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Apple working through the weekend

Saturday brought the release of the iPad (to US customers in the US), and to make sure customers have apps to fill their iPads Apple has been busy approving apps. Between Saturday and Sunday the special iPad app pages in iTunes have grown. From a handful of apps to three New and Noteworthy pages with 51 iPad apps at last count. There basically two types of apps appearing for the iPad: apps that do stuff and apps that provide content. Make no mistake, the iPad is a device that we didn't know we wanted and there are many things it will do we may not have thought of—unless you follow science fiction and a device like the iPad appeared in a distant future. The iPad is both a device to fit between your laptop (or netbook) and mobile phone, and a platform to sell us content (the content being apps that will do stuff and apps that provide us with stuff).

April 4, 2010 Category tags: News

Previous news

Sims 3 spin off apps begin

WolframAlpha updated for iPad

MapQuest brings free turn-by-turn navigation to the iPhone

Bant app provides diabetes monitoring

Groupon brought to your iPhone

Opera Mini and Digg for the iPhone

London’s bike hire scheme gets its own app

Learn the piano with Etude on your iPhone

Latest app deal

Free apps

Ultimate Hangman
Atlantis Sky Patrol
pMessenger (Multi-phone messenger with push notification)
Knockem
iNverted
HeX
Frotz (Interactive fiction)

April 9, 2010

Reviews

Cassette+

Remember the days when your life was simpler and tapes ruled the music world? Well relive those times when your biggest decision was what songs should you add to your mix tape to tell him/her how you really feel!

March 23, 2012 Category tags: Music,Review

TomTom US & Canada

What makes a good sat-nav, the hardware or the software? Well for the most part the two have been tied together, but basically without the software (which can be updated and improved) the hardware is limited. Bring on the iPhone, one of the best mobile devices and pair it with TomTom, the essential consumer-based navigation software. Sure it's expensive, but it's absolutely worth every penny. For the money you get the car cradle that turns your iPhone into a sat-nav; try turning your sat-nav into an mp3 player, or internet-device, or phone, or video-player. And on its' merits as an application, TomTom excels. On one of the first road trips using it, the app was able to quickly and effectively plot several alternative routes around a huge traffic jam. Not being late and avoiding 2-hours stuck in stand-still traffic was well worth it.

TomTom US & Canada is the essential navigation app for Canadian drivers and although TomTom does not sell a standalone Canadian version, unless you never drive in the US, having the US maps is still helpful. Of course there's always, TomTom Canada & Alaska

View the app in iTunes

Also see: TomTom USAreview (View the app in iTunes)

March 16, 2010 Category tags: Navigation

TomTom USA

View the app in iTunes

Also see: TomTom US & Canada (View the app in iTunes)

March 15, 2010 Category tags: Navigation

Sleep cycle alarm

Sleep Cycle Alarm (Get it from iTunes // Appsrated [rating:3.5/5]) is an alarm with intelligence. Using the iPhone's sensors to measure the movements you make while you sleep, Sleep Cycle wakes you when you are in the lightest sleep phase. You set the alarm with the optimal wake time then lay the iPhone face down on your bed (so you need to keep the phone plugged in or with a full charge). You are woken up within a 30-minute window of your alarm time when Sleep Cycle thinks you are not in deep sleep so as not to jar you awake.

February 20, 2010 Category tags: Review

RedLaser: the barcode scanning app

RedLaser (get on iTunes) is a barcode scanning app that allows you to scan a product in a store and look up it's price. The genius behind this application is the technology that has made up for the iPhone camera's short-comings, namely auto-focus.

February 13, 2010 Category tags: Productivity,Review,Utilities

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