A year and a half after Apple launched the iPad, Facebook has launched an official iPad app. Um, whoopie?
While it’s nice to see Facebook finally take part in the biggest personal computing phenomenon since the laptop, Facebook’s iPad app has left me feeling cold. For one thing, it’s barely distinguishable from unofficial Facebook …
Who can forget where they were on September 11th? In a few weeks from now, it will be the event’s 10th anniversary, and there will be an exclusive iPad app to commemorate it.
The upcoming “9/11 Memorial: Past, Present and Future” app will be filled with photographs and videos detailing the event, and the creation of the World Trade …
And so it begins.
Let’s jump in the Wayback Machine and set our coordinates for June 11, 2007. Apple had just announced something called the “iPhone” and with it, an “innovative new way to create applications” for the device.
The premise was simple: In lieu of an actual app store, Apple urged developers to “create Web 2.0 …
Barely making the announced August deadline, BBC Worldwide has finally launched its “Global iPlayer” iPad app—but only for those in western Europe, reports paidContent.
Originally announced in November last year, the Global iPlayer brings what is being called “editorially curated” content from multiple British broadcasters and …
During my first year out of college, I worked as a technical writer for a small medical insurance company out in Orange County. We were required to work carefully with doctors to put together comprehensive reports for patients, making sense out of other doctors’ notes and fact checking them against medical handbooks.
Of course, …
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My iPad is bursting at the seams with wonderful applications. If I had to pick just one of them as the romantic ideal of what a tablet app can and should be, it would be Flipboard.
This “social magazine”–which brings together stuff from Facebook, Twitter, and the entire Web into a wonderfully browsable package–simply …
Opera’s littlest web browser, Opera Mini, just got a big update for iOS, with optimization for the iPad. This free browser underdog provides a great experience on Apple’s tablet, but it has too many frustrations to fully replace the iPad’s default Safari browser.
There’s a lot to like about Opera Mini on the iPad. The browser’s …
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In the past, I’ve said some nasty things about the WordPress iPad app. For the tasks I needed to do here and on other blogs — add and resize images, format text and link like crazy — the app’s barebones approach was simply inadequate. The app was also pretty buggy.
WordPress …
No nudity in the App Store, says Apple. Them’s the rules. So it’s been hard for an app from the likes of Playboy to make much progress on that front.
Playboy does have an app, mind you, but there’s no nudity. Not that there needs to be nudity! There’s almost nudity, like suggestive photos of near nud—you know what? Let’s move on. …
The shameless ogling of Playboy bunnies is almost at hand for iPad users.
The word comes straight from Hugh Hefner, who confirmed the news via Twitter: “Playboy will be available on iPad, complete & uncensored, on May 18,” he wrote. What’ll it cost? $8 per month, commitment-free.
But note what’s missing. Hefner avoids the word …
Someone didn’t tell the folks at Bloom Studio that music players are supposed to be boring, because Planetary for iPad is something entirely different.
The free app visualizes your music library as a massive galaxy, floating in deep space. Artists are represented as solar systems, their albums are planets, and each song is a moon, …
If there’s one thing that iPad users don’t lack, it’s a way of staying on top of what’s going on. Apps like Flipboard, Zite and Decks, or services like Summify or PostPost, give users the chance to sit back and let the internet sort through the noise to find specific signals based on criteria they’ve selected to such success that it’s no …
