Just a quick note tonight. The gym at work has been in operation for just about five years now and, needless to say, the equipment has clocked up quite anumber of kilometres over that timeframe! Anyway, we now have brand new bikes, crosstrainers and treadmills to use that now have native iOS compatibility. Being a …
Tag: ipad
Mar 23 2012
Draw Something
I thought I’d share my experience with a simple game for iOS that has started to chew up a lot of my time – namely “Draw Something”. The premise of the game is simple, you have to select one of three words to draw (varying in difficulty), draw it and have your game partner guess …
Mar 22 2012
Windows 8 Tablets Can Beat Retina Displays
Today, Microsoft published a blog entry about Windows 8 and its requirement and ability to scale to different screen sizes and resolutions with differing ranges of pixel density. One interesting thing caught my eye which was this diagram. The thing that interested me most was not what was on the right hand side of the …
Mar 01 2012
Windows 8 Comsumer Preview
Well, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is upon us and every nerd and their Aibo (robot dog, get it) has been trying it out and sharing their thoughts with the world. Of course, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity being one to try things as soon as they become available so I thought I’d share my …
Jan 27 2012
Browse More Efficiently on Your iPad or iPhone Using the Reading List
Browsers these days are blessed with the ability to have many webpages open across a number of tabs and mobile devices are no different. However, in the case of iOS devices you’re not going to be able to open perhaps the twenty or thirty tabs you might do on your desktop or laptop computer. Furthermore, …
Dec 28 2011
Undock and Split the iPad Soft Keyboard
As veratile as the iPad can be it can often be a right pain trying to type on it particularly when holding it in both hands when it is in landscape mode as the centre keys are often too far away from each thumb. It can also be a problem using the keyboard when in …
Oct 26 2011
Recover Speed on Slow iOS Devices
It seems that with each iOS update older devices can get a bit slower in having to support new features on existing hardware. Unfortunately, you just can’t crack open your device and add more memory or swap out the CPU for something more powerful. That said, there can be other causes of poor performance on …
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