.
June 14th, 2010
GoodReader Update
I’ve been a fan of GoodReader since it was released for the iPad. It’s latest update includes some great enhancements. I really like the change to horizontal touch gestures for page scrolling and the PDF scrolling enhancements (background next/previous page caching).
June 14th, 2010
Amazing New News Reader for iPad – Reeder
We’ll, I thought I’d given up on my pursuit of a better news/rss/feed reader for the iPad. I think I tried them all (NetNewsWire, NewsRack and Pulse) but I continued to fall back to NetNewsWire. All the others I tried may have had more/better features but I still found NetNewsWire to be the most efficient reader for me. It also had my requisite Instapaper and Google Reader sync support. I started to use Reeder yesterday and I’m already overwhelmed by it’s utility. They placed every touch action/icon exactly were it’s most useful. It’s minimalistic design is easy on the eyes (good for long reading sessions) and the application is extremely efficient. Amazing breadth of features, performance and software quality for a just launched product. Thanks to lapsedcannible for the tip.
June 11th, 2010
Instapaper Article
Good article on Instapaper, “Why Instapaper Will Never Be Booted From the iTunes App Store“, one of my favorite iPhone/iPad applications. Many of the commenters have interesting points also so read the comments if you have the time.
I also use RSS feed readers on the iPad/iPhone (NetNewsWire, NewsRack and I’ve recently have been trying out Pulse). I can’t imagine that I’d be able to browse so many news sources without these apps and their access to traditional media’s content.
May 31st, 2010
Fruit Ninja: Incredibly addictive iPhone game
My son and I are really enjoying Fruit Ninja on the iPhone and iPad. Whenever you need some almost mindless entertainment this is your game to play — and it’s only 99 cents. It doesn’t currently support native resolution on the iPad but it scales up very well. I assume they’ll release an HD version for the iPad at sometime. Enjoy.
May 29th, 2010
iPad, Mac Mini and a Great Monitor – all you need
Interesting article, Why an iPad and a Mac mini are my computing future, from TUAW. I’d probably do the same thing if I didn’t already have a fairly new Mac Pro.
May 24th, 2010
More iPad applications I like
- Twitterific (until Tweetie, now Twitter owned, releases an iPad version)
- ABC Player (for ABC TV Shows)
- Skype
- Amazon.com
- Netflix
- Marvel Comics
- iCurrencyPad
- Scrabble
- BigBadSudoku (amazing efficient UI)
- Hangman (titles pulled from latest news stories)
- ImplodeXL
- Fieldrunners (iPad version)
- 10 PinShufffle (must have iPad app)
- Pinball HD
- Labyrinth 2 HD
- Dizzypad HD
- Plants vs Zombies HD
- Ludo (Trouble “like” game)
- Strategery