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Yahoo on Tuesday unveiled an updated, HTML5-optimized version of Yahoo Mail for the iPad, promising a faster, more organized, and feature-rich experience.
“If you’ve used our recently launched HTML5 mobile Web mail for iPhone you’ll feel right at home,” Lee Parry, product manager for Yahoo Mail, wrote in a blog post. “We’ve kept all the things users love about our new mobile Web mail experience, while also optimizing for the gorgeous large screen of the iPad.”
If you don’t have an Internet connection, Yahoo Mail on the iPad will use local caching capabilities to allow users to access and search their mail. You can search using full search, personal folders, or a smart folder of most important contacts.
Photo attachments will also be viewable in their full form or as inbox previews, Yahoo said, and the inbox itself has a dual-pane view.
The revamped Yahoo Mail “will be available globally to anyone who has an iPad,” Parry said. Access it via Safari on the iPad at http://mail.yahoo.com.
Teachers and doctors are using iPads as a tool to reach out to children with Autism or Asperger Syndrome and the results are remarkably great. Autistic children are showing tremendous improvement after playing fun-filled exercises on iPad which is less stressful and more fun for both the teachers and the students. Below is the list of 10 best iPad applications to give Autism a voice.
Those who don’t know, Autism is a lifelong disability that affects the way a person communicates and relates to other people and the world around them. Those affected typically display major impairments in three areas: social interaction, communication and behavior (restricted interests and repetitive behaviors). 1 in 160 children have autism in some form, making it twice as common as cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy, childhood deafness or blindness and ten times more common than childhood leukemia.
Toodledo is a powerful task and note manager, for the iPhone and iPad. It will help organize your to-do list and notes, and make you more productive. You can use Toodledo as a standalone application, or you can have it seamlessly synchronize your lists with Toodledo.com, one of the most popular online task managers.
Toodledo is flexible enough to work with many different styles of todo list management. You can use the popular GTD methodology, or you can use your own system. You can keep things simple, or you can add as much complexity as you need. Keeping track of your to do list has never been easier.
Find your way through an infinite variety of randomly generated mazes tailored to fit on the massive iPad screen!
* Three types of mazes to choose from.
* Tiny mazes are fairly easy to solve, allow about 5 minutes to complete these ones
* Standard mazes are much larger. You should be able to solve most of these within about 15 minutes.
* Massive mazes are HUGE mazes that will occupy your attention for many hours
Can you pat you head and rub your tummy at the same time? ‘Can You Handle It’ is a game that challenges your ability to track two targets at the same time. As you succeed you gain extra time to play; that’s your score!
Do you have what it takes to get on the scoreboard!? Give it a try if you dare!
MagicJack, best known for its television commercials advertising free internet calls, is planning a new service that will provide free calls to landlines and cellphones in the U.S. The application, which could launch next week, will run on Windows and Mac computers. There are also plans for a September launch of smartphone versions of the software for iOS, BlackBerry, and Android phones, although the company isn’t sure if it will allow calls over both WiFi and 3G networks. MagicJack’s CEO, Dan Borislow, said its plans for a femtocell are now on hold until the company can work with a carrier partner.
Parents of children suffering from autism are turning to the iPad to help their kids. Experts don’t know what causes autism, but parents of autistic children know too well how hard it is to reach through the disease and communicate with them. Help in making contact has come in an unexpected form: the Apple iPad.
Blogger Shannon Rosa handed an iPad won in a raffle to her 9-year old autistic son and was amazed to watch him interact with the device with little training. He immediately became one with the iPad and spent lots of time with educational programs — spelling, counting and other learning tools.
Rosa writes for BlogHer, and immediately wrote about the amazing progress her son has shown since the iPad hit his hands. This touched off an interest in communities of parents with autistic children, and experts are now using the iPad with many such kids.
The situation with Rosa’s child is not unusual, it turns out. Many kids are instantly taking to the iPad, spending lots of time using the tablet to focus on the task at hand. It is hard to get the attention of many autistic children, and parents are impressed with how well their kids can focus while using the iPad.