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CloudOn – Great idea?

April 24, 2012

Oh my. CloudOn is finally available on the Apple App Store. CloudOn, in case you don’t know brings true Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint to an iPad. It is fab. I downloaded it, setup an account, and attached to my Dropbox (you can also do Box.Net).

This is browsing my Dropbox:

And this is a Word document open, and editing:

I think it’s really good, and so far it’s free.

I’m sure that the Apple "Office" type apps are perfectly good, and you can use them with no network connection, (poor old wifi only iPad!!) but I’ll take free… and it means a familiar interface. I know it’s not the same as running an app natively on the iPad, so don’t get me wrong I’m saying "Oh look, Office running on an iPad".. but it’s pretty close.

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More than a reminder app – Nag

April 20, 2012

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I’ve read a lot of blogs which talk about having regular breaks in your daily routine, and work tasks, but I for one don’t remember to take them as often as I should. I stumbled across a cool little multiple-reminder app called Nag.. which i’ve installed on OSX.

Here is a review of it. And the software producers home page.

There are IOS versions too, and it is pretty neat.

Oh and the alarm will scare the LIFE out of you the first time you hear it

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Tweetbot is a thing of beauty

April 18, 2012

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A little bug bear of mine, which has magically appeared, is the inability to keep my Twitter timelines in synch across the different devices and Operating Systems I use. These are :

iPad 2

Android Phone (HTC Wildfire S)

OSX Lion

Windows 7

Windows 8

I’m not too worried about the Windows 8 part of things, but it drives me nuts when I want to glance at my phone and see the tweets that I have received since my last ‘proper’ reading of them on (for example) my iPad.

I know that some Twitter clients, like Echofon keep the timelines in Synch. But to be honest they don’t cover all the platforms, and in my run throughs of Echofon between Windows 7 and the iPad, it didn’t appear to keep things in synch.

Then I read about Tweet Marker.

There are a bunch of clients that use the Tweet Marker web service to keep things in synch across Twitter clients.

I can just say after a couple of days that it just ‘works’. I have purchased Tweetbot on the iPad, because it had good reviews, and I wasn’t really happy with the other clients I had tried. On my phone I’ve gone for Plume (but I have installed, but not configured Tweetcaster). On Windows I’ve gone for the only option listed on the Tweet Marker website.. and to be fair it’s not a pretty app to use.. but it does the trick. For OSX I plan to go for Osfoora, I think.

I think I’m spoilt by Tweetbots interface. Here it is when in portrait mode on my iPad: