For today’s Daily Deal we’ve found 15 great apps to add to your iPad collection. We have 5 productivity / entertainment apps and 10 game apps in today’s bundle.
We used our PadGadget Apps Tracker to find these great deals and we’ll continue to look for the best app deals as they pop-up. Some of these apps are up to 67% off, several are even free, so be sure to check them out because they are on sale for a limited time.
I’m going to play a little bit of chicken vs. the egg on a recent discovery by Forbes that according to a Crittercism report, iOS apps crash more than those running on Android.
The iBooks Author 1.01 update was released today, and while the notes say that the release provides an updated version of the End User License Agreement, the update is, in total, 143.50 MB, which is a pretty good sized download.
Apple’s revised EULA now clarifies the fact that Apple has rights over the format that a book published with the software is in, not the content in the book itself. A book that uses the .ibooks formatted file can only be sold or distributed through Apple
It’s been a rough week for Samsung in what appears to be an ever-expanding legal battle. In addition to an investigation with anti-trust sentiment by the European Union, Apple has now increased the number of claims to 278 (22 patents and 10 devices).
The claims come in the Australian lawsuit that made headlines on 2011 when the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was banned for a short period of time. It is going to take some time to disseminate the nature of all 278 claims, but it is clear that many of the claims involve yet to be released devices.
I’m sure Apple’s legal department always enjoys a day that starts with a sales injunction. Earlier today Motorola Mobility was granted just such a one over G/UMTS patents that resulted in Apple having to pull their 3G-enabled devices, such as the iPhone 4 and the iPad 2 WiFi + 3G (the iPhone 4S is excluded due to the use of a different baseband chip), from being available for sale from their online store in Germany.
It didn’t take long for Apple to receive a suspension of that injunction, allowing them to place their devices back up for sale and return to business as usual.
The independent research firm Changewave released survey results that show iPad owners are happier with their purchase than their counterparts who purchased Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Of those surveyed 74 percent of iPad owners reported being “very satisfied” with their purchase as compared to 54 percent of Kindle Fire owners.
Notably, users of both tablets are more satisfied than owners of all of the other tablets combined. Of those who purchased neither the iPad or Kindle Fire, 49 percent reported being very satisfied.
Wondering what to get your significant other for Valentine’s Day? How about an iPad accessory? Today we have partnered with our friends at Nomad Brush to offer our PadGadget readers a chance to win a limited edition RED Compose brush.
We reviewed the Nomad Brush stylus last summer and liked the way it mimicked the feeling of painting. We compared it to the way “…iBooks replicates turning paper pages. It is not essential to the process of reading, but it makes the experience more enjoyable.”
We don’t have much longer to wait until Superbowl Sunday and what better game-side companion (along with a generous helping of friends, snacks and libations) than your iPad?
So who’s it gonna be, Giants or Patriots?
For today’s Daily Deal we’ve found 16 great apps to add to your iPad collection. We have 8 productivity / entertainment apps and 8 game apps in today’s bundle.
We used our PadGadget Apps Tracker to find these great deals and we’ll continue to look for the best app deals as they pop-up. Some of these apps are up to 67% off, a couple are even free, so be sure to check them out because they are on sale for a limited time.
It’s only been four months since the world was rocked with the news of Steve Jobs untimely death, and amidst wonderful tributes of all kinds from fans and admirers around the globe, one Taiwanese company has created a commercial that’s both distasteful and insulting to Jobs’ memory.
The company, Action Electronics, recently released an ad that features local Taiwanese comedian and impersonator Ah-Ken, selling the Android-based Action Pad. In the commercial, Ah-Ken is dressed as Steve Jobs, wearing his signature black turtleneck and jeans, in an Apple event setting. That’s not all, though. Ah-Ken is also decked out with wings and a halo.
Most of us can use a little extra incentive to put in some exercise time on the treadmill and for a geek the best attractor is to add a few gadgets on to it. It seems that a future version of iOS may be a little more concerned about our health and offer “new fitness technology that will encourage a more competitive spirit by allowing users to compete and share real-time performance data with other users working out at the same time, even if those users reside in different parts of the world.”
Bally Technologies is a game maker. Not a video game maker, but the company that creates the casino-management systems, slot machines, and video machines that suck up your quarters and dollars when you step foot into a casino.
The company has also introduced a number of Vegas-oriented games into the App Store over the last year, and has added four new play-for-fun titles: Cash Wizard, Golden Pharaoh, Fireball, and Betty Boop’s Love Meter, all of which are based on full-sized casino versions of slot machines.
Looking for a nice iPad bag ladies? Today we have partnered with CradleSlate to offer our readers a chance to win one of their luxuriously designed iPad bags.
We reviewed the CradleSlate bag yesterday and found it to be a stylish way for business professionals (primarily women) to protect and transport their tablet devices. If you are in the market for a high-end, high-fashion bag to carry your iPad, check out our contest after the break.
How well do you know your digital music library’s album art? Ergonomidesign, creator of Sonicspree want to make a game of it. The developers hope to port Sonicspree to the iPad from its current incarnation as a Microsoft Surface application. The app’s creators turned to Kickstarter for help to fund the creation, or re-creation, of Sonicspree for iPad, since it would allow their game to reach a much larger audience. Surface 2.0 debuted with a price tag of $8400 — that’s about the cost of 17 16GB Wi-Fi iPads, so obviously Surface isn’t going to find its way into the game rooms of the average tech shopper.
Avid, the Massachusetts-based manufacturer of high-end digital video and audio production tools such as Pro Tools, just released Avid Studio for iPad. The app, dubbed as a “Pro-sumer” tool for video editing, is Avid’s first video editing app for tablets. Currently the app is available only for the iPad.
Avid Studio is designed to help users organize their videos and photos, then edit or enhance video, add soundtracks, and share their creations on YouTube and Facebook. The app is designed to work in sync with Avid Studio for the desktop.
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