Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
I have to say I’m really enjoying our iPad Insight Flickr group. The level of activity is growing all the time, and the quality of the contributions is excellent. The vast majority of the images uploaded to the group are iPad wallpapers, but recently there is also a good amount of art created on iPads […]
One of the best things about using an iPad is all the great apps that we can run on it. There are excellent apps for just about any purpose you can think of. Better still, there are lots of great free apps for the iPad. Our Best Free iPad App of the Week posts highlight […]
The list of printers that support AirPrint wireless printing from the iPad is growing, rapidly. When I last posted about the supported printers list back in June there were a total of 217 printers from 6 manufacturers. Today there are over 430 supported printers from 13 manufacturers. Here’s a little more detail on which printers […]
Thanks to Mobile Cloth for sponsoring our RSS feed again this week. The iPad display is a thing of beauty, whether it’s the original, the iPad mini, or the top of the line retina display on the iPad 3 and 4. It’s also unfortunately a major magnet for fingerprints, smudges, and all sorts of pesky […]
Analytics Tiles App is an iPad and iOS app that presents your Google Analytics (GA) website data in a new and unique way. As the name might imply, the app offers up your data in a set of colorful tiles that you can manipulate. It uses one tile for each GA report area – e.g. […]
The Google Drive app for iPad (and iPhone) was updated yesterday – to Version 1.1.0. For all intents and purposes, this should really be Version 1.0 – as it adds basic abilities like editing documents that 3rd party apps have had for ages and that were left out of its initial App Store release a […]
Here’s a bit of shocking news: Google has released a new YouTube app today for the iPhone, but somehow it slipped their mind to do an iPad version. A similar thing happened with their Google+ app for iOS – it took over a year to see an iPad version. The release of the YouTube iPhone […]
If you’re more than an occasional visitor to this site, you know that I’m a huge fan of the Pimp Your Screen iPad wallpapers app. It gets a mention and a credit in a large number of my Weekend iPad Wallpapers posts. Today Pimp Your Screen has been updated – to Version 1.9. The big […]
PaperHelper is an interesting and impressive iPad app from a pair of teenage developers. It offers a writing app and web browser app rolled into one and seems to be aimed primarily at students writing essays. Here’s a little slice of its App Store intro: Writing essays just got simpler! With PaperHelper, You can have […]
Pocket, the excellent offline reading app for the iPad and IPhone, was updated last week – to Version 4.1.3. This update brings a couple of notable new sharing options to the app. You can now share to Google Chrome and to App.net, the interesting new Twitter alternative service. Here’s the full change list for this […]
This was another fun contest, with lots of good entries. Thanks to all of you who took part. And of course huge thanks to Steve and the team at East Coast Pixels for serving up the codes to giveaway. Here are our lucky winners: Jere, Alex, Yamil, and lulian Winners – congratulations, and please keep […]
I posted a few weeks back about this great looking iPad stand called the Human Toolz Mobile Stand for the iPad 3. At the time it was a Kickstarter project that looked hugely promising to me. Today I got the official email announcing that the project was successfully funded – which is great news, not […]
This weekend’s iPad wallpapers are three stunning cityscape sort of images from the excellent Backdrops Retina Wallpaper app. First up is the image above, titled London Calling and done by JoJoJohnDoe. London is one of the world’s truly great cities, and I was lucky enough to live there for more than 10 years. I just […]
River of News, the excellent RSS app for the iPad, has been updated again this weekend – to Version 1.6. Here’s the change list for this latest update: ✭ Press the couch icon or two-finger tap an article to convert it to Readability view. This works even for feeds with partial text!✭ New sharing services […]
One of the best things about using an iPad is the great apps that we can run on it. There are excellent apps for just about any purpose you can think of. Better still, there are lots of great free apps for the iPad. Our Best Free iPad App of the Week posts celebrate these […]
NFL Kicker 13 for iPad (and iPhone) is this year’s new version of the fun football kicking game from Full Fat Games. It lets you test your skills as an NFL kicker in a variety of fun challenges. Here’s a slice of its App Store description: Become an NFL Kicker! Choose your favorite team and […]
