Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
Well this is a fine chocolate plus peanut butter type moment. The Feedly Reader RSS app for the iPad has added Evernote integration. So now you can easily save notable news stories straight to Evernote with just a couple of taps. The Feedly app was updated yesterday, to Version 20.0, and apart from a mention […]
Oh the irony. As I’ve been flipping though the pages of iPad Insight on Flipboard over the last couple of weeks I couldn’t help but notice shiny new ads from one particular company. That would be Microsoft. They’ve run ads for Xbox, for their cloud services, and even for that handsome fella at the top […]
Our featured iPad painting this weekend is ‘One Ring to Rule Them All’. This image is by SKR Imaging – another favorite iPad artist whose work I’ve admired since way back in the early days of iPhone and iPad art. This iPad painting was created with the Art Studio app, and I find it very […]
Opera Coast is the new name for my favorite alternative browser for the iPad, which was previously known as Coast by Opera. Along with the new name, the app has also had a major update this week – adding an iPhone version and some nice new features for both the iPad and iPhone versions: New […]
iPad apps are, and have always been, a big part of what makes the iPad such a powerful device. Great apps, and unique apps that you just don’t find anywhere else, are one of the hallmark features of the iPad. They have been since Day 1, and scores of great developers and publishers continue to […]
According to Apple Insider and a number of other Apple news sites there’s growing evidence that Apple may be bringing the Touch ID feature to the next generation of iPads. Poking around in code for the Touch ID framework in iOS 7.1, Twitter user and developer “UNiCORN”found a reference to Apple’s iPad lineup, potentially suggesting […]
1Password is a superb password vault / password manager app – for iPad, iPhone, Mac, and Windows. It’s on sale right now at a full 50{813a954d5e225a1509f22204ece89c855080ce25555f20805f61bed63cbfde3b} off – down from $17.99 to $8.99. This sale has a very particular theme –it is titled ‘Heartbleed Sale’. Of course this is a week where we should all […]
Fox’s hit animated comedy show ‘Family Guy’ has a brand new iPad game in the App Store – Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff. Here’s a slice of the App Store description for the game: After another epic battle with the giant chicken, Peter Griffin has accidentally destroyed Quahog! Play for FREE and rally your […]
Over recent days I’ve started seeing early talk of new iPads expected this late this year and in early 2015. Apple Insider has a report up, citing an analyst (Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI) with a respectable track record on these sort of subjects, that talks about some expected features for new iPads that are now […]
Here’s a cool idea, and a sweet way to get some great iPad and iPhone apps at a big discount: it’s the first iOS apps bundle from the lovely folks at StackSocial. On offer are 12 leading iPad and iOS apps at up to 83{813a954d5e225a1509f22204ece89c855080ce25555f20805f61bed63cbfde3b} off their standard prices. There are some top names in […]
Thorin Klosowski has a piece up at Lifehacker where he states that quitting apps in iOS can actually worsen battery life – and quotes a former Apple Genius Bar tech on the subject: Yes, it does shut down the app, but what you don’t know is that you are actually making your battery life worse […]
My favorite iPad photo editing / effects app, PhotoToaster, was updated at the tail end of last week – to Version 6.0.0. This update brings a snazzy new custom photo picker that shows larger thumbnails when you’re selecting an image to work with and lets you zoom in on photos before using them. It also […]
Wow, lots of reasons to love this week’s featured iPad painting. It’s titled ‘Paint on!’ and created by Hotel Midnight. Apart from the fact it’s the work of a favorite iPad artist, of course I love the fact that it’s an iPad painting that’s all about painting on the iPad. Here. the artist herself can […]
iPad apps are, and have always been, a big part of what makes the iPad such a powerful device. Great apps, and unique apps that you just don’t find anywhere else, are one of the hallmark features of the iPad. They have been since Day 1, and scores of great developers and publishers continue to […]
First the very good news: the excellent Analytics Tiles App for iPad is back in the App Store. As some of you are well aware of, it mysteriously vanished from the App Store about a month ago. As of this week, it’s back in all its tile-driven glory – ready to serve up Google Analytics […]
It’s always fascinating to see how amazing special effects are created for movies – seeing all the incredible behind-the-scenes work that goes into the magic that ends up on the big screen. This video is a fine example – and right at the center of it, controlling all of it, is an iPad. Fxguide’s Mike […]
