Category: Tech
At times wonderful, and at times totally frustrating too. That’s technology, my experience of it anyway. I do a lot of stuff with technology and I suspect I will continue to do that.
So here I am with Android 4.4
So I’ve upgraded my little old Nexus and so far I’m not noticing anything amazing with it. No incredible improvements in performance either. So, what’s the big deal then? Did I miss something?
No more Pebble for me
Whilst I really liked the idea of the Pebble and it was fun, eventually I had to conclude that I really didn’t have a use for it at all sadly. So I’ve found it a better home for now at least.
My app of the week this week is … Tweetbot 3
I don’t think I could go back to using the standard twitter app anymore. Tweetbot 3 is so much easier to use, especially for multiple accounts, as it actually treats each account differently, or rather, it allows you to treat each account differently. In what way? Well, I use two ‘read it later’ services. One with each of my twitter accounts. Twitter’s own iOS app only allows you to use a single service across multiple accounts, but this doesn’t work for me. Tweetbot 3 allows me the flexibility I need here, and that’s not all.
In tweetbot 3 you can fine tune the interface, with the two buttons at the end of the bar being configurable. Again, this works on a per account basis, which is completely sensible in my view and is exactly what I need.
So overall tweetbot 3 is a massive step in the right direction and unless things with the main twitter app change significantly I won’t be going back.
Useful things: A Monotron setting sheet
I think that this is amazing
Bleep Drum
The
lovely
Bleep Drum
Ableton, M4L and BEAP
I got very excited when I heard about BEAP. A modular thing for Max 4 Live, which looked like just the right thing for me in terms of messing about with max a bit more.
So I’ve downloaded BEAP and started to install it, which isn’t as easy as any kind of normal installation, but it seems to be going in the right direction. Next I have to see if I can get it to do things I like, and when I do, I’ll post some results I expect.
My app of the week is Launch Center Pro
The new version of Launch Center Pro looks like it’s a big improvement on the previous version. Having said that it is an iOS7 only update so I’m having to move up before seeing what it can really do. Not that I’m upgrading just for Launch Center Pro, there’s quite a few other reasons too, but I think that Launch Center is a handy way of automating stuff in iOS and that’s something I increasingly need.
Time’s up for my 3G, or is it?
It’s a long time coming, and perhaps this is the last time around for this old device. I decided to give up the idea of a dual boot device and reset the whole thing to just use iOS. That is, iOS 4.2.1 !
Nothing new then!
But hopefully that’ll speed it up a bit and mean that I can do something useful with it. Time will tell.
I am Ashley Elsdon 