Posts tagged ‘iphone’
A simple Drafts work diary
May 14th, 2013 at 10:50 pm by Dr. Drang
Topics for posts are piling up and I don’t have time to write them up. I’ve recently plotted out posts on The dangers of stored strain energy and how I avoided shooting my older son with the head of a screw when he helped me run some load tests a couple of months ago. This…
PCalc 2.8
May 1st, 2013 at 11:11 am by Dr. Drang
If you followed my advice back in December, you bought PCalc for the ridiculously low price of 99¢ during its 20th anniversary sale1 and have been using a first-class calculator for the past four months. With Version 2.8 just released, you’re going to see its value explode with two new features: user-defined conversions and user-defined…
Drafts and diet
April 14th, 2013 at 10:56 pm by Dr. Drang
Bad habits are insidious and hard to shake. As my wife went through cancer treatment, I began to eat poorly and too much. The modest discipline that had allowed me to lose 15 pounds a couple of years earlier seemed unimportant, and I adopted the attitude of “at least I’m not drinking.” Now it’s time…
The iPhone and Google Reader hegemony
March 14th, 2013 at 11:31 pm by Dr. Drang
A lot has been written in the past 24 hours about Google’s announcement that it’s shutting down Reader in a few months. The optimistic view, best expressed by Marco Arment, is that this will usher in a sort of RSS Renaissance. In this view, Google’s dominance over the area in the past several years had…
New flexible timestamps in Drafts
February 10th, 2013 at 6:13 pm by Dr. Drang
One of the least-well-kept secrets in the iOS app world is the big jump in functionality that Drafts has made in the revisions released in last few weeks. I’m pretty sure that by the time I’m done writing this post Federico Viticci will have figured out a URL scheme that will have it making his…
What Apple’s working on
January 9th, 2013 at 8:09 am by Dr. Drang
For the benefit of journalists, bloggers, and tech pundits of all stripes, here’s a list of products Apple is currently working on: A smaller, cheaper iPhone. A larger iPhone. An iPhone with NFC. A larger iPad. A cheaper iPad A wearable iOS device. Macs that run on ARM processors. iPhones and iPads that run on…
A little podcast programming FU
January 3rd, 2013 at 8:40 pm by Dr. Drang
The reason I haven’t done the fashionable thing and eliminated comments from my blog is that my readers1 are invariably polite and helpful. Case in point: the people who made suggestions—in comments, tweets, and emails—in response to Sunday night’s post on turning recordings of streamed radio shows into private podcasts. Their ideas were interesting and…
Turning recordings into podcasts
December 31st, 2012 at 12:04 am by Dr. Drang
In the last couple of years, as iCloud ramped up and iOS matured, I’ve found myself connecting my iPhone to my computer less and less. You’ve probably gone through the same transition. Back when contacts and calendar events synced through a wire, I’d put my phone in its dock as soon as I arrived at…
PCalc rides again
December 26th, 2012 at 8:28 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve been remiss. Time was when every new version of PCalc for iOS was cause for me to write a blog post about its new features. Recent updates, though, have been more about tweaks and refinements than big jumps in functionality and style, so I’ve let them pass without comment. But the little improvements have…
Apple gets thrown in the briar patch
December 13th, 2012 at 8:16 pm by Dr. Drang
OK, let me get this straight. Apple and Google have a falling out over the built-in iOS Maps app. Among the problems: Google wanted more access to user information and Apple wanted the app to provide vector graphics and turn-by-turn directions the way Google’s maps on Android do. Apple cuts Google out and rewrites the…
