TriggerTrap for Android – Released Today
TriggerTrap is one of our favourite products. It’s an app and hardware solution for photographers that enables you to create incredible timelapses or record spontaneous moments. It can be used using a smartphone’s internal camera, but it most useful when paired with a cable and used for ramped time lapses and the like. More details here.
Read MorePosts – The First Decent Blogging App?
I have no idea why it has taken so long for developers to come up with a decent blogging app. The first one that came anywhere near being usable was Blogsy by Fomola, prior to that a WordPress blogger was basically stuck with the utterly wretched official app and users of other platforms like Blogger were basically screwed.
When you first open the app you see a dashboard full of posts arranged Pinterest-style in date order. You can edit one of these existing entries or you can create a new post, page or draft. You can also search for content or quickly go to a specific date using either the calendar or the slider.
At the top of the editor screen are buttons to access the properties windows, media, previews and HTML. The properties windows enables you to change post title, tags, categories and article visibility. The media window enables you to insert photos directly from the iPad or from an online image or movie somewhere like Flickr or YouTube. The HTML button gives you access to the raw code to do any markup styling or further additions.
At any time you can save your draft post either locally or online, meaning you can easily switch between iPad and a browser window. The ability to save locally also means you can write blog entries without Internet access and upload your work when you’re online again. If there are any downsides to the app it’s that it doesn’t give you access to any plugins you might have installed – for instance SEO management.
If you’ve never been tempted to try updating your blog on your iPad, Posts is probably the app that could change your mind. It’s a beautifully designed app, thoughtfully created and is sure to become one of the essentials. It’s available now for $9.99.
Read MoreGrid – Awesome New ‘Visual’ Spreadsheet App
Grid is a spreadsheet app that’s better suited to lifestyle than regression analysis or loan amortization tables. It uses voice input, images, calendars and embedded social media tools to streamline the planning of activities, events or anything else that needs a bit of forward thinking.
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Get Lost – Trust an App
There are hundreds of mapping and GPS apps for all the brands of smartphone, enabling people with a poor sense of direction or map reading skills or both to get out into the world. However according to The Guardian, the apps just don’t cut it when used for their intended purpose and hikers are getting lost. The Guardian quoted the head of a UK mountain rescue team who said, “Last night alone, we were involved in two separate incidents, involving a total of 16 people, who had relied on smartphone apps to navigate on the high tops, were very poorly equipped for the conditions, and become lost.” Today’s takeaway – learn to use a map and compass as well as your smartphone.
Cardio – Heartbeat Detection for iPhone
You might be familiar with the Heart Rate app which can detect your pulse by pressing your finger against the iPhone’s camera. Well Cardio is a new app that takes such voodoo to a whole new level – it can detect your heart beat just by being pointed at your face. It works by analysing the amount of light reflected off of your beautiful visage – you just hold your phone and look into the camera to see your BPM. It’s out now for $4.99.
Read MorePiano Apprentice – Keyboard and App for iPad
It’s great to encourage kids to try new things, but it can be costly testing them out and finding which ones they show an aptitude for. Ion’s Piano Apprentice is a great first step on the road to proper piano lessons for kids and adults – it enables them to test the water without great expense. The package comprises a 25-note lighted keyboard with touch-sensitive keys and a free piano teaching app. It’s also MIDI compliant so you can use it for creating your next dubstep opus too.
Wikiweb – Nodes Meets Wikipedia on iPad and iPhone
Love the thinking behind this iOS app. It’s like an information themed marriage of mind-mapping style nodes and all the information in Wikipedia. Initial searches enable you to build a custom map of interlinked subjects which you can then save out in ‘web’ format. It’s available now in the App Store for $4.99.
Read MoreTweetbot – The Best Twitter Client for iOS Now on Mac
I‘ve got a Twitter account that is numbered in the 14millions and so while I wasn’t an incredibly early adopter, I certainly did better than people joining now in the 600millions. If there’s one app that’s made me embrace my under-used Twitter account then it’s Tweetbot which, on iOS, is an incredibly well coded app. Well now it’s coming to Mac and has just been released for free in its early Alpha form. I’ve been using it for a couple of days now and it works perfectly, if a little slowly. You can find it here.
Read MoreTriggerTrap Mobile – App and Cable Transform your iPhone into a Sophisticated Camera Controller
$10 (iPhone app) – $10 (Mobile Dongle) – $10 (Camera Cable) – TriggerTrap.com
Thanks to digital sensors and the high quality and affordable pricing of medium to high-end DSLR cameras, there has been a renaisance in the photography scene. Swing by a site like 500px and you can quickly see how much high quality imagery is being produced by hobbyists and pros alike. This renewed popularity has lead photographers to experiment with different techniques, such as timelapses, low light, astrophotography, tilt-shifts, HDR, macros and underwater photography. What we’re also starting to see are add-on hybrid products that bridge the gap between pro gear and consumer gear.
Read MoreGmail for iOS Updated – No Longer Logs You Out on Quit
It’s a small thing, but a bloody irritating one. The Gmail app for iOS never really gained much traction because it was an average app competing with quality software like Sparrow. Now some of its annoyances have been fixed, perhaps as a prelude to a larger update. There’s now persistent log-in, notification center support (lock-screen notifications etc) and send-as alternate sender support.
Read MoreFacebook Messenger 1.8 – Zucks Finally Getting it Right?
Facebook is such a part of the patina of life in this day and age that it’s hard to imagine how we kept in touch with each other before it came along, any more than we can remember what search was like before Google. The Facebook apps (both iOS and Android) have, until now, been fairly mediocre affairs, but the latest version of the Facebook Messenger app shows that they’re finally starting to get at least some things right. New in version 1.8 is faster loading, better push notifications, quick conversation switching and swipe to delete messages.
Read MorePlume – Aggregate Twitter Links and Shares Into a Single Timeline – iOS
As we all know, the signal to noise ratio on Twitter is very, very high. Finding the interesting stuff when you’re being bombarded with hate tweets from pre-pubescent Justin Bieber fans (or maybe that’s just me) is a tricky business. Plume is the perfect solution to all that crap because its job is to track the links shared by the people you follow and to drop them into a single, easily readable timeline. Amongst this awesome app’s cooler features is a “Feather” mode that enables you to create lists of Twitter users without having to follow them. It’s in the App Store now, for $2.99.
Read MorePaprika – Recipe Manager for iPad
Recently updated to version 1.6, Paprika is a popular recipe manger for Mac and iOS that enables you to file your favourite recipes and follow them in the kitchen when you want to cook. This latest iPad version has retina graphics, a redesigned interface, star ratings and cooking enhancements such as the ability to cross ingredients off the list as you use them.
GeoCam – Neat Situational Visual and Location Based Recorder for iOS and Android
We all know that smartphones are handy for taking important impromptu photos, such as when you’ve witnessed an incident of some sort. However on its own a photo isn’t the complete solution for recording such details and that’s where an app like GeoCam comes in. It enables the simultaneous viewing of images, location, orientation and coordinates and is perfect for things like insurance reports. Android and iOS apps are both available.
Read MoreMap This Spot – Instant and Easy Location Sharing for iPhone
With the GPS chips inside most modern smartphones, it’s obviously a useful tool for finding out where you are and navigating to where you want to go. However sometimes you just need to quickly let someone know what your location is by email or text message and Map This Spot seems like a great solution. Concerned parents can add it to their kids iPhones and, should they require help for whatever reason, they can quickly notify them of their location complete with a Google maps reference.
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