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Write! App for Academic Writing: A Review
There’s no shortage of applications designed to assist with and organize your writing, the implication being your writing will improve if you can just find that perfect app. I’m sure we’ve all...
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Testing Wavebox for Google Inbox (and More)
Back in 2015 Tim Lepczyk wrote about organizing email using Inbox, a new interface for Gmail. Since then (and since the demise of my previous favorite email interface, Mailbox), I’ve been using Inbox...
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Track RSS Feeds (Yes RSS) with Feedly
When Google Reader was retired in 2013, many people lost their favorite way to keep up with new posts from their favorite news websites and blogs. Some found alternatives, while many others replaced...
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Record Markdown Notes and Code Snippets Using Boostnote
Many of my recent posts have focused on how I’ve increasingly turned to Markdown for my writing, syllabus design, project and class websites, and for teaching literate programming. For those...
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Expand Your Writing Potential with a Smart Notebook and Pen
[This is a guest post by Kendall Giles, an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He also teaches in VT’s online Masters of...
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Capturing Text Quickly with Drafts 5
One of my favorite iOS apps for many years has been Agile Tortoise’s Drafts, and a new version (v5) came out this week. Originally, Drafts was just an wonderfully fast way to enter text, which already...
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A Quick Look at the New GMail
Last week, Google released an update to GMail. It’s been getting a lot of digital ink in the tech world, including pieces at ZDNet, Slashgear, and PCWorld — and that’s definitely an illustrative...
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Some Suggestions for Encrypting Your Email (and Why You Might Want To)
As Lee recently pointed out, email is not a new topic for the Profhacker crowd. It’s monsoon season; the end-of-the-year flood, after all. I imagine most reading this while barely treading water. “Why...
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Free Up Phone Space with Gemini Photos
Building from the maxim that the best camera is the one you have with you, the camera(s) on any smartphone is one of its most important features. In addition to taking pictures of pets, loved ones,...
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Want To Write Just One Thing Down? Try Edit
The desire to capture something quickly on one’s phone is a pretty common one. As I mentioned back in April, one of my favorite iOS apps is Drafts 5, which somehow combines both great quickness with a...
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