Tag iPad

Surface Review

Upfront I have to say that I really like my new Surface tablet.  I have a desktop with Windows 8 that I’ve been using primarily for development and testing and I found that the modern UI is just not very…

Weatherbug App W8 vs. iPad reliability

Here we are in the middle of a hurricane and I decided to see what the projected wind speeds would be. Turns out that the info on the iPad app from the same vendor is off by 10 mph for…

Windows 8 on my iPad

Sort of. Thanks to Splashtop streamer and the iPad mobile client. I was a little frustrated as all my existing RDP clients on my iPad (Logmein, VNC RDP, etc. would only show me a black desktop). I ask the Splashtop…

I’ve Been Onswiped!

If you’ve landed here on an iPad or iPhone (and I hope you like the experience) you may be wondering about the new and neat touch experience. Onswipe now powers this blog for iOS visitors. This is a different Onswipe…

iOS 5 Notifications

I really like that Apple has changed the notification model. It kinda/sorta works in this first beta. Facebook and Twitter seem to be real slow in even native notifications, which may be part of the problem. I have seen mail…