Month: September 2014
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UX Write and autocorrect while using an external wireless keyboard! (You heard it here!)
I can’t believe it’s true but autocorrect works while using an external keyboard with the UX Write app for iPad!! That’s right folks! For some reason this feature is not highlighted by its creator and it is nowhere to be found on the official website. Nor have I seen much mention of it in discussion…
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List of JIS layout compatible apps for iPad
I have compiled two lists of apps which I use which are compatible and not compatible with JIS layout keyboards. It can be found here.
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Is it really GoodNotes vs Notability?
I have been using both GoodNotes and Notability for a bit now. Both purchases were made after recommendations and some research. Most people seem to pit these two against each other as if they are rivals. But I beg to differ. I’ll tell you why at the end.
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GoodNotes was not made for typing
I like GoodNotes for many reasons but typing isn’t one of them. Interestingly there isn’t even a button for text input in the toolbar (update: it’s buried deep in the “+” menu). To type text you need to hold a finger down somewhere on the page and select “text” from the popup menu. What you…
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Using GoodNotes in the classroom
Recently I have been upgrading in the apps department to match my needs for English language teaching. By far the iPad is the best thing for presentation of teaching material on the big screen (the classroom projector screen, that is). Having held back on forking out money for apps which do similar work to free…
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(Not) using the Apple Wireless Keyboard (Japanese layout) with iPad Air
I keep coming back to this issue of pairing and setting up an external foreign language external keyboard with the iPad Air. The problem is not that it outright rejects such a keyboard but that it depends on a particular app’s ability to recognise it or not. Strangely enough Apple’s very own wireless keyboard for…
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