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Zynga, the creator of FarmVille and Mafia Wars on Facebook, has now made a breakthrough to relieve you from all worries about your farms on Facebook. The company has now released FarmVille for (Insert Drum Roll) Apple iPhone and iPad! Yes, now you can water your plants, plow and harvest them while you’re on the move. This FarmVille app is available as free download from Apple App Store (iTunes link).
Live Cams, a popular port from the iPhone has finally made it on the iPad. Live Cams HD lets you view over 3,000 public cameras around the world anytime, anywhere on your iPad. How does it stack up compared to the iPhone app? Let’s take a look.
Review Live Cams HD is the iPad port of Live Cams for iPhone (Appmodo review) which was reviewed by our own editorial director, Chris Duke, last summer. The app allows you to tap into public webcams set around the world to view any number of places from famous attractions (i.e. Japan’s Mt. Fuji, Egypt’s Pyramids, etc) to watching Shamu swim around his tank at Sea World.
The app can be viewed in either portrait or landscape mode and provides thumbnail previews of twelve webcams per page. Live Cams HD gives you the option to search for a location through their built-in database, select various categories and add your very own camera (only viewed by you, unless you choose to make it public).
37signals, purveyors of Web-based collaboration services like Basecamp and Campfire, has released its second native application for iOS: Draft.
What is Draft? It’s a simple and, in 37signals’s words, “straightforward” sketching application for the iPad. Draft offers a dark, spartan interface and only two color choices for sketching: white and red. Add to that an eraser, a trash can, and an undo option—Photoshop, it is not.
While Draft exhibits 37signals’s signature sparse feature set, it does sport integration with Campfire, the company’s Web-based chat room service. Draft can share your sketches via e-mail, but it can also send directly to any Campfire room that you have permission to access.
With the unmatched views, pricey drinks, and disco funk soundtrack, the Boom Boom Room has proven itself to be just a wee bit different than every other club in New York City, But now the meanest door staff is getting in on the fun. While everyone was enjoying the opening night of Le Bain, we noticed that the Boom’s guest list is now kept on an iPad, perhaps signaling the beginning of the end of the clipboard era.
iPad owners will have to wait until Fall before a version of the new operating system is released. While still suffering from some unresolved Wi-Fi issues, the iPad has been a hit with customers. Reporting over two million units sold by the end of May, the iPad has actually doubled the sales of the original iPhone in the same amount of time.