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Unless you follow developments in the world of Apple apps pretty closely you may not have heard of the Brave browser. We’ve been using it for sometime now and have only good things to report.

Brave Private Web Browser from Brave Software is, of course, in the same app category as Safari, Firefox and Google Chrome, as well as others. From our experience it stands above them all.

Even if you haven’t had much experience with the non-Apple browsers mentioned above, no worries, trust us that Brave is a stellar alternative to all of them, including Safari, Apple’s stock browser that came on your device.

While Safari and Brave are similar in a number of ways, Brave has some robust privacy features that users of the Apple’s own Safari browser will wish they had.

Frankly, with privacy being such a big topic these days, and for good reason, these features alone make it worth your time. But there’s more.

Concept and Functionality

At its core, Brave is a web browser, and as such it actually does this job with remarkable finesse. You’ll notice right away the app takes a very familiar and comfortable form on your screen, whether small screen or iPad.

All the core functionality is there – tabbed browsing on larger screens, the hamburger menu with all your options and selections, but with special privacy features that sets it apart.

Features

Where the Brave browser really shines is the feature set available right from the start.

As soon as you open the browser, you are greeted with a welcome screen asking you to select your default search engine. We highly recommend DuckDuckGo. It is privacy-oriented and does not save your searches or use them to inform 3rd parties about your interests.

You are then shown some intro screens to let you know about the key aspects of Brave. The first of these features is Brave Shields which allows you to block trackers that web sites use to follow you around the web.

The next feature is Brave Rewards. This lets you earn Basic Attention Tokens (BATs) for viewing ads that respect your privacy. We encourage using Brave Rewards because it will, hopefully, lead to more advertisers being more aware of their responsibility to your privacy.

Don’t be too concerned about all of this though. Once you select your preferred search engine and either opt-in or not to Brave Rewards, you’ll see that Brave is really just a very, very good browser.

You can also quite easily import all of your existing bookmarks to complete the setup.

We think one of the features of Brave that you’ll love the most is that it has a very nice simple UI. It gets the job done quickly and easily without any excess fluff. We appreciate that since when you’re browsing the web you just want to finish what you’re doing as quickly as possible with as little effort as possible.

One last note is that this is not an iPhone-only browser. it’s available for Android, MacOS, Windows (both 32 and 64 bit) and Linux. If you do use it on multiple devices you benefit even more by sync’ing across them.

Overall Value

This free browser is an awesome value and word about it is spreading fast. Brave claims that it ended 2019 with over 10 million users. We have no problem believing that and expect that number to jump dramatically in 2020 and the years to come.

The bottom line is that Brave is a slick, feature-rich privacy-focused browsing alternative for all of your devices and if you take it for a spin, we think you’ll agree that, all-in-all, it’s the best one out there.

Brave Private Web Browser requires iOS 12.0 and up.

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Source link:https://www.theiphoneappreview.com/2020/01/brave-browser-iphone-app-review/

An iPad Can Easily Replace Your Mac or PC

Although you’ll see different opinions about this across varying iOS-oriented, or more recently iPadOS, articles online, we’re here to tell you that the iPad can definitely be used as your only computer.

Irrespective of the opinion voiced by ZDNet, we believe the future for most casual users, which is most users, will be an iPad with the appropriate add-ons.

The iPad has come a long way since its introduction on April 3rd, 2010. It was quite an innovation then but its potential had merely been hinted at. Of course anyone who ventured over to an Apple store to check one out was instantly blown away (us included). But we could only imagine the power and flexibility to come.

Now, in 2019, much of the raw potential of this incredible computing device has been fulfilled. Witness the professional level apps available across such heretofore Mac-only domains such as photo editing, word processing, powerful gaming, video editing, and much more.

But wait, that’s great you say, but don’t take away my MacBook Pro. We say, why not? What can you do with a MacBook Pro that you can’t do with a properly configured iPad Pro? And there’s the key, a “properly configured” iPad Pro. And we’re not talking about Apple-made accessories.

Of course if you’re a pro using specific applications that require the raw power of a MacBook Pro that’s a horse of a different color. We’re not talking to you.

This is about all the Apple-ites out there who use social media apps, watch videos, open browsers and use Apple apps for light-duty work. We’re looking at you “typical user”.

So go ahead, be bold ditch the Mac, pick up an iPad Pro and trust us, you’ll never look back.

We paired our iPad Pro with a 360X Keyboard from YEKBEE, a great keyboard that won’t slow down touch typists with ill-placed keys like many of its competitors. Besides the key placement, not a trivial issue, we also really like the fact that it folds completely flat and lets you swing the iPad around so you have it back to being a pad, not a laptop.

The next thing we did was to turn on mouse capability by going to Settings/Accessibility/Touch and turn on “AssistiveTouch”. You then go to “Devices/Bluetooth Devices” and add your favorite bluetooth mouse. We used a Dell Travel Mouse just to be sure this capability wasn’t Apple-centric.

Once you do that you’ll see a spot that you can move around with the mouse and use it as if it was your finger tip. There’s also a white circle in the lower right side of your iPad that you click to go back to the home screen as well as to access other controls.

Since that dot is now your finger tip, you can click and hold to move things around, go from page to page of your apps, and pretty much anything that you would normally do with your finder directly on the iPad screen.

All in all it’s works great and makes using the iPad even easier for “desktop type work”, as easy as using a true laptop. To get rid of the white spot simple turn off “AssistiveTouch”.

From our day-to-day use, outside of any hardcore programming or image/video editing, we can hardly find anything we do that can’t be done perfectly well using an iPad. The mouse control gives you enough fine control for text editing and the combo of touch, virtual keyboard, real keyboard, and mouse opens up the iPad to be a much more productive device.

The bottom line is that for the vast majority of users, the iPad running iPadOS 13.2 or greater, paired with the right bluetooth keyboard and mouse makes for an extremely capable laptop replacement.

Well there you have it. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

Source link:https://www.theiphoneappreview.com/2019/12/the-ipad-pro-can-and-will-replace-your-mac/