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

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HalfTone… it’s the look the photos had in the newspapers (remember that big paper based news distribution method?). The app by the same name, HalfTone, has been handy for adding the effect to our images. All the features you would hope are available; adjust the background, the number and location of the text boxes, edit [...]

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It’s that time of the year when we pay particular attention to the weather in the southern states. A popular app for the waiting time is Accu Weather on our iPads. It has the expected forcast information, as well a nice moving radar view and current weather videos. It used to be we could watch [...]

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As we dive deeper into Omni Outliner, we are discovering some quick tricks built into the app to make getting your job done quicker. And, expand on what we have commonly thought of as a list outline. Instead of just living with the basic line, you can add text to each line, much like attaching [...]

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That house down the street is for sale, I wonder how much it is. I wonder if there are any houses available in that other part of town that is close to my house value. They may be moving my job to the other office, is there any houses in the area worth taking a [...]

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In a recent conversation about Mind Mapping, it became clear to us that many folks really don’t understand how to get started or why they would even want to Mind Map. Sadly, it was brought up because someone bought an iPad mapping app and didn’t know what to do with it. Hopefully though, owning the [...]

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Everyone around the office reads quite a bit. Not so many novels, mostly news and industry articles. And, those are usually coming to them via their iPad automatically via any of a variety of ‘readers’. Sure, there is the ocational Web digging around to see what we can find but generally there is enough to [...]

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Ever heard the saying that goes something like “a fix that is looking for a problem”? This app is just that. It is fixes a problem that unless you have come across it yet, you don’t know you have the problem. But, the day you stumple upon it, you will either have to live with [...]

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