Open the Sharing menu you can send text to Mail, Facebook, or Twitter. You can save some text snippets as “favorites,” allowing you to reuse it later, and you can send your text to Messages with a single tap. Meanwhile, it draws from Drafts the idea that you’re simply using it to produce text for other apps to use. It provides some on-the-fly grammar and spell checking, as well as a feature that suggests alternate phrasing for each sentence you write. Ginger Page is a text editor for iOS that sits somewhere between the notetaking apps Notational Velocityand Drafts. Grab it on its website, but note that iTerm‘s developers rely on donations to keep the app going, so be sure to spot them a few bucks. What Sucks: Some odd interface choices in full-screen mode.īuy it? If you’re a power user or sysadmin, iTerm will come in handy. What’s Good: Plenty of customization and interface options. If you spend a lot of time in Terminal and would like a lot more control and customization over the interface, check out iTerm. However, you can also view terminal sessions in multiple panes within one window which might be a better visual interface for full-screen mode.

You can still switch between the tabs by pressing Control- Tab, but it isn’t as obvious. When you switch to full screen-mode, you lose the tab view that makes it easy to see which tab you’re viewing at a glance. It’s great for the sort of multitasker that can’t resist having multiple tabs for everything, but it isn’t flawless. It lets you have multiple tabs for Terminal sessions, so you can run command line applications like VIM in their own tabs while you continue to work on your system-really helpful if you need to quickly grab some system info to send off logs to a vendor. You can also keep multiple profiles for Terminal access with iTerm. ITerm is the kind of app that only a power user can love. You can find the same information elsewhere.īuy it? If you’re worried about getting a sunburn check out Brightly. Though I think that you can find a lot of this data elsewhere on the Internet, Brightly provides a nice interface for this information. And if you remember to use the app every day, it can keep track of your exposure. You can also make a custom profile that tailors the timers to you. You can tap to view a few stats that Brightly can monitor, like if you apply sunscreen every day or if you wear a hat when you’re outside. The app works by finding your location, and you can toggle between the UV index for indoors and outdoors-useful if you sit near a window at the office.Īlong the bottom of the screen is a bar chart that shows how the UV index will change throughout the day, providing an hourly UV index forecast of sorts. Since I’m somewhere between a sheet of paper and wall paint in terms of complexion, I need to worry about sunburn even when causally being outside.īrightly tells you the current UV index, and gives you a timer of how long you can be outside before you should apply sunscreen. It may not look like it now, but spring and summer will be here before you know it. What Sucks: Social features are a little weird.īuy it? If you’re really stressed out or just curious about meditation, check out Headspace. All told, Headspace is a very good introduction to the secular practice of meditation. There’s also a nice explanation of the possible benefits of mindfulness. It seems a little odd to add social features to meditation, but I assume Headspace‘s developers want to treat it like exercise for the mind. A social sharing feature lets you share your progress with your friends. You can set reminders for yourself that come via push notifications. Headspace lets you follow a plan that encourages you to build a habit out of meditating. The app also explains meditation concepts via short animated videos that have a really neat look to them. The app walks you through the whole process with a voice-over, and it provides a pleasant experience overall. When you first use it, an Englishman introduces the process of taking ten minutes to simply sit and not do anything but breathe.

Headspace is a guided meditation app that takes a secular approach to meditation, and it doesn’t require you to even sit on the floor.

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