Shortly after my review of the ReMarkable 2 e-ink tablet, ReMarkable started working on a version 3 of their firmware and its release yesterday has changed everything — for the worse.… Read More ReMarkable 2 with firmware version 3 – a review reconsidered
The last app in the Affinity V2 bundle is Affinity Publisher 2. New features in this app include the ability to create books in a simple manner, add footnotes, endnotes and sidenotes to your document, and Auto-flow.… Read More Affinity Publisher 2 Review
SoftRAID 7.0 is the next major release of the software based RAID solution owned by OWC. It now supports macOS 13 (Ventura) and incorporates many architectural changes required for future versions of macOS.… Read More SoftRAID 7 has been released and it makes your Mac more secure
If you visited the Affinity user forums over the past few months, you know that after eight years, something new was coming. Today, Serif, the company that develops and markets Affinity products, launches Version 2 of its award-winning Affinity creative suite and this time they’re asking for a — quite small — contribution. … Read More Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher version 2 launch
An aluminium body the size of one-and-a-half traditional USB stick with a 1TB SSD inside is the smallest SSD drive OWC recently came up with. It’s a high-speed device that you can put in your shirt pocket. The Envoy Pro Mini is a radically designed USB memory stick that doesn’t contain a flash memory chip,… Read More OWC Envoy Pro Mini, a highspeed SSD in USB memory stick format
Two U.2 NVMe SSD drives are inside OWC’s new Mercury Pro U.2 Dual Thunderbolt 3 drives. My test unit was the dual Western Digital Ultrastar DC SN630 equipped 8TB version which retails at 899 USD with a 70cm Thunderbolt 4 cable and power supply in the box. Initially I was surprised not to find a… Read More OWC Mercury Pro U.2 Dual review
The reMarkable 2 tablet is a very thin low-latency tablet that recreates the pen on paper experience. It’s presented as a tablet that helps users focus because it can only be used as an e-reader and note-taking annex drawing tablet, but there’s more to it.
As I am one of those nerds who’s still scribbling on anything from Post-Its to A6 index cards and… Read More The reMarkable review
Note taking apps are everywhere and everybody seems to be using them as a “second brain”. The most powerful apps support Markdown, wikilinks, backlinks and a notes “map” based on links between them. Taio aims at becoming one of those on Apple’s platforms.… Read More Taio is an elegant, CommonMark editor
Ulysses got updated once again — one of the few apps that make a subscription truly worthwhile due to frequent updates and improvements. This update, however, includes a long desired for feature: tables.… Read More Ulysses gets tables and improvements
iA Writer 6 adds a much desired feature for note takers and academic writers alike: wikilinks. In addition, there’s better and more extended metadata functionality, link recognition, a history that you can navigate, hashtag autocomplete and a file picker for easily creating wikilinks and content blocks.… Read More iA Writer review
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