iPad App Reviews
June 25th, 2010 at 3:05 PM EST | by inu846W
Manage your farms while you’re on the move
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).
Read more: TechTree.com
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June 25th, 2010 at 1:29 PM EST | by inu846W
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).
Read more: iPadModo.com
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June 25th, 2010 at 1:13 PM EST | by inu846W
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.
Read more: MacWorld.com
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June 25th, 2010 at 8:58 AM EST | by inu846W
Sports Illustrated rode an early wave of tablet computer fever last fall, when the iPad was only a rumor. Now, the 56-year-old sports icon is rolling out its first iPad magazine issue.
Sports Illustrated’s iPad edition, released Thursday, has the same stories as the print issue, plus about 30% more content in the form of extra photos, an exclusive documentary video, a book excerpt and other bells and whistles. A story about the recent U.S. Open golf tournament includes a panoramic photo of a tricky part of the Pebble Beach golf course, along with pop-up graphics showing how five top golfers fared at those holes. While the beginning of each print edition typically has a handful of sports photos, the iPad edition adds a slideshow of a spectacular bicycle crash.
Each weekly issue costs $4.99, the same as the paper magazine. Many magazines have been selling their iPad editions at the same price as print, a trend that some people have criticized as misguided.
Read more: Wall Street Journal
App Store: Free
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June 25th, 2010 at 8:45 AM EST | by inu846W
DC Comics–home to pop culture icons Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman (and lesser-known characters like Jonah Hex and The Losers)–announced Wednesday that it would be distributing its comics digitally in a deal that resembles those of its competitors, but with some unique twists.
The publisher has partnered with ComiXology and the PlayStation Network to digitally distribute its comic books on Apple iOS devices and on all PlayStation Portable devices. ComiXology has now locked down distribution deals with more than 30 comics publishers, including the “big two” of Marvel Comics and DC, as well as Boom Studios, Image Comics, and Slave Labor Graphics.
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June 23rd, 2010 at 11:54 AM EST | by inu846W
If you’re a weather freak, or simply like to get very accurate weather information when planning your activities, there is an app that can be quite helpful for you on the App Store. Its name is Seasonality Go, and it recently launched on the App Store.
Seasonality Go provides you with a wealth of weather data that you decide how you want to view it. The app showcases a very elegant design. You will have a collection of screens each composed of weather inserts that can be arranged to form unique views of the weather. Inserts can be added, resized, and moved around on each screen, so you can see exactly what you want.
The app offers you several inserts such as 7 day forecasts, radar/satellite imagery, astronomical data, and graphs showing variables like temperature, precipitation, and cloud cover to name a few.
The app also comes bundled with over 30,000 built-in locations in over 200 countries worldwide. If you happen to be out in the middle of nowhere with no built-in locations nearby, Seasonality Go will use your iPad 3G GPS capability to pick up your location and will show you weather from the closest weather station. You can also save your current location as a favorite, and by simply tapping a button, you will quickly be able to load weather data for any of your favorite locations.
Read more: PadGadget.com
App Store: $9.99
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