This workweek ’s round up of iOS app news offers solutions for running your desktop computer from your iPad , a cool direction to tell stories using Twitter , and betterment to Twitter itself .
Already this workweek , Macworld’sLex Friedman reviewed the much - hype Clear to - do app , calling it limited but “ lace with charm and … fun to use . ” Lloyd Case took a smell at OnLive Desktop Plus , an app that let you run your Windows - based computing machine from your iPad ; he recommended sticking with a free version of the app . And Jeffery Battersby took a look at the good iOS apps for figuring and filing your taxes .
Other news from the app universe :
covert : One of the cool things about the hike of iOS is that it lets you leave your estimator behind — without ever leave behind your computer behind . Mirroring apps for the iPhone and iPad countenance you navigate and view your background computer from a distant location . The $ 20 Screens VNC app is among the most - glorify offerings of this eccentric . DeveloperEdoviathis week released Screens 2.0 , a world-wide app that works on all iOS devices . Modern feature let in a redesign of the drug user user interface , including a new toolbar across the bottom of the screen lets you easilyt access all the features . The promote app also features keys forSSH tunneling , as well as AirPlay support , so you may view your distant computing machine on a larger TV screen . The app also lets you take screenshots of your remote desktop and have you synchronize your bookmarked connections between all your iOS devices via iCloud . The app is only compatible with devices run iOS 5.0 or later .
Storify : fashion back in the olden times — as far back as the yr 2000 — journalists wouldsometimes leave their officesto go ask people on the street what they think about the news of the day . The outcome would be what was holler a “ homo on the street ” story . These twenty-four hour period , nobody really goes outdoors and talks — we’re all too busy posting updates to Twitter!Storifyhas been a raging tool among newsman of the newfangled eld , who use the tool to create “ social history ” out of Twitter duologue , then station them to the site of their pick . Now the service has a unexampled , free iPad app that lets user browse Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , and Instagram , and drag media from those sites to create a piece of digital journalism . Of of course , you may still leave behind the agency to do journalism — the portability of the iPad means you may go posture in a coffee workshop to do your reporting !
Twitter : Hey , we get it : All the cool kids apply Tweetbot to jibe Twitter on their iPhone . But Twitter ’s own costless aboriginal app for the iPhone is getting better and more usable all the time . This week ’s update , for model , includes one feature we ’ve long hoped for : The power to copy - and - paste from tweet and exploiter profiles . Other good clobber : fresh font sizing options , quick startup clip , and the ability to look at a user visibility and see if that person is following you . There are also some navigation advance , including swipe shortcuts and press - and - bear activity for link . Finally , Turkish is now a supported language . There ’s something for everybody to love .
slate to Ride Pocket : While the iPhone edition of this democratic railroad - edifice gamerecently leapfrogged its iPad herald by add online asynchronous play , the new update total another missing feature film that its tablet - based sibling posseses : extra boards and destination tickets . So far , Ticket to Ride Pocket has added only three variations to the live U.S. single-valued function : Classic 1910 , Mega , and Big Cities . They ’re all available as part of a $ 1 in - app leverage , once you raise to version 1.2 of Ticket to Ride Pocket . Hopefully , this mean that additional maps — the classic Ticket to Ride Europe , for example — are also in the offing .
[ elderly associate editor Dan Moren contribute to this story . ]
