Apple iPad, iPhone and products

Hits and misses on the iPad

One of the first products I bought, based solely on a BrooksReview (dot net) review was Phraseology. I’m undecided, yet, wasn’t a hit or miss. Interacts with iCloud seamlessly, to me. That’s a plus. Using it to hand code entries like this one? Easy enough. However, after using it for web journal entries for a month, I switched back to just using the word processor, Apple’s Pages.

Pages – Apple | Phraseology – Agile Tortoise
I haven’t gone so far as to remove the app, I did, but I brought it back. I carry it more as a spare, and as an adjunct to the app I use for most of my heavy (code) lifting: Diet Coda (previous mention).

Diet Coda – Panic, Inc. | Poster – a WordPress blog editor

For some reason, I can’t stand the WordPress factory app. Didn’t work way back in version 1, or 2, or any other iteration. Instead of trying, I finally gave up. Again, based solely on a Brooks Review, I tried Poster, and it works, well…. Still a bit cumbersome, and as it turns out, I can do most of the work, quicker, with fewer steps, straight in the the browser of machine, phone, tablet, etc. Still, it’s on my iPad, and I’ll not toss yet.

I tried several “sound” editors, but I’m more than familiar with Apple’s Garageband, and, I’ve collected, over the years a number of ambient noises I’m aiming to use at some point. I lost a huge collection, about three minutes of delicious background noises, in the hardware iPad crash of January 2013. Still, I’ve managed to capture more noises for the future. We’ll see. It’s a “must-have,” in my mind.

GarageBand – Apple | GarageBand – Apple

Search and search engines?

DuckDuckGo Search – DuckDuckGo, Inc. | DuckDuckGo Search – DuckDuckGo, Inc.
This one I picked up from Brooks, and heavens above, couldn’t have been more correct. Eventually, I switched my browser’s built in search to Duck Duck Go and it’s on the front screen of the iPad, as well.