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Any good app should support every part of the platform its on. That includes working well with every supportable device, other apps, and the OS itself. Round 1 judges compatibility. FIGHT!
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Battle of The Maps, Pre-Game Coverage
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Welcome to the World Wide Web FIGHT NIGGGHHHTTTTT!!! The iOS map title may be at stake. I'm here with the challenger, the brand new Google Maps for iOS, who is up against Apple Maps in the fight of the... week. Apple Maps has been ridiculed since its first release in iOS 6, and people only had the old iOS Google Maps to compare it to. Now, Google Maps is finally back on iOS, and it looks like it's ready to take back its place as the go-to iOS maps app.
Onswipe layout for iOS
Up under the logo, next to the Home link, is a new link: "iOS layout (experimental)." Recently I found a service called Onswipe that provides a more touch-friendly UI for blog sites. So, I made one for World of Tech. It only works on an iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch...) and some Android tablets, I believe. Here's an overview of what it looks like.
App Store Favorite: Battleheart
iPhone, iPod Touch, & iPad | 62.0 MB | 4.5/5 stars
"Battleheart - enter a world of epic fantasy combat! Create a unique party of heroes, and lead them in frantic real-time battles against monsters of ever increasing power. Lay waste to your foes with dozens of unique special powers as you gain experience, upgrade your party's equipment, and craft them into the ultimate battle force!"
Niftis
Niftis is a post that highlights neat, interesting, fun, and techie items/stuff that I've found or created.
Blogsy for iPad
Since getting my iPad, I have slowly transitioned computer tasks into iPad tasks. For example, I prefer watching YouTube videos more on my iPad than my computer, and I more frequently make and edit documents in Google Drive from my iPad. I really wanted to start blogging from my iPad, but I couldn't find a good solution. Google's Blogger 2.0 update brought iPad support, but it was very lacking in tons of needed features. The Blogger website was a mess from any mobile browser, so I looked towards other apps. Through Google searches, I found that the top 2 blogging apps on the iPad were Posts and Blogsy. Only because of the difference in price, I went with Blogsy, which was half of Posts' $9.99 price tag. The big differences I picked up between the 2 were that Posts was modeled around Blogger's other features outside of creating and publishing posts, such as managing tags and comments. I felt Blogsy provided enough, so I got it. This is the second post I've created with Blogsy, and everything looks to be working rather well. Multiple photo placement is a bit iffy, but it always has been with Blogger.
The good and bad Windows 8 thus far
Windows 8, Microsoft's latest (and greatest?) incarnation of their iconic operating system has been out for a few weeks, and I've been using the official release for as long as its been available. It's certainly a step towards the future of technology. "Technology and its innovations are the way of the future. Adapt or be left behind" is a saying I've come to find very true, especially with Windows 8. There have been points about how Microsoft and its new design suit mimic a lot of what Apple's been doing with its image and the image of their products. That's Microsoft adapting. Apple's Macs and iOS devices are so widely loved, and their ease of use is always contrasted with Microsoft products. So, Microsoft simplified their OS. Big, minimalistic tiles on a solid-color background with a little decal screams simplicity, or certainly more so than the Start menu. It's great to see Windows taking steps toward a more user-friendly experience, but there's still all that pre-Windows 8 OS to deal with.
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