The 4-fingers gesture on iPad is better than double-tapping the home button. But this would be the perfect one.
Hoping to take a small slice from Apple’s big pie, newspaper publishers are developing tablet computers of their own.
Good luck with getting in the tablet market iPad market.
Tribune aims to offer the tablet for free, or at a highly subsidized price, to people who agree to sign up for extended subscriptions to one of its papers and possibly a wireless-data plan with a partner cellular carrier, said five people briefed on the project.
I was thinking the only way this could work would be exactly the opposite strategy: bring together a bunch of high profile magazines and include the first year subscription in the price of the tablet. This could be the electronic magazines tablet.
There way too much being written and said about the missing Flash on the iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iTouch). And the solution is simple. Really simple. I’m pretty sure smarter people than me have pointed it out already. It is called:
Flash on demand
How it works? If you are familiar with ClickToFlash for Safari that’s pretty much about it. But let me briefly describe it for those that are not familiar with it.
Flash is disabled by default. But the browser is presenting it (look no more empty spots on the page!). On a user triggered action the Flash plugin is loaded and plays it (look no annoying ads slowing down the browser!). The user can also trigger the unload. (look, I’m not worried anymore about Flash).
The fact that Apple and Adobe do not work on such a simple solution is a clear sign they do NOT care. They don’t care about you and me, the web, or anything. It is just about money and PR.
Please either add the ability to retain fonts (and all their settings) when importing Keynote, Pages, and Numbers documents from computer to iPad, or else please create a simple font management tool for the iPad that allows us to import a reasonable subset of our fonts to the device.
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I just realized that my question about a best notes app for iPad is way too vague. There are tons of different such applications and their functionality varies a lot. So, I’ve decided to refine a bit my search by using some criteria:
This classification should be obvious. There are apps that support text only (no formatting, no embedded images, etc.), while there are others that can create really rich documents. There are also apps optimizing for handwriting, but I’m not interested in this category at all.
In terms of effectively comparing these apps, I’m going to use the following criteria:
In the next post I’ll tell you what I could find for both simple and rich text apps. I really hope I’ll end up finding some good apps for taking and writing notes on the iPad.
I know John Gruber’s favorite is Simplenote. While I do like its simplicity and focus, there are two things that I miss: custom fonts and colors.
For a long while I’ve been using WriteRoom on both my laptop and on the iPhone. Same simplicity, but with custom fonts, colors, and sync.
Anyways I don’t seem to be able to find a similar app for the iPad. I heard rumours of an upcoming WriteRoom version for the iPad, but I’m not sure I’m ready to pay the 3rd time for this app. I’ve also heard other rumours of an upcoming good notes app from @iA, but without seeing anything it’s difficult to conclude if it’ll fit my bill.
This leaves me with the question: is there an iPad notes app that support custom fonts, color, sync, and is visually appealing?
