iPhone and iPad from a Sharp Canadian Perspective
Comments and recommendations regarding iPhone applications.
Experimenting with Publishing This update is an experiment with using the Gutenberg editor for a blog post that includes a photo from my personal Content Distribution Network (CDN). You will also see this photo posted on the tablet view of my Sharp Innovation Solutions Inc. website startpage.
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Jason Snell on his six colors blog features the Utility watch face as one of his favourites. I think I will use this face a lot too. My preferences are to have the alarm in the top left corner, timer in the top right corner, analog time in the middle, and full date along the
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MacSparky, of MacPower Users fame, has a cool trick for being more productive when calling people who have an extension for their telephone number. Instead of entering the phone number in contacts as 866-6790×1567 use the special character (;) for prompting the extension 866-6790;1567 so when you call you will be prompted to add those
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Frederico Viticci has written a very thorough IOS 8 wish list on improvements needed in IOS. The new and improved Macstories (v4) is a quality Web site with a bit of a misnomer because it includes IOSstories too and is a valuable resource for authoritative knowledge on Apple and related third party software beyond just
If you are looking for a different running app for your iPhone Hongkiat has some suggestions. Funny though that some of the well known running apps like Runkeeper, Trails, Cyclemeter or EveryTrail Pro are not mentioned. Runkeeper is the app I use the most.
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There is an incredibly rich selection of text editors for IOS. Federico Viticci does a review on his 4 IOS text editor favourites and also has done a review on Byword which only recently been introduced on IOS (IA Writer also deserves an honourable mention). I agree for the most part with Federico’s selections and
Apple celebrated 25 billion IOS apps downloaded by awarding a $10,000 iTunes credit to Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China who downloaded Where’s My Water? which is number 17 on the all-time top iPad apps. With the low price of apps and music, $10,000 is a lot of downloads. Also published is a list of the
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As surprising as it might sound when the richness and diversity of IOS apps are considered, one of the killer apps for me on my iPad and iPhone is Simplenote (and nvAlt on the Mac). Text notes that are always in sync between your iPad and computer (even Windows with the free Resophnotes application) are
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Scrivener is an excellent application on Mac (and recently on Windows) for all sorts of long form writing. Limited syncing with Simplenote and Index Card on iPad are supported but what many users have been craving is full synchronization with an IOS version of Scrivener. Dreams do come true as an IOS version of Scrivener
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If you managed to get through the traffic and successfully upgraded to IOS5 you are now wanting to use those fancy new features but it is not obvious how to activate them without a few tips. Notifications have been organized so you can access them just by dragging down from the top of the screen.