iPad blogging

As a little addendum to the last post I wanted to say that I wrote in on my iPad, which actually worked quite well, in a 6.5 finger typing sort of way. I would liked to have included some screenshots, but uploading images from the iPad is obviously not something the Apple engineers deemed necessary to include. So let me hand another FAIL to Apple for that!

Rowmote Pro for iPad Review

Ok, so I thought Snatch didn't look polished enough on my iPad and maybe Rowmote might be able to be my new best remotecontrolfriend. Boy was I wrong.

After the 4,99$ download and setting up I was greeted by a friendly screen with controls for adjusting volume, skip forward/backward buttons, a menu button and a play/pause button.

That's all. Every button in multiple incarnations, presumably to fill up some space on the iPad screen, which would otherwise look either rather empty or like a home for very large buttons. And these buttons don't even relate very well to the Apple remote control, because the left/right and top/down controls are quite separated.

Naturally I started looking for a way to control the Plex media center application on my Mac mini, which needs a few more keys to function best. I came across a very nice and big trackpkad, which pushes the pointer on the Mac screen highly reliable to where you want it to go, a keyboard which overlaps half the trackpad when active and an application launcher to start your favorite applications with a single tap instead of mousing to the Applications folder to fire up your programs.

But different remote layouts? Customizable buttons? Nada. Rowmote is a very simple remote, and a good trackpad/keyboard replacement. If you need a programmable remote for your Mac, go get Snatch.

I would say, for the money they charge, Rowmote is A big FAIL. However, considering that all that I wrote above already seems to be public knowledge (I should have read some reviews), I'm willing to take the blame and half the FAIL.