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Writing Kit – The best Markdown editor on iPad

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Writing Kit The best Markdown editor on iPadWriting Kit 2.0 - The quest for the best Markdown editor on the iPad.

I’ve been searching for a good Markdown editor now for a while. I mainly want to use it for writing blog posts on my private blog, but also for editing other stuff that I write. The criteria I need in a program is the following:

 

  • Be able to sync with dropbox.
  • Preview Markdown documents.
  • Work with folders within Dropbox, so syncing with Scrivener, my favorite writing app on my Mac, works.
  • Work well with app switching on the iPad, so I can do research on the web in Safari, and quickly switch back to the text editor.
  • Work with other tools like TextExpander touch and terminology App.

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Blogsy blog app for iPad with potential but has some bugs and problems

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Blogsy blog app for iPad with potential but has some bugs and problems

I really like the Blogsy blog app, but it have some annoying bugs and problems. Before the latest version, every time you made changes it added a lot of cruft in the HTML, specifically Apple span code that messed up the posts. So to my delight the latest version 3.3 fixed this problem. Unfortunately it seems a new bug has crept in. When editing old posts, it makes a duplicate copy of the post. If this bugs could be fixed, it would really be the best blog tool available. Because I prefer to write on my iPad vs my computer. hopefully this will be fixed soon and I’ll be in blogging heaven.

Update: Haven’t been able to reproduce the error. There’s an update, 3.3.1 coming soon as well.

 

Force Syncing Mac OS X Address Book with Gmail Contacts

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Force Syncing Mac OS X Address Book with Gmail Contacts

If you setup your iPhone and iPad to connect to Google as an Exchange server, you get instant push notifications of mail and sync your calendars and address book. This is a great way of keeping your Address book and calendar synced between your Mac, iPhone and iPad. And in my experience it works great. But syncing from Mac OS X can sometimes be slow to update. So I wrote this little program to force an update immediately. It’s been useful to me, so I thought I put it here if someone else needed it. It’s just a small shell script inside an Automator script, but it’s great for people that are a little bit nervous about using the terminal.

If you want to check the sync progress, just open the Console program that you will find under Utilities in your program folder.

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Prepare images for blogging on iPad

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Prepare images for blogging on iPad

Image editing for blogging on iPad

When I first got my iPad I thought it was great for consuming media, but not for creating it. But after a year I do most of my writing and blogging from my iPad. With a connected Bluetooth keyboard it’s an excellent tool for writing. No spinning hard drive, no fan, just comfortable silence. And with apps like Writing Kit and Blogsy, I can do all the things I need for blogging. But handling images isn’t that easy. Here’s my tips on getting your images in shape directly on your iPad.

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IPad crash – Fixed!

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IPad crash Fixed!

iPad crash problem fixed.

It looks like I finally found a solution to my iPad crashing problem. My first generation iPad crashed all the time without any apparent reason. I found it on a forum and I’ve been running my iPad all day without one crash. Haven’t been able to do that since upgrading to iOS 5.01.

All you need to do is to reset all settings. Open the Settings app and under General and choose Reset. Press Reset All Settings. This sounds dangerous, but you won’t lose any data, only your settings. The machine will show a progress bar, which is normal. After the machine is reset, you should now hopefully have an iPad gen 1 that doesn’t crash all the time. All the settings for mail etc wasn’t affected by the reset by the way.

 

IPad crash Fixed!