Archive for June, 2010
June 12th, 2010 at 2:50 AM EST | by inu846W
Your iPad decisions don’t stop once you’ve settled on either the 3G iPad or the Wi-Fi-only model. There’s also the not-insignificant question of what apps deserve a space on your brand new mobile device.
App developers haven’t made that the decision easy for you. The number of choices in the App Store continues to climb upward, with developers now producing apps optimized to take advantage of the iPad’s features. Shortly after the iPad’s launch, Apple said that there were 3,500 iPad-optimized offerings in the App Store, and that number has only grown between then and now.
But not to worry. Over the past month, we’ve kept a close eye on the iPad-centric additions to the App Store–both iPhone apps updated specifically to add iPad features or standalone offerings designed solely for use on Apple’s new device. We searched across a wide spectrum of categories, from apps that help you get things done to offerings that keep you entertained. We paid special attention to apps that took advantage of the iPad’s unique features, most notably its expansive screen real estate.
The end result? A list of apps that we think are essential additions to any iPad. And after you’ve had a chance to look through our list over the next few days, we think you’ll agree.
In this installment, we’re focusing on paid apps–11 great applications in all. We’ll follow-up in part two with a list of essential iPad apps that won’t cost you a dime to download. Then, we’ll close out the week with a specific focus on iPad games. Let’s get things started.
1Password for iPad
1Password, which stores online passwords and other sensitive info, is a great addition to any Mac. The $7 iPad version from Agile Web Solutions is a worthwhile extension, syncing with your computer to let you take all that data with you–securely. As with the iPhone version, you can use the iPad app’s built-in browser to log in to secure Websites, or you can opt for a handy Safari bookmark that automatically switches to 1Password, finds the matching login info, and lets you switch back to Safari with the necessary password ready for pasting. But while the iPhone’s small screen makes browsing your confidential data less than ideal, the iPad version’s native interface is stellar–perhaps better even than the version for Mac. (The $15 version–1Password Pro–is a hybrid app that brings this functionality to all of Apple’s mobile handhelds at once.)–Dan Frakes
Air Video
Even with the highest capacity iPad, chances are you can’t load too much video into those 64GB of storage before you start running low on space. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just stream all those video files from your home Mac’s capacious hard drive? Air Video from InMethod lets you do exactly that. Install its server software on your Mac, enter the Server PIN in the $3 iPad app, and you’re ready to rock. (The hybrid app also works with the iPhone and iPod touch.) It doesn’t matter what format the original video is in: AirVideo can transcode it into an iPad-compatible file on the fly–or, if you prefer, you can queue a bunch of videos to be converted ahead of time. You can even choose which bitrates Air Video will use inside the application to optimize for slower connections, such as 3G.–Dan Moren
Read more: PCWorld.com
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June 11th, 2010 at 1:31 PM EST | by inu846W
CNET reports that Wal-Mart has confirmed that it will carry iPhone 4 in its stores as of its June 24th launch, adding another major outlet to the growing list of retailers that appear poised to be U.S. launch partners for the new device.
Walmart said Friday that it will be one of several retail outlets who will have the iPhone 4 on June 24, its first day of availability anywhere. While Walmart has carried previous versions of the iPhone, this is a first that it will be for sale in its stores on the device’s official launch day.
Electronics chain RadioShack announced earlier this week that it will be carrying iPhone 4 at launch, with pre-orders set to begin on June 15th, the same day Apple begins the pre-ordering process. Best Buy has also been claimed to be carrying iPhone 4 as of the 24th, although the company has yet to officially confirm availability and its pre-ordering policies are unknown.
Read more: MacRumors.com
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June 11th, 2010 at 9:54 AM EST | by inu846W
Those are the first thoughts I had as I began to explore Mars Globe HD for the iPad. The app is a virtual, high-resolution globe of the red planet which you can explore by using your fingers to move and magnify the image.
Read more: TUAW.com
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June 10th, 2010 at 6:35 PM EST | by inu846W
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iPad in London at the Apple Store in Regent’s St.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the security breach in AT&T Inc.’s website that exposed the email addresses of some iPad owners.
“The FBI is aware of these possible computer intrusions and has opened an investigation,” said Katherine Schweit, an FBI spokeswoman. Ms. Schweit said the FBI opened the investigation Thursday but it will not comment on what it is looking at. “It’s very early in the investigation,” she said.
AT&T, the sole U.S. provider of wireless service for the Apple Inc. tablets, acknowledged Wednesday that a security flaw in its website made it possible for iPad users’ email addresses to be exposed.
Read more: The Wall Street Journal
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June 10th, 2010 at 1:13 PM EST | by inu846W
Periodic Table of the Elements
The app nominally appears like a standard Periodic Chart of the Elements – like that huge poster in the back of our High School chemistry class. But it’s different in that instead of cramming all the information for an element into a small square you select different chemical traits and the entire chart becomes color coded to show how that trait is distributed across the chart, and how it varies with atom diameter and electron pattern.
But I think most interestingly, this demonstrates how traditionally static instructional diagrams can now be interactive, and therefore more engaging and interesting, as textbooks migrate to the iPad. It’s not just that millions of pages can now fit into a slim iPad – the pictures and diagrams themselves can come to life!
– Kevin Neelands
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June 10th, 2010 at 8:40 AM EST | by inu846W
Black hat hackers have exploited a security flaw on AT&T’s web servers which enabled them to obtain email addresses from the SIM card addresses of iPad 3G users. (Updated with statement from AT&T)
The breach, profiled in a report by Gawker, described the event as "another embarrassment" for Apple and outlined a variety of high profile individuals whose email addresses were obtained by automated script attacks on AT&T’s web server based on their iPad 3G SIM addresses (ICC ID).
The publication claimed that the identifying information meant that thousands of iPad 3G users "could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking," while also pointing out that many users have actually already published their iPad ICC ID numbers in Flickr photos. Presumably, many of them also have public email addresses and therefore already receive spam like the rest of us.
The attack on AT&T’s web servers resulted in at least 114,000 iPad 3G users’ emails being leaked to the hackers, who were coy about wether or not they were planning to enable others to access the data. The security leak, which returned a user’s email address when their ICC-ID was entered via a specially formatted HTTP request, has since been patched.
The group automated requests of the email address information for a wide swath of ICC-ID serial numbers using a script. No other information was discovered.
Read more: AppleInsider.com
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