Apple’s latest iOS 7 was released to the public (globally I might add) yesterday, depending on your timezone. As usual there has been quite a bit of Apple-bashing online, rightly or wrongly, about the new (or the lack of, as the case may be) changes. I found this video, though made soon after the Apple WWDC a few months ago, presents a more balanced view of features of iOS7 and indirectly reflects how the smartphone landscape has changed since the original iPhone revolutionised this industry.
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Just saw this series of maps providing different perspectives of the world we live in. In particular I was struck by how few countries are driving on the left (hence “not right” 🙂 ) side of the road!
Splurged on some geeky stuff today.
- Google chromecast: an internet media streaming device made by Google and cheap!
- Raspberry Pi: the “ultimate starter” pack from Amazon.
Although I have dabbled with (as a user) a number of productivity/to-do list/GTD/project management tools in the past, it’s not until this year that I have taken them more seriously. In all cases, I almost invariably only try applications when there is an accompanying mobile app because I figured without the mobile support, I probably wouldn’t be using the app so frequently. In hindsight, I think having some sort of discipline is essential – regardless of whether using a mobile app or not, although the mobile aspect adds to the motivation definitely.
- Basecamp (Android, iOS, sort-of): Enterprise-grade project management. My big peeve is that there is no good mobile app and the email notifications are not sufficiently informative for ease of keeping track of conversations.
- Dropbox: No explanations needed…
- Evernote (Android, iOS): Heard of this app since its beginning a few years ago. Didn’t take it seriously until recently when I decided to use it to store online resources; still not really using it to track documents and stuff.
- Google Docs: This online office suite and repository of documents is extremely powerful, in case you have not discovered the power of it. Can’t live without it! 🙂
- Google Keep(Android only?): New addition to the Google Drive family. Simple – as in with limitations – app for jotting down short notes. Has the obvious advantage that notes to synced to Google Drive.
- Todo (iOS): For a couple of years my favourite for its simple interface, until I switched to Android 1.5 years ago.
- Trello (Android): Discovered it a few months ago, but only now beginning to discover innovative ways of using this deceptively simple app. May replace Wunderlist down the line. Very fast for synchronisation and mobile UI.
- Wunderlist (Android, iOS): Started using since last year. Liked it for the simple interface and user-experience was somewhat similar ti Todo.
Honorable mentions which I eventually discarded:
- Google tasks
- Remember the milk
- Things
- Toodledoo
In the course of following the revival of Doctor Who series (well, that kind of happened a few years ago back in 2005…), it’s wonderful that I keep discovering new resources which help to rekindle my interests in all things related to Doctor Who!
Here are the links I found recently about the Doctor Who novels – originally serialisation of the TV episodes, but apparently due to the long hiatus until a restart of the series with Christopher Eccelston. Well here are the book series that have been published over the years and I have been slowly going through the original Target series at the moment. 🙂
- The Target Series: the original series I read during my childhood, basically novelisations of the TV episodes, many by Terrance Dicks.
- The Missing Adventures by Virgin Publishing
- The New Adventures by Virgin Publishing
- The Eighth Doctor Adventures: published by BBC, after the telemovie of the Eighth Doctor.
- The Past Doctor Adventures: from BBC and published alongside the Eighth Doctor Adventures.
- New Series Adventures: novelisations of the “modern” series.