After some poking around ( ridiculous the amount of research time I spend deciding to drop $2.99 ), I finally bought penultimate for iPad. I had sketchbook from alias and ideas from adobe, so was skeptical that it would add anything I didn’t already have, but I have been pleasantly surprised.
People have mentioned the speed of responsiveness vs other apps, but another good advantage is that it responds to a much lighter touch than sketchbook at least ( which, to be fair, is designed for drawing rag her than note taking ).
Wondering if anyone knows of a tool to convert PDF drawings to text if words are detected?Pairing that with penultimate would make for a pretty nice notes-to-text workflow. If you know, please post to comments…
As you may or may not have seen, a while back Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz posted this video pleading with Steve Jobs to open an Apple store in Brooklyn:
I happen to have the perfect site for this store.
Anyone going over the Brooklyn Bridge is deposited onto Adams Street, which runs straight into what is arguably the nicest area of downtown Brooklyn, between the restaurant row Smith Street and its lesser-known parallel sibling, Court St, which also has restaurants and shops aplenty. Adams dead-ends into Atlantic immediately between these two streets, and facing that dead end is a huge, block-sized empty lot.
Construction on this lot has been stalled for close to three years, so I can only imagine the developer must not have any money to continue the project, and would be willing to part with the property for a very reasonable sum, considering they must have been representing themselves as insolvent to the borough of Brooklyn to get away with doing nothing for so long.
Apple could build a store here, probably with room to spare for a nice surrounding park or plaza, and it would be the first thing a lot of people coming to Brooklyn would see. And there are a LOT of people coming to Brooklyn nowadays. Check the guidebooks – they all recommend walking over the Brooklyn Bridge, and it seems like a lot of them have not much idea about what to do after they get there. Putting an Apple store there would be great for Brooklynites as well as out-of-towers, since locals already come to that part of Brooklyn for the restaurants as well as Trader Joe’s and other stores, and have easy access via the local subway hubs at Borough Hall and Atlantic.
Apparently IVF, based on notes here: http://www.webmproject.org/tools/vp8-sdk/example_simple_decoder.html
(thanks to Tony Haro for finding this)
Thought I’d post it because I had a hard time tracking it down.
