Welcome to another week of Ask the Expert, where we here at PadGadget answer all of your iPad questions. Last week we covered transferring DVDs to your iPad, clearing up lost space, and syncing podcasts.
This week we’re answering questions on using multiple applications at once, saving and archiving emails, and creating folders, so check after the break to get a few iPad tips or to ask a question yourself.
If you are looking for turn-based battle adventure mixed with building simulation then you’ve found the right game. Most apps are either one or the other, but now you can have your cake and eat it too with the story-driven adventure of Battle Nations.
Players are given a small army to explore land and build an outpost. Building is not the only thing that this team of soldiers must do. There are always raiders on the hunt to steal your goods and make off with your food.
You have probably seen a gorgeous photo with what looks like impossible lighting, even if you don’t know what the effect itself is called. Those HDR photos, or high dynamic range images, use an increased range between the lightest and the darkest areas of an image in order to create an photo with a more intense light effect.
Essentially, HDR photos are composite images, made up of several different pictures with different exposures that have been compiled together to create one stunning image.
With older versions of iOS, it was possible to make in-app purchases without using a password for 15 minutes after signing in to iTunes. That meant that kids who were using their parents’ iPads occasionally racked up exorbitant in-app purchase fees. For example, in late 2010, several parents were exceedingly angry when children purchased high quantities of smurfberries in the Smurfs’ Village.
For today’s Daily Deal we’ve found 10 great apps to add to your iPad collection. We have 8 productivity / entertainment apps and 2 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 83% off, a couple are even free, so be sure to check them out because they are on sale for a limited time.
Heal Them All is a new tower defense style game from Shortbreak Studios, in which players repel invading germs and viruses to save sick children. This is a game that was created in cooperation with the “Cape of Hope” foundation, which is constructing a new oncology ward in a children’s hospital in Poland.
The game, which is available as a trial version for free, donates some of the proceeds to the foundation, so not only is this a fun tower defense, it also supports a good cause. Read More »
One of the first apps I had heard of when the iPhone came out more than five years ago was Shazam. It was the app everyone used to show off how cool their new Apple product was and the amazing things it could do. A few years later, the company launched Shazam for iPad, which takes advantage of the screen’s larger landscape to offer a slick user experience. Today, the app boasts more than 300 million users across the world. To celebrate, Shazam for iPad has announced plans for an updated version with a new home screen design and improved tag interactions.
Apple’s USB Connectivity Compliance QA team is looking for a new Senior Software Quality Engineer to “lead testing efforts on our exciting iOS and iPod product line.” The Lightning connector that comes with all new iOS devices currently runs on USB 2.0 and it appears that Apple is looking to speed things up a bit.
When Apple launched the iPad mini, iPhone 5 and latest generation of iPod touch devices, the whole tech world was thrown into chaos because the 30-pin adaptor was thrown out with the bath water. The new, faster Lightning connector replaces the tire old iOS connector, but it isn’t quite fast enough. Apple may be on the hunt for technology that will allow its Lightning connector to be capable of USB 3.0’s 5Gbps speed.
C-Bot is a puzzle game for the iPad that promises to test both your reasoning and your agility. The game stars C-Bot, an adorable little white robot that is owned by Doctor Puzzle, a young scientist. C-Bot is awfully cute, and looks quite a lot like a square version of lovable Disney robot Eve, from Wall-E.
As the story goes, C-Bot was abandoned in a laboratory, which activated him. He wakes up all alone and confused in the lab. He doesn’t know who he is or where he needs to go, so it is up to you to help him escape the puzzles of the lab and discover his history.
The only thing better than keeping our readers abreast of the latest Kickstarter projects is when, as with Polk Street Press’ newest kids’ digibook, Spatter & Spark, we get to enjoy the finished product. Spatter & Spark are an artistic porcupine and an invention-loving fox, whose curiosity and friendship will delight four to six-year-old readers.
Spatter & Spark work together to solve the porcupine’s problem: he wants to paint the portrait of Hubert the baby crow, but he can’t reach the crow’s nest, and the diminutive bird is afraid to fly down to model for him. As the story unfolds, it’s Spark to the rescue as the clever fox dreams up a way to get Spatter up to mama crow’s nest.
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