Category: iPad News

Wacky App Wednesday: Play Kick the Kitty in Hackycat

hackycatHackycat is a super fun casual game that combines cats with popular kicking pastime hacky sack. If you’re not familiar with hacky sack, it’s a game where the idea is to keep a small round plastic bead-filled bag in the air as long as possible, by kicking it up into the air.

The game uses a similar principle, but instead of kicking a ball, you’re kicking cats. Don’t worry, though – You’re not harming the poor little felines by kicking them in Hackycat, instead, you’re saving them from being blown to bits!

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iPad mini Now Officially in Stock at Apple Online Stores

iPad mini shippigAfter months of limited supplies of Apple’s newest and smallest tablet, the iPad mini is finally up to consumer demand and is available to ship immediately from Apple online stores.

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Behind the App: Open Air Publishing Founder on Creating Betterbooks and What Nonfiction Titles Need to Succeed on Tablets

Open Air Pub
Since its inception in May 2011, Open Air Publishing‘s Betterbook series has released an impressive number of spot-on how-to guides for grown-ups, including Wine Simplified and Holiday Recipes & Party Planning Guide, by Food52. Wine Simplified and Food 52′s holiday guide impressed me when I reviewed them last December, and I still apply the knowledge I gained from each digital book, as well as returning to the apps themselves, on a regular basis.

I was thrilled when Jon Feldman, Open Air’s President, Founder, and CEO, agreed to share his thoughts on what makes a Betterbook, the future of digital nonfiction, and his opinion on which company makes the most needed iOS apps.

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PadGadget Daily App Deal – 11 iPad Apps on Sale

PadGadget Daily App Deal – 11 iPad Apps on Sale  For today’s Daily Deal we’ve found 12 great apps to add to your iPad collection.  We have 5 productivity / entertainment apps and 6 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.

Check out all the sale apps after the break »

PadGadget Giveaway: Enter to Win a Musemee Notier Stylus

Musemee NotierWhile a finger works just fine for many iPad users, there are those of us who prefer the more precise tip of a stylus when tapping, clicking and drawing on the iPad.  If you fall into that category of iPad user, this giveaway is the perfect one for you.  Today we have partnered with the folks at Musemee to offer our readers a chance to win one of five silver Notier styli.

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Apple Releases iOS 6.1.2 – Fixes Exchange Issue But Unlock Bug Remains

ios6.1Apple just released a new version of iOS for its iDevices. iOS 6.1.2 fixes a serious bug that was created with iOS 6.1, causing Microsoft Exchange users to flood Exchange servers by creating a continuous loop that resynchronized recurring calendar meeting invitations.

The error, which resulted in excessive memory and CPU consumption, prompted Microsoft to recommend that administrators ban devices running iOS 6.1 from accessing Exchange servers. Apple promised an imminent fix, which it has now delivered.

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Apple Joins Growing List of Companies Recently Attacked by Hackers

AppleApple announced today that some of the computers of its employees were hacked after those workers visited a website for software developers that contained malicious software. According to Apple, the software had been designed to infect Mac computers.

To infiltrate Apple’s computers, the software used a flaw in Java, which is used as a plug-in for many browsers, including Apple’s own Safari. The same Java exploit was used to hack social networking site Facebook last Friday.

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iPad Helps Man to ‘Speak’ Again After 20 Years of Silence

Kevin Beverley iPad

When Kevin Beverley was in his mid-thirties, he was attacked and beaten in an unprovoked fight. His injuries were so severe that he was left paralyzed on the right side of his body and he hasn’t been able to speak for 20 years. Thanks to a speech app on the iPad, Beverley can now communicate with others using more than just grunts and gestures. “At last, someone can hear me,” were his first words.

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Analyst Predicts April Announcement for 5th Gen iPad

ipadandipadminiThere has been a lot of mumblings, or even grumblings, in the tech world lately that Apple is losing its edge in innovation. Along side those complaints are rumors that the iPad maker will be making an announcement within the next few months regarding watches, television sets, and developer tools for Apple TV. Today, Piper Jaffray is sticking with tradition and claiming Apple will do what they always do in the spring, which is to launch a new iPad model.

According to analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffary, “We believe that looking at the history of time between Apple product launch events suggests that the company will introduce something new in March or April.” He went on to note that the past two spring events have yielded new iPad models (its actually been three).

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