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There are a variety of printed card creation solutions, including Cards from Apple. One has let us know they have updated their card templates to include Valentines Day! No excuses to not have a card ready for the holiday. Sincerely Ink Cards has all of their usual cards to cover Birthdays, other ‘Holidays’ and even [...]

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This just in, ProCreate has signed up with Jaja’s Stylus to support the pen’s pressure sensitive capabilities at time of it’s launch. Jaja stylus, which is currently fully funded but still open on Kickstarter, sent an update this evening telling of ProCreate updating their software to use the pressure sensitive pen action. They are still looking to [...]

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Remember the ‘Jot’ Stylus, we have covered a couple times… it’s made by Adonit and it has that funny little clear plastic tip that makes precision writing on the iPad much easier. OK? We also mentioned that Adonit is showing off a version of the Jot Stylus that is pressure sensitive, telling your iPad how [...]

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There are some things that just work better on a tablet over a desktop. That can be because of available tools or processes that work better with a couple fingers instead of a mouse. Photo enhancing/editing keeps getting more powerful on the iPad. Tapping, pinching and sliding all works more naturally for zooming into spots [...]

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The folks from Nuance Communications, the provider of Dragon voice recognition, have released their free iPad notes app – PaperPort Notes. A notes app that has a little bit of something for everyone. The app is light enough to be happy with it if you where to only use one notes capture method while still offering [...]

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There is a lot of press around Apple taking a deeper step into education with their iBooks Author tool. We’ll cover that in the future after we have a few creations completed. Till then, we have a nice find that is a free app unrelated to iBooks that you may find very useful. The ‘app’ [...]

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We mentioned Adonit being at CES with their Jot Stylus enhanced with Pressure Sensitive capabilities on the iPad. Press hard and the internal electronics tells the iPad via bluetooth your pressing so the line needs to be different than the end of the line as you lift the pen off. Over on Kickstarter is the [...]

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If you need a offline ‘big’ dictionary on your iPad, now is the time to jump in. Merriam-Webster HD Dictionary is on sale for $3.99, down from their normal $6.99. While the definitions in the dictionary is the same as in the HD ‘pro’ version, you will no longer have ads showing up and you [...]

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The get more out of our music on our iPads, especially when in the office with our headphones on, many folks have chosen to use the MyTunes app. The software offers many fine tuning adjustments for your music playback through different speakers/headphones and iWOW SRS enhancements. The music playback is noticeably fuller. For more info, [...]

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Months ago, we followed the news that Apple wasn’t going to allow apps to sell books and the like if it wasn’t also for sale through the iTunes channels. In response, to avoid having to pay the Apple percent for every book sale, many providers pulled ‘buy now’ from their apps. Shortly after Amazon made [...]

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