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Posted by James Eunson | May 19, 2010
Feedler is a fairly spartan feed reader for the iPad with a nasty surprise for those expecting the free pricetag to actually mean the app is free.
Feedler is basically an iPad wrapper for your google reader account (you do have one right?) and it fulfils this function fairly well. The app is quick to load and initially asks you for your google account email and password, which I must admit, I was reluctant to give to an unknown free app from the iTMS.
My inbox hasn’t been flooded with penis enlargement and horse porn as a result… yet. To be fair, reviews on the App Store are generally negative but certainly not because of misuse of user’s Google accounts…
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Posted by James Eunson | May 18, 2010
Perched at the top of the Free Apps list in the App Store is Dizzypad HD, an unassuming and somewhat unappealing-looking game involving leapfrogs and lily pads. The reality isn’t that far from this, but it does have a certain charm. So why again is it getting so many downloads — so many as to put it at Number 1? I’m confused.
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Posted by James Eunson | May 17, 2010
UPDATE: A commenter below has revealed that this is in fact a shameless ripoff of Dice Wars from the Flash games site http://www.gamedesign.jp/. Seriously, even the board layout is identical. I guess this is a lesson in whatever you can get away with. For shame Affogato LLC!
Strategery is a Risk-like strategy game that offers you the chance to partake in some (not so) friendly world-domination and send tiny dot men to their deaths, all from the comfort of your iPad.
The name is derived from one of the 3 funny sketches from Saturday Night Live and the game has virtually nothing to do with it, other than it’s a strategy game.
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Posted by James Eunson | May 16, 2010
The biggest news overnight in the tech world is that of intrepid serial-provocateur/journalist Ryan Tate venting his spleen to Steve Jobs over the wording used in this recent advertisement. The sticking point is describing the iPad as a “revolution” and Ryan Tate appears to have taken personal issue with this, contacting Steve at his well known company email address.
It is worth noting, Ryan’s employer Gawker Media and Apple have a history, and not the good kind. For those not in the know, Gawker is the organisation currently involved in legal proceedings over shady dealings relating to one allegedly stolen iPhone next gen prototype.
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Posted by James Eunson | May 15, 2010
The Kindle app was one of the first off the blocks for the iPad, bringing with it access to the vast (500,000+ item) library of Kindle content. Unlike the iPhone, however, Kindle on the iPad has competition and probably the fiercest it is possible to have on the iPad – direct competition from the mothership itself, Apple.
Apple’s new iBooks application is debuting on the iPad and is one of the key selling points of the device. The sleek interface is front and center in the iPad marketing campaigns and rightly so – it’s downright gorgeous and just another in a long line of interfaces that set the bar.
eBook reading is also one of the most intuitive uses of the iPad, and Apple keenly knowing this has polished iBooks to a mirror finish. Quality oozes from every finely detailed user interface element and makes it a joy to use.
So how does the Kindle hold up in Apple’s newly annexed promised land? Does it still cut the mustard in 10″ of colour?
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Posted by James Eunson | May 14, 2010
The popular suite of productivity applications iWork for iPad was updated only a short while ago with minor improvements patched in for Pages, Numbers and Keynote. These includes support for new languages and better reliability for importing files from desktop versions of iWork and Office and copy and pasting between iWork for iPad applications.
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Posted by James Eunson | May 11, 2010
An unexpected but very welcome entrant on the iPad is the new Dropbox application. If you haven’t already heard of Dropbox, do yourself a favour and get an account now. Why would I recommend you get an account without even knowing anything about your computer usage habits?
Because the functionality that dropbox provides is basically universal. Everyone has files, many people use more than one computer, and would like to use those files at multiple locations.
This is the problem that Dropbox solves – painlessly syncing files between platforms and providing storage (up to 2gb for free) in the cloud. And now this functionality is on the iPad.
Read on to find out how it fares.
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