iPad Mobile Apps
iBooks Author released: Drag and drop to create iBooks for iPad
2 weeks ago | POSTED IN iPad
If you’ve not got round to writing that book, then perhaps Apple’s iBooks Author is the motivation you need. iBooks Author, announced today, is a new Mac program that allows you to create interactive iBooks to be read on the iPad. Rather than just allow you to lay out your 700-page yarn in a manner similar to Scrivener does, iBooks Author allows you to drag an drop pictures, photo galleries, video and animated objects. Templates for layouts are included which you can follow to the...
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Sky+ iOS apps to add zeebox features, turn your iPhone and iPad into remote controls
4 weeks ago | POSTED IN iPad
Second screen viewing – i.e. Tweeting and Facebooking during TV shows – isn't something we're strangers to. Being able to share your thoughts on #towie, #HIGNFY or #sherlock as you're watching it is one of the greatest 21st century comforts currently going. But the Sky+ app for iOS ought to make having an iPhone or iPad to hand mandatory for telly watching in the future. For Sky TV subscribers anyway... According to a post over on Sky's corporate blog, a key update...
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BSkyB Sky Sports News app arrives on iPad
1 month ago | POSTED IN iPad
BSkyB is to launch its first app for its Sky Sports News channel on iPad. The app will feature all your sporting delights across Football, Rugby Union, Cricket, Golf. Tennis, F1 and Boxing. Users can view the live Sky Sports News channel direct from their iPad, in addition to viewing catch-up highlights, photo galleries and listening-in to Sky Sports News Radio. The app also features a neat customisable homepage, where fans can select up to four football teams to keep up to date with. In...
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Best iPhone Photography apps
1 month ago | POSTED IN iPad
If you’re a proud owner of an iPhone 4S, then you’ve in possession of one of the best mobile phone cameras on the market. Apple totally revamped the camera on its latest mobile phone, the new lens and sensor designed to boost low-light performance, producing fantastic results. One thing Cupertino didn’t really do was boost the feature set of the camera. Sure red-eye removal and a rule-of-thirds grid are useful, but can’t match the wealth of effects you get with Android...
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The British Journal of Photography iPad app, take 2
1 month ago | POSTED IN iPad
After ranking up 17,000 downloads with its first issue, The British Journal of Photography (BJP) has launched the second edition of its iPad app. Spread out over 350 pages, the issue covers the latest in visual trends, striking imagery, candid interviews with some of the worlds best known photographers and thought-provoking articles. The issue contains a wealth of information and reviews of the latest in photographic technology, including the Sony Alpha A77, Phase One IQ180 and Broncolor...
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Minecraft Pocket Edition finally tunnels its way to iPhone and iPad
2 months ago | POSTED IN iPad
Minecraft Pocket Edition dropped by to say hi on the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play earlier this year before hopping on over to other high-end Android phones. Now it’s iOS’s turn, with the mobile version of the hit block building game now finally available on iPhones and iPads. Costing £4.99 it’s a shade more expensive than your average game. But if you’re sold on the idea of playing Minecraft on your iPhone then it’s worth it. It plays really smoothly on our...
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Best iOS music apps: Top apps for iPad music lovers
3 months ago | POSTED IN iPad
The iPad is a great tool for music creation - see the Gorillaz album The Fall, created entirely using Apple's tablet - but for music fans wanting to listen to rather than create music, the iPad's still a stellar device. We delved into the App Store to root out the very best iPad music apps that musicians and fans owe it to themselves to download. Think we've missed something out? Let us know in the comments below. TuneIn Radio - £0.69 An impossible amount of music for a mere...
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The Guardian launches iPad app, free for three months
3 months ago | POSTED IN iPad
Following the example of The Telegraph and The Times, The Guardian has become the latest UK newspaper to make the digital leap to the iPad. If you're already an iPad subscriber to either of the other digital papers, you might wonder why you should make the switch; the answer is the three month free trial that comes with the app - plenty of time to find out for yourself. Using the app itself is a very smooth experience - the interface is very clean and uncluttered. The opening screen shows...
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Facebook for iPhone and iPad get slick new looks, Facebook Credits coming to Facebook Mobile soon
3 months ago | POSTED IN iPad
Weeks after Facebook unveiled its ambitious new Timeline design, we’re now being treated to new versions of the iPhone and iPad Facebook apps, along with a new-look version of Facebook Mobile (aka m.facebook.com). The Facebook for iPhone app does away with the 3x3 speed dial grid of old, instead moving shortcuts to things like your News Feed, Messages, Events and the like off to one side. A tap of the menu button in the top left corner pulls up a discreet grey sub menu where shortcust to...
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Richard Dawkins' Magic of Reality arrives on iPad
4 months ago | POSTED IN iPad
Fresh from baiting the world's religious communities with his atheist treatise The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins returns to spread his love of science and the natural world to a younger audience with The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True. The app, which is available now for iPad, contains the entire text of the book (which explains the hefty £10 price tag), along with a full sketchbook's worth of animated illustrations from Dave McKean. The pictures are cutesy...
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Adobe to bring 3D gaming to phones and tablets with Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 next month
4 months ago | POSTED IN iPad
3D disambiguation: When we say ‘3D gaming’ here, we mean it in the Super Mario 64 sense - i.e. 3D platformers - not a Nintendo 3DS sense. Adobe Flash Player 11 and AIR 3, due to arrive next month, promises to allow for some pretty incredible 2D and 3D titles on mobile phones and tablets. Adobe says that these new versions of Flash Player and AIR will provide “1,000 times faster rendering performance over Flash Player 10 and AIR 2,” and super-smooth 60fps animations. For...
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Google Propeller to take on Flipboard and Pulse on iPad and Android tablets?
4 months ago | POSTED IN iPad
With The Daily iPad newspaper finally arriving in the UK, Rupert Murdoch probably won’t be happy to learn that something called Google Propeller might be winging its way to the iPad and Android tablets. All Things Digital is citing “sources close to the situation” that Google Propellor is a news aggregator/reader app in a similar vein to Flipboard and Pulse. Flipboard and Pulse are both visually rich reader apps that pull stories from your favourite news sources, RSS feeds...
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Top 10 Augmented Reality Apps
4 months ago | POSTED IN iPad
Augmented Reality, AR. It means your smartphone uses visual input, and combines it with online data and overlays that onto what you see; this can mean extra geographic information, or a visual representation that adjusts depending on how you move your phone. Smartphones have only recently developed into devices with enough power to deal with augmented reality apps, and combining camera input with streaming data will still sap your battery pretty quickly. But you'll find some of the most...
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The best football apps for the 2011/2012 season
5 months ago | POSTED IN iPad
With the summer transfer window closed, many footballs fans are rubbing their hands in glee for the new season. It may have already kicked off, but there's plenty of apps to make sure you don't miss a single goal. We've also included our favourite recent games. And yes, Champ Manager is in there. ESPN Goals A free app that will customise the video content depending on your favourite team, weekly video highlights ensure you miss none of the action. You can even get goal alerts sent...
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Domino's for iPad delivers pizza straight to your door
5 months ago | POSTED IN iPad
Dominos Pizza has launched an official app for the iPad, which joins the Android and iPhone versions allowing you to order and pay for your pizza - and get it delivered straight to your door. You can even track the pizzas movements on the built-in map, select meal deals, sides, drinks and even customise your pizza to order. Naturally, there’s also a built-in store locator that requires your post-code. The best bit? All those paper-based vouchers that are blocking up your letter-box are...
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