the iPad Room

"Adobe has just announced its first hardware initiative, a pressure sensitive stylus and an electronic ruler that will tightly integrate with its software applications. The company's Project Mighty stylus and Napoleon ruler have been showcased connecting to an iPad and iPhone over Bluetooth. The pen works much like existing styli, but when working alongside Napoleon, the two tools can be used to create curved and angled shapes in a way that would be difficult to do with a third-party stylus. So far, the tools have only been demonstrated working with an unreleased app, which Adobe told us was created specifically for the hardware. Both Project Mighty and Napoleon appear to be small, simple pieces with an aesthetic reminiscent of the white and silver of early iPod models. The stylus has a single button, and the ruler is marked with a series of shapes that can be switched between to alter how the pen is drawing. On the iPad, Napoleon displays lines on the screen which a user can trace,... more... - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

"On-the-go Angelenos can now use smartphones to report potholes, pay their utility bills, and look up everything from nearby dog parks to police stations, thanks to a new mobile app released today by the city. The MyLA311 app can be downloaded from the Apple App and Google Play stores. "Angelenos now have a direct mobile portal to vital services and key city information," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said. "This will spur a more open and transparent government. MyLA311 puts the power of City Hall in the palm of your hand." The app utilizes the camera and GPS features of a smartphone to give residents the ability to take pictures and submit information about potholes and graffiti to the city, as well as request services such as bulky item pick up and tree trimming. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers can now use the app to pay their bills will a few taps and swipes of the fingertips. Residents and visitors alike can also use the app's Find City Info tool,... more... - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

"As a special treat on this Easter break, we've reduced the price of our BBC Earth Wonders app! Go ahead, enjoy the world's most intriguing creatures and incredible landscapes from your own iPad or iPhone." - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

"‘A History of Ireland in 100 Objects’ is free to download across the world until the end of the month as an app for smartphones and tablets or as an e-book to any computer The Royal Irish Academy, The Irish Times and the National Museum of Ireland are collaborating with the EU Presidency, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to bring you a gift of A History of Ireland in 100 objects ‘from the people of Ireland to the people of the world’ for St Patrick’s Day. When people download the app they will have everything from the axeheads and gold hoards of early Ireland, to the Book of Kells