Author: Patrick Jordan

This past weekend Apple aired their newest TV ad for the iPad, titled ‘Your Verse’. It’s a longer ad than usual at 90 seconds and features a voiceover that’s a quote from the movie Dead Poets Society. As usual, the ad shows off numerous ways the iPad can be out to use for work and […]

       

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Twitter provided some very good omens on iPad sales over the Christmas holiday. As Apple 2.0 reports, the phrase ‘got iPad’ is top of the tablet charts by a huge margin for the Christmas period. I used the same Topsy Analytics service that Apple 2.0 did and entered various tablet names including Google’s Nexus 7 […]

       

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Analytics Tiles App for the iPad and iPhone is available for free today – down from its standard price of $2.99. This is a superb app for keeping track of website statistics with a unique and beautiful interface. As the app’s name might suggest, it uses a tiles view to present a large number of […]

       

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Today’s featured iPad Art is of the seasonally themed variety. And also of the lovely, abstract variety courtesy of one of my favorite iPad artists, Helene Goldberg. I think this is a perfect image to mark the tail end of the holiday season in our iPad art section. It’s also just another beautiful and striking […]

       

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This month we ran our first ever iPad giveaway contest, sponsored by the excellent alternative browser for the iPad, Coast by Opera. 4 lucky readers have won in the giveaway – here they are: Matt Strohbehn – iPad Air Andy (andybc9@yahoo) – iPad mini with Retina display Elizabeth Hooser – iPad Air Scott Mackenzie – […]

       

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2013 has been another memorable year for the iPad App Store. The number of apps designed specifically for the iPad hit the 500,000 milestone this year and is now well on its way to 600,000. By now, there are excellent iPad apps for just about any purpose. From heavy-duty productivity and business apps to wonderful […]

       

 

 

Just one more day, as my daughter keeps reminding me, until to jolly man in the red suit arrives. So it must be time to share a few Christmas themed iPad wallpapers. I’ve found the perfect one for my Retina iPad mini – it’s the ultra traditional Santa Selfie, all he’s missing is Google Glass […]

       

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App Santa is a collection of several high quality indie apps for iPad and iOS, on sale at up to 60{813a954d5e225a1509f22204ece89c855080ce25555f20805f61bed63cbfde3b} off for Christmas. The developers involved in App Santa include Tapbots, agilebits, Readdle, and more blue-chip names. A few of the current deals that really stand out are these: 1Password: Down from $17.99 to […]

       

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Cultured Code, the makers of the excellent Things task management app, had some big news to share at the end of last week: We are delighted to announce that we’ve reached an incredible milestone today—someone has just bought the millionth copy of Things! I used Things as my task manager for several years starting way […]

       

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Today’s featured piece of iPad art is titled ‘Viejo Maestro’ or ‘The Old Master’, and is the work of Google+ user Jaime Sanjuan Ocabo. Jaime shared this to our growing iPad Art community on Google+ – and I’m very glad he did. I love how much character is in the old master’s face, and wonder […]

        

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• My pleasure Jaime, and thank you so much for taking the time to … by Patrick Jordan
• First of all, thank you so much for the feature Patrick!!, It … by Jaime Sanjuan Ocabo

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If you’re looking for some last minute (ish) ideas for holiday gifts, here’s another option worth considering – gift someone an iBook, right from your iPad. Apple has recently enabled the gifting feature in iBooks on iOS – so it’s easy to do with just a few taps. Gifting an iBook works just like gifting […]

        

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• Hi Jim Sorry to say I’m pretty sure Apple restricts this so … by Patrick Jordan
• Hi Patrick Thanks for your postings. Do you know if someone … by Jim Woodman

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