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Think of Appigo’s Corkulous as a corkboard for your iPad. Corkulous tries to make it easy to organize thoughts for everything from remodeling a room to planning a birthday or coming vacation—or practically anything else you’d like to brainstorm.
Corkulous sports an array of objects—labels, post-it notes, to-dos, photos and contacts—that you can place on your virtual corkboards. To access them, you “pull” open a file cabinet in the bottom-left of the screen and drag them onto the board. You can even drag out more corkboards onto your board, so you can drill down on a topic.
Space junkies like me put their names in for Space Shuttle Launch Tweetups (and sometimes make it in!), obsessively track NASA Twitter feeds, pour over announcements for any hint that the agency might recommit to the Shuttle and more manned space missions. It can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the National Aeronautics and Space Administration does. There’s already an Apple iPhone app to help people like me stay in step. Now NASA has added a free iPad app that takes advantage of the device’s lovely large screen.
Star Fighter X2 is a brand new App Store release that actually started development way back at the 360iDev Game Jam that I attended in April. Developer Dan Byers originally began the game as a tank combat title, but with the help of some other programmers and artist Mike Berg of We Heart Games, it’s become Star Fighter X2, a two-player iPad space combat game that has you trying to shoot down real-life opponents with the help of power-ups and health drops.
Future US magazine Mac|Life comes onto the iPad this week with a special edition that buzzes with a few of the customary tablet bells and whistles but emphasizes media sharing and user interaction. The free app ($1.99 for each subsequent edition) is not a facsimile of the magazine so much as a re-engineered version of a recent iPad Handbook special issue. The animated cover and table of contents draw readers into the guts of the content, which is a compilation of 101 iPad app reviews that are of course immediately relevant to the reader. Many reviews have slide shows embedded in the thumbnail image for the reviewed app so users can swipe through multiple screenshots.
Future US and development partner B3 Publishing have recreated the reviews from the handbook but also focused on social enhancements. Every review has direct links to Twitter, posting to Facebook, an article send tool via email and a link to post a comment. The reader can see the dynamically updated rating from other users of the app as well as a live view of how many people have seen the article and voted on the app. Towards the front of the issue, Mac|Life also includes a live feed of current Twitter conversations from its own page on the micro-blog site. “Digital and mobile readers deserve more than just repurposed print content,” says Kate Byrne, vp of technology and active group, Future US in a statement. The company says that each iteration of the app will incorporate feedback and input from the last version.
Today, a Verizon-backed startup is releasing its iPad application and introducing a new functionality — digital coupon clipping.
CardStar makes mobile applications to digitally manage retailer club and membership cards. CardStar for iPad doubles as a personalized, digital circular for coupons. The app lets users discover coupons relevant to each of their stored rewards cards, clip and save them to their loyalty cards, and redeem them on their next shopping trip. Clipped coupons will automatically be deducted at the register for all applicable purchases.
At launch, Zavers, an online coupon provider, is powering CardStar’s repository of coupons, but the startup plans to work with additional third-party online coupon services moving forward. Zavers primarily issues online coupons for grocery store chains such as A&P and Superfresh on the East Coast. With the CardStar iPad app, users can add their Zavars account to browse and clip coupons with ease.
Enterprising educators have big plans for Apple’s new tablet
David Woodbury got an early hint the iPad would be a big hit among the scholarly set.
When the Apple tablet went on sale to the public last spring, Woodbury ordered 30 for the libraries at North Carolina State University in Raleigh to be available for checkout by students and faculty. Demand was immediate and widespread.
“Literally, the hour we started [lending out iPads], we had students lining up to use them,” said Woodbury, NCSU’s Learning Commons Librarian.
That popularity is likely increase this fall. Universities and schools around the nation—and even the world—are distributing iPads to students and faculty to start the new school year. Some are using the device to lure talented freshmen; others hope faculty and students will merely experiment with the tablet as a learning tool. But a few educators are betting the iPad will herald a revolution in the classroom, once-and-for-all displacing musty textbooks in favor of a mobile multimedia device that can engage students in new and innovative ways.
Brainstorming tool offers a great way to map out ideas
Future US magazine Mac|Life comes onto the iPad this week with a special edition that buzzes with a few of the customary tablet bells and whistles but emphasizes media sharing and user interaction. The free app ($1.99 for each subsequent edition) is not a facsimile of the magazine so much as a re-engineered version of a recent iPad Handbook special issue. The animated cover and table of contents draw readers into the guts of the content, which is a compilation of 101 iPad app reviews that are of course immediately relevant to the reader. Many reviews have slide shows embedded in the thumbnail image for the reviewed app so users can swipe through multiple screenshots. 
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Enterprising educators have big plans for Apple’s new tablet
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