My top 10 favourite iPad apps
September 7, 2010 | 
Author | 1. Early Edition |
 If you read a lot of blogs this is a must have app. In fact, if you don’t read blogs then you should start and still buy this app. On most blogs and websites you will see a “subscribe” or “RSS” feed link. Basically all you need to do is click these links on your fave sites and blogs and copy the links into the Early Edition app. It only takes a few seconds. You can then group these feeds under your own headings. Treat each heading as your own personal newspaper. Then every time you launch the app it’s like getting your very own personal newspapers delivered to your hands in real time.
The app formats each rss feed under your own defined groups as a single newspaper. So for example, if you had created a group called “Cooking” and then added a few RSS links from your favourite food sites to this group this personalised newspaper would deliver content aggregated from all your links about cooking, recipes etc |
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Kindle Review
This review is not about the specs of a particular Kindle model. It is about how I use my Kindle (which happens to be a Kindle DX) on a daily basis and how it has benefited my working life.
On average I read a tech book per month. I would normally buy my books from Amazon or occasionally head out to my local Borders (which has since closed) or Waterstones store and have a browse through their shelves. When ordering from Amazon the titles would normally take two or three days to arrive. I like to read tech manuals cover to cover occasionally skimming chapters which are of little interest to me. As I progress through a book I make short notes on the inside front cover so I can reference pages of interest at a later date. As a programmer I need to reference things I have read all the time. Sure Google is wonderful for quick searches and snippets of code I can rip but all too often I find myself digging through my tech library of books trying to track down something I have read in the past. My hand writing has always been terrible (give me a keyboard over a pen always) and when I jot down my notes balancing a book on my knees the output is often an illegible squiggle. First I have to remember what book it was that I actually read in the first place which contains a distant memory of a piece of information that may possibly help me with whatever project I am currently working on. Then I check my often illegible squiggles inside the cover and hopefully find what I’m looking for. That was all before I purchased my Kindle. I had been looking into Kindles for a while. What put me off was the size of their screens. A mere 6 inch display just seemed too small for my usual reading which could contain screen shots of code or workflow diagrams. I held out until the Kindle DX was released in the UK at the end of January 2010. The DX boasted a bigger screen so I treated myself to my very first ebook reader. Read the rest of this entry »
