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The initial idea of this app is a great one, and the app is extremely useful for those of you who are tired of listening to the same old boring songs in your music collection. Pandora works on a similar principal as Last FM, it allows you to browse new music from a huge range of artists, and it allows you to do all of this from a mobile device; the iPad. (more…)
clickz’s Jack Marshall demonstrates the features of Gap’s branded app on Apple’s ipad tablet.
Because its large touch screen is interactive and inviting, Apple’s ipad offers media companies, game makers and other content providers a way to display material that consumers supposedly will be more likely to pay for. (April 7)
The iPad page on the Amazon site, has appeared then disappeared over the past few weeks, leading up to the April 3rd launch. Interestingly enough from yesterday the product seemed to reappear here on the Amazon site. It seems that at this stage, only the 16GB WIFI (MB292LL/A) model is available for the premium price of $689.95 .
See why reading is a joy with the ibooks app on ipad. Text looks crisp and bright on the full-color screen. Pages turn with a flip. And you can browse and buy new books from the ibookstore.
With Pages on ipad you can create beautiful documents using just your fingers. This video will show you how you can write and format documents, reports, brochures, and so much more.
Check out the youtube app for ipad and see why its more fun to browse and watch videos on the large high-resolution ipad display.
Theres nothing like viewing and sharing photos on ipad. See how the Photos app lets you browse your pictures with a flick, preview them with a pinch, and show them off in an incredible slideshow.
The Mail app in ipad gives your email a whole new look and feel. Learn how easy it is to view, compose, and send emails using the large multi-touch ipad display.
ipad is the best way to experience the web. See how the Safari app on ipad lets you view whole pages in portrait or landscape on the large multi-touch screen.
This 1800 page encyclopedia containing 12000 entries is being published first on ipad. The apps design resembles that of an authoritative hardback encyclopaedia complete with bookmarks and page creases. The app moves beyond the limits of a physical book with a full text search, an interactive body diagram, browsing history and adjustable font size.
March 24 (Bloomberg) — Nick Ciarelli, technology writer for The Daily Beast, talks with Bloomberg’s Deirdre Bolton about Amazon.com Inc. and Barnes & Noble Inc.’s possible strategy for using Apple Inc.’s new ipad tablet to boost book sales. Amazon.com, the largest online retailer, said its library of 450000 Kindle digital books will soon be available on the ipad. Barnes & Noble said it will offer e-reader software that works on the ipad as well. (Source: Bloomberg)
One of the main things that set’s the Apple iPad apart from everything else on the market and its competitors is the fact that the device is extremely portable. In fact, we think that the device is easily as portable as say a magazine or newspaper.
The devices 9.7 inch screen will provide a much better viewing experience than any Smartphone on the market at the moment. The experience should be similar in quality to that of a laptop or a net book but with one main difference. Unlike both of these devices, the Apple iPad will be truly portable weighing only a few hundred grams. Being so lightweight and thin the Apple iPad will slip nicely into the user’s hands and can instantly be picked up and used much like you would pick up a newspaper or magazine. Computers and laptops are much more cumbersome than a tablet PC or the iPad when it comes to portability and accessibility.
In the past the internet has never quite managed to beat p[publications and this is probably due to the fact that before the Smartphone was invented, there was no real way to access the internet except from a computer or laptop. With the Smartphone we saw all of this change, however publications still never really caught on with Smartphone’s, this was probably due to the small screen size on the devices meaning there was only a limited amount that could be done to make the content look good and more often than not it was just too fiddly.
So, this is where the iPad comes in. The iPad is hoping to change all of this by making publications available on the device and we can’t see any reason why this shouldn’t be the case. If the reason that viewing these publications on an electronic device before has not caught on is down to portability and screen size as we have thought, then the Apple iPad should eliminate the problem and make reading publications on the electronic device a pleasure. Of course even if this does catch on there will be many other tablet PC’s being released in the near future so the iPad will not keep its monopoly in the market but we feel that as with the iPhone, Apple will once again lead the way and set the trend for all other devices to come.
One of the main benefits of reading publications on an electronic device such as the iPad will be that it will save the world a vast amount of paper and fuel. As well as saving the environment these digital versions of the newspapers and magazines will be easily updatable, ensuring that the content the user is reading is always up to date and accurate each time the consumer uses the device.
With devices like the iPad soon to hit the market it will not be long before printed materials start to get phased out and personally we can’t wait. It is going to be a very exciting time.