One Free Twelve South BookBook Case for iPad mini To Be Won Contest Deadline: Tuesday December 11, 2:00PM US Central *** Please note the BookBook for iPad mini has not been released yet. The photo above is of the BookBook for iPad. Want to win a gorgeous BookBook Case for the iPad mini before anybody [...]
Here’s an iPad app sale that’s about as Christmas-y as they come. A Charlie Brown Christmas, the wonderful iPad storybook adaptation of the classic TV special, is on sale at 40% off. It’s down from $4.99 to $2.99 – as a Christmas flash sale. I grew up as a big fan of the Peanuts TV [...]
Thanks to Mobile Cloth for sponsoring the site’s RSS feed again this week. Mobile Cloth is easily the best cleaning for the iPad and all my iDevices. They’re an unsung hero type of iPad accessory – not flashy but always good to have close by. Mobile Cloth prices start at $8.99 for a 2 pack [...]
Well, another fun contest has drawn to an end. Thanks to all of you who took part in this one and made some good comments. Big thanks also to Brian and the kind folks at CafePress for running this one with us! Here are our lucky winners, starting with the winners for tshirts: Bill Weibley [...]
Robots for iPad is a new iPad app that promises to help us ‘Discover the amazing world of robots with this fun and engaging app’. I’m happy to say the app does a great job at delivering on that promise. It offers a fascinating look at how robots have become reality and are already enhancing [...]
Great news if you’re an iPad owner and a fan of turn-based strategy games, and especially military strategy games. The Battle of the Bulge iPad game from Shenandoah Studios,- the one I’ve been excited and raving about for months now is going to hit the iPad App Store next Thursday, December 13. I’ve been a [...]
Griffin are one of the big names in iOS accessories. They seem to have just about every sort of accessory possible for iDevices, and they were one of the first companies to send me a promo email about their line of cases for the iPad mini – just a few days after the mini’s launch. [...]
No great surprise here, but still fun to see this. A Holiday Apps and Games section is featured this week in the iPad App Store. The section includes just shy of 100 holiday-themed apps and games, in three sub-sections: Seasonal Stories, Holiday Cheer, and Festive Games. All three sub-sections offer a good mix of fun [...]
The CaseCrown Bold Standby Case for iPad mini was the first 3rd party cases I bought for my new iPad mini. I’ve used and done a review of the CaseCrown Bold Standby for iPad 3 / iPad 2 and found it to be a solid folio case – so their new one for the iPad [...]
Quick demo of the cool new Ticker for Twitter iPad app. I heard about the Ticker for Twitter iPad app a couple weeks before it was released, and thought it sounded quite promising. It was recently released in the App Store and today I installed it and have been using it all morning. It’s [...]
Image Credit: Nick Bilton / The New York Times Here’s yet another way that the iPad proves its mettle as so much more than just a ‘consumption’ device. Nick Bilton of The New York Times has done a great piece on how he uses the iPad as a hand-held darkroom. Bilton has been passionate about [...]
Snapseed, the popular and award-winning photo editing app for iPad and iPhone, has now become a free app. It’s now owned by Google, and has become a free app on iOS at the same time as it launches for Android. The app offers a good range of photo effects and a friendly interface that lets [...]
Google’s dished out a healthy portion of iPad and iOS love yesterday. They updated the Gmail app for iPad and iPhone to Version 2.0 and added some very useful sounding new features, and also brought YouTube back to the iPad (for those who have been missing it under iOS 6). I’ve been so busy the [...]
5 Sync in Progress and Two iPad Cases To Be Won Contest Deadline: Friday December 7, 2:00PM US Central Since we’re well into the holiday season now, I’ll be trying my best to run quite a few giveaway contests over the next few weeks. Today I’ve got a fun one thanks to the kind folks [...]
How many iPads, tablets, cameras, and other mobile devices will be given this year for the holidays-! Help keep them clean with MOBiLE CLOTH. MC is easiest, fastest, safest solution. A few swipes with our unique cloth and your screen will look like it just came out of the box! Patrick J. of iPadinsight.com included [...]
What’s on Your iPad- A simple question but one that leads to some fascinating answers. This is another installment of our now-regular series of What’s on Your iPad posts. I enjoy these a lot because I love seeing how people put their iPads to use – and I find them a great resource for discovering [...]
Analytics Tiles App, the excellent website stats tracking and analysis app, is currently on sale at just 99 cents – down from its standard $2.99 price. The app presents your Google Analytics stats in a unique and gorgeous tile-based interface. Each report has its own individual tile, and you can arrange tiles, move them around, [...]
Some big iPad app update news this evening. Apple has updated their suite of iWork apps for iPad and iOS – and the headline addition is improved compatibility with Microsoft Office apps. The iWork suite for the iPad consists of the Keynote, Numbers, and Pages apps. Each of them has been updated to Version 1.7 [...]
Image Source: writerdood.wordpress.com TechRepublic has a post up this week from Patrick Gray that is billed as a hands-on comparison of the Microsoft Surface RT and the iPad. It’s a half-assed piece that’s full of apples to watermelons style comparisons. For starters, when discussing the quality of the displays, Gray compares the Surface RT to [...]
I saw the INVELLOP Leatherette Case Cover for iPad mini mentioned by a friend on Facebook one evening a couple of weeks back. I thought it looked interesting and when I saw it was under $15 at Amazon I decided it was worth a quick look. It turns out I stumbled across what would quickly [...]
The WordPress app for iPad and iOS has been updated this week, to Version 3.3. Here’s the short change list for this latest update: ★ Sound effects: get audio feedback when refreshing, swiping, and more. You can turn off Sounds easily in Settings. • Works great on the iPad Mini. • Added support for self-signed [...]
