20090830

Civilization for the iPhone wastes life

I lost 48 hours of my life trying to get nukes to besiege London...
Playing Sid meier's Civilization for the iPhone, still enjoyable
despite a few white out bugs.

GoodReader is my PDF reader

Alright so you've got Stanza which O'Reilly brilliantly covers, but
what about reading your PDFs from Packt, Manning or Apress?

GoodReader is indeed a good reader of pdf files. Do yourself a favor and just buy it at the current sale.
I bought AirSharing at 5 smackers and tried Files lite as first gen readers but they lacked speed and navigational features.
GoodReader brings this and more. Zooming and free flow of movement through the document results in a better experience with maps. The toggle to snap on the vertical after zooming smaller pdf fonts is a well used feature. I have no trouble transferring documents through the WiFi. It's so great to finally read pdfs from computer publishers or other technical image or code heavy documents that gives my Kindle trouble. I've since transferred my pdfs from AirSharing to GoodReader. This is a great pdf reader a long time coming.

20090811

Tiddlywebwiki benefits from iTW

Followed FND's lead and imported BidiX's iTW into TiddlyWebwiki for
the iPhone.
Had to set upload config to false in iTWTweaks. It is a great UI but i
miss my list of tiddlers viewed directly and hope to craft a better UX
in the future.

20090805

OReilly ebook via Stanza

Picked up some new media bits reading this book without the page weight.

It's saved as an .ipa

Good: priced to go, save a tree for the flocks, and searching and
linking

Bad: takes up one app slot, only on the iDevice.

Now I just need a bigger iTablet.