Alice for the iPad. eTextbooks for iPad and iPhone. A Review of iPad Apps for Children's Books. Must-Have iPad Apps For Professionals - Forbes.com. Top 50 iPhone apps for moms — best money-savers and shopping tips. About a week after I began using my iPhone, I was in love. I had a calendar with me at all times, and I was able to stay on top of my family's schedule - even though there are six of us! I had email access while I was out, so I wasn't constantly playing catch up with PTO business in the evening. And then I discovered apps! With these programs, I could track my baby's feeding schedule, my family's illnesses, and my attempts at exercise. And there were apps that could help keep my children entertained and educated! My iPhone was quickly becoming a vital tool that made my busy mom life more manageable. In January 2009 I began a website, The iPhone Mom, dedicated to helping moms find apps that could do the same for them. Babble.com asked me to put together a list of my Top 50 iPhone Apps for Moms.
--Heather Leister. Essential IPad Apps: 11 Paid Favorites - PCWorld Business Center. Your iPad decisions don't stop once you've settled on either the 3G iPad or the Wi-Fi-only model. There's also the not-insignificant question of what apps deserve a space on your brand new mobile device. App developers haven't made that the decision easy for you. The number of choices in the App Store continues to climb upward, with developers now producing apps optimized to take advantage of the iPad's features. Shortly after the iPad's launch, Apple said that there were 3,500 iPad-optimized offerings in the App Store, and that number has only grown between then and now.
But not to worry. The end result? In this installment, we're focusing on paid apps--11 great applications in all. 1Password for iPad 1Password, which stores online passwords and other sensitive info, is a great addition to any Mac. Air Video Even with the highest capacity iPad, chances are you can't load too much video into those 64GB of storage before you start running low on space. At Bat 2010 for iPad GoodReader Layers. Essential iPad apps: Nine free favorites | Mobile | iPhone Central. Our look at iPad apps that deserve a place on your device started out with the best apps money can buy—11 essential iPad offerings that are among our favorite additions to the App Store.
But you don’t always have to part with a lot of dough to equip your iPad with great mobile software. As with life, sometimes the best things in the App Store can be had for free. In this second installment of our Essential Apps countdown, we turn the spotlight on nine great iPad programs that won’t cost you a dime to download. As with the paid apps, we looked across a wide variety of categories—entertainment, social networking, productivity, the works—for a diverse sampling of apps that we feel deliver an experience that’s unique to the iPad. So enjoy our list, bargain hunters. ABC Player Your favorite ABC programs are never more than a tap away with ABC Player, a free app from ABC Digital ( ) that streams the network’s TV programs to your iPad on demand with limited commercial interruption.
Kayak Flights. Tech Tools: iPad Goes to the Head of the Class. iPad | The iPhone Mom. Giveaway - Lenovo ThinkCentre A70z All-in-one PC! Beginning iPad Application Development - New Tech Books. S Essential iPad Apps - Best ipad apps - Gizmodo. iPad app pricing: A last act of insanity by delusional content c. Looking at the iPad app rollout, you can easily separate the digital wheat from the chaff in the content industries, and you can see those who are developing digital businesses and those who are trying to protect print margins and who see the iPad as a vertical, closed model to control and monetise content. There are those who believe that they sell content and that they should be compensated for it. Just as with the music industry, they couch this in terms of repaying content creators, when it really is more about wistfulness for the days of double-digit profit margins.
Those who view their primary business as selling content believe that not only can they charge for it but that they can actually charge the same or more for it, just because it is on the iPad. Time, for example, is charging $4.99 a week for their iPad ‘magazine’. Scott Karp, CEO of Publish2 and editor of Publishing2.0, put it as clearly as it needs to be put on Twitter: What do you get for $4.99 a week? Like this: WSJ iPad subscription officially $17.29 per month -- is Murdoch. The App Store Now Has Over 3,000 iPad Apps, Only 20 Percent Are. With iPad app frenzy in full force, the App Store is growing by the minute as iPad apps are being approved. Early this morning, Mobile ad exchange Mobclix tallied the number of apps and the breakdown between paid and free apps in the store.
According to Mobclix, there are a total of 3,122 iPad apps in the store (keep in mind, these numbers could have changed slightly in the past few hours). As of Thursday evening, there were 2300 iPad apps available for download. Currently, 80 percent of iPad apps in the store are paid apps, coming in at 2523 apps total. Only 599 of the apps are free, representing 20 percent of all apps. In terms of overall app numbers, games still rule; 942 of the 3,000 plus apps are games, with 804 of these apps being paid apps and 138 being free. While iPad apps may not be easy on your wallet, Apple’s iPhone app store’s breakdown of free vs. paid apps are similar. Netflix streaming, ABC, and 1,348 more iPad approved apps reveal.
