OmniGraphSketcher for iPad review: easily create beautiful graphs and charts
OmniGraphSketcher is an iPad app that makes it easy to create gorgeous and precise graphs with lines, curves, shaded regions, and more. Instead of using specific equations, like a graphing calculator, OmniGraphSketcher let’s you use multitouch gestures to chart your points and draw cuves and bar graphs.
Han Solo Groovin in Carbonite – Star Wars Parody Case for iPhone
Okay, this one got me right in my geek heart. An iPhone case with Han Solo on the back. Frozen in carbonite. Just like in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. I can’t really do a proper review of this iPhone case. At least the case part. Don’t get me wrong, it’s serviceable enough — a slim, well fashioned black skin case. But it’s nothing more than that. And why should it be? This case is all about Solo.
Does the Home screen need updating in iOS 6? [Poll]
We’ll keep this one short but sweet — Does the Home screen need updating in iOS 6? Rene laid out a lot of the pros and cons in his iOS 6 Home screen article a couple of days ago, and we discussed it in depth on the iPhone & iPad Live podcast last night. Hundreds of millions of users already know how to use the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad Home screen, and that’s a huge barrier to change. Maybe not to geeks, but certainly to mainstream users.
Post iPhone ergo propter iPhone
“Post hoc ergo propter hoc” is Latin for “after it, therefore because of it”. That it comes from Latin should indicate how far back that particular fallacy can be traced. Yet ever since Apple launched the original iPhone in 2007, it has been the point of comparison for every flagship phone, from every manufacturer, on every carrier, that’s followed. Just like “post hoc ergo propter hoc” isn’t often true, “post iPhone ergo propter iPhone” isn’t always true. Yet time after time, phone after phone, everything from hardware design to software features is taken as derived from, or as being a response to, the iPhone.

