{"id":2665,"date":"2010-01-28T13:38:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T11:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2010-01-28T13:38:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T11:38:14","slug":"ipad-dms-next-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=2665","title":{"rendered":"iPad &#8211; DMs next best friend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple iPad<\/a> is out, and it&#8217;s like an iPhone but four times the screen estate. I did once try to create a DM manager application for the iPhone, but dropped it as the more I tried, the more using the app felt like the <em><strong>monkey making love to the giraffe, but he also wanted to kiss<\/strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">,<\/span><strong> <\/strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">a lot of moving back and forth all the time, due to the limitations in screen.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><!--more-->But, with this screen, I see multitudes of options to something that can track Initiative orders, monster damage, conditions, the ability to load PCs from Character Builder and Monsters via your DDI account.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Sweep a monster to kill it, place for a keypad to type in damage quickly, another multitouch operation to hold someones actions etc.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">It looks like my dear friend Galastro will try to get a bunch of iPads for commercial development, and what is a better way to learn all the new things in 3.x. (<\/span>I haven&#8217;t programmed for iPhone OS since I released <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/se\/app\/a-am-card-viewer\/id290845139?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">A&amp;AM Card Viewer <\/a>like 18 months ago.<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, this might be some fun i additions to all map making.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Apple iPad is out, and it&#8217;s like an iPhone but four times the screen estate. I did once try to create a DM manager application for the iPhone, but dropped it as the more I tried, the more using the app felt like the monkey making love to the giraffe, but he also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,7],"tags":[23,22],"class_list":["post-2665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving-the-game","category-news","tag-dmtools","tag-ipad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2668,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}