It was a busy week for me at work so I didn’t have much time to keep up with all of the news in the world of iPhone and iPad, but here are a few articles that did catch my eye during the past week:
- New York attorney Neil Squillante of TechnoLawyer reviews Moleskine’s Smart Writing Set, which lets you use a smart pen and a special notebook to create digital notes.
- California attorney David Sparks created video screencasts on using the Drafts app for iPhone and iPad.
- John Gruber of Daring Fireball wrote a excellent perspective on Apple’s decrease in revenue and profit this quarter.
- Jesse Hollington of iLounge reviews the August Doorbell Cam, a doorbell with a video camera that you can view remotely on your iPhone.
- Hollington also reviews the August Smart Lock, a door lock that you can unlock with your iPhone.
- Jason Snell discusses the potential success of the iPhone SE in an article for Macworld.
- Julio Ojeda-Zapata reviews Apple’s 29W USB-C Power Adapter and USB-C to Lightning Cable in an article for TidBITS. I reviewed those devices last month and I still really, really like using them with my iPad Pro. I find it incredibly useful to be able to charge that largest iPad Pro so much faster than you can with the standard charger.
- And finally, as someone who loves the iPad, playing the piano, and cool technology, this video had my name written all over it. Piano Tiles 2 is a fun game you play by tapping black keys as they scroll down your screen. Matt Finn, the CEO of app developer Bitcount (which makes the great Cleartune app that you can use to tune a musical instrument) created a robot to play the game on his iPad, using an iPhone as the eyes of the robot. Suffice it to say that the robot does quite well, as you can see in this video: