BM4 wrapped
BM4 unwrapped
Just to show
Nice touch
What a lovely little machine.
Buddha Machine 4
Month: January 2014
Tydlig, Calculator Reimagined
I saw this app for iOS and knew that I had to get hold of it. It’s a very different way of calculating anything, and when you look at it and use it for any sort of calculation it is very intuitive, allowing you to take the result of one calculation into another.
In some ways it’s like a little spreadsheet for simple calculations. It’s a good start, but I think it needs some more work. I’d like to see the ability to save little calcs and also to schedule updates to them. I think it would be very useful if you could use simple variables in the calcs too. Things like today’s date would be useful, and I’m sure that there’s more too. I’d also like to be able to back up my calcs to dropbox.
Anyway, it’s a good start and I hope that the developer will take a it further.
A few things I’m looking forward to (musically that is)
These three have been on my mind so I thought I’d write them down …
- An album from Doc Pop which should land at the beginning of February. I’ve seen a video from it which I loved so I’m really looking forward to the whole album, especially as it was due late in 2013.
- Imogen Heap’s new album which is due soon I think. I haven’t liked everything she’s done but she’s always interesting and I like her lyrics a lot.
- Blancmange. Lots of things really. An album of remixes I think, some new material and another tour which I’ll do my best to be at.
Sure, there’s other things, but these three have been on my mind today so I thought I’d share them.
Thinking about starting Audioboo again
I’ve been wondering about starting up Audioboo again. It was always handy for quick thoughts about stuff, and very easy to use without getting caught up in complicated podcasting stuff.
So, perhaps sometime soon(-ish) I might start rambling on about stuff. That is, rambling about stuff even more than I do now anyway.
My app of the week is Dispatch
As far as dealing with email goes, I’m not the best, not by any measure. But with an app like Dispatch, I find it a lot easier. Why? Good question, that’s easy to answer. One of the things I find myself doing a lot of is needing to deal with URLs / links from emails and send them to the right place or places quickly. With most email apps for iOS that means selecting the link to copy it or open it then copy it from inside safari then paste it into whatever app I want, Pocket, or Instapaper for example. With Dispatch I don’t have any of those complications. Tapping a link brings up the options I want in terms of sending it to the right place quickly and simply. No fuss.
In fact, that’s the main reason I bought the app in the first place, but it has a lot more besides, and, as usual, I’m scratching the surface so far and just beginning to find out what else the app can do.
I only just found out that the developer has published a URL scheme for Dispatch. This means that you can launch and run Dispatch from another app with parameters from the calling app. So, for example, you could use Drafts to ask Dispatch to open and create an email to a particular person, from a given account, and with a specified title. In fact, you could even tell it what to put in the body of the email too if you wanted to. That’s quite impressive.
The other thing that I like about Dispatch is that you can include snippets or blocks of text from within the app, like per account signatures and more. That could also be really helpful, but at the moment I’m not using that, so far.
So I’m slowly moving over to using Dispatch as my main email app on my iPhone, and I hope that the developer will eventually make it available for the iPad too as I think it would be brilliant there.
Some things I’d like to see happen, some time soon …
Here’s my little app wishlist so far …
- I’d like to see the IFTTT (iTunes link) app go universal and work properly on the iPad as it just doesn’t cut it running it in 2x mode.
- I’d also like to see IFTTT come to Android as well, as I think it’d be an interesting way to cross platforms and automate from iOS to Android and into the real world etc.
- I can’t wait for the next version of the Editorial app for iPad. I mentioned this only a few days ago as an app that I’m already very impressed with. I’m looking forward to seeing the workflow directory directly in the app itself, that’s going to be so useful.
- Whilst on the subject of the Editoral app, I’d like to see it go universal and come to the iPhone as I think it would be amazingly useful.
- Continuing with apps, one of the best email apps for iOS (iPhone, not universal) is Dispatch (iTunes link) in my opinion, and I’d love to see it go universal as I think it would work brilliantly on the iPad, especially the iPad mini.
- Finally, I’d like to see Zapier bring their service to iOS as well. Even though it’s more business focused than IFTTT I think it would be useful.
So that’s my little list for now. I wonder what I’ll get from that list?
A new kind of map
What a great way to look at all the John Foxx releases and also to work out what I’ve got and what I haven’t!
I am Ashley Elsdon 