Josh Holloway collects (and creates) iPad-specific versions of popular and nice wallpapers. Makes for a great companion site to Prettify.
Announcing Ego for iPad
I’m thrilled to announce Ego for iPad, now available in the App Store. This new version of Ego includes support for Tumblr, a system status notifier (so I can send messages about 3rd-party issues), and, best of all, a detail view which allows you to swipe right on a widget and automatically log into that site to view even more of your stats. Respond to mentions on Twitter, dig into your referrals in Mint and Google Analytics, browse your Tumblr dashboard—all from Ego!
Seth Clifford summed up my thoughts on Ego for iPad yesterday in a Twitter post: “Ego on iPhone was very cool. Ego on iPad feels fully realized.”
A new version of Ego for iPhone which adds Tumblr support and other features is in review with Apple and will hopefully be released soon.
Yeah, so I’m writing this from the future. Okay, not the actual future, as in a year greater in number than 2010, but the “future” the iPad has created. It’s pretty nice here. There’s an app for making orange juice and also one for committing hands-free revenge killings.
The keyboard is surprisingly decent. I was able to quickly type up a ransom note without too many spelling errors and with the Mail app I was able to finally confirm my membership in that Elitist Assholes club I joined a while back. Now I can finally go to the meetings. They all take place on remote islands you’ve never even heard of where we eat food and laugh about how in this new future we can all watch pornography in our laps and how ironic it is that that poses so many problems.
Here we are. It has finally come true. We have a computer thinner than an ESL workbook that will improve the daily computing lives of everyone who owns it and which, with a little bit of luck, will also solve that silly global hunger problem. Trust me, if you owned one you would totally get what I just meant (hint for those who have an iPad: Settings > General > Enable Food Crisis Solution — switch to YES).
Well, back to business. After all, Ego doesn’t write itself, you know. At least NOT YET.
Shawn wrote the post I wish I had written about the iPad this morning:
It’s really not hard. It’s a 10 inch flat screen where magic happens. Get it? Of course you do. So go fucking buy one. Stop taking everything so damn seriously. It’s just an amazingly cool computer. Don’t you like amazingly cool computers? Stop wringing your hands about platforms and publishing industries and openness. You don’t really even care about that shit. You think you do but you don’t.
It was especially nice to read Shawn’s post just after reading Cory Doctorow’s ridiculous writeup, “Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t either)”, in which he rambles on for more than 20 paragraphs about how the iPad kills innovation (because you can’t open it with a screwdriver and play with the circuit boards—yes, seriously) and how buying apps in the App Store is equal to working for the mob (again, SERIOUSLY). Give me a break.
