iHaikuAppReview is a true labor of love.

It’s been a long time coming.  Even before the cosmos was born of fiery dark matter….

No, not Carl Sagan

No, not that far back.  But far back enough when I first saw the Apple Lisa at a trade show in Lima, Peru.  I knew there was something special about the people who engineered this … mother-mac-brother.  ”Dad, can you buy this for me?”  Only problem, it was 6,000 Dollars.  Too much money for a well-meaning Southern Baptist Missionary wanting to do well by his son.  Too much money, period.

So, I didn’t get my Lisa.  But I did get a Mac Plus.  128K of RAM.  It was hot.  I immediately understood the power of making computers more human, as opposed to thinking like a computer.  My friends could make the leap and easily associate the letter ‘C’ with a hard drive.  I preferred to look at the little hard drive icon, with the words ‘hard drive’ underneath.  Call me silly.  I was mocked.  Mocked for preferring the Visual Metaphor in 1985, mocked for preferring the mouse in 1986, mocked for preferring the color screen in 1987, mocked for preferring the laser printer in 1988, mocked for….

Mockery Made me Stranger

You get the point.  All that mockery made me stranger.  You read that right.  Stranger.  But stranger in all the right ways.  I EXPECT the technology I invest in to be engineered thoughtfully.  I EXPECT the elements of the technology to be not about a nerd-core feature list, but about the human experience that is built around what I want to do.

The iPad is the fulfillment of expectations.  Sure, it doesn’t have the Holy Grail of user interfaces – Haptics – but Apple patented a flexible haptics approach in april of 2009.  It’s coming.  Even without haptics, the iPad is what it should be.  Computing for the rest of us.  No obtuse TRS 80 sitting in the corner, with a blinking asterisk in the left hand corner as the casette player slowly pumps in the bits and bytes.

Can you imagine our world without Pope Jobs?  He understands that the marriage of software and hardware should in the end give birth to a means, not and end.  The means is access, transparent access that we all deserve to knowledge.  And Haiku.

Which is why you’re here.

I’m but a modest fellow.  A creative type, inventing, modifying…I’m eternally curious.

My curiousity leads me to play with iPad apps.  Sometimes up to 10 a day.  Yes, I spend too much money on them.

I bring you all this knowledge in Haiku form.  Because the manner in which I express my knowledge is just as important as the knowledge itself.  The elegance of the Haiku, albeit very awkwardly written, sheds a glow on the app, the ipad and the experience itself.

You will always find fair reviews.

You have my word is a Zen Haiku Nerd that I will never allow profit to interfere with my reviews.  As you see, there are no ads.  There are no sponsorships, and I promise never to accept gifts from application makers.  I commit to being fair, insightful and corny in a Hong Kong Fooey kind of way as often as I can.

100% of the icons are kindly borrowed from Yoritsuki.

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iTeleport review for this amazing app.

Serenity describes my state as i remote.

To my mac, such bliss.

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Upon entering the first set of screens on iTeleport, I’m reminded of crisp morning walks across the gardens of app-heaven.  Not to say I’ve been to such a place, but there are many  of us who know it exists.  I digress.  iTeleport is well crafted – so much so that other iPad application makers are taking note and emulating their approach.

Remoting can be very complex.  There are a number of different protocols that a particular remoting application can use, and unless all of them are covered and anticipated for, then a user could very well be stuck in the purgatory of having an app they can’t use.

The set up process can also be very painful on most other apps.  But iTeleport has crossed this technical barrier with grace, elegance and a dash of brilliance – instead of scouring your own Mac/PC settings for things such as IP address, MAC address, SAMBA activation … the list goes on … iTeleport allows for simple remote connectivity simply via your Gmail account.  You enter the garden with no maze to get you lost.  You go straight to remote heaven, with vast, yet simply to use settings that let you customize how you control your Mac/PC from the iPad.

All of those power settings are still within iTeleport, as they are in less-elegant offerings.  But those features aren’t really visible or obvious until you’re looking for them.

Code and Interface dance in true harmony.

5 out of 5

Chop Chop Ninja HD Fun.

Even my toddler understands the Ninja way,

Tap the screen to play.

+

iTeleport review for this amazing app.

Serenity describes my state as i remote.

To my mac, such bliss.

+

Penultimate lets me draw accurately.

Sublime and simple controls guide my fingertips,

elegance takes my sketch away.