• iPad Stylus 2 – Pencil by 53

    This is supposed to be a great stylus and my friend Neil says that his works really well. But I have had terrible results with it. I got it to connect at first, but now it won’t connect to my iPad. Even when I did get it to connect, I…

  • iPad Stylus 1

    I have been looking for a stylus for my iPad/Tablet so that I can use it to create sketches. I create a lot of sketches (usually to show a Vectorworks concept) and lately i have been creating 100’s of sketches for a course that I was writing for the Open…

  • Do Not Disturb – iPad and iPhone

    I sometimes get notifications in the middle of the night from my website, twitter and so on. I even get some of my overseas clients calling me when I should be asleep. It’s not their fault, they just don’t know that I am in New Zealand. I used to switch…

  • 0070 iPad Tip – Microsoft Word on the iPad

    Microsoft has just released an iPad version of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. For the first time you can now edit Word documents using Microsoft software on your iPad. In the past, there have been third-party applications that will allow you to edit your Word documents. These third-party apps have not…

  • I’ve Just Sold My Android Tablet

    I have finally sold my android tablet. I quite enjoyed using it, but I did not like it as much as my iPad. I want to get an iPad mini, because the size of the android tablet was the thing that I liked most about it. The one thing that…

  • 0049 iBooks Highlights into Evernote

    With all iBooks you can add your notes and highlight text. With some iBooks you can share the highlights. This allows you to send the highlighted text to your Evernote database.

  • 0047 Notes in iOS 6

    Your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch come with an app called Notes. Notes is designed to be a quick note taking app, without any frills. It’s a very quick note to taker, but will also connect through your iCloud account to other devices. This means that notes written on one…

  • 0048 Evernote Version 5

    I posted a blog recently saying that Evernote would soon be updating to version 5. When I went to check the app store on my iPad today I found that Evernote had been upgraded.

  • 0046 Connecting a Bluetooth Keyboard

    I sometimes find it easier to use a full-size keyboard with my iPad and my iPhone rather than the screen keyboards that come with the devices.