iGo With My iPad

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

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When traveling, a nice thing to do in your hotel room or in the room of a house your a guest of is to have a slide show running of scenes from home and family members. This can be relaxing to some, and others find this to only make them that much more home sick. [...]

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Back when the iPhone started getting more sensors the buzz around the office was ‘wouldn’t Jenga be fun if they used the sensors’? It was good on the iPhone, it’s great on the iPad… the bigger screen really makes a difference! The Jenga iOS game app is not a universal app so you have to [...]

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AccelaStudy has long been on many of our iPhones. The app comes in a variety of languages to be learned, all the usual and a few unusual. The latest update makes AccelaStudy a Universal app so one copy can be installed on both the iPhone and iPad. Mobile language learning just came to our iPads [...]

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Just because the current iPad doesn’t have a camera, doesn’t mean it can’t touch up photographes. Using images from the cloud storage, iPhone sync, the Camera Connector or via email, a photo in your iPad can be heavily customized. We have mentioned Photogene before as an app that we use for cropping and adjusting colors/levels [...]

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No fault of the actual iOS update from Apple, but usually when there is an system update, someone has an issue. With the iOS 4.2.1 there was three team members that were without the use of the iPads for more than just the afternoon. One unit that had an issue alerted us to something we [...]

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It is this time of the year that we are expected to produce something other than spreadsheets and PowerPoints for everyone to enjoy. Food for a holiday feast is the norm. Well, at least it is expected so we are hoping to not disappoint. Visiting the iTunes app store, you will find many options ranging [...]

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There has been a big jump over the last couple days in apps getting updated to run on an iPad with the iOS4.2 installed. As you may have read, 4.2 will bring the iPad up the iPhone 4 with it’s mutltitasking, apps able to process in the background, Airplay (not on the iPhone 4 yet) [...]

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Doing away with paper in the office is getting easier with many new tools including scanners, the iPad and cloud storage. As much as we try though, there are times we still need to jot a note down on a peice of paper. Also, there is the communication with customers. An app we have started [...]

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One of the first things we thought of when the iPad was announced was what a great tool it would be for working with clients. We had hoped we would be able to walk through presentations, much like PowerPoints or PDFs. When iMockUps came out for the iPad, we had high hopes but didn’t expect [...]

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There are only a few styles of movie files that you can load and play on your iPad through iTunes. Trying to add others, iTunes will stop you as you drop onto iTunes or when you sync your iPad. Mac OS Computers can play most of the more popular movie file types in Quicktime, but [...]

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