Time for part 3 of the iPad Pro review. I already wrote part 2 before, but I lost it due to having no clipboard history. See, that’s working on an iPad for you! An iPad acting as an external monitor. The iPad is showing the desktop version of Spotify using Duet. Anyway, I have to […]
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iPad Pro – Part One – Introduction
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This is the start of a research article about the iPad Pro. My goal is to try and use the iPad Pro as a serious working device. Apple touts the iPad Pro as the future of computing. They say that it’s an uncompromising vision of personal computing for the modern world. That it makes complex […]
A way to export Keynote presentations as proper HTML
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When I give a presentations, my notes are the full text that belongs to that slide. It looks like this: This is great because when you are in “presenter mode” and you stumble over your words, you can just read the slides. I try to rehearse every presentation I do but I don’t always know […]
A few words on open data, local apps and government-subsidized application projects
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I read the Flemish Government is holding a contest where you can win €20.000 if your application makes use of open data provided by Flanders. You have to use a dataset provided by them to be eligible to enter the contest. The power of open data is that application makers can combine data from multiple […]
Symbol workflow in Sketch 3.7
- Posted in apps
As posted in a comment on Designer News: I love the new Sketch features and in fact they have been helping my current workflow a lot. I am working on a project with a ton of complex forms. My symbols look a bit like this depicting every state of the form: This is just 1 […]
Got the 80D
- Posted in photography
Got my new camera! I am pairing a Canon EOS 80D with a Rode Videomic Go and a 10-22 mm F3.5-4.5 lens (becomes 16-35mm). Time to make some awesome videos.
Looking for the perfect video camera
- Posted in photography
I had a lot of fun learning the basics of photography a few years ago. I was a real gearhead in the beginning, always looking at gear as a way to improve my photography. I would test new cameras (mirrorless was all the rage!) and I would do intricate light setups in my living room […]
Looking for a new word processor
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I can’t believe I’m about to ask this in 2016 but I am looking for a new word processor. I am currently using Mou but manually writing file references and not having a preview of what your document will look like feels a bit 1989. I tried MarsEdit but it doesn’t suit my needs. It […]
Better ways to work: 37Signals
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It’s funny how we think that “everyone knows” something, and it turns out that that really isn’t the case. I was having a conversation about what I want Mono to be, and I referenced 37Signals (now known as Basecamp). The other person didn’t know that company, and I thought: huh? How can you not know […]
Icon sets
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I am compiling a list of high quality icon sets. Here’s what I have: AIGA symbol signs Glyphish Nova Geomicons Font Awesome Helveticons Entypo Glyphicons Picons Maki Octicons Pictos Symbolicons Any favorites welcome in the comments!