iGo With My iPad

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

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Normally we wouldn’t think of a ‘how to’ book being a big Business app. This little ‘how to’ instructional book seems to have caught on as can be seen by little dollar animals floating around meetings. The cause is a ‘book’ app for the iPad on how to fold (origami) dollar bills into many different [...]

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Last month we mentioned, and were excited about, being able to grab our monthly copy of Wired on our iPad (Wired Magazine Has Come To The iPad). Some folks felt it was too expensive, some folks loved the layout of the pages and content over other electronic magazine. Everyone wondered how next month was going [...]

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Unique Skins is a long time provider for our vinyl skins for our many tech devices. Our notebooks, iPhones, Blackberrys and of course our iPads. Some folks go for unique art, others have family vacation pictures and many of us have our devices made to look like something else. We claim it is for keeping [...]

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There are a lot of the original Macintosh Classics roaming around the office. Under desks can be found working and non-working the classic hardware. Finally, there appears to be a use for the ones that are not working. Make it into a touch screen color computer… the only thing you have to add is the [...]

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In the USA, if your a F1 fan you are very limited to live race data. Speedvision covers most of the races with several being broadcasted by FOX. There is a lot of jealously for all the options given to the friends across the pond in the UK, which are locked out from US viewers. [...]

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We subscribe to magazines… to a lot of magazines. Even with that, we see folks walking in with magazines they bought at the airport. Those are the ones that show stress wrinkled pages and no address tags. Electronic magazines are starting to gain more popular with the larger color screens showing the true colors buyers [...]

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Right after the iPad was introduced, the folks from Wired Magazine did a presentation of things to come for their Magazine to be available on the iPad. It wouldn’t just be a page turner, the iPad version would have all sorts of interaction and more robust than the then available electronic magazines could do. The [...]

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Some of us can make increadable music with the simplest of instruments, then there are the rest of us who just toy with instruments for fun. In our group, there are some very talented musicians. They are in bands that play at a variety of times, either weekly or every few weekends. Getting ready for [...]

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Put this in the ‘for fun’ group. Most offices wont see the fun in this but it has been a huge hit around the house with family and friends. A popular feature for desktop computers is to apply backgrounds, which some corporate networks do not like. There are add ons for email programs to even [...]

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Last weekend we mentioned an app that allowed you to create ‘cookies’ on your iPad, then distribute them to your friends and family. A hit with the kids and fun to do for office parties. This last week we received several emails saying cookies aren’t the only type of goodies you can ‘bake’ on your [...]

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