My Father-in-Law brought his new 12.9 iPad to our house, about a month after it was released, and the moment I set the absolutely stunning screen in front of my eyes I began to see the possibilities. Unfortunately for me, the lack of access to local external storage, the inability of Lightroom to handle RAW…
Category: Geek
Nifty iOS Scrivener Trick
Correction: I incorrectly noted that quick reference documents couldn’t be edited in iOS Scrivener. Actually, they can be edited. Thanks for the correction @ScrivenerApp! One is my favorite features in Scrivener is Composition Mode. In this mode the rest of the operating system fades away and I’m left with the closest I can get to a…
Time with the Apple Watch
As my first and second entries on my experiment with the Pebble smart watch showed, I am really not a “watch guy.” I could never get used to having the device strapped to my wrist. I also never had the desire to develop comfort with it 1. Yet I remained invested in the concept of…
Action!
The first week of June an action camera came up on Woot! which peaked my interest. I’ve been considering picking up a used GoPro at some point to use for baptisms and other footage which could be hazardous to my phone or DSLR. So, when this deal came to my attention, I decided it would…
Exploring Mellel
I’ve been interested in the Mellel word processor for years. But as I’ve switched my writing format to Markdown, and my writing environment to Scrivener, I haven’t had much of a reason to put the software through it’s paces past it’s trial period. Until now, that is. Each Summer I put together the annual directory…
Nerding, historically
Today my wife volunteered to help host the open house at the Indian King Tavern. It’s an important site for New Jersey history in Haddonfield. When the Patriot legislature fled Northern Jersey for the South, it met in it’s long room. In that space it adopted the seal for the newly organized state and formally…
