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Flipboard… you remember Flipboard (What is all this talk about Flipboard for the iPad?)? It’s that FREE news reader app for the iPad that does news, news feeds and social networking in a whole new way of viewing. As the name says, you ‘flip’ through the pages of your news feeds, stopping on what matters. [...]

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A few folks still use the ‘online’ card services to send greeting cards. But, it’s success has been going off a bit as poeple become more concerned about clicking on long weird looking links in emails. Instead, the days of fancy emails or small images attached inside of emails are coming back. Internet speed and [...]

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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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We spend a lot of our time in apps that either accept our typing, like Evernote. And apps like NoteTaker that leaves our handwriting as ‘electronic ink’. One app that is getting used by more and more of the team is WritePad (the iPad version). The developers keep tuning their handwriting recognizion engine in every [...]

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To really be effective at using documents on the iPad, you must be tapped into the world of online ‘Cloud’ storage. By using one of the options available (Google, DropBox, Box.net, Amazon, Microsoft…) you will be able to create, edit, share and just pain access your documents. Due to the file management most of the [...]

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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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It appears that WebEx is taking the iPad serious. Since the release of the first version, we have been using the app to view WebEx presentations from anywhere we can connect. With it’s speed to connect and the portability of the iPad, we can now join remotely. Even when using our desktop to present, we [...]

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It was called ‘Times’ and we talked about it before. But now, on of our favorite (means we use it a lot) news readers has more features and a new name: “Pulp“. News readers for the iPad come in basically two flavors; You control the incoming news sources on the iPad, or it is controlled [...]

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