iPad Basics: How To Use Notification Center on the iPad
Notification Center is one of the headline features in iOS 5. It’s a major improvement to how notifications were previously delivered in iOS and it works wonderfully well on the iPad. It lets you see all your notifications in one clear list view, and it’s instantly available with just a quick swipe gesture from anywhere...
Instapaper App Updated, Adds New Subscription Options & More
Instapaper, the superb offline reading app for iPad and iOS, has been updated recently – to Version 4.0.2. One of the most notable additions in this update is new subscription options – you can now purchase subscriptions in 3,6, or 12 month intervals. Becoming a subscriber not only supports the development of this excellent app,...
Cool Things: New GorillaMobile Ori Case for the iPad 2
The GorillaMobile Ori iPad 2 case by Joby is one of the most versatile and slick looking cases I’ve seen, at least by the looks of things in the demo video for it. Here’s a bit of detail on this innovative looking case: Inspired by the Japanese art of the fold, Gorillamobile Ori for iPad...
Review: NFL Kicker HD for iPad
NFL Kicker HD, as the name suggests, gives you a chance to take on the role of an NFL kicker (and punter). The game has you testing your skills at both field goal kicking and punting in a number of different challenge modes, from belting long field goals in windy conditions to trying angle punts...
Weekend iPad Wallpapers: One for Cat Lovers
When it comes to iPad wallpapers, or just life in general, I’ve always been more of a dog guy – as some of you may have noticed with my many gratuitous pictures of my office colleague Labrador. This weekend a wallpaper featuring a kitty caught my eye though and I thought I’d share for those...
Best Free iPad App of the Week: Band of the Day
Who doesn’t like free? And who doesn’t like great iPad apps? When the two come together it’s good stuff. With that in mind, we’d like to share our Best Free iPad App of the Week here every weekend. This week’s pick is Band of The Day, the iPad edition of which has just been released...
Price Drops: 100 Cameras in 1 for iPad on Sale for 99 Cents
100 Cameras in 1 for iPad, one of the best photo effects apps around for the iPad, has had its price dropped to just 99 cents. That’s down from its standard $3.99. This is doubly good news as the price drop comes hot on the heels of a nice update to the app earlier this...
Just Over Two Years Ago Today …
On January 27, 2010 Steve Jobs introduced the iPad. As usual at a major new Apple product unveiling, you needed a calculator to keep up with the number of times great, amazing, fantastic, amazing, and other such superlatives were thrown around. Here’s the sum-up line from Jobs that struck me that day: Our most advanced...
The Daily Updated Again, Faster Load Times & More
The Daily – the first iPad-only newspaper – has had another update this week, to Version 1.2.3. The details for this update state that once it’s applied ‘the app experience should be faster’. Here’s the full change list for it: • Increases speed by deleting old data. • Biggest fix: crashes! Increased stability of the...
iPad Numbers and the Post-PC Era
From Horace Dediu’s Asymco post on the second Year of the iPad in a row. The iPad has out-sold the Mac since inception and is now about three times the volume. However, the growth rate in the Mac has not changed much. The new data shows that the iPad alone would be the largest PC...
Price Drops: Pocket Informant HD on Sale at 1/3 Off for Macworld
Pocket Informant HD – one of the leading calendar and task management apps for the iPad – is on sale right now for $9.99 – 1/3 off its standard $14.99 price. The sale is a Macworld / iWorld Expo sale, so presumably it will run from today through January 28th – as the expo does....
iPad Tips: Swipe Gesture to See Inbox Message List Using Mail in Portrait Mode
I generally use the Mail app on the iPad in landscape mode, because I like that it shows both the Inbox (or whichever mailbox is selected) message list (as a sort of left sidebar) and shows an individual selected message content, in the right portion of the page. This morning I found a nice tip...
