Monday, August 30, 2010

iPad: Traveling Cold Turkey - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

She was braver than I've been (so far!)
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/iPad-Traveling-Cold/26089/


Characters live to be noticed. People with character notice how they live. ~Nancy Moser

Friday, August 27, 2010

Incredible...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OLP4nbAVA4

Portrait painting from the iPad in high speed.

- john

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

15+ Incredibly Useful iPhone Tips and Tricks

Ok these work on iPad too, except the iOS 4 ones. Those will have to wait for the next upgrade.

http://iphone.appstorm.net/how-to/utilities-how-to/15-incredibly-useful-iphone-tips-and-tricks/


- John

Sent from my iPad

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

iAnnotate PDF

Elaine found this program that I've started playing with which lets me edit, markup and manipulate pdf documents. iAnnotate PDF is $9.99, so I'll let you know how it works...

Check out this beautiful World Heritage Site photo!

Okay gang, discovered this cool, free photography app that I thought I would share. Not just photos, but links to maps, articles, and more...



Amazing photo of Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu.


I discovered it on Fotopedia Heritage, a free iPhone and iPad app, and I thought you'd like it. Get ready for an endless visual journey across all the UNESCO World Heritage Sites!


- John

Sent from my iPad

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Wikipedia

Hi all, I have been using WikiPanion Plus for awhile now, and I may have even written an entry about this already. In any case, it seems to be the best iPad app out there for access to WikiPedia. Allows you to quickly search any topic in the Wikipedia database, and presents it in a very readable, newspaper like format. There is the main text, as well as links to related articles. In addition, photos can be viewed full screen and can lead to slide shows.

It also gives you the ability to save pages to your iPad, so that you can read them offline later, in case you will be at a location without WiFi.

You can read up more about WikiPanion Plus here: http://www.wikipanion.net/index.html?ipad

Or just go to the App Store. I think it's $2.99 or $4.99.

The second wikipedia-type app that I just downloaded (FREE) is called Discover, by Cooliris. Cooliris are the folks that created the slick way of viewing photos on a web page. In any case, they created this nice app that connects to Wikipedia in a creative way. The app presents a new topic as the front page each day, so if you are just wanting to have something to read, with no particular topic in mind, this is a great resource. You can choose to read that topic for the day, or you can swipe the screen from top to bottom and get a search bar. From there, you can search wikipedia for any existing topic.

As you can tell, Discover is designed differently. Not quite as encyclopedic in presentation, more artistic and creative.

Happy reading.

- john

Monday, August 2, 2010

Jane has joined the ranks!

Whoohoo! Faiysal and Thirza just gave me an iPad. I love it and am trying to figure it all out!
Sent from my iPad

BookARC

For thos who want a good way to prop their iPads in portrait or landscape... You have to take it out of the case, though.