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Quick App Review: The Mask (IPv4 Calculator)

agreenlees — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:34:32 +0000

If you are like me and are currently studying a course that requires you to do a lot of subnetting then The Mask (IPv4 Calculator) is a excellent app to allow you to check your subnetting results or just quickly do the subnetting for you once you are proficient. At $12.99 AUD the app seems a little pricey but is the only iPhone app that I have found with the range of features in one app and that will calculate VLSM subnetting.

The app includes the following features:

Basic IPv4 Subnet Calculator
VLSM Subnet Calculator
SuperNet Finder
CIDR / Dotted Mask Converter
Binary / Hex / Decimal Converter

There are free subnet calculator apps out there but not with the range of features that The Mask is offering. I highly recommend this app!

Quick App Review: TouchMouse

agreenlees — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:35:06 +0000

There are a number excellent computer control iPhone/iPod Touch apps out there that come in various forms and have a multitude of amazing features. But… these apps all come at a price. For the user who simply wants to control their mouse and keyboard from there iPhone/iPod Touch for FREE, there is TouchMouse.

TouchMouse from Logitech allows you to control your computers mouse and keyboard in three easy steps:

1. Download and install the Logitech TouchMouse Server computer application (www.logitech.com/touchmouse)
- The server app is available for Windows XP/Vista/7 and OS X

2. Download the TouchMouse iPhone/iPod Touch app from the App Store.

3. Open TouchMouse on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The app will find any available computers on the same network that have the TouchMouse Server application installed.

Connect and enjoy!

The app has many options including; two finger scrolling, tracking and scrolling speeds and a nice settings for prohibiting your device to go into sleep mode.

Quick App Review: WordPress 2

agreenlees — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:29:09 +0000

Considering that this is a WordPress blog, I thought that I would do my first iPhone app review on the WordPress app (recently released WordPress 2). I am writing this post from the application on my iPhone and I intend to keep them short as the title suggests. (Inline images added through WordPress Admin)

The app is quite simple and well set out for ease of navigation. The setup is as simple as inputting your blogs web address, username and password. The app contains three sections; Comments, Posts and Pages.

The comments section allows you to approve, unapprove or edit user comments. The posts and pages sections allow you to review, add or delete posts or pages and their content.

Overall the app works well and is extremely easy to use. I can see this app being quite handy for posting on the run or when you just don’t want to sit in front of your computer. A couple of things that I can think of to improve the app would be; the ability to add a hyperlink to a post or page and the ability to add inline images into posts or pages.

The app did crash on me once while I was adding a category but reopening the app recovered my unsaved post as per the pic below…