This post owes a huge debt of thanks to Rob Donoghue in particular and various others for comments and suggestions in recent months.

The key to successful writing on the iPad, I find, is to know what it is you need, and what you're comfortable with. As a gaming writer and occasional fictioneer, I work with simple formatting - my text doesn't get ( Read more... )

 The British Library's 19th century book collection? There's an app for that, and it's free to boot. Wow.

I've got two of three Pathfinder Alone characters in hand, and thinking about the inevitable accumulation of NPCs to be remembered and like that, I was thinking that it might be nice to have a wiki to keep track of such things. I was wondering: do any of the wiki hosting sites work particularly well, or particularly poorly, with iPads such as mine?

 What I read: The Final Reflection, Star Trek original series novel #16, by John M. Ford, 1984

What I read it on: Nook app for the iPad

Whoo boy is this gonna go long.

If there are gods, they do not help, and justice belongs to the strong: but know that all things done before the naked stars are remembered.

-Klingon proverb

( The Final Reflection )

 Oh, this is neat. iOS 4.2 introduced the ability to print from the iPad to printers with Apple's new AirPrint wi-fi software included. But right now only a dozen-ish HP printers do that. What to do? I read today about Printopia, a Mac app that does some sort of wi-fi magic to connect iPad and just about any printer. I downloaded their demo, tried ( Read more... )

Thanks to mention from a couple of friends, I checked out the current version of the LiveJournal app for iPad, and like it a lot. I recommend it. Its friends list display is very good, and it looks worthwhile for composing; I expect to be using it a fair amount this year.

I have a goal in mind for video and book review-type comments but I'm not ( Read more... )

 It's been announced, woo hoo! David Dunham and his posse are working on an iOS version of King of Dragon Pass, one of the really coolest computer games ever. Go to the link for screenshots. I've been eager to burble about this ever since he showed me some of the early work on it.

King of Dragon Pass is set in Glorantha, the fantasy world that's ( Read more... )

I now have a nice Belkin stand for my iPad - it looks like a giant drafter's compass, which pleases me - and an Apple wireless keyboard. As I write this, I'm sitting in my backyard, enjoying the patio furniture that went in earlier this year, listening to music recommended to me by the always-handy Sean Collins, and just really feeling very ( Read more... )

Disclaimers: First things first. This app is the work of my long-time friend David Dunham, whom I think highly of, and who is in fact the one who's making it possible for me to have an iPad right now to review it on. I trust that you will find this review fair and honest, but it's not like I'm J. Random Bystander this time around ( Read more... )

I conducted a simple test of the iPad battery: I charged it up yesterday morning. At 8:11 am, when I unhooked it, it was at 100%. Now, at 5:32 am the next morning, it's at 39%. In the intervening time, I've listened to 4 episodes of the HP Podcraft and played a bunch of Strategery (while going to and from counseling), read many comics in Comic Zeal ( Read more... )