iPhone Cruncher

Not long ago, my review of a trio of SSH apps for the iPhone and iPad generated some pointed feedback from readers. Their beef? That my article left out an SSH app that they thought was better than the rest. Now I don’t particularly like getting called on the carpet, but I’m glad I did in this case because Zinger-Soft’s $10 iSSH has since become my go-to remote connection app.

As I mentioned in my earlier SSH app review, I manage several remote Linux and Windows servers and it’s occasionally nice to have access to these when I’m not near a computer. While I still rely on LogMeIn Ignition to remote-control the Windows servers, I use SSH to connect to remote terminal sessions on the Linux machines.

When working with a command line interface on an iPhone or iPad, you definitely need to have a crisp clear display. iSSH gives you the ability to customize the screen so that you can dial in just the right combination of screen color, font, and font size on whatever device you’re using.

The keyboard is also an important component, and iSSH’s operates in three modes: hidden, normal and transparent. While in landscape orientation, the command line is usually at the bottom of the screen, so the normal keyboard annoyingly covers it up most of the time. That’s not such a huge deal for me because I prefer to use the transparent keyboard most of the time anyway. I’ve had to adjust the transparency settings a bit because the default setting was a little too light for my taste. The keyboard, which is also highly customizable, provides a ribbon of useful function keys (arrow keys, PgUp, PgDn, and the like). Many of these are also available via a configurable floating palette (the “Pie Menu”) which you can display and move

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If you are a designer of any kind from graphic, fashion, multimedia, digital etc then you should already be familiar with the Pantone color chart. For those new to the color chart it is in basic terms a printer color library that designers use to find the best printed color because its a fact that the color you see on the screen is not always the one that will be printed, designers really can not be without this tool, now they dont have have to be as Pantone color chart is coming to the iPhone and iPod.

Included in this brand new application are the Pantone color libraries and the Pantone matching system for coated, uncoated and matte stock. So when you are on the go and you see a picture worth capturing you snap away with your phone and the application will then provide the closest match for colors contained in the image, how amazing is that.

Colors can also be exported to various other design applications including the popular creative studio, so you have one of the other design applications on your iPhone then this is a very worthy bonus and time saver. Some of the other great features you can do include:

• GPS tagging of palettes
• Notifications of new palettes to Twitter and Facebook
• You can E-mail and HTML images of your palette
• Upload to the mypantone.com palette sharing web site

All this and more make the new application a designers dream and perfect for new designs to get equipped with the color libraries. You can purchase the Pantone color chart now for  $9.99 at the applications store. Do not miss it!

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