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Using Day One to track specific activities.

by F. E. Torkel on March 20, 2012

Every couple weeks we read about someone else taking up a private journal with Day One, a journaling app available for both iOS and OS X. One of the key benefits of the app is its cloud-based synchronization, allowing you to use iCloud or Dropbox to keep entries updates across devices. The app is also [...]

Google Reader alternatives for RSS reading?

by F. E. Torkel on February 21, 2012

Brent Simmons was one of many who commented earlier today on OS X Mountain Lion removing RSS reading from Mail and Safari. The move makes sense when one considers parity between OS X and iOS apps, in that the latter do not offer such features. But more importantly, these features are typically unused by most [...]

Splashtop Remote lets us run OS X on our iPad.

by F. E. Torkel on August 22, 2011

Last November, when we talked about using the iPad almost exclusively since its debut, we touched on three things that we felt were still missing by the platform. The first was tethering to a computer for backups/updates, which sounds like it will be resolved come the release of iOS 5. The second, APIs, is an [...]

Small, evolutionary changes are better.

by F. E. Torkel on June 14, 2011

In a response to Paul Thorrott on Apple not making giant leaps between major OS revisions, John Gruber points out the difference is clearer when you look at OS X from its first incarnation to today: With Mac OS X in particular, to my recollection, Thurrott has had this same take for every single major [...]

The iPad can’t do work?

by F. E. Torkel on February 22, 2011

We’ve already written about our iPad serving as a Mac replacement for most tasks, but there’s still a misconception out there that the iPad can’t do work, which is akin to the iPad not being a suitable device for creating content. The latest perpetuation of this myth comes courtesy of TUAW. What the iPad does [...]