iGo With My iPad

Using our iPads – At work, at home and at play

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There has long been the claim that we would soon be getting even closer to pen/paper writing and drawing on our iPads. The introduction of the iPad stylus introduced a natural way of drawing than with our finger. Fingers still work but a stylus was more in line with a world of paper we were [...]

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We have pages of notes in Note Taker and Notebooks of sketches in Penultimate. Both of those daily used solutions offer methods to push out our work to others. With Clibe, we now have a way to constantly add to a notebook on our iPads and have them automatically update in the cloud for others [...]

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You may not be planning a trip in the near future, but it’s still fun to see where you could go and how ‘affordable’ it can be. If you missed the commercials for the Priceline app, we included it here. The initial release of the free universal Priceline app allows you to search for hotels [...]

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We use wikipedia a lot to get a quick answer about a system or place a client name drops. It’s a great resource because it is maintained by people around the world and is updated as soon as anything changes around that same world. For good or bad, it is best suited to us, the [...]

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If you own a iPhone and an iPad, you may have noticed the lack of a ‘clock’ app on the iPad. We get around it’s timing and count down features with other apps… usually more fun than serious work. For daily, weekly, and other alerts though, we usually turn to setting up a calendar event. [...]

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Buzzing around the net, we see all kinds of… how should we say… ‘interesting’ ideas to make out iPads more usable. Everyone has an opinion on what is really going to make their every day use of their iPads more enhanced. Sometimes we look at and say something along the lines of “But, that is [...]

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When the iPad2 first came out, we played with a bunch of ideas to get the sound around to the front where we were when viewing the screen. Of course, you can cup the lower part of the iPad2 in your hand and the sound will direct around ‘louder’ to you… so we knew there [...]

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Like Amazon and their short stories offerings for the Kindle, Apple has a new area on iTunes for “Quick Reads”. A place where you can find shorter eBooks to read on your iPad. The timing is great with the release of the Book Creator for iPad app we mentioned earlier (Create, share and publish eBooks [...]

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Prior to the iPad, many of us had ‘tablet notebooks’. Some folks where super fast at creating flowcharts with the pen. Handwritten notes where OK, made much better using aftermarket software. While those units are collecting dust on our shelves now, the software companies have continued to create updates for the users around the world [...]

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If your not familier with the music creating tool, the Theremin, take a jump over to Wikipedia for the full story. Basically, it is an electronic device with two antennas. It produces music depending on where you hands are relative to the antennas. Many classic bands and modern movies have used the tool. Now, we [...]

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