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		<title>iPhone App List</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[iPhone Apps are what make the phone worthwhile. This is a list of Applications that I recommend: Stanza is a brilliant eBook reader. It allows over-the-air book downloading from places like Project Gutenberghttp://www.lexcycle.com/. Evernote stores notes you take on their servers, and performs OCR on embedded images. Great way of taking meeting minutes. http://www.evernote.com/about/download/iphone/. Shazam [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>iPhone Apps are what make the phone worthwhile. This is a list of Applications that I recommend:</p>
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<li>Stanza is a brilliant eBook reader. It allows over-the-air book downloading from places like <a href="http://www.gutenberg.net/">Project Gutenberg</a><a href="http://www.lexcycle.com/">http://www.lexcycle.com/</a>.	</li>
<li>Evernote stores notes you take on their servers, and performs OCR on embedded images. Great way of taking meeting minutes. <a href="http://www.evernote.com/about/download/iphone/">http://www.evernote.com/about/download/iphone/</a>.</li>
<li>Shazam will identify songs for you that are playing nearby from a short sample. <a href="http://www.shazam.com/music/web/pages/iphone.html">http://www.shazam.com/music/web/pages/iphone.html</a>.</li>
<li>Discover provides a flex-based interface on your phone so you can copy files from a PC or mac to the phone. <a href="http://www.148apps.com/reviews/discover/">http://www.148apps.com/reviews/discover/</a>.</li>
<li>There are tons of iPhone Apps for Twitter (tweetie is very popular), but I use Tweetdeck, because it syncs with the groups I have on my desktop. <a href="http://tweetdeck.com/iphone/">http://tweetdeck.com/iphone/</a>.</li>
<li>EirText Pro gives you webtexts on your phone. Well worth paying for, though there is a free one. <a href="http://www.vinnycoyne.com/lackofconcept/?page_id=80">http://www.vinnycoyne.com/lackofconcept/?page_id=80</a></li>
<li>Dropship is a really fun little 3D shooter. <a href="http://toucharcade.com/2008/12/11/dropship-now-this-is-a-shooter/">http://toucharcade.com/2008/12/11/dropship-now-this-is-a-shooter/</a></li>
<li>I Dig It is a version of DigDug. Incredibly addictive. <http://www.inmotionsoftware.com/AppsGames/IDigIt.html>http://www.inmotionsoftware.com/AppsGames/IDigIt.html</a></li>
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<p>Also worth a look are the aggregate sites like <a href="http://www.148apps.com/">148apps</a>, </p>
<p>More when I think of them.</p>
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		<title>Donning my Mac</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently took the plunge and went form an all-linux environment to adding a Macbook Pro to my collection of computers. I thought I would record a few of the apps and tips I have found useful in setting up the machine. Java Java can be a bit of a bugbear for linux users, because [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently took the plunge and went form an all-linux environment to adding a Macbook Pro to my collection of computers. I thought I would record a few of the apps and tips I have found useful in setting up the machine.</p>
<h2>Java</h2>
<p>Java can be a bit of a bugbear for linux users, because of the choices between Icedtea, openjdk and the Sun hotspot. Since I do a lot of Java development, I really want the real thing.</p>
<p>On the Mac, the official JVM seems to come from <a href='http://developer.apple.com/java/">Apple</a>, and unfortunately it&#8217;s a bit behind the curve.</p>
<p>On the plus side, <a href="http://www.eclipse.org">eclipse</a> is readily available in a proper apple app. This is a huge advantage. One tip for new mac users is that eclipse needs to be installed as the entire directory in the Applications folder, and you then drag the icon from inside the eclipse folder to the Dock. Ganymede includes support for SVN, so I didn&#8217;t need any extra plugins.</p>
<h2>Text Editing</h2>
<p>I got a copy of <a href="http://macvim.org/OSX/index.php">Vim 7.0</a> here, which I prefer infinitely to regular vi. It&#8217;s not a recently updated project, but I have few fears about ViM killing my machine.</p>
<p><a href="http://smultron.sourceforge.net/">Smultron</a> has a great icon, and does a pretty good job as a multi-file text editor. It could probably do with a plugin interface though, to help manage syntax colouring and stuff.</p>
<p>The best xml editor out there, in my opinion, is <a href="http://www.freexmleditor.com">Exchange XML</a>. It&#8217;s a pity the project seems to have stopped. I&#8217;d love them to opensource it so more work can be done.</p>
<h2>Subversion</h2>
<p>Still haven&#8217;t got around to Git or Bazaar. At the moment, we are still trying to convince our colleagues that Subversion is a good thing (or any code management!). I looked around, and so far, <a href="http://www.versionsapp.com/">Versions</a> is a pretty nice application for managing svn outside of eclipse. I use it to store the LaTeX files for papers and my thesis as well, and it&#8217;s great for that since it lets me keep every revision.</p>
<h2>LaTeX</h2>
<p>It turned out that it was super-easy to get this going. I had to search a little bit, but I ended up with one giant package that installed LaTeX, TeXShop and a BibTeX manager all together. They work pretty well, though it could be slightly more integrated. I got the <a href="http://www.tug.org/mactex/">mactex</a> package to get all this assembled. Interestingly, it has a XeTeX installation, which I have often been keen to try.</p>
<h2>Information Management</h2>
<p>I love <a href="http://www.evernote.com">EverNote</a>. It is an astonishingly tight application. The idea is that you can take linear notes, as per usual in a text file. However, if you have iSight on your laptop it will also OCR any pictures you send it. I find that super useful. The handwriting recognition is a bit so-so, but it works fairly well, and I think a better pen will fix my problem with it.</p>
<h2>Conclusions</h2>
<p>I have a few more apps to talk about. Next time, I will talk about Quicksilver, Adium and what I did to mail.app. So far, the mac experience has been excellent. The OS handled the weirdly-configured network we have here in TCD CS pretty seamlessly. </p>
<p>There are a few outstanding things, which I would love help with:</p>
<ul>
<li><del>Transparent access to Google Calendars, like thunderbird does</del></li>
<li>I can&#8217;t connect to our network printer through samba, only through IPP</li>
<li><del>What the hell is the F5 and F6 symbol on the MBP? All I get is a forbidden popup when I click em</del></li>
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