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Get Great Deals on Wine and Doorstep Delivery with Lot18 Wine for iPad – iPad App Review

By | October 15, 2012 | No comment yet
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Is your state among the many that now allow wine shipments to come direct to your door? As a New York resident who enjoys California wine, I was almost unconsolable when my favorite online source closed up shop earlier this year. Could Lot18 Wine be just what I was looking for? This free, universal iOS app is an offshoot of the popular website of the same name. Lot18 Wine looks to be for wine what Gilt is to shopping; namely a service that offers a limited amount of a quality product at a modest discount.

While discount rates vary, the average markdown on Lot18 was around 30 percent, which is enough to generate a reasonable savings on wine over the long-term. While I haven’t ordered any wine from Lot18 (yet), the iPad app offered a clean UI that was enjoyable to use.

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IK Multimedia Finally Release DJ Rig for iPad and Its Better Than Ever — iPad App Review

By | October 15, 2012 | No comment yet
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IK Multimedia is the darling of the iOS music accessory market. The company is best known for the iPad/iPhone guitar connector, the iRig. However, the iRig Mic is one of the most popular iOS-compatible microphones, Slash has shown love for the company’s AmpliTube app, and the iRig MIX is the only physical mixing board for deejays made specifically for the iPad.

In March of this year, IK Multimedia released DJ Rig, a top-quality iPhone deejay-mixing app. Unfortunately, the app was not optimized for the iPad. Finally, a few weeks ago, the music company released DJ Rig for iPad and the app is everything it should be on a screen more befitting of such full-featured technology.

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Spiderweb Software Brings More Old School RPG Goodness to the iPad with Avernum 6 HD – iPad Game Review

By | October 14, 2012 | No comment yet
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If you’re not familiar with Spiderweb Software, the company is behind a series of fantastic indie roleplaying games, including Avadon: The Black Fortress HD and Avernum: Escape From The Pit HD.

Avernum 6 HD is Spiderweb’s Software’s latest release, and it is every bit as enjoyable as the first two games in the series. In this epic roleplaying adventure, players will once again travel into the familiar land of Avernum, which is ripe with dungeons, labyrinths, quests, and endless battles.

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Sketchbook Ink Takes The Busyness Out Of Your Sketch Work – iPad App Review

By | October 12, 2012 | No comment yet
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There is nothing more important to an artist than his sketchbook. Page after page of scribbles, doodles and inspiration keep the creativity flowing and a sketchbook facilitates the process. Sometimes, all you want is a pen and a piece of paper to get your ideas down. Sketchbook Ink offers just that. Just a few pen options and a handful of ink colors and you’re on your way to sketching out what will inevitably be your masterpiece. But, you’ve got to start somewhere, right?

The app opens on a blank canvas. Simply pick an ink style and color and start drawing. There are seven different styles, ranging from ballpoint to felt tip, each with different line weights and behaviors. You can fine-tune the width of the line by adjusting the slider at the bottom of the screen for ultrathin or super fat lines.

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E.T. The Green Planet Finds a Home in the App Store- iPad App Review

By | October 12, 2012 | No comment yet
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Thirty years ago, I sat in a dark theater with a bucket of popcorn, a bag of Reese’s Pieces and a soda that was bigger than my head. I giggled at the bug-eyed alien on the screen, screamed with fright at the invasion of the Federal agents, and cried when E.T. left Elliot behind to go back to his home world. Like others from my generation, “E.T. The Extra Terrestrial” was one of the most important movies of our lives. Three decades later, the adventure lives on with Chillingo’s newest simulation game, E.T. The Green Planet.

Players are whisked away to E.T.’s home world of The Green Planet where they help the friendly alien to plant, grow and nurture exotic plants. Based on simulation gameplay, you will be tending to Monshoo, breeding Beeperbeans, and harvesting Mud Fountains until E.T.’s world is full of life.

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Need For Speed Most Wanted Coming to iPhone and iPad Soon

By | October 11, 2012 | 1 comment
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Lately, there have been some great classic games added to the App Store. Crazy Taxi just hit the street today and now we are getting word that Electronic Arts is working with the Firemonkeys to bring Need For Speed: Most Wanted to an iPad near you.

According to the Need for Speed blog, Fire Monkeys are hard at work developing a mobile version of the driving game for Android and iOS. The game will “cherry-pick the best moments from Most Wanted and crowbar them onto everybody’s favorite touch and tilt devices.”

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Have Fun With Your Photos Using Pencil Camera HD – iPad App Review

By | October 11, 2012 | No comment yet
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Pencil Camera HDWith a camera in the iPad worth using for picture-taking, apps that let you manipulate the resulting images keep popping up and Pencil Camera HD is one that you may want to take a look at. The idea is simple: turn photographs and videos (whether taken from your camera roll or recorded from directly within the app) into sketches automatically. Of course, there are filters aplenty and a few other settings like brightness, contrast and contour that let you customize just how your artwork looks in the end.

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Enjoy (and even buy) Art on the iPad with artCircles

By | October 10, 2012 | No comment yet
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When Twyla Tharp said, “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home,” she probably wasn’t referring to artCircles, the free iPad app from Art.com — yeah, that’s right the people who sold you posters for your dorm room just made an iPad app, and it’s impressive.

In partnership with Hot Studio, Art.com created an app that will make the user feel (sort of) like a gallerina while lounging at home with this tricked-out art app.

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New FileMaker App Bundle Brings Easier Business App Building for iOS Devices

By | October 10, 2012 | No comment yet
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If your business is looking for a way to create a custom iOS app, FileMaker may have just what you need. The business tech company recently announced the release of a product bundle that will let you save big on your first year of service through their Filemaker iOS Custom App Starter Bundle.

The business bundle includes software program FileMaker Pro 12 Advanced, which allows you to create professional apps customized to solve business tasks. The framework provides built-in iOS themes, stencils, starter solutions and the ability to incorporate a wide range of data views, searching, sorting and more.

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Great Word Games for your iPad

By | October 10, 2012 | No comment yet
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There are a lot of fun word games in the App Store. Some of the most popular apps are in that genre. Practically everyone knows about Words With Friends, Scrabble and W.E.L.D.E.R. so we are going to talk about some of the less popular, but still fantastic games that are based on the art of language.

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