Tag Archives: iPad Apps

350,000 textbooks downloaded from new iBooks in just three days

The first metrics for Apple’s new textbook sales initiative are beginning to roll in, and it already looks like Apple has a success on its hands. According to independent third party Global Equities Research (GER), users have downloaded over 350,000 textbooks in just three days, making the launch of iBooks 2 a signal flare to [...]

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Publishing your books with iBooks Author

Today Apple announced iBooks Author. iBooks Author makes it simple to flow in text, graphics, movies, and more, so your book looks exactly the way you want. Drag and drop a Pages or Microsoft Word document to the Book navigator to add it as a new section. Then, when you drag and drop in images, [...]

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VLC Streamer – easily stream AVI’s to your iPad

There have been many ‘streaming’ apps for iPad and iPhone over the past year, however most are flaky and don’t quite work as expected. VLC, the makers of very popular, and super stable VLC Player have released a VLC Streamer for iPad, and a Windows and Mac client app that runs in the background and [...]

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Updated and awesome: Google for iPad

Believe it or not, the new Google App for iPad is better than ANY google app on an Android tablet. I am still trying to figure out why they have done this given that Google probably want to push their own tablets more than iPads. However, the Google Search app is now updated with all [...]

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App Measures Your Heart and Breathing Rate Using the iPad 2′s Camera

Philips has released the ‘Vita Signs Camera’ app that measures your heart rate and breathing rate remotely, using the camera of your iPad 2. The Vital Signs Camera App of Philips measures your heart rate and breathing rate using advanced software and the camera of your iPad 2. This breakthrough technology allows you to measure [...]

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‘We messed up’: Google pulls app hours after launch

Mere hours after launching its Gmail for iOS app, Google has yanked it from the iTunes app store. “The iOS app we launched today contained a bug with notifications,” read a tweet on the Gmail Twitter feed. “We have pulled the app to fix the problem. Sorry we messed up.” When launched, the Gmail app [...]

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The Essential Guide to Studying with your iPad

The iPad is a fun device for all, but over the past few months schools and University’s have seen it as as valid replacement to the desktop PC traditionally used in the education system. Private schools are expanding the use of new technologies in classrooms, rolling out iPads to help teachers and students with learning. [...]

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Twitter Launches a New Web App for iPad

Twitter is launching a new HTML5 based web app for the iPad, reports TechCrunch. The app is full HTML5 and an improvement over the current one-paned experience of the Twitter mobile site on the tablet. Not surprisingly it is reminiscent of a hybrid of Twitter.com and the mobile apps and was based on Twitter’s HTML5 [...]

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AirService – coming to iPad and iPhone, Android, Windows AND BlackBerry

We’ve heard a lot of speculation about AirService recently, everyone seems to have a different theory of how the app works and what it does. Well we’re pretty stoked to have been emailed this screenshot showing a sneak peek of what the website looks like. Whilst we don’t know exactly how the AirService app works, [...]

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The official Facebook app for iPad

Facebook users were able to get a sneak peek of the social networking site’s long-rumored iPad app on Monday by using a jailbroken device and tweaking a file embedded in Facebook for iPhone. The hack appears to have been first uncovered by Marvin Bernal on Twitter, and TechCrunch has since confirmed “with a source who [...]

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Playboy WILL come to iPad

Playboy will arrive on the iPad, complete and uncensored, on May 18th, according to a tweet by Hugh Hefner. Hefner had previously announced the app would be available in March; however, it was clearly delayed. Apple, despite having parental controls for iOS, has let very little adult content onto the App Store. In fact Steve [...]

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Laser Dolphin for iPad

Dingo Games has announced their aquatic hero has arrived for both iPhone and iPad just in time to save the Prime Minister! When the world shakes in terror only one mammal can save the day, Laser Dolphin! In a unique action-adventure game you must battle and swim your way through a variety of cute and [...]

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