Hacker Brings FaceTime to iPad
In spite of the iPad lacking a camera (that should change very soon with the iPad 2), hackers have managed to port the FaceTime application for the iPod touch 4th gen to the tablet and make it work even without access to any kind of camera. The hack, called Intell, requires a pretty laborious installation...
New In The iPad App Store: Search Filters
Looks like Apple rolled out a new neat little feature in the iPad App Store: search filters. When you browse the App Store from your iPad (mine is running iOS 4.3 beta, but I guess the change is live for everyone) and start searching for an app, five filters will appear under the top bar:...
Adobe Packager To Support iPad Apps Soon?
According to a rumor posted on Japanese blog Macotakara, Adobe is planning to update its Packager software for the iPhone to add support for iPad apps development. Adobe Packager, in fact, as part of the Flash Professional CS5 suite allows developers to re-use existing code to build native applications for iPhone. Since Apple lifted its...
What’s Better Than $1.8 Billion Revenue? Giving Away 5,400 iPads
What happens when a successful and large company like semiconductor maker KLA-Tencor decides to give away iPads to all its employees? Well, it means the IT department is in trouble. After posting revenue of $1.8 billion, the CEO of the company gave each employee an iPad as a reward for the hard work; and not...
Instagram Gains Native Twitterrific Support
Twitterrific by the Iconfactory is one of the most popular Twitter clients for iOS, and we’ve been hearing a brand new Mac version is around the corner as well. What at first may look like a minor update to Twitterrific for iPhone and iPad was released a few minutes ago in the App Store, and...
Ions: Impressive Particle Visualizer for iPad
Soon after the iPad came out and Apple launched an App Store specifically meant for it, an app quickly jumped to first position of the charts: Uzu. The app, launched as free and eventually priced at $1.99, is a neat particle visualizer that supports multitouch input and allows you to create patterns with your fingers....
Pixelsync Transfers Photos Between Aperture and iPad
Professional photographers who own an iPad and have seen that lightweight photo editing is possible on the tablet have been asking for a portable version of Apple’s Aperture software for quite some time now. While there’s no evidence that Apple is working on a native iPad version of Aperture with focus on the OS X...
Happy Birthday, iPad!
Everybody uses a laptop and a smartphone. And a question has arisen lately: is there room for a third category of device in the middle? Something that’s between a laptop and a smartphone. And of course we’ve pondered this question for years as well. The bar’s pretty high. In order to really create a new...
“Cat Piano” App for iPad Really Sounds Like Katy Perry
You would think developers have something better to do than creating piano apps for the iPad that sound like cats. Well it turns out, no: someone did. In the video embedded below, an adventurous iPad user has recreated Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” using only music apps for the tablet, including Cat Piano. The result, gentlemen,...
Apple Launches New “iPad Is Iconic” Ad
Almost two months after the last iPad ad, here comes a new one to showcase apps available for the iPad — and the 60,000 apps milestone we previously mentioned here. The new ad features apps like Djay, The Wall Street Journal, iBooks and Vanity Fair with Marylyn Monroe on the cover. Video available on Apple’s Youtube channel,...
Macworld Releases “Daily Reader” Free iPad App
Macworld, the decade-long printed and digital publication on all things Apple, has released a free app for the iPad today that takes full advantage of the tablet’s unique form factor and brings the best of Macworld.com to the device. The Daily Reader app, in fact, is a selection of the best content from the website,...
