Apple announced today that they have extended their iWorks Suite of productivity Apps beyond the iPad to now include support for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Originally created for the Mac and then released for the iPad earlier last year, this family of apps gives you the power of a world class word processor, the ability to create spreadsheets as well as the ability to develop beautiful presentations – now on any iOS device.
In observation of Memorial Day, we’ve compiled a list of apps related to the U.S. Military. Some apps focus on war history. Some are specific to a branch of the military. All are a reminder of the men and women who serve and have served this country throughout the decades.
GroupLogic has created a new Mobile File Management (MFM) software package for the iPad called mobilEcho. This brings enterprise level access to file servers to your wireless device, eliminating the need for workarounds like having to e-mail documents or use third-party cloud storage services.
The interface is reminiscent of the Windows file explorer many of you are used to.
Part of PadGadget’s continuing series Get Cooking with iPad
Appetites differs from most other cooking apps because it’s powered by food bloggers, who are, after all, just regular folks who really love to cook. These D.I.Y. foodies may not be classically trained, but they are never callow, for if they lack any particular skills (or refuse to wear gloves while chopping a habanero chili), they remedy any holes in their backgrounds with enthusiasm and determination.
With Appetites the number of chefs seems not too spoil, but rather enhances, the user experience. Appetites includes a broad range of recipes from starters to desserts. A recent update eliminated the requirement to purchase 30 additional recipes in-app for 0.99 each and introduced several new bloggers into the mix.
The news are flying all over the Internet that the iTunes App Store has reached the 500,000 app milestone. It has been 34 months since the App Store started accepting submissions from developers and late Monday night the last batch of iPhone, iPod and iPad apps were pushed through to bring Apple above this nice, round 6-figure number.
It is expected that Apple will make a formal announcement at their Worldwide Developers Conference in June, coming on the heels of Internet-wide celebrations and excitement.
For those of you who love to race, Death Rally brings a real contender to the table with a single-player, career-mode style game.
You start with a basic car and gun, but as you play, you collect spare parts and cash in order to upgrade your ride, your weapon and to meet various challenges. As you play, check how you rate against other players in the Game Center leaderboards and achievements.
Pictorial HD is an educational game that purports to improve your spatial reasoning skills. Spatial reasoning is a skill in which you can identify patterns and imagining transformed objects, particularly those needing rotation or observation from a different point of view. It is often used in determining IQ as well as exercising your brain for mathematics, physics and computer science.
The backers at Kickstarter have already approved Taposé, an unusual iPad app that was inspired by the defunct Microsoft Courier Tablet. According to its developers, Taposé brings the dual screen interface, which made Microsoft’s Courier so intriguing, to the iPad, and will allow users to interact with multiple devices simultaneously. Wow. Backers seem to agree because the project now has over 250% of its funding goal to date.
Taposé’s defining feature is its movable center bar that divides the iPad screen into two segments, but also acts as a temporary holder for images or sticky notes. Users can drag and drop from Safari, drag addresses into Maps, or names and phone numbers into Mail. The app’s design resembles a physical book that lets users draw within its pages as well as choose customized covers. Taposé will also support font formatting, free draw, an eraser, highlighter, sticky notes, image insertion, and list creation within the app.
The tagline for Next! states that ‘It’s a good day to be productive’ and I think that’s a good mantra for us all.
This app intends to be a ‘one-stop-shop’, allowing you to manage projects, take notes and store documents in a central location. The three core functions of the app are:
Actions – Encourages you to break down the things you need to do. You can assign specific or generic dates to each item, allowing you to prioritize. You can leave items in your ‘inbox’ that you haven’t decided how to approach, which can be a nice feature when you know you have a task that needs to be done but you haven’t fully contemplated it yet. As well, you can assign tasks a due date of ‘someday’ for those things that are more abstract or perhaps less important and therefore don’t need a true targeted due date.
PBS Kids has always offered a wide-range of television shows for the pre-school set. Now, with the new PBS Kids iPad app, Elmo is always as close as the nearest WiFi (or 3G) connection. Even the youngest children have a good reason to get their cute, stubby fingers all over the iPad, thanks to this new app developed just for them.
The app is designed to be child-safe. Kids can stream more than 1000 videos from its selection of TV shows including The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That, Dinosaur Train, Super WHY!, Sesame Street and Word Girl. It will add new videos each week, including a “weekly pick” designed to cover educational content areas such as reading, math, and science. You can also browse playlists from each show. I watched a clip from Sesame Street of Jude Law defining the word “cling.” (Sometimes I really love my job!)
Today’s Contest App is Political Fury: Primary 2012 Edition from Super Boise. We reviewed Political Fury earlier this week and said its head-to-head trivia was very addictive. The developer also informed us that they’ve updated their servers and game play is now much faster.
If you’re at all interested in testing your political know-how then give this fun app a try.
We have 10 copies of Political Fury: Primary 2012 Edition to give out and entering the contest is easy!
TripList is one of those apps that you never knew you always needed. Whether you travel frequently or not at all often, there are numerous features that come in handy.
This app boasts a very simple user interface, and it does deliver. It is very simple to create trips and assign packing lists to each. There is an included list of 160 items that are most packed by individuals, but you can also add your own. You can also customize each item by categorizing it and assigning a quantity.
Children’s app developer Duck Duck Moose has some of the most popular educational apps in the App Store and to celebrate their recent win of three 2011 Parents’ Choice Awards, they’ve partnered with us on this promo code contest.
Young children will enjoy a ride with Wheels on the Bus, explore a farm with Old MacDonald, practice addition and subtraction with Park Math and more. You can download these educational apps for $1.99 each in the App Store or you can enter our contest and win a free promo code. We have 23 codes to give away and entering our contest is easy! Just follow the directions below and maybe you’ll be a winner.
The story between Apple and Time Inc. started a bit rough last year when both companies were battling over iPad magazine subscriptions. Time has always been trying to roll-out a subscription program for its Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Time magazines, but Apple prevented the New-York based company from moving forward by implementing its own iTunes subscriptions plan.
However, after months of negotiations and debates, Time Inc. has finally agreed with Apple to allow print magazine subscribers to access the company’s iPad editions for free.
Brought to us by See Here Studios and author/illustrator/composer Valerie Mih, The Three Pandas Animated Storybook brings the three bears story to you with a twist — with pandas! The traditional story of the three little bears is mirrored with a bamboo forest, bamboo porridge and a ‘Goldilocks’ named Mei Mei.
The app gives you the option of having the book read to you or reading it yourself. You can also choose whether to auto-play, which reads the book to you without any interaction required on your part. If you choose to read it yourself, you can even record your voice doing so.
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