Adobe targets tablet users with Photoshop Touch and a family of new apps. Adobe doubled-down on tablets today with the announcement of six Touch mobile applications for the iPad and Android tablets, including the long-awaited Photoshop Touch app, at the Adobe Max developer’s conference in Los Angeles. The Adobe Touch Apps bring elements of the company’s high-end Creative Suite software to touch-enabled tablets for general consumers at just $9.99 each. They also serve as a way for Adobe to promote its new Creative Cloud service, which lets you store, collaborate and share your creative efforts from Adobe’s mobile apps and other software. There’s little surprising about Photoshop Touch: It’s a tablet image editor with support for layers and plenty of effects. It also packs in a feature exclusive to tablets, the Scribble Selection Tool, which lets you easily extract objects by scribbling on the screen with your fingers. The other apps serve specific purposes: Adobe Collage makes it easy to wrangle together images and text to create gorgeous collages.
Video: Padzilla Case Turns Your iPad Into An iCoffeeTable. There were quite a few thoughts running through my head when I purchased an iPad, but I can honestly say that “I wish I had an iPad as big as a coffee table” wasn’t one of them. Now, after having seen Crunchy Logistics’s Padzilla case, I can safely say it’s all I’m thinking about right now. Crunchy Logistics seems to have a thing for creating absurdly big touchscreens, a great example of which is the conference table-sized display they showed off last month. The Padzilla is their newest product, and it allows users to interact with their iPhones and iPads on a completely ridiculous scale. To call it a case is a bit of a stretch: you’re not putting the Padzilla on your iOS device so much as you’re mounting your iOS device inside the Padzilla.
The name is pretty apt, for sure: the Padzillas are custom made, and assuming you’ve got the green for it, they come in sizes as large as 150″ diagonal. 9 Presentation Apps for the iPad. Continuing our series on iPad apps for work, today we'll look at presentation tools. Presentations seem like the killer use case for business travelers that need to give presentations but don't need a full-powered laptop. Not every iPad app is capable of outputting to a projector, so even if you want to present just Web pages, you're probably going to need to download an app. Let's take a look at what's available. Keynote Many of you won't want to look much further than Keynote, especially if you already use it on your Mac. But what if you want to present something from the Web? Power Presenter Power Presenter lets you display local PDFs, websites or draw on the screen for live white boarding. 2Screens 2Screens offers all the features of Power Presenter, plus a couple of extras: the ability to use an iPhone as a remote, and it can the ability to open local Keynote and PowerPoint files.
Quickoffice Quickoffice is a full mobile office suite, complete with a presentation app. Box. News Corp, Apple building tablet-only iPad newspaper together - rumor. First Look: HootSuite for iPad. I wish I could tell you in this post that you can go to the App Store and download HootSuite for the iPad now, but I can’t. The app isn’t quite ready to leave the nest, but it could be out as early as next week (so a little bird told me).
What I can do though is give you The Next Web readers a first look at screenshots from the forth coming app. First off here are the features in the app: Bevy of iPad GoodnessGot an iPad? Like the iPhone app, the iPad app will be able to integrate with Foursquare and Facebook and manage multiple accounts. Unlike the iPhone app, you’ll be able to see and use multiple columns at once. Twitter really should have taken notice of this little detail when they made their app. Everything I see points to HootSuite on the iPad as being something you might just be able to keep open all the time on your iPad. Could tools like this make an iPad become a “second screen” (or third) that you can have open to see news and information?
Works for me. 10 Useful Apple iPad Tips and Tricks. We'd be the first to admit using Apple's iPad isn't exactly rocket science, and we will also admit that Apple is at the top of its game when it comes to easy-to-use products. But if you didn't take the time to read the owner's manual, we have some quick and neat tips and tricks that can help you get the most out of your tablet. From managing the sound levels of your tunes, to organization your apps, to muting in the case of emergency, we have 10 handy hints for you to work your way to iPad ninja status. Check out our tried and tested iPad tips, and impress your friends when they come to you for help with their iPad. Be sure to let us know if there are any shortcuts you'd like to share in the comments below. 1. Open Safari Links in a New Page Remember that you can have multiple webpages loaded in Safari simultaneously. To do this, rather than just tap the link, press and hold it until you see an option to "Open in New Page," hit this, and Safari will open a new window and load that link. 2.
Hold the front page: Financial Times on iPad does a cool £1m in ad revenue. Could it be that the iPad and its ilk are the savior of the newspaper industry? The jury’s still out but today’s news that the Financial Times’ iPad app has generated a cool £1 million in ad revenue since its launch in May does bode quite well, at least in relation to the FT itself. That figure comes from the paper’s own deputy chief executive Ben Hughes as revealed at the MediaGuardian Changing Advertising Summit (via paidContent). Now clearly Apple’s pricey (and luxury) device and the FT do make for a cosy demographic fit, but nevertheless this is ad revenue alone not income garnered from digital subscriptions, with the paper also sitting behind its own paywall. On that note, according to the report, Hughes told the summit that more than 400,000 subscribers have signed up for the iPad app and that it now accounts for 10% of the paper’s new digital subscriptions.
So one in ten new subscribers are touting Apple’s tablet. Motorola looks to launch iPad rival in early 2011 | Technology. (Crain's) — The head of Motorola Inc.'s soon-to-spin-off cell unit says the company's much-anticipated competitor to the iPad likely won't be out until early 2011. Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility, told an investor conference on Wednesday about the tablet timeline. Many analysts had expected an Android-powered device from Motorola to hit shelves at Verizon Wireless in time for the holidays. "I will only develop a tablet if it is sufficiently compelling," Mr. Jha told the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference in San Francisco, according to Agence France Presse.
"Hopefully, that is early next year. " Rival Samsung Electronics, meanwhile, said Thursday that it will launch a 7-inch tablet called the Galaxy Tab during the holidays at Verizon, AT&T Inc. and SprintNextel Corp. Motorola Mobility, which comprises the Schaumburg company’s phone and cable set-top box businesses, is set to separate from the rest of Motorola early next year. Flipboard for iPad.