Cool feature, but be forewarned it only works on iPads that have cell network connections (WiFi only iPads not supported). The ‘feature’ is GeoFencing, which is to say that your iPad bases it’s location from it’s cell tower connection and does an action based on going in or out through the ‘fence’. Apple doesn’t allow [...]
Many of us are constant users of the free ipad app, Flipboard. Jumping in and out of the app to see what is new from the feeds we follow as well Instagram and Facebook images. One spot that is often passed by until someone comments on a ‘cool find’ is the “Featured” area. The ribbon [...]
We have played with a few apps that reach out to social services and pulls in news your friends and the folks your following are posting. Just about every app though, is relying on your social network circle to present to you everything being posted. A few have made an attempt at only showing posts [...]
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 [...]
As you may recall. Many of us jumped on the Times News Reader for the iPad when it came out just because we used and loved the desktop version so much. Sadly, the iPad app was a little behind what many of the other options where offering. A update last week had many of us [...]
There is this guy… Guy Kawasaki, you may have heard of him. He did big things for Apple in their early days. Now, he has a bunch of his own start ups and finances other people’s great ideas. One of which is called ‘AllTop’. A services that allows blogs to sign up and if chosen, [...]
We mentioned Pulse earlier as a News Reader many of us are using now to get the news from the providers we are interested in. Reeder is another very popular iPad News ‘Reader’ that has a different take on the user interface. Pulse arranged content in rows per provider with an image representing each article. [...]
