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Today’s featured iPad painting is titled ‘Hiro Watching Haru Dancing’. It is the work of Flickr member nini_nini and was created using the Procreate app. I’ve been meaning to share some of nini-nini’s iPad artwork here for some time, and this image is one of my favorites of hers. I’m a huge dog lover so […]
Most iPhone and iPad users know that you can tap and hold onto any text within iOS to select it, then by using the little draggable bars, you can adjust the size of the text selection rather easily too. While this is great for selecting a single word, …
This weeks featured Mac workstation comes to us from Darren, a professional music producer with a great custom desk setup. Let’s check out the details: Tell us a bit about your Mac setup and the hardware included I use my setup to produce music, these desks were built to accommodate my equipment. The setup hardware … Read More
A nifty looking dual charging dock for iPad / iPhone / tablets / smartphones is the featured iPad Insight Deal for today. Here’s what’s on offer: THE ONLY DOCK YOU’LL EVER NEED EverDock Duo is the world’s first universal dual-charging dock. It fits any charging cable so you can juice up your smartphone and tablet […]
Great apps are a big part of what makes for a great mobile (or even desktop) device. As iPad users, we’ve been fortunate that right from the start there have been rich pickings when it comes to great iPad apps – and we continue to be spoiled for choice when it comes to finding excellent […]
If leather is your thing, this week’s roundup of new iPad cases features products that use it prominently. If you prefer more-modern materials, we’ve also got prime plastics that will keep your electronics safe.
The Folio (iPad Air; $19) features an eye-catching diamond pattern—without, alas, featuring any actual diamonds.
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Apple’s upcoming smartwatch will include multiple health sensors and come in variety of screen sizes, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. Specifically, “The new wrist device from Apple will include more than 10 sensors including ones to track health and fitness” according to WSJ. The new report comes hot off the … Read More
This week’s iPhone-case roundup comes with a bit of leather, some advanced plastics, and everyone’s favorite billionaire superhero. But the real star is a collection of cases that will make you happy no matter which nation turns out to have the best soccer team.
The World Cup (iPhone 4, 4s, 5 and 5s; $48) is a bundle of ten cases that celebrate this year’s international soccer games.
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This week’s roundup features updates to apps that help enhance your health, teach you yoga, and more. Plus, there’s always a good game to take your mind off things, right?
The $10 Broken Age game for iPad is “a timeless coming-of-age story of barfing trees and talking spoon.” You can switch between the characters of Vella Tartine and Shay Volta, a pair of teens in similar situations played out on different worlds. The cast includes Elijah Wood, Wil Wheaton, and Jack Black, with a soundtrack recorded by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Only Act 1 of the puzzle-driven game is out now; Act 2 will soon be available as an in-app purchase.
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Belkin was kind enough to send over two of their QODE (pronounced “code”) Bluetooth keyboards for review: the QODE Ultimate and QODE Thin Type. To be honest, the Thin Type is the keyboard I was initially looking forward to, but the QODE Ultimate turned out to be a pleasant surprise, with its clever use of […]
As a young wannabe film maker (or nerd as it’s more commonly referred to) in the early 90s, I used to love grabbing the family camcorder and knocking up some quality Hollywood remakes. My greatest hits included remakes of Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters and the criminally underrated original production “That Army Bloke II”. I’m still waiting […]
The LX Dual USB Car Charger is the featured offer in the iPad Insight Deals section today. This is a good looking and useful car charging option for those of us who often have both a phone and a tablet device with us throughout the day. It’s available in this deal for $15.99, down 36{813a954d5e225a1509f22204ece89c855080ce25555f20805f61bed63cbfde3b} […]
This week’s roundup of new iOS accessories includes a slew of gear from Belkin, a bunch of new (and, yes, interesting) cables, a multi-multi charger, and more.
The $100 Portable Tablet Stage is an iPad stand that’s, says the company, “perfect for presenting, reading, recording video or surfing the web.” It’s form also lets you use the iPad, along with Belkin’s free Stage app, as a camera for live presentations. The stand itself is lightweight, adjustable for viewing your tablet at any angle, and foldable for easy transportation and storage.
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FiftyThree is making great strides to make the Paper and Pencil experience feel more like the real thing with technology they call “Surface Pressure“. By leveraging new APIs in iOS 8, the devs at FiftyThree have figured out a way to make the iPad aware of how much of the Pencil stylus is making contact with the screen, […]
Making the iMac a little more affordable, Apple on Wednesday quietly introduced a new, lower-price entry model for the all-in-one desktop computer.
The new configuration, a 21.5-inch iMac that starts at $1099, contains a 1.4GHz dual-core Core i5 pr…
Notification Center has been a part of OS X for two years: It was introduced in Mountain Lion and expanded upon in Mavericks. But with OS X Yosemite, Notification Center transforms into something exponentially more useful than it was before.
I’ve been using a pre-release version of OS X Yosemite (on a Retina MacBook Pro provided to me by Apple) for the past couple of weeks now, and it’s clear from my time spent with Yosemite that Notification Center is so different, and so much more useful than it was, that it probably deserves a new name.
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