The new iPad was announced today and for all of you who follow Apple products already have the scoop on whats new in this year’s version of the iPad but just in case I’ll outline everything for you here.
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Archive for the ‘iPad’ Category
The new iPad — Available 3.16.2012
07
Mar
Review: Stock Touch (Universal App)
07
Mar
Stock Touch (Visible Market Inc., $4.99) Universal App
One of the nicest looking apps I have seen in a long time, this relatively new app which functions virtually identically between the iPhone and the iPad is sure to please the eye even if the actual data you are seeing does not. Stock Touch, released in June of 2011, is designed with a very simple format and layout in mind presenting the top 900 performing stocks spread out across 9 different sectors (100 per sector). While the app is targeted to the retail investor, Steve deBrun the CEO of Visible Market Inc. said that “anyone who is interested in monitoring the stock market and understanding the dynamics of how price and volume shifts across different sectors” would be a prospective user of this app. This is a universal app and so one purchase allows you to use it across all of your iDevices.
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Tomorrow will roar in like a lion as Apple makes their big announcement
06
Mar
The day is almost upon us, and here we are seeing the last ditch efforts in the blogosphere to predict the outcome of tomorrow’s event. The big day that will truly cause march to roar in like a lion. Speculation has tomorrow bringing the announcement of a new iPad rumored to be named the ‘iPad HD’, but what else will Apple be introducing? By the looks of it, tomorrow will bring us a lot from updates to iOS 5, to a new Apple TV.
Spring, one of my favorite times of the year
22
Feb
This is easily one of my favorite times of the year, don’t get me wrong there are things I like about most times of the year, but the excitement right about now brings back a lot of happiness that is lost from the dreary days of winters. This excitement to which I am referring is generated by the start of Baseball Season (which is quickly approaching) as well as (now as of the past couple of years) the impending release of the latest iPad (which I am sure to get!
MLB At Bat 2012?
21
Feb
Baseball fans rejoice, the official start of Spring Training (with the first spring training game in 9 days) is almost here with the start of the new season shortly behind that. And for those of you who are MLB.tv subscribers it just got a bit better this year. In past years to view regular games on the go you needed: MLB At Bat (iPhone) and maybe even MLB At Bat (iPad) and a subscription to MLB.tv Premium. Each MLB At Bat app ran you $15 plus $119 for the annual subscription. This would allow you to watch unlimited, non-blackedout, games and archived games as well as unlimited audio from either your iPhone or iPad. If you were like me, you probably found a use for both devices as they both have their ups and downs but this means you pay $150 per year to get all of this.
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Review: Air PlayIt
25
Jan
Air PlayIt (iPhoGame Dev, inc., FREE)
Air PlayIt is a FREE media client and server for streaming both music and video over your local network as well as over the Internet. There are currently several apps that do either part or all of what this app offers, but none of the free apps in the app store offer both the functionality as well as quality that this app offers. There are though still a few issues that will prevent me from using this as my primary video application, I will outline them below. However for a free app, they do a good job of delivering what they say they can deliver. This is not a universal app, but both the iPhone and iPad version are available for free in the app store and both function in the same way other than general lay out.
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iOS Tips: Bluetooth Keyboards
30
Dec
As of iOS 4.0 we are now able to use Bluetooth keyboards with any of our iDevices. Although this can be overkill for something like the iPhone or iPod, with the iPad I find that I can turn my tablet into a bit more than a tablet making it a perfectly suitable work environment for me. With the keyboard I can accomplish most things as easily as I can with a laptop. The OS is different than that of a laptop and there are some obvious short comings. But for some of the standard things that I do at work I can get it done with my iPad and bluetooth keyboard.
iOS Tips: Google Exchange
26
Dec
I am surprised at the number of people who don’t know this, but it seems I run into people quite frequently who don’t know either that you can use google as an exchange account or that you can have multiple exchange accounts on your iDevice. There was a time when google only supported pop for gmail accounts. Now it supports both imap and exchange. The exchange service is limited to mobile device which means you can in fact use it with any of your idevices. Also as of iOS 4.0 you can have multiple exchange accounts on your iDevices which means you are no longer limited in that way.