Thoughts on iOS 4.2 Beta for iPad: Highlights and Disappointments

Good rundown of the new features and improvements coming to the iPad in iOS 4.2. Can't wait.

http://feeds.smokingapples.com/~r/Smoking-Apples/~3/ZsLTe-hLetE/

Minor problems with Evernote for iPad and iPhone

Don't get me wrong; Evernote is a great for taking notes and accessing them through multiple clients and methods and my life would be rather less well organised without it. My problem is that the iOS clients for Evernote are often, for no discernible reason, unable to display synced notes. This is very annoying and makes it difficult sometimes to work on a note, even when it was created on my iPad, when I'm offline or away from my desk (as now, for example, when I'm on an aeroplane).

Another grumble is the lack of rich-text editing (although I think this is promised for a future release). These features are available in the desktop clients but font settings and other elements (tick boxes, for example) are stripped out when notes are viewed in the iOS clients, making the features somewhat less than useful for anyone working with a multi-OS setup.

Minor gripes, to be sure, but annoying enough that I would consider switching to another note app if one appeared with the same features and an Evernote importer.

People still queuing to buy iPhone 4

It seems strange, but yesterday people were still queuing outside the
Apple store in Covent Garden to buy iPhone 4. It's a great phone but
I'm surprised supplies are still so short.

David Beach's Blog: Developing for Android

Great article on the problems of Android, particularly in comparison with iOS.

http://www.itsbeach.com/blog/2010/08/developing-for-android.html

First impressions - new Apple TV

Wow. Some change. Buying, syncing and local storage are out, renting and streaming are in. That's a pretty radical turnaround and, to be honest, I'm not yet sure that it works for me and the way I currently manage my media. I quite like having it all synced across for immediate access so moving to a streamed model will be a bit of a change; do I want to leave my desktop running just so that I can listen to music or watch a movie?

The answer is no, not really, but it isn't really a major inconvenience to turn on the PC if I want to consume local media and, if the new Apple TV works as well as advertised with iPads and iPhones, then it probably isn't a big issue. So the long and the short of it is that I still plan to buy a new Apple TV when they are available and I'll just have to change the way things are organised. I might even buy a Mac Mini to act as local media storage. More comment once they've been launched.

Just How Bad Is Flash on Android?

Follow the trail to find a video demonstrating the problems with Flash on the Nexus One. The comments make for interesting reading as well.

Just How Bad Is Flash on Android?

Daring Fireball

Ian Betteridge:

What does this demonstrate? Simply that the idea that Apple could simply magically put Flash on the iPad (which runs a processor in the same class as the Nexus One) is fantasy. Ignoring the broader reasons for Apple wanting to keep Flash off its platform, it's clear that Flash is simply too processor-intensive to work properly on mobile-class processors as currently specified.

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