Apple has released a new version of iPadOS, version 15.3, which is mostly security updates. Some of these are downright scary when you read the (fairly scarce) release notes, such as:
iCloud
Impact: An application may be able to access a user’s files
Description: An issue existed within the path validation logic for symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved path sanitization.
Or any of the issues related to WebKit, for that matter. Now, WebKit is the browser engine behind Safari, and, for iPadOS and iOS, every other web browser you see on the platform. So, yeah, better get updating then.
ℹ️ There are also updates to iOS, watchOS, tvOS, macOS, and HomePod.
I always bring an iPad with Apple Pencil to meetings, and that’s what the 80th issue of Switch to iPad is all about.
When I’m not writing books, newsletters, and blog posts about iPads and other things, I spend my time working with clients at Divide & Conquer, my digital agency. As anyone who’s ever done client work knows, it involves meetings. The pandemic years have made those meetings mostly video, but the physical meetings are back now, so I figured I’d talk a bit about the benefits of using an iPad in meetings, rather than a laptop.
Now, me, I take countless notes. I take notes to remember things later, but it’s also how I process things. Most people take notes in meetings, so that’s not anything new, but how you do it matters.
Imagine a scenario where you’re four people around a table, each one with their laptop open, eyes glued to the screen, keys smattering, as the meeting starts. The keys continue to smatter, and you can’t really tell if it’s note-taking, or if people are just checking their email. It’s a wall of laptops, with unknown things happening behind them.
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When I’m not writing books, newsletters, and blog posts about iPads and other things, I spend my time working with clients at Divide & Conquer, my digital agency. As anyone who’s ever done client work knows, it involves meetings. The pandemic years have made those meetings mostly video, but the physical meetings are back now, so I figured I’d talk a bit about the benefits of using an iPad in meetings, rather than a laptop.
Now, me, I take countless notes. I take notes to remember things later, but it’s also how I process things. Most people take notes in meetings, so that’s not anything new, but how you do it matters.
Imagine a scenario where you’re four people around a table, each one with their laptop open, eyes glued to the screen, keys smattering, as the meeting starts. The keys continue to smatter, and you can’t really tell if it’s note-taking, or if people are just checking their email. It’s a wall of laptops, with unknown things happening behind them.
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Racing games on touch screen devices work pretty well, as long as they aren’t proper simulators. Go Rally is a good example of this. This is racing in stages, without any other competitors in your way, so it’s all time trials. The controls are simple enough, with everything from auto-throttle and motion controls, to traditional buttons on the screen. I prefer the latter, and it works really well. Granted, the game plays even better with a compatible controller (I like the Xbox One controller), but it’s not one of those situations where you won’t play it with touchscreen controls just because the physical variant is better.
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The 79th issue of the Switch to iPad newsletter outlines our eleven favorite apps of 2021.
It’s 2022, and you just know you’ll mistype that as 2021 for a couple of months. This issue is still in 2021, though because I wanted to share my favorite apps of last year. That’s not to say that all of these apps were actually launched last year, rather the ones I’ve used, and enjoyed, the most. There are no games on this list, and I’ve also decided to cut out streaming services like Netflix and Apple Music, for example, as well as default apps. I’ve also limited this list to eleven apps because why not?
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It’s 2022, and you just know you’ll mistype that as 2021 for a couple of months. This issue is still in 2021, though because I wanted to share my favorite apps of last year. That’s not to say that all of these apps were actually launched last year, rather the ones I’ve used, and enjoyed, the most. There are no games on this list, and I’ve also decided to cut out streaming services like Netflix and Apple Music, for example, as well as default apps. I’ve also limited this list to eleven apps because why not?
Okay, let’s get started.
Apps are listed from A-Z.
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Folks, we’ve reached a milestone. People have been wanting to build apps on their iPads for a long time, and Apple delivered with the recent update to Swift Playgrounds. This update lets you design, build, test, and even publish full apps to the App Store. There are caveats, obviously, but this works so well that Matt Waller of Cephalopod Studio managed to release his new app ToDon’t.
This is a really big deal, so let’s hear from Matt himself.
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The first issue of Switch to iPad in 2022 has just reached subscribers. It’s all about how that iPad mini holiday worked out for yours truly, something you might recall that I wrote about in #77.
It’s been a slow couple of weeks for me. I didn’t put in many knots until after New Years, and then it was mostly client things that (still) requires a Mac to work. Some of these even require an Intel Mac, due to stupid IT reasons, but that’s the life of a digital consultant.
Anyway, these are the things I’ve used my iPad mini for during the holidays.
1. Writing.
2. Reading.
3. Gaming.
4. Light communication.
5. Note-taking.
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How are you? I hope you had a nice break over the holidays, or that this letter finds you in good health. This is the first issue of Switch to iPad in 2022, the seventy-eight, and I’m happy to be back at it. I’ve managed to stay true to the previous issue, where I stated that I’d rely on my iPad mini over the holidays, and figured that I’d share how that went.
It’s been a slow couple of weeks for me. I didn’t put in many knots until after New Years, and then it was mostly client things that (still) requires a Mac to work. Some of these even require an Intel Mac, due to stupid IT reasons, but that’s the life of a digital consultant.
Anyway, these are the things I’ve used my iPad mini for during the holidays.
- Writing.
- Reading.
- Gaming.
- Light communication.
- Note-taking.
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I hope you had a wonderful Christmas, or whatever it is you celebrate this time of year. For me, the days between Christmas and the New Year celebrations, are ideally spent contemplating, resting up, and making plans for the future. That’s not possible every year, for me, due to client work, but this year it is, and I’m going to enjoy it. Chances are that means I’ll end up writing, or even building, something when I get bored, but that’s fine. It’s the freedom of not doing things that I love the most.
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