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If you’ve somehow managed to avoid hearing about the GLIF, an awesome little iPhone 4 tripod adaptor, then you need to be brought up to speed (and you clearly need to get our more often). Check out the video below to hear a quick explanation from one of the inventors! You can also click here to check our our previous coverage.
We’ve been playing with our GLIF for a couple weeks now, and intend to post our review very soon. In the meantime, check out this video:
Cult of Mac just published a very nice review of Index Card, an iPad app designed to virtualize the index card method of script development.
Very often, writers will put every scene and idea on a separate note card, and then shuffle the cards around a cork board in order to find the most effective order. Naturally, there’s a lot more too it than that, but you get the idea. This technique has been around a long time, and is still widely used today. For those that like modern parlance, consider it mind-mapping for screenwriters.
Similar to the modulR setup we showed you last week, here’s Vogel’s new iPad mounting system. Using the system’s various add-ons, you can mount your iPad just about anywhere.
The primary difference here is Vogel’s use of a single circular plug that attaches to the back of their custom iPad case (instead of modulR’s four node system). Vogel calls this their RingO Universal Mounting System. I liked the feel of Vogel’s case, but it added some unwanted thickness to my iPad. Something else worth noting is that Vogel’s system allows you rotate your iPad in place, after it’s been mounted.
While visiting MacWorld, I must have seen at least 1000 different iPhone and iPad cases, and that was just in one booth! The booth in question belonged to SubCostume, a new service that lets users design their own custom case. They had an infinite variety of samples stuck on their walls. The variety was almost absurd.
Using SubCostume’s web app or free iOS apps (for iPhone and iPad), users can build customs cases using their own photos and graphics, either uploaded from a computer or pulled directly from their mobile photo library.
To be honest, I wasn’t blown away by the photo quality on many of the samples, but the cases emblazoned with custom graphics looked great, and that’s the reason I’m sharing SubCostume on HHH.
Assero Industries’ Defender Backpack seems tailor-made for assistant directors, unit production managers and production coordinators who must always have their iPads accessible, but would rather keep both hands free. It’s a 4-in-1 pack that provides multiple ways to tote your digital companion — the most obvious being as a backpack.
What sets this puppy apart is how it functions when worn on your chest. A front compartment folds down in front of you, like a portable table, proving stable access to your safely mounted iPad’s touch-screen surface. You no longer need to hold the iPad while using it — it just floats in front of you when needed, and folds away the rest of the time. Very handy.
The wait is over! Mobile Imagination has finally released doddlePRO.
As you may recall from our previous coverage, Doddle is a huge online huge production directory. Inside, you can find virtually any piece of gear, service, or crew member. Up until now, there were only two flavors of Doddle in the App Store. Doddle (free, but has ads) and Doddle Premium ($2.99, no ads).
The new doddlePRO ($9.99) adds digital interactive call sheets that work alongside the vast database that the company has compiled since its launch.
All three versions feature a clean interface with easy to access features. I’ve reviewed just about every call sheet app in the app store, so let’s look at how doddlePRO compares.