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Spirits: A Beautiful Puzzle

Brandon Pittman — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:51:00 +0000

Spirits for iPad (and now for iPhone) is a quiet game. It’s also a beautiful game. It’s slow-paced. There’s no button-mashing. There is no 3D camera that you can’t control properly because you don’t have dual thumbsticks. It’s a one-finger puzzle game that looks as if it was created on the screen with a paintbrush. [...]

Friends — All your social networks in one app

Brandon Pittman — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:35:49 +0000

The problem with social networks is that there are too many of them. You find yourself opening up a bunch of different network-specific apps on your iPhone all the time, and you probably wonder why you waste so much time jumping back and forth between them all. I haven’t always been the best of friends [...]

Simple and Useful Reminders with Due for iPhone

Brandon Pittman — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:32:12 +0000

My iPhone is my watch. Hell, it’s my wall-clock at home. I use it to tell time, wake up in the morning and know when to pull the boiled eggs out of the water. Apple’s included Clock app does a pretty good job with this stuff. It can use all the ringtones on the iPhone [...]

Using LaunchBar 5 to fly on your Mac

Brandon Pittman — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:46:51 +0000

I used Quicksilver for a long time. At least 4 years. It had so many weird, arcane commands that called up so many powerful features that I felt a level of control over my Mac that made me feel like a ninja at times. Slowly though, the iTunes triggers became less necessary with the addition [...]

Focus on the Writing

Brandon Pittman — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:30:11 +0000

My search for the perfect iOS text editor has been long and arduous. There have been many turds, and few worthy candidates. I thought Simplenote 2.0 was all I would need. I thought my search was over. But in the last two weeks I’ve used new text editors that make Simplenote far from the clear [...]

Send It to the Cloud: Droplr vs Cloud2go

Brandon Pittman — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:42:05 +0000

You probably use CloudApp or Droplr, don’t you? I see your cl.ly’s and your derp-ly’s on Twitter. No one seems to stick to one. We all keep bouncing back and forth between them cause neither of them is really any better than the other. I wanted to use CloudApp at first since they had the [...]

Omnifocus Brings Desktop Caliber GTD To iPad

Brandon Pittman — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:08:52 +0000

This was going to be just about Omnifocus on the iPad, but I figure that since the iPad version is tied in to all the other versions of Omnifocus that I better increase the span of my review to include all three apps (Mac, iPhone and iPad). I remember that I tried the Mac version [...]

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Weet for iPhone: No Time For T

Brandon Pittman — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:39:59 +0000

I’m back yet again with another Twitter app review. You remember the last one? When I used a whole bunch of profanity in reviewing ChillTweet? The best iPhone app ever?! Well, this time, I won’t be so harsh because the app doesn’t suck entirely. Twitter was all aflutter about Weet the other day, and I [...]

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Keep the Monsters in the Closet with Night Stand HD for iPhone and iPad

Brandon Pittman — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:49:02 +0000

Ever since I got my iPad, I wondered what I should do with it when it’s not in use. My iPhone get way more activity while I’m at home than my iPad does. I’m still getting calls and text messages, but unless I’m in reading mode or on the crapper, my iPad is just sitting [...]

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Walk the Stars On Your iPad with Star Walk

Brandon Pittman — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:30:06 +0000

Walk the Stars On Your iPad with Star Walk [App Store] → I remember seeing Star Walk in the App Store long ago and always wondering what it was, but I never checked it out. I got the chance to check it out recently, and was blown away at what Star Walk lets you do. When [...]

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Purchases for iPhone: Shopping Lists Without All the Fat

Brandon Pittman — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:33:03 +0000

An app that I’ve used for quite a long time that I’ve never gotten around to writing about is Purchases for iPhone from Rehserve IT. It’s been a permanent fixture on my home screen for months and I think it deserves being touted for the truly great shopping list app that it is. I’ve used [...]