November 15, 2024

Author: Patrick Jordan

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Can a 10 Year Old Girl Manage Barcelona? Yes, on the iPad

My post title should really ask ‘Can a 10 Year Old Girl Do a Good Job of Managing Barcelona?’. And the answer, at least in my household, is an emphatic Yes. This is Reason Number 343 that my daughter is the most amazing kiddo on the planet: she loves the Football Manager Handheld 2013 game […]

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Photo Transfer App for iPad Updated: Adds Dropbox, Flickr, Google Drive Support

Photo Transfer App – one of the very best and most useful photos apps for the iPad – has been updated again, to Version 4.2. The big new addition in this update is support for Dropbox, Flickr, and Google Drive, available as plugins via In-App purchase. The plugin for each individual service can be bought […]

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Cool Things: Dish Network TV Ads Featuring the iPad

I’ve always enjoyed the TV ads that Dish Network does for ‘The Hopper’ feature. I think they’ve got great style and are always funny. I can see these running for years and working well for Dish. And of course it’s fun seeing the iPad featured in a couple of the newest ads in this series […]

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Best Free iPad App of the Week: Duolingo – Learn Languages for Free

Great apps and a huge selection of great apps are a big part of what makes the iPad such an amazing device. There are excellent apps for just about any purpose you can think of – from serious productivity to pure entertainment. Better still, there are lots of great free apps for the iPad. Our […]

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Someone Should Explain to Microsoft How Trash Talking Works

That’s Microsoft’s latest Siri-mocking, iPad bashing, Surface RT bragging ad shown above, released yesterday. Pretty ballsy stuff when you consider they literally just announced a huge $900 million writedown due to unsold Surface RTs, and various reports have shown that their tablet has had just about zero impact with consumers or with the enterprise. I […]

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Spotify App Updated: Adds Ford SYNC Support

The Spotify app for iPad and iPhone has been updated today, to Version 0.6.2. The headline new feature in this update is support for Ford SYNC: New: Now you can listen in your car with the Ford SYNC AppLink platform. Log into your Premium account on your iOS device and connect it to SYNC AppLink. […]

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Cool Things: List of 200+ Autism & Special Needs Apps on Sale for World Autism Awareness Day

Seeing a list of educational apps for the iPad that are on sale is always a good thing. Seeing a list of over 200 heavily discounted apps designed for those with autism and / or special needs in general is even better I’d say. And that’s exactly what the people over at the iAutism site […]

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Feedly RSS Reader App for iPad Gets a Big Update

Feedly, one of the RSS services which is seen as a most promising replacement for Google Reader, has updated their Feedly iPad app this week – to Version 14. Recent reports say Feedly has gained some 3 million new users since Google announced it is shutting down Google Reader in July, and this update to […]

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Reeder for iPad Now a Free App

There sure are lots of interesting things happening in the RSS apps space since Google announced they’ll be shutting down Google Reader on July 1. This week there is very good news on this front regarding the excellent Reeder for iPad app. For starters, the app is now free, and so is the Reeder for […]

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Review: iSlider iPad Stand

I’m a big (big!) fan of iPad stands – and when I first saw the  iSlider iPad Stand I thought it looked quite promising. Rain Design, the makers of the stand, were kind enough to provide me with a review unit, and I’ve been using it for several weeks now. Notes Here’s the brief initial […]

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Notable New iPad Apps: Race to the Pennant

Race to the Pennant is a nice looking new app for baseball fans on Opening Day that I spotted via a mention at Daring Fireball.  Here’s a little of its App Store description: Race to the Pennant is a new, fun way to keep up with the pennant races all summer long! Watch your team […]

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New York Magazine for iPad Relaunched with New Newsstand App

New York Magazine has relaunched / reinvented its iPad edition today. The App Store description for the new app is far from shy about singing its praises: This is New York on the iPad—it’s not like anything else! Download our app for FREE and get the Best of New York feature—our obsessively vetted annual guide—for […]

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Civil War: 1863 iPad Game Updated – New Missions & Campaigns

The Civil War:1863 iPad game has recently been updated, to Version 1.3. And in a game that’s all about Civil War battles, this is exactly the sort of update you want to see – one that’s full of new missions and campaigns. There are 4 new campaigns and more than 2 new missions. Here’s the […]

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iPad at Work: on the International Space Station

Why yes – that is an iPad in use on the International Space Station. Chris Hadfield, an astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency, tweeted this image – showing his iPad in use with a teleprompter app. Apparently Hadfield also uses the iPad for entertainment – with thousands of songs in his music library. All I […]