Chances are, you’ve typed an alternative character before, but you probably did it by accident or don't know how it happened. Here’s how to easily access alternative characters.
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I use a hardware keyboard with my iPad to write. As much as I try, it's hard to adapt to using the iPad's software keyboard to get any serious writing done. That said, there are a lot of iPad keyboards out there, but they can easily be sorted in to three types. Here's a look in to the various iPad keyboards and how they'll work best (and worst) for you.
Read moreJoystiq has the scoop on gameplay footage for the upcoming Infinity Blade Dungeons, the third in the line of Infinity Blade games that have been exclusive to iOS and showcases of the graphical prowess of the iPhone and iPad.
Unlike the first two games, Dungeons' gameplay is entirely different. It's now a Diablo-style dungeon crawler. Perfect timing given Diablo 3's launch. I love these games and can't wait for Dungeons to release, especially after the disaster that was Dungeon Hunter 3. [Joystiq]
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Instagram is great and has built a large network of photographers in a small amount of time. Some, however, want to shoot video, and Viddy has brought the same feel and experience of Instagram to video.
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Let's admit it. Aside from potentially being murdered, Craigslist is an awesome place to go for certain things, especially housing. What sucks about Craigslist? The complete lack of mobile friendliness. Padmapper makes finding an apartment really easy, and it's designed entirely for mobile.
Read moreDigiTimes, the often quoted tabloid of technology from the East whose claim to fame has primarily been making up fantasy Apple rumors, has been rightfully called out. Can Apple sites please stop posting their garbage? [TIME]
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Sparrow, the best email app that you'll never use (for now), is slowly inching towards losing the last half of the title I gave it in my review. Here's the good news: Sparrow requested an exception from Apple to do push notifications the easy way. The bad news: Apple denied the request. More good news: Push is coming for the app. More bad news: It won't be free.
Back in early April I wrote a post about Freedompop and how they could cause some issues for the incumbent carriers, and with the announcement of their first product, it seems like a decent start.
Finally! After both Comics and Marvel updated their apps with retina assets and retina comics in March, DC has finished out the trio.
Adrian Covert from Gizmodo writes:
Any publication which uses the Adobe suite (and there are A LOT, including all of Conde Nast) will have these tools available to them starting today, which means that we should start seeing a lot of digital mags that were once iPad-only trickle onto the iPhone soon.
I still prefer that publishers design magazines to render images and text natively and not use InDesign to create a giant PDF, but for now, all the publishers love this crap and don’t seem to want to change. Hey, at least I can read the same huge PDFs on my iPhone soon. [Gizmodo] Read more
Instapaper remains the best way to read the web and despite the developer having a baby recently, has managed to update his app with some new features.
For the first time in my short writing career I can use the word "shocker" in a non-sarcastic way. Shocker: Google+ and eBay both updated their apps to look amazing.
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Mark Zuckerberg and algorithms writing our news. Madness! The greys are infiltrating my little league news! Read more
It was only a matter of time before I fired up the Les Paul and started playing through my iPad and iPhone. I have some really nice Marshall amps, but the future is within those devices. Apogee makes a gateway device that allows you to connect your guitar (bass guitars too!) to any iOS device or your computer to play and record and it’s fully Garageband compatible. Here’s a gallery of Apogee’s Jam. Read more
