ZAGGsparq battery extender for iPad If you are likely to be going on a long flight, that could be more than 10 hours long, then you might be interested in an iPad battery extender. There is a product called the ZAGGsparq 2, that will help you keep your iPad running if you’re not able to sit in the business travel area and be able to plug in your iPad. The Read More …
iPad Must Have Apps – The Essential Ones iPad must have apps, will rather depend upon what is you want to do with your iPad. It is totally dependent upon how you wish to use your iPad, or what type of user you are. Having said that, there are one or two applications that have been made for the iPad that I think every iPad user should put on to Read More …
DropBox for iPad – Have your files follow you everywhere I’m sure, I must have mentioned DropBox before, but it’s a useful service and it is well worth it to mention again. One of the best things about DropBox for iPad, in fact Dropbox wherever you use it, is that it is free. Now free is all well and good, but DropBox for iPad is incredibly useful for saving files Read More …
Backup tools – iPad Backup Software With the fact that it is built-in for us by Apple, the ability to backup the iPad without any backup tools, other than using iTunes, why would we need to go looking for iPad backup software? There are one or two backup tools for the iPad available in the Internet’s, but after looking at the webpages for the software, I wouldn’t put much faith Read More …
Using the iPad as second monitor If you are like me, then it is quite likely that you like to spread your applications on as much screen display space as possible. Even when you have a 27 inch iMac, or maybe even if you have the new Apple Thunderbolt Cinema display, the latest new large monitor from Apple, you still don’t have enough space, and would like more. Or maybe Read More …
Obvious really that the best place to start will be in the App Store in iTunes. If you check that out you will see the top iPad applications. A section for the best paid apps and another for the best free applications. I listen to a number of Mac based podcasts and I often hear recommendations. Sometimes they are they paid applications like Nebulous Notes which was recommended as being Read More …
Boxwave iPad Stylus Review Whatever Steve has against the use of a stylus with the iPad and the fact that having one is fraught with the possibility of losing it pretty quickly, there are times when a BoxWave Capacitive iPad Stylus will be just the thing you need to get the best out of a particular application. Mainly I would be talking about the drawing applications when having a pointy Read More …
In La Bisbal I did a test of speech to text recognition with Dragon Dictation I got called out on an errand today. My wife missed the bus she had to get to be able to get back home in time for me to take her to La Bisbal which is in Baix Emporda, Catalonia. Very important trip to the tax office to have the taxes sorted out for the year. Read More …
Reading books on the iPad is pretty good so long as you are not on the beach trying to read when the bright sunlight will make it nigh on impossible. For those occasions you want a Kindle or a paper book. There are other times when the iPad beats the Kindle or the paper book though, such as when you are in bed and don’t want to have a light Read More …
On of the best applications on the Mac is TextExpander. Textexpander Mac is such a time saver and I believe that Smile Software also make a version now for the poor saps that are Windows users. What they have done to make their application totally useful is to allow other applications hook into the functionality of it. So if you have Text Expander Mac on your iPad you can use Read More …