I’ve been using the iPad mini, heavily, for over a month now. I also used a Kindle Fire HD for a few weeks and have been using a Nexus 7 for a few weeks now as well. The Kindle Fire HD, just like last year’s model, left me unmoved and rarely interested in using it. [...]
Well, the grand experiment of the first iPad only newspaper is soon coming to an end. The Daily, published by Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp, will be publishing a final farewell issue on December 15 – around two months shy of two years from its launch in the iPad App Store. The Daily has over 100,000 subscribers [...]
Issue 3 of Swipe Magazine for iPad is out today. If you’re a big fan of iPad apps and games this magazine is aimed squarely at you. Here’s a slice of its App Store description: This is the only dedicated magazine that focuses on the best App Store content, and which has been built from [...]
The Newsstand section of the iPad App Store now has a good range of leading newspapers and magazines for the iPad, an these iPad editions offer subscription plans. Generally, just as with print publications, subscriptions offer savings as compared to buying individual issues. When you sign-up for an iPad newspaper or magazine subscription it is [...]
Thanks to everyone who took part in this contest. We had a large number of entries, lots of great comments, and one lovely poem within an entry. Thanks for that Lyn, and I have to share it: If I won a case from P&Q What would I do- I’d yell with delight “Thank you iPad [...]
This weekend’s iPad wallpaper choices are two with a strong Lord of the Rings theme. Both were shared to our iPad Insight Flickr group by SKR Imaging, and boy am I glad they were. The first, shown above, is titled Orc and was painted on an iPad using the Procreate app. I think this image [...]
Squrl, the excellent videos and video search app for the iPad and iOS, has been updated this week – to Version 2.7. The huge new feature added in this update is live streaming of TV channels. It can be accessed right from the app’s main screen under the ‘Live’ heading. And it’s great stuff. I’m [...]
Barclays Bank – one of the UK’s leading banks – has purchased 8,500 iPads. As The Channel reports, this is thought to be one of the largest rollouts of any tablet device in the UK financial sector. According to a Barclays PR person one of the reasons for selecting the iPad was staff demand. The [...]
I didn’t do a whole lot of Black Friday or Cyber Monday shopping this year, but I did spot a few bargains that tempted me into a purchase. One of them was the Griffin A-Frame Stand for iPad. As some of you may have noticed, I’m a big fan of iPad stands. I like having [...]
One Free Pad & Quill Graduate Edition Case for iPad 2 and iPad 3 To Be Won Contest Deadline: Sunday December 2:00PM US Central It’s about time for another giveaway contest here, and today I’ve got a lovely case for the iPad 2 and iPad 3 from Pad & Quill to offer up. Pad & [...]
The Google Drive app for iPad and iOS has been updated this week, to Version 1.2.0. One of the most notable additions in this update is the ability to work with and edit spreadsheets. Another is support for the iOS ‘Open In’ feature – to allow other apps to upload to Drive using it. Here’s [...]
BlogPad Pro is a brand new blogging app for the iPad, just released today in the iPad App Store. It’s touted as the ‘most professional blogging app for running all your WordPress blogs from your iPad’. I’ve only installed the app a short while ago, but have some very quick first impressions and thoughts on [...]
Yesterday afternoon I received this little fella in the mail. It’s a review unit of the Celtic Hounds iPad mini Cover, from the lovely folks at Oberon Design. I’ll spend some time with the case and then do a review, but I can tell you one thing right now: This is – easily – The [...]
Ever since I first used an Apple Smart Cover on my iPad 2, it has become a near-constant companion for my iPad 2 and now iPad 3. I’ve often written here about how the Smart Cover plus an ultra-thin Gelaskin have tended to be my favorite ‘outfit’ for the iPad. So I when I bought [...]
Photo Credit: Ricardo B. Brazziel The Texas Legislature is replacing laptops with iPads for the new session that starts in early January of next year. As my hometown newspaper the Austin American-Statesman – reports, .Each lawmaker’s office in the Capitol will be offered two iPads for the session that begins Jan. 8. Each committee will [...]
I like minimalist, good looking weather apps for the iPad. That’s why Weather HD has been a favorite of mine for a long time. Breathe for iPad is touted as just the sort of sleek little weather app I tend to like – the App Store page for it calls it cool, intuitive, and awesome. [...]
Templates for Keynote Pro for the iPad and iPhone is on sale today at 50% off. It’s available for $4.99, down from its standard $9.99. This is the best 3rd party templates app that I’ve seen for Keynote on the iPad, especially for business users. It has a good range of templates and many of [...]
This weekend’s iPad wallpaper choices are more simple, single-color backgrounds. There’s a lot to be said for simple backgrounds as iPad wallpaper – especially in terms of keeping the app icons strong and easy to identify on home screens. My three choices this week start with the very deep, dark green image shown above. This [...]
I have to say I’m really enjoying our iPad Insight Flickr group. The level of activity is growing all the time, and the quality of the contributions is excellent. The vast majority of the images uploaded to the group are iPad wallpapers, but recently there is also a good amount of art created on iPads [...]
One of the best things about using an iPad is all the great apps that we can run on it. There are excellent apps for just about any purpose you can think of. Better still, there are lots of great free apps for the iPad. Our Best Free iPad App of the Week posts highlight [...]
The list of printers that support AirPrint wireless printing from the iPad is growing, rapidly. When I last posted about the supported printers list back in June there were a total of 217 printers from 6 manufacturers. Today there are over 430 supported printers from 13 manufacturers. Here’s a little more detail on which printers [...]
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