Being a photographer, I have a lot of pictures on my hard disks. Using a Canon 5D Mark II with it’s 23 megapixel sensor shooting in RAW doesn’t help. My main backup is two different NAS servers doing alternating TimeMachine backups every other hour, a feature added in Mountain Lion. This is great, because if one backup unit breaks down or gets stolen, I still have another copy on the other NAS. But what if both got stolen? Imagine the horror? So I’ve been searching for an offsite backup solution that’s cheap and just works. And now I think I found it.
MultiMarkdown – iPad Supported Apps
iPad and MultiMarkdown Supported Apps
Updated 2014–07–06
Since I originally wrote this article, much has happened. The Elements app looks like it’s been discontinued because I couldn’t find it in the AppStore, so I have removed it from the comparison table. I’ve added my new favourite iOS text editor, Editorial which is an amazing app for configure your text workflow just the way you like it. IA Writer has added support for MultiMarkdown so I added it to the list as well.
Trying to use MultiMarkdown for writing this blog on an iPad has been frustrating. Just trying to find a writing app that supports tables, footnotes, internal links and tables drives you crazy. One App can do some of the things right, others do nothing right. So here is my test of the Markdown Writing Apps I have available, and how they compare feature-wise.
I’ve moved over all my writing to Markdown, just because it’s a great way of writing for different media. But I need to use the more advanced version MultiMarkdown to be able to handle internal links, cross-references, more advanced image links, footnotes, tables and bibliography. So I did a Markdown test document with all the stuff I need, and checked if the App could handle it and generating working HTML. So here it goes.
iOS App | Cross-Ref | Images | Footnotes | Tables | Bibliography | Definitions |
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Byword 2.1.6[1] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Phraseology 2.0.4[1] | No | Yes[2][3] | Yes | No | No | No |
Poster 2.1.1[4] | No | Yes[2] | No | No | No | No |
Notesy 2.5.3[1] | No | Yes[2][3] | No | No | No | No |
Writing Kit 3.9.2[1] | No | Yes[2][3] | Yes | No | No | No |
Drafts iPad 3.6.3[1] | No | Yes[2][3] | Yes | No | No | No |
IA Writer v2.0[1] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Editorial 2[1] | No | Yes[2][3] | Yes | No | No | No |
Conclusion
So if you need some or all of these features, have a look in the table and make your choice. I like to write in Editorial when blogging because of the workflow I added for uploading images and the ability to export to any app using URL scheme. When writing other texts I usually use IA Writer or Byword. Thankfully the apps for iOS isn’t expensive and most of them can sync via Dropbox, so switching between apps isn’t the end of the world.
I’ll try to keep this list updated whenever an update is available.
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Includes SmartyPants support. ↩
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Doesn’t display image caption. ↩
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Messed up when having bold text in alt-text. ↩
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This app is no longer for sale. WordPress has bought it. It’s still updated for those who bought it. ↩
SD-Card is read-only in Mac Macbook Pro card reader – solved
After getting my Raspberry Pi I used the one built-in on my MacBook Pro, but the SanDisk SDHC-card showed up as read-only in finder on my mac, and Disk Utility refused to format it. The write protection switch on the card was correctly set, so that made me a bit baffled. But it seems that the internal card reader on the MacBook Pro is a bit finicky.
GeoTagr – my iPhone-iPad GPS DSLR Geotagger of choice
GeoTagr
To be able to tag your DSLR pictures with GPS information is both fun and practical. But to date, most DSLR cameras don’t have GPS built-in or is an expensive hardware add-on option. That includes the Wi-Fi iPad you might own. The last couple of years I’ve used a lot of different solutions to track GPS data while I’m out taking photographs. My first way was to use a Garmin GPS unit and then transfer the information to my Mac, but now, with mobile phones like iPhone and Android, there’s no reason to tug along yet another device.
My weapon of choice now is an app for iPhone and iPad called GeoTagr, a universal app for logging GPS tracks while you photograph, and then tag images with location data. For me, the pictures I want to tag are the RAW images that I import into Adobe Lightroom 4. And with this app, it’s straightforward to accomplish.
1Password Secures computer passwords on the web
Instead of having one favorite password that you use on every account you create on the web,making it very easy for someone that gets ahold of it to wreak havoc of you life. Wouldn’t it be great if you had different, impossible to guess passwords on each site? But you only had on password to remember? Well, 1Password can help you both generate random passwords and to help you log in automatically to those sites using just one master password.
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