As a cloud-based task management application, Do.com greets you with full HTML 5 goodness. It’s a real slick and responsive task management application for individuals or project teams. I’ve long been a believer in the democratization of project management data and how cloud-based applications can help geographically dispersed project teams collaborate and communicate during projects. read more
When I first thought about enterprise uses for the iPad, project management was at the top of my list. When I first held the device in my hands, I could imagine it replacing many paper based tasks and offering an unprecedented level of mobility for tasks like project management. ProjectPlanner HD for iPad helps fulfill that early of vision of mine for the iPad as a project management tool. While it can be easy to argue that iPad project management apps lack the robustness of mainstream project management applications like Microsoft Project and cloud-based apps like Liquid Planner and Zoho Projects, they do offer the features that the non-PMP ninja PMs should find useful.
I’ve been using Penultimate since I first got my iPad. Up until now, I had to email my Penultimate note pads to my Evernote account. The email step in my workflow was fine but I longed for Penultimate to get Evernote integration.
Well, my wish came true because of its last release, Penultimate now includes Evernote integration enabling you to send Penultimate notebooks and pages directly from the app into your Evernote account without workarounds like having to email Penultimate notebooks to your Evernote email address.
I’ve long been better organized electronically than I ever was with dead trees and paper so Evernote was a natural application for me to adapt to organize my notes and research. It has become a go to application of sorts for me because I centralize so much personal, professional, and especially project information within various Evernote notebooks.
Here is a overview of how I made the move into Evernote:
I am always on the lookout for a better Adobe Acrobat PDF reader for my iPad so the recent launch of the free Adobe Reader for iOS really caught my eye. It also works on the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod Touch. Considering the tense relationship that Adobe must have with Apple, they are not ignoring the iOS platform by any means, which is good for users.
The Getting Started Guide that ships with the Reader is well conceived and walks you through how to interact with PDF documents using this new reader app. In fact, I encourage technical writers with an interest in documentation for mobile apps to check out Adobe Reader for iOS for the Getting Started Guide because it shows what can be done with mobile app documentation.
The first contestant in my home office for the iOS 5 upgrade was my 1st generation iPad 3G. It’s a device that sees a lot of use during the day but if I bricked it would be a crisis but not as bad as if I bricked my phone. iOS 5 performance on my iPad has been great (but not quite as great as my iPhone) and except for some groups getting out of whack my upgrade was a rather painless affair.
I watched the launch of the iPhone 4s and iOS 5 with great anticipation. Apple product launches are always worthy of watching. After matching up my personal predictions versus what actually delivers is an annual tradition of mine. It’s also a lot of fun to learn how far off some of the analysts, pundits, and journalists are off in their predictions. Though as time goes on, my viewing of Apple product launches are about learning what I can from live blogging, and then piece together the rest of the news that evening after I get home and the server traffic dies down after the live session.
Last weekend, I upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 after a successful (albeit time consuming) upgrade of my first generation iPad 3G to the new OS. The overall upgrade of my iPhone went relatively smooth – I did it on a Friday night before going to bed – without the server errors that dogged my iPad upgrade and many others on launch day.
Here are the iOS 5 highlights (for me at least):
Evernote dominates a lot of the headlines around note taking apps on iOS. But I’ve been wanting to check some other note taking apps out – not because I am switching from Evernote – but to keep my mind aware of what else is out there and just because Evernote is the right solution for me doesn’t mean it is going to be the right way to go for the person who chats me up about what note taking app to get for their iPhone or iPad. SimpleNote is an app that shows up quite frequently in articles about note taking apps. It’s usually a couple of seats behind Evernote.
SimpleNote is elegant in its simplicity. I have mixed emotions the more note taking applications growing into word processors. I like my notes with my notes and my documents in my word processor I guess.
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