Look, we're not sure what appadvice is using to back its claims, but it's been pumping out supposed iPad app leaks for a few weeks now with screenshots and videos that tell a convincing story. Now they've linked us to a host of new iPad apps with Netflix and ABC player being two of the most notable. The free Neflix app is said to be launching along side Apple's slate on April 3rd letting Netflix subscribers browse and manage their queues. More importantly, it will also allow subscribers to stream Netflix's online collection of videos. Of course, if this is true then we expect to see a Netflix app land for the iPhone and iPod touch as well in adherence to Reed Hastings' previous comments. There's also a free ABC app tipped for April 3rd giving iPad owners WiFi access to full episodes of shows like Lost and Grey's Anatomy. Update: Looks like these apps are coming straight from Apple's app database since AppShopper is also showing Netflix and ABC Player iPad apps.
[Thanks, Sean M.] Comments. E-Books on the iPad: iBooks vs. Kindle for iPad. Ever since Steve Jobs first announced iBooks for the iPad, pundits have been wondering about the future of the Kindle and similar e-book readers in the face of this new competition. Now that we actually have access to an iPad, we had a chance to take a closer look at both the iBooks and Amazon's Kindle for iPad apps.
We are still waiting for the B&N iPad app, but both iBooks and iPad for Kindle already highlight the iPad's potential as an e-book reader. iBooks It doesn't come as a surprise that Apple managed to develop the prettier e-reader app. Flipping the iPad to landscape mode switches iBooks from displaying on page per screen to a more book-like two-page view. With regards to customization, iBooks allows its users to change the size of the font, but also the font itself (Baskerville, Cochin, Palatino, Times New Roman and Verdana).
Another neat feature is the search function that feels a lot like Spotlight on OSX. The iBooks app can also read DRM-free ePub texts. iBooks Store. iBooks app now available on iTunes store | Apple. The Essential iPad Apps. iPad apps: utilities you need. Utilities are the vegetables of the software world -- not fun, rarely pretty, but gosh darnit, they're good for you. Whether they're checking that your new TV has been mounted square on the wall, crunching your numbers, getting you up in the morning, or keeping track of your mad ramblings in the middle of the night, these little bundles of binary joy can save your job (or your marriage) every time an iPad game almost destroys it. We've taken a close look at a few of the utilities available to iPad owners in the first volley of native, high-resolution apps for the platform and come away with a few winners -- and even better, some of these suckers come at absolutely no cost to you.
Follow the break for the full rundown -- and don't forget to check the rest of our app roundups after you're done! Compass HD (free for a limited time) - Did you know there's a magnetic compass inside the iPad? Ruler App XL ($0.99) - It's exactly what you think it is. Useless? Comments. A tale of two screens image - iPhone vs. iPad: 20 games side by. Apple unveils iPad, details gaming potential. Easily the worst kept secret in recent months, Apple today officially confirmed the existence of their upcoming tablet device, the iPad.
And while the device looks as though it has the potential to revolutionize a number of daily tasks and concepts, Apple made sure to showcase the iPad's gaming potential. The device itself seems to have a number of hardware specifications that should make it conducive to gaming. A large 9.7 inch display, 10 hour battery life, and Apple's own 1GHz A4 chip which, according to Steve Jobs, "screams," set the stage for Apple's next attempt at expansion into the world of gaming. A number of the iPad's other features, including multi-touch surface, accelerometer, microphone, sound strikingly similar to the iPhone's. The technical details on how they pull this off are fairly simple. But the iPad as a gaming device won't rely on iPhone apps alone. In fact, iPad development should prove no more difficult than iPod development for budding game designers. Is the iPad the future of portable gaming? - Games.
Seemingly tailor-made for puzzle games, racing simulations and arcade amusements, Apple’s iPhone has quickly become a major player in the portable gaming market. But even with a staggering 30,000-plus downloadable diversions from “Dragon’s Lair” to “Flight Control” available, the device is about to face its stiffest competition yet. Enter Apple’s own iPad, a tablet PC with 9.7-inch touchscreen display, wireless broadband connectivity and enough horsepower to directly compete with technically advanced gaming laptops. Still, one vital question remains unanswered: How the device plays with gamers themselves?
The answer promises to define whether the iPad will prompt another gold rush for developers poised to shower enthusiasts with gaming riches (as Apple portends), or whether we’re still years off from striking the proverbial motherlode. Video: iPad games on the way Still, Taylor suspects that most major PC and console developers won’t dive in immediately, though. . © 2013 msnbc.com. Facebook's iPhone App-Maker Is "Angry" About Apple's New SDK. Top iPad Apps for Offline Use. The iPad is at its best when you’re online, but what if a Wi-Fi hotspot isn’t available? Sure, you can still read iBooks, play most games, compose (but not send) e-mails, and use iWork, but what about apps? Many of the apps you might think will only work online will actually work just fine without a connection– provided you open them at least once before leaving a Wi-Fi coverage zone.
So before hopping on the subway in the morning, load up each of these apps and then catch up on news and have some fun during your commute. Instapaper Pro – $4.99 Reuters News Pro – Free Evernote – Free Adobe Ideas – Free One of the advantages of the iPad’s expansive and responsive screen is the ability to “finger-paint” on the screen with ease. Photogene for iPad – $3.99 Like Adobe Ideas, you have the option of sending your creations via e-mail, but Photogene also lets you specify a photo’s resolution and then upload it to Twitter or Facebook when you are back online. Recommended by. Top 10 Apple iPad Apps to Watch.