Quick First Impressions – The Incredibly Versatile Ori iPad 2 Case
When I first saw the video demo of the Gorillamobile Ori for iPad 2 case, I was impressed with how slick and versatile this case looked. I ordered one that same day and it arrived this morning. As first impressions go, color me very impressed indeed with Ori for iPad 2. When I’ve spent more...
Avid Studio App Promises Big-screen Moviemaking on the iPad
Avid Studio, a new iPad app released yesterday on the App Store, promises to bring big-screen moviemaking capabilities to the iPad. This looks like a serious iMovie competitor on the iPad. It’s priced at the same $4.99 level as iMovie as well, though iMovie is a universal app and Avid Studio is iPad only right...
Starting to Think on What to Do with Old iPads Leading up to iPad 3 Launch
Now that we’re into the ‘iPad season’ portion of the year, I’ve started thinking about what to do with the current iPads in my household in the lead-up to launch of the iPad 3 (or whatever the next-gen iPad ends up being called). Right now I use an iPad 2 64GB WiFi + 3G model,...
The Daily, the First iPad-only Newspaper, Is One Year Old Today
The Daily, the first iPad-only newspaper, is celebrating its first anniversary today. It’s published by Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp and has had backing to the tune of over $30 million before it even hit the App Store. I did a review of The Daily last March (a month after its launch) – and though I found...
Price Drops: Football Manager Handheld 2012 on Sale at 50% Off
Football Manager Handheld 2012 – the iPad and iOS version of the venerable football management app – has had a big price drop today and is now on sale at 50% off. It’s listed at $4.99 today, down from its standard $9.99. I’ve been a huge fan of football management games for years and years...
Latest iPad 3 Rumor Shot Shows Quad-core Processor and LTE Support
Those clever guys at BGR have heard from a source who claims to be in possession of an iPad 3 prototype. That source has run a debugging tool called iBoot that is said to have uncovered a couple of key details about the specs for the iPad 3: – It’s got an A6 quad-core processor...
NewsFlash – a Very Clean, Fast News & RSS Reader for iPad
NewsFlash is a relatively new breaking news and headlines RSS reader app for the iPad and iPhone. It uses quite a simple interface and offers breaking news and top stories from around the world and in a number of languages. I have a clear favorite RSS reader app for the iPad, River of News, and...
Highly Recommended: Flowfold iPad Sleeves (and a Chance for You to Win One)
Flowfold iPad Sleeves are a superb case for the iPad 2 or original iPad. They started out as a Kickstarter project last year; the project got funded and these excellent cases are now available to order. I was fortunate enough to be given a sample unit to test while the Kickstarter project was going on,...
Photogene for iPad Updated – Support for Evernote, Tumblr & More
Photogene for iPad, one of the more capable photo editing / effects apps for the iPad, has had a major update this week, to Version 3.3. One of the most notable new features is support for exporting images to Evernote and Tumblr (adding to a strong range of existing options like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox,...
iPad at Work: In My Hometown, Austin
Image Source: Destination360.com The City of Austin is putting a ‘fleet of iPads’ and the FileMaker Go app to work to help streamline exhibitors management at the Austin Convention Center. As Apple Insider reports, the city has been able to deploy specialized apps based on the FileMaker database software … … Austin’s database administrator Jeff...
Pocket Informant HD Updated – Adds Google Task Sync, Contacts & Notes Views
Pocket Informant HD – the feature rich and versatile calendar / tasks management app for the iPad – has just added some new strings to its bow and become even more versatile. This week it has been updated with its first 2.0 release, Version 2.02.41. With this update, Pocket Informant HD now offers Notes and...
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...
