The free Cloud storage providers has been increased by one today with the Microsoft SkyDrive. The news wasn’t a surprise to us, we have been following SkyDrive for a while, but we were excited to see the iPad app get upgraded to 2.0! All of Microsoft’s Cloud storage competitors offer similar services but each have [...]
We have gone into quite a bit of detail around advanced photo editing tools on the iPad. There are of course simple tools to apply a effect filter to a full pictures but beyond that usually means tools that take a while to learn and get good with. An app that on the surface appeared [...]
We have covered Zinio with it’s readily available list of magazines you can read on the iPad. While they are electronic image versions of the print magazine, they are nice for saving a tree and getting quickly without postal delivery damage. For a most ‘interactive’ approach, we covered our move to the Newsstand version of [...]
Sitting in traffic may appear to be a good time to pick up the iPad and do some browsing, for fun and work. But, it isn’t really a good idea to take your eyes off the road even when at a stand still on the road in traffic. Luckily, the iPad can now help you [...]
Oh, the fun of the old classic instruments of the 50′s! Today’s post is from the group of coworkers that love the retro look and feel. They talk about Mad Men over Monday morning coffee, they dress with classic colorful box designs, they have interesting lamps and while they couches look cool and are great [...]
Many times you wonder when and where was a photo taken. In the days of cute printed pieces of paper, there would be a little pencil scratching on the back with a year and location. Today, unless you turn the feature off, every picture taken with an mobile device gets pretty close location information. For [...]
There are painting and drawing apps that include a variety of brushes, pens or pencil tips. Some offer each option for an additional charge. Others, offers a list of pen divided down by pen colors. In the case of MyBrushes, you have 100 different drawing and painting tip styles to choose from, and an almost [...]
At work and at home, when it comes time to entering a lot of text into our iPads, we turn to our Bluetooth keyboards. The keyboards sit on our desks and on the kitchen counter. They are small enough to carry with us into meetings or be pushed out of the way when we need [...]
Part of what the iPad shows us very early on was that it’s all about the visual sweep. The device gave us the chance to rethink how information was being presented. A few early adopters changed everything by taking a whole new look at the physical world and didn’t just reproduce actions we did with [...]
It was interesting to see all the talk today about Apple updating their Cards app. The app is for making cards that Apple then prints and mails for you, just like you can do with iPhoto on your Mac notebook/desktop. Like the desktop version, you create the cards using Apple’s templates, using your photos. You [...]
