If you create a Mozilla account you get to save files and work on them as well. You can create pages and CSS, seeing the changes take effect in real time. What’s surprising is that the IDE itself is pretty robust. These include teaching guides for classes as well. There are three projects that are included, allowing you to play around with pre-existing code. You’ll need Chrome or Firefox to use Thimble, I had some issues with the app’s file handling time out with Safari. Thimble gives you two panes, one with your code, and another with the rendered page. It’s no surprise that they would develop a web IDE on a website. Mozilla is transforming itself into a company that pushes the web for the web’s sake. Needs better tutorial.īuy it?: If you’ve got an older iPad and want in on the multitasking, check out Bisect. What Sucks: Browser limitations, no side by side document editing. What’s Good: Split screen multitasking- now, and for all iPads. You can try the limited version of the app for free, unlocking multiple tabs for $9.99. It took me awhile to figure out all of the interface, it could use a better tutorial. I tried adding Quip, which was an available option, but it never showed up in the actual contextual menu. I also had some weird behavior with using external data providers. You can’t have two documents open on each side, just either a web browser or a preview of the document. The browser will play video, but you’re giving up extensions and other features. So you can have a bunch of documents open on one side, and then have a couple of web pages open on the other. However, you can also work with multiple documents in tabs. You can also get a live Markdown preview as you type in the other split window.Įven if that was all it did, that would be a pretty novel app. Get it on the App Store for $1.99.īisect is an app that will help older iPads get the side by side multitasking, well at least if you only wanted a web browser and text editor as your main windows. What Sucks: No external editor for Photos.īuy it?: If you are a fan of pixel art, check out Retrospecs. What’s Good: Huge variety of filters and options, landscape lock option for the camera. The app also wasn’t available as an external editor in Photos, which is a bit of a miss. The in-app camera has a landscape lock option, which needs to be a system wide option in iOS 9. They think so too, as an original version of the in-app camera photo is saved to the camera roll. However, you’re more likely going to use this app to alter existing photos. You can take pictures right in the app, it includes a lock in landscape feature that Apple should steal for the proper camera app.

There is one modern system represented: The Pebble Smart Watch. There’s a huge variety of old school computers here: Macintosh, Apple II, Sega Master System, and more. My favorite of the filters is the old Game Boy filter, giving your photos the green and black pixels that probably ruined my eyes. Retrospects allows you to filter your photos as if they were rendered on classic computers. Pixel art is becoming mainstream- digital nostalgia drives some of us to wish for a time when our computers weren’t so perfect. What Sucks: Have to dig around for a lot of the options.īuy it?: If you’re looking for a better way to manage email with support from other apps, check out Dispatch. What’s Good: Snippets and sharing options are powerful. However, it’s a better fit if you are looking for a better way to manage your e-mail as your to do list. If you’re using e-mail casually, then you likely aren’t going to get much out of this app. (You can also choose to browse all of your snippets as well.) It’s pretty easy to use the snippets, you just hit a button at the bottom of the compose window and a search pops up. It comes with some good examples, including snippets for some basic tech support. If you aren’t a Text Expander user, you can create your own snippets right in the app. Text Expander users will find support for their snippets here.

There is a ton of different to do apps you can use, and if you want you can use the system share sheet. The app also has a built in sharing menu that you can customize. You end up with a reminder that has the whole e-mail as a text, along with a callback URL that will take you back to Dispatch. The app also allows for some powerful sharing options, including adding your e-mail to Reminders. It does this through text snippets and better navigation. Dispatch is an e-mail app that’s focused on letting you get through your e-mail faster.

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