Software – Scopique's

Competition is Only Good When its Good – Microsoft Loop

Scopique April 8, 2023

I did a pass through Microsoft Loop, a digital note-taking service. A pass-through was all I needed, though, as the service is pretty anemic at this point. It's no Notion, that's for sure, but I hope MS keeps adding to Loop, because…

AJournal – A Planner for iPad and Apple Pencil

Scopique January 17, 2023

AJournal is a great calendar replacement or project tracking app. Despite one killer feature, I don't think it'll cover many of the bases I am looking for in a note taking app for iOS.

Pieces of Paper – A Single Sheet of Paper for iPad and Apple Pencil

Scopique January 16, 2023

Pieces of Paper is an extremely low-tech, feature-free scribbling app.

Penbook – Note Taking Apps for the iPad and Apple Pencil

Scopique January 12, 2023

Penbook has a lot of customizations going for it, while still managing to succeed at its core task of being an exceptional note-taking app.

Note Taking Apps for the iPad and Apple Pencil

Scopique January 11, 2023

After losing my reMarkable tablet, I look back to the iPad for a way take notes. Here's a bit about the upcoming bunch of posts where I look at several in the search for a new note-taking application.

Stepping into the Wider World From Home

Scopique November 16, 2022

This here website is hosted air-quotes in the cloud air-quotes because despite being a web application developer by trade, I don’t want to screw around with getting my personal shingle up and running on my free time. I used to build blogging-type…

Opera GX

Scopique July 15, 2020

Browser Wars, amirite? At some point in my Internet career (both as a civilian and as someone fighting from the trenches in web application development) I have used or at least tried most of them. For the longest time I, like many,…

Quick Takes – Microsoft PowerToys

Scopique May 15, 2020

I’m following up my previous post by a matter of seconds because I feel that this is a PSA that some people might need. As a blogger, one of the most time-consuming tasks I engage in can be image management. I usually…

Element 3D for After Effects

Scopique December 31, 2019

Rounding out 2019 I spent some collected money on one of my long-term wishlist items, Element 3D from VideoCopilot.net. E3D isn’t a 3D modeling program. You can import 3D models in OBJ format, can lay down some primitives like cubes and cylinders,…

XSplit Broadcaster Owns Your Webcam

Scopique May 15, 2019

Now, this might be a problem of one, but for a while I’ve been having sporadic issues with XSplit Broadcaster’s use of my webcam. Sometimes when trying to use my webcam with other, non-XSplit applications, I’d get this: I understand what is…