Negative Space: iPad


- Dark Thursday’s iPad goes far
- Give them this: when everybody else’s cell phones were dying, my iPad and Verizon allowed me to make fun of SDG&E’s twitter feed throughout the night.
- Esmerelda and me: road trip with iPad
- My friends call it my girlfriend, because I trust its directions more than theirs. And because it’s right, baby.
- A gaming library in my pocket?
- The iBooks application, like, I suspect, all good e-reader software, lets you drag and drop PDFs and images into it.
- The iPad as a dealership-locked automobile
- Yes, computers need to get easier to use just like cars did. But the iPod Touch model is nothing like the automobile market.
- iPad audio blogging answer: Pocket Wavepad HD
- After searching for an audio recording app that would save in MP3 format and do email, I kept a few of the apps that didn‘t do what I wanted but that showed promise. One of them was Pocket Wavepad HD. NCH Software has a feedback page, and I think I made two suggestions, as I recall: allow saving in mp3, and use the internal filename as the e-mailed filename.[I sent a similar message to the writer of SmartRecorder, so I don’t remember exactly…
- Nothing is obvious on a computer
- Some things are only obvious after we know about them.
- One great iPad music app, and one good iPad music app
- I don’t remember how I ran across Guitar World’s Lick of the Day app. I might have been looking around for MusicNotes.com’s app, which I ran across while looking for sheet music of America, the Beautiful. There was surprisingly little good, simple versions I could use for guitar, for free. MusicNotes.com put the full first page of their version online, and it worked, so after a few weeks of internal whining about the lack of a good free version,…
- Pocket Gods & Monsters
- Quick access to common tables from the Gods & Monsters rulebook. This is an HTML 5 web app, so it should work on any iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. It’s set up as an off-line app, so you should be able to bookmark it and then use it on your laptop or mobile device even when you don’t have network access.
- Spread your wings: the new iPad
- Looks cool. Looks better than anything else out there. Now, when can I start writing my own programs for it?