Editorial for iPad, released just this morning, is a long-awaited Markdown text editor and workflow automation tool for iPad — and boy, is it a doozy. Developed by Ole Moritz – the guy behind the popular Pythonista app for iOS – Editorial looks like your typical iOS text editor on the surface. It has the requisite support for things like Markdown previews…
Morning is an iPad app that aims to get you as informed as possible about your upcoming day, through the use of various panels of information. These include weather, reminders, commute time, news, calendar, stocks, countdown(s), and date/time. This is a fairly customizable app. There are five different color schemes to choose from, and the info panels can be arranged any way…
This Wednesday (July 10, 2013) is the 5th anniversary of the iOS App Store. There hasn't been any official announcement from Apple yet (Update: Now there has), but we've found that several popular developers are offering their top apps and games for free this week. If you've never gotten around to trying these out, now's your chance. We will try to keep…
If you spend a lot of time messing around with spreadsheets, you might want to check out Permanent for iPad. It's an easy-on-the-eyes spreadsheet app that's been optimized for touch and supports the XLSX and CSV formats for easy importing/exporting. As you'd expect, you can also write your own equation formulas. Normally this app costs $20, but for today only (June 25th,…
If the 'Night Sky' edition of Field Notes wasn't enough of an astronomy fix for you, I'd recommend checking out Sky Guide for iOS. This thing had been sitting somewhere in my AppShopper wish list for a long time, forgotten, until Ben Brooks wrote about it yesterday. I'm glad he did, because this is such a cool app. The way it works…
Tunebox is a neat iOS app that acts as an audio player for your Dropbox account. It automatically scans your entire Dropbox folder for any MP3 or MP4/AAC audio files, then organizes them the same way the built-in Music app does: by Artist, Album, and Song. You can save any track for offline playing, or just stream whatever you want as long…
We've covered the Apogee ONE here before, but now the recording rig has a big brother: the Apogee Duet for iPad & Mac. Check out this list of I/O: MIDI input/output (USB-A type connector) DC power supplies charge to iPod touch, iPhone or iPad USB 2.0 audio with 24-bit/192kHz A/D and D/A conversion 2 Analog inputs with world-class mic preamps and selectable…
TC-11 is a trippy, fully programmable, multitouch synthesizer app for iPad. Rather than fiddling with a bunch of knobs, you interact with the app by tapping and dragging your fingers around the screen. The sounds produced by the synthesizer depend on where you touch the screen and how your fingers move in relation to one another. Even the accelerometer, gyroscope and compass…
Square is a great service that turns any iOS device into a cash register. Now, with the Square Stand, it makes using Square's service in a store or shop look a lot more official. The stand secures the iPad in a sleek, white stand with an integrated card reader. The Stand can connect to a receipt printer, kitchen printer, cash drawer, and…
I must be on a gaming kick this week, because I've got another one to talk about. This one is called Star Command, and it's essentially a Star Trek-influenced RPG simulator for iPhone and iPad. You start off by designing a Captain avatar and a small ship, then you build different types of rooms on the ship and staff each one with…
Most gamers need no introduction to Bastion, being one of the most critically-acclaimed games of the last few years and all. In case you haven't heard of it though, it's an adventure game where you play as The Kid, who wakes up after some kind of catastrophic event and must navigate through a series of floating ruins, fighting monsters along the way.…
The developers of the popular Screens VNC client for iOS recently released another great utility called Mini Display. The two apps are similar in that they both require a free Mac app to be running, but what Mini Display does differently is turn your iOS device into an external display for the Mac (as long as they're on the same WiFi network),…
The Bowers & Wilkins 'zeppelin' family of speakers has always been a popular lineup, and for good reason. Each one has an interesting design, they all sound fantastic, and B&W continually adds awesome new features with each revision. The latest model is the Z2, which resembles their previous Zeppelin Mini model from a few years ago, but now has a Lightning dock…
Of course, just after I finally bought myself one of their Ultrathin Keyboard Covers for my iPad 4, Logitech has announced a new iPad keyboard: the FabricSkin Keyboard Folio. Rather than having a hard plastic keyboard, its keys are integrated directly into the folio's fabric, which comes in matte leather or woven cotton depending on the color you choose. Both the keyboard…
For the last decade or so, the Animator's Survival Kit (written by Richard Williams, the man behind "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?") has proven to be one of the best resources around of knowledge and know-how for budding animators. A few years ago, the whole thing was released as a DVD collection, and now it's available as an iPad app. If you want…
If you've got an SSD-equipped Mac, you know the pain juggling files can be. Most MacBook Air users I know have at least one external drive for stuff they can't fit on their machines. The Seagate Wireless Plus drive takes that concept and applies it to iOS devices. Put the 1TB drive on your network, fire up the free Seagate Media app…
As Stephen wrote about earlier, the new hotness right now is Panic's iPad app, Status Board. It's the kind of thing that's perfect for outputting to an external display, but what if you just want to use it in your personal workspace? You could lay it on your desk or put it in some kind of stand, but I'd want something that…
While I love my iPad, during the work day, it often sits on my desk, off. The guys over at Panic Software are trying to change that, with their new app for Apple's tablet. Status Board for iPad is a new $10 iPad app that takes the concepts of widgets and the OS X dashboard and brings it to the iPad. The…
I'm a big fan of Andrew Kim's blog, Minimally Minimal (you may know him from his awesome rebranding concept for Microsoft). He's a product designer who not only showcases his own work, but also likes to post reviews of all kinds of products, always with a focus on minimalism, function, and beauty. Every review is chock full of beautiful photography, where his…
Despite what critics claim, the iPad is a device made for creation. In his new book, Thord Daniel Hedengren discusses iOS' built-in apps, third-party apps, keyboards and details about cloud services. In it, he builds the case that iOS — and the iPad — is a great writing tool. The one-app-at-a-time model can cut down on distractions, and the iPad's great battery…