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Given that I spread my device usage across many different platforms such as iOS, Android and yes, even BlackBerry — I find I have a few standard apps that I like to use. There is of course an exception when it comes to iOS, because I’m not overly fond of the native Twitter client on any OS but for the most part — my most used apps all revolve around productivity for me and getting things done when I really need to. Read on for my selections
Tweetbot
As mentioned, I have a real distaste for Twitter for iPhone — especially after their most recent update. With that in mind, for Tweeting on the go I make use of Tweetbot. The layout is perfect for me, and it’s nice and fast in comparison to other Twitter clients out there. I find with most Twitter clients, something is always missing. Be it push notifications, an image host or some other feature but with Tweetbot — it has everything I need, all wrapped up in a gorgeous UI.
I am a dreadfully forgetful person, and to make matters worse — I’m fully aware that I am that way. So, in an effort to better keep myself organized and remember things I use Evernote. I’ll send links, notes, images and even the occasional voice note reminder to myself. For all of these reasons, Evernote is among my top used apps — if not, my most used app aside from Tweetbot.
A lot of my life depends on the cloud, I store pics, documents, videos and music there. I’m a bit of a nut when it comes to having things backed up, given the amount of personal items I’ve lost over the years thanks to hard drive failures, SD Card failures and just hardware failures in general.
Backing things up to Dropbox has become a habit for me now, and having the comfort of being able to grab files from there when I need them is important. Also note the pattern here again — Dropbox has a client for just about any platform be it iOS, Android and most importantly, my desktop.
While there is plenty of music services out there to choose from on, being Canadian makes it difficult to find one that offers plenty of choice when it comes to music selection since big media still has their heads in the sand when it comes to licensing agreements.
For a lot of folks, Slacker is a great option but for me — it’s Rdio. The service does cost me .99 / mnth but it also allows me to stream and store for offline use music with no limits across all my devices. That includes iOS, Android and even on my desktop. No brainer for me, and a must have.
I’m pretty much a internet junkie, I spend a lot of time on the internet digging up random things. As such, I come across a lot of weird things and using Tumblr helps me keep track of things I come across but not only that, it allows me to share those things with others as well.
Plus, I’m not huge Facebook fan but keeping a ‘timeline’ of current events is something I like to do, and often times I’ll go back and look at the random things I have posted to Tumblr and remember those times. The Tumblr app for iOS is nice and simple and the service itself gives me an outlet — as I learn on Zen and Tech, it’s good to have an outlet for such things.
Apple Senior Vice President of Design, Jonathan Ive has been made a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE), in recognition of his work at Apple and contributions to the industry.
He described the honour as “absolutely thrilling” and said he was “both humbled and sincerely grateful”.
Mr Ive added: “I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.
“I discovered at an early age that all I’ve ever wanted to do is design.”
Ive was previously made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005. Known to have been one Steve Jobs‘s closest friends and co-workers, he’s been responsible for making manifest everything from the original iMac to the iPhone, MacBook Air, and iPad.
If there is one thing that is guaranteed every year, it’s that
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Unfortunately the screen is not attached to anything, and thus not functioning, which is a shame.
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Unfortunately the screen is not attached to anything, and thus not functioning, which is a shame.
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Now that 2012 is just round the corner, one thing we can start to look forward to is the iPad 3, or whatever name Apple chooses to give to the next generation iPad.
Unless there’s a drastic change to Apple’s release cycle for the iPad, we will see the iPad 3 released in the first 3-4 months of the new year – most likely in February or March I’d guess.
So this seems as good as good a time as any to share my short wish list for the iPad 3 and the iPad in 2012. My list is short because the iPad 2 is a spectacularly good tablet already. Here’s what I’d like to see in the iPad 3 and the iPad line in general in the coming year:
– An improved, retina display. Happily, I think this is just about a lock to be one of the key features of the next iPad. The iPad’s display is already superb – but a bump up to retina quality will be very welcome.
– A better, faster processor. Again, I think this is pretty much a given fortunately.
– An upgrade to 1GB of RAM. I was hoping to see this on the iPad 2, and I think it’s definitely time for this in the next gen. This would be a big boost for iPad gamers and game developers, as well as for all of us who like running a number of powerful apps of all kinds on our iPads.
If there is one thing that is guaranteed every year, it’s that
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Unfortunately the screen is not attached to anything, and thus not functioning, which is a shame.
While the screen was not powered up, that does not mean there isn’t at least one portion of the photo that should get the pulse racing – the screen pictured possess three, count ‘em, three ribbon cables. Exciting…(…) Read the rest of
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Rockmate for iPad is a music studio for the iPad. One of it’s unique features is the ability to play 4 interments at once to play with your friends. Then you can record your jams and export them as .wav or .aac files.
Rockmate is a breakthrough music creation app. It turns your iPad into a complete music studio easy and super fun to use.
You can compose, record and play songs with up to 4 Rock players on one single iPad. Rockmate is easy to play with smart chords progressions, sounds great with separated guitar effects and in-house produced audio samples and is also fully customizable with multiple drums and keyboard styles
Realistic design and animations
High-quality samples
4 players on one single iPad
Realtime looper
Smart metronome
Mixer with level and pan controls
Realtime Fx (distortion, multiFX, powerchord)
Chords progression customizable
Create your own chords
Save your styles (Chords progression, FX, Drum, keyboard style…)
Export: .wav or .aac
Sharing: iTunes sharing folder and Email.
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Rockmate is available on the iPad and on sale for the weekend for .99.
“At Verizon, we take great care to listen to our customers. Based on their input, we believe the best path forward is to encourage customers to take advantage of the best and most efficient options, eliminating the need to institute the fee at this time,” said Dan Mead, president and chief executive officer of Verizon Wireless.
They’ll no doubt try to get the money from somewhere else, but for now at least you can extinguish the torches and call off the hounds.
Steve Jobs predicted that 2011 would be the ‘Year of the Copycats’ in the tablet arena. He got that mostly right, as many potential competitors did their best to produce tablets that were very similar to the iPad.
Now that 2011 is drawing to a close, it’s clear that it would have been more accurate to call this year the Year of the Failed Copycats. All of the tablets that were touted as iPad rivals early this year have fallen flat. The Xoom’s sales have been tiny, the TouchPad was discontinued very soon after hitting the market, the Blackberry PlayBook has received horrendous reviews, seen terrible sales, and many expect it to be killed off soon.
This week CNN posted their list of the Top Ten Tech ‘Fails’ of 2011. Included on the list are ‘The Other Tablets’.
As 2011 dawned, it appeared that Apple had created a thriving new space in personal computing with its iPad.
Beginning in January at the Consumer Electronics Show, a host of competing companies stepped forward with their rival tablets. The Motorola Xoom. BlackBerry’s PlayBook. Samsung Galaxy Tab. The HP TouchPad.
