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    Draw Book, it’s like having the Paper app on our iPhones!

    Paper is a fun and very useful sketch app on the iPad. Rather than rethinking how electronic pen/paper should work, the developers duplicated the joys and pains of the limited physical world we all still live in.

    Since no one needs to do more than type notes or draw very detailed art on our iPhones, there has been no match for the iPad Paper available for the iPhone. Till, Draw Book came along. The app is truly, ‘in progress’ but it is a lot of fun to use it the way it is right now. Draw Book lets you zip out those quick little creative sketches when you need to say it in pictures. While the app has plenty of power to do detailed images, it’s best suited for doing what you would normally on a small pad of paper.

    When a work paper is on the screen, there is a small ‘+’ at the bottom of the screen, centered. Tapping that will bring up a toolbar for quick access to undo/redo, color picker and writing/drawing tools. Select a tool to select, tap the screen to close the bar to work on a clean screen.

    Selecting any of the writing tools will give you access to adjust how the tool ‘writes’ on the screen. The thin/thick stroke of a pen sure helps make any sketch better than just a thin solid line.

    Selecting the ‘open book’ icon on the upper left corner takes you out of the work screen to a view of the notebook your working inside of. As well, all the pages in the notebook are flowing out to the right. Sweep through the pages to select on for viewing or future editing. The ‘Guide Book’ in Draw Book says you can sweep through the pages in a notebook using two fingers, the feature never works for me, I always go up to the notebook level to jump to another page.

    September 3, 2012
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    Sending your Instagram pictures as a printed postcard using only your iPhone

    It’s a round peg in a square hole. Printed postcards have rectangular pictures and Instagram has square pictures.

    If you use any of the PostCard apps that offer to print and mail the card you create I have talked about in the past, you get a post card with your image centered on it. Not exactly what people would expect for a print postcard they are used to seeing.

    You can re-size the image on the page to fill it out side to side but then you loose the top/bottom:

    It’s no fault of these apps, they just hadn’t planned for Instagram square images.

    New to this group of apps that offer to print/postal mail your creations is Postagram. This free app allows you to create a postcard using your Instagram square photos, which they will print and mail for you. As you can see, they don’t print the image across the whole card, but they make it so a person can pull the image out of the card to use just it.

     

    April 24, 2011
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    Mapping work processes on the iPhone

    I was sitting in a rather painful meeting last week regarding work processes for another group. The presenter was trying to fit it all into a spreadsheet. It had items with sub items that where indented but didn’t look right on another person’s computer. The meeting then turned to just doing a big text document. Because some paths wrapped back to another path, the document was starting to have many sections repeated over and over again.

    A thought hit me to try iThoughts on my iPhone… it worked! Most folks think of iThought as a mindmapping only solution but really it works great for anything that has steps in a path and especially well when paths need more info than just a word or two.

    Works in portrait and landscape views:

    Any of the boxes can contain additional information either by using the button in the lower right corner or tapping on the box.

    Tapping a box on the iThoughts work area brings up more than just editing of the box text. This is where you can quickly change the color, adjust the shape of the box, add an icon and set start/due dates.

    October 28, 2010
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    Getting Creative With Help From Your iPhone

    When needing to be creative, for design work or writing, it helps to free the mind from the

    May 1, 2010
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