{"id":2128,"date":"2010-07-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2128"},"modified":"2017-02-05T11:30:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T11:30:03","slug":"five-ipad-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/five-ipad-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Five iPad apps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Strip<\/a><\/p>\n

This week I have added five new apps to my iPad and thought I\u2019d post them here.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The whole post was made on the iPad all text ‘written’ with Dragon Dictation.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

The first is BBC<\/span> News and this is just a translation of the BBC<\/span>\u2019s new site for the iPad that it works very nicely. It\u2019s pretty slick there is a series of all news feeds on the left and you could see the articles on the right. You can customise the feeds so I\u2019ve already remove sport and added the Scottish news \u00a0it seems very iPad friendly and like quite a few \u00a0designed read and access media in an attractive way.<\/p>\n

Another media viewer I\u2019ve \u00a0installed is FlipBoard which has been getting a lot of attention on the Internet and on twitter. This app pulls information from different sources, Facebook or twitter and from collections and about different things, say technology or entertainment.the app presents these streams in an attractive way. \u00a0 You can to flip through the pages with some pretty effects. \u00a0 What I think is really impressive that is with the tweets from your twitter stream it doesn\u2019t just to show the tweets, if a tweet has an article linked it will present some of the article, with a photograph that will present the photograph. \u00a0FlipBoard has been a little controversial as it is pulling in content by scraping rather than they\u2019re getting it from RSS<\/span> feeds. To me this doesn\u2019t seem too much of a problem most of the longer articles are shortened so you need to display the source along with any adverts and branding to read the whole thing. This viewing is done in the app rather than in safari.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The next \u00a0app is regexecutioner which is an app \u00a0to help learn about regular expressions. \u00a0 I do occasionally attempting to learn and to \u00a0use snippets of regular expressions. Hopefully this may \u00a0get me up to speed. \u00a0It is a pretty straightforward app were you can see \u00a0examples and you can take a regular expression and \u00a0a text block instantly see it\u2019s result.<\/p>\n

StripDesigner \u00a0is more of a creative app. \u00a0You can see from the screen shots that are \u00a0illustrating \u00a0this post that I have used it to present and annotate some screenshots of these application. \u00a0It\u2019s a really nice ComicLife clone. \u00a0I tried on the iPhone first there the screen space is a wee bit limited but on the iPad and it just works very nicely indeed. \u00a0You can choose different layouts of up to five pictures. \u00a0You can add texts and the other things, adjusting fonts, text size and drop shadows in an easy and intuitive way. \u00a0I think it would be a great application to use in a classroom and I imagine I\u2019ll be using it quite a lot.<\/p>\n

The final application I\u2019ve installed this week is Dragon Dictation which is an amazing application. \u00a0I have recorded all of this post and it turned into text using Dragon Dictation \u00a0it is very straightforward to use: you press a record button, you talk, you hit the Screen to stop. \u00a0Dragon \u00a0then analyses this (I imagine it sens the audio to a server) and brings back the text. You can quickly clean up and edit the text. \u00a0 I tried it first on my iPhone you can tweet straight from Speech. \u00a0I then they tried on the iPad \u00a0and had one crash so made sure \u00a0to a copy of each section of this post as i \u00a0recorded six different sections. I had to do a little cleaning up, but given my accent and the fact that there is no training period make this application seem like magic.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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