CourseNotes for iPad Updated – Adds Further Sharing Features and More

by patrickj September 6, 2010

CourseNotes – the iPad app that’s touted as a ‘a student’s class companion’, has recently been updated to Version 2.0.  New in Version 2.0 are the following items: • Added online export of notes, for viewing, sharing or printing notes online • Added in-app viewing of friends’ shared notes • Added support for bullet list [...]

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Fighting Irish Football Fan? There’s an iPad App for That

by patrickj September 6, 2010

Catch all of the excitement of the 2010 Notre Dame college football season — wherever you are! The Notre Dame Central app delivers all the best University of Notre Dame college football coverage from NBC Sports. Get live scores and video on your iPad! Good news and bad news for fans of Notre Dame football.  [...]

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iPad at Work – at Lloyds of London

by patrickj September 6, 2010

Apple’s iPad has broken into yet another enterprise sector, this time the insurance industry with internationally-known insurer, Lloyds, working with brokers to test use of the Apple device in its underwriting room. The trial began this month and will see iPads used instead of the more traditional underwriting slips. Brokers, Marsh, Cooper Gay and RK [...]

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Recommended: GigaOM’s Odds for Success for Latest iPad Competitors

by patrickj September 5, 2010

Kevin C. Tofel has a great post up at the GigaOM site where he provides odds for the success of three of the latest, greatest iPad rivals.  Success is very relative in this case – with it being defined as selling one million units this year (against predictions of over 12 million iPads sold this [...]

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Lovely iPad Rumor of the Week: Video Calling Already Being Tested on Next Gen iPad

by patrickj September 5, 2010

That’s an iPad testing next-gen firmware in the field and those settings are for video call debugging. You may recall iPhone 4 field-test devices having a similar menu. Not a huge shocker by any means.  Now that the latest iPod Touch has two cameras and Face Time, it seems more obvious than ever that these [...]

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Apple Producing Twice as Many iPads per Month, and Looking to Step it Up Further

by patrickj September 5, 2010

Apple has doubled its monthly output capacity of the iPad and is now manufacturing 2 million per month to meet strong consumer demand, but the company reportedly would like to go even further and produce 3 million every month very soon. Analyst Katy Huberty with Morgan Stanley indicated that iPad builds recently increased to 2 [...]

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iPad in Education: as the Only Textbook Students Need for Course at Notre Dame

by patrickj September 4, 2010

The University of Notre Dame‘s yearlong study of eReaders in academics is starting the school year with a bang — a course that will use the iPad as the only textbook students need. The course is entitled Project Management, and each of the 40 students enrolled will be given an iPad to use in lieu of [...]

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Pony or iPad. Choose.

by patrickj September 4, 2010

Gizmodo has some drummed-up explanation for why this pint-sized horse is in an Apple store.  I’m not buying it.  I’m going with somebody brought it in there to give their kiddo a straight-up choice: pony or iPad. If I was a kid, I’d go with pony – and just plan to grab hold of my [...]

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Featured iPad Accessory: The Crucial Case

by patrickj September 4, 2010

The Crucial Case for iPad might well claim that versatile is its middle name.  It’s described as a ‘5 in 1’ accessory for the iPad, as it offers: Detachable head rest mount for in car viewing Food tray mount for plane travel Rugged, easy to use, adjustable kick stand Hand strap for grip free use [...]

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Make Your Photos Look Like Oil Paintings with this iPad App

by patrickj September 3, 2010

PhotoArtistaHD – Oil is one of those apps that is just pure fun, with a little bit of wow factor thrown in for good measure.  It’s got a simple and fun purpose: … portraiture & fine art app that turns a photo “alla prima” (at once) into an oil painting masterpiece with no work on [...]

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My New Favorite iPad Wallaper – Landscape 01

by patrickj September 3, 2010

This is actually a wallpaper made for the iPhone, but for me it works beautifully on the iPad as well.  It’s called simply Landscape 01 and it’s by Paul Isabella.  I spotted it via the RSS feed from the superb Poolga.com site. I generally use more striking (or personal) images for lock screen wallpapers, while [...]

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