by Jeffery Battersby | May 27, 2011 | Featured, Macworld, Reviews, Writing
New reviews up at Macworld now of Peterson Birds of North America and iBird Pro HD. Peterson, as you’d expect, offers up some pretty beautiful images of birds, but has a pretty steep learning curve that diminishes its value as a birding field guide. iBird HD is...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 30, 2011 | Featured, Macworld, Reviews, Writing
My MyThoughts 1.2.1 Review is now up at Macworld.com. Mode de Vie’s MyThoughts is a pretty interesting little mind mapping application that offers a more colorful, very unique looking kind of mind map. While it’s not perfect, for a 1.0 version it shows a...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 12, 2011 | Featured, Macworld, Reviews, Writing
My review of 3 iOS brainstorming apps is now up at Macworld. Mind mapping apps on any small iOS device can be a pain in the neck, but the two iPad apps covered in the review are excellent and iThoughtsHD is particularly good.
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 3, 2011 | Asides
John Gruber recently posted a link to an article on Novelr about Amanda Hocking, a 26-year-old writer from Austin, MN who has no book deal with any major publisher but who is selling the living daylights out of her e-books on Amazon.com. She’s selling something...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 1, 2011 | Asides
An excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s forthcoming, and final, novel. David Foster Wallace: “Backbone” | via The New Yorker
