Writing Kit: An iPad Writing App That Puts References At Your Fingertips

Writing Kit: An iPad Writing App That Puts References At Your Fingertips

One of the core features and frustrations of Apple’s iPad experience is that you can only use one app at a time. Joanne McNeil once lauded the iPad’s lack of multi-tasking, saying that it was a focus machine. "It’s putting a constraint on me … and my worst multi-tabbing, unfocused habits." iOS 4 has since introduced multi-tasking, but that’s in the form of allowing apps to stay resident in memory. You can still only look at one thing at a time.

You’ve Heard About Slow Food. What We Really Need Is Slow Design

You’ve Heard About Slow Food. What We Really Need Is Slow Design

The impact of human consumption on the global environment gave rise to some alarming headlines in 2011: In the United States, a continental heat wave registered above 105 degrees, and large swaths of Texas spent much of the summer on fire. In the Amazon, the transformation of rainforest into pasture was up almost 1,000% over the 2010 rate, marking an abrupt halt to several years of decline. Some experts are suggesting that humans currently consume resources at a rate 1.5 times above the planet’s capacity to sustainably replace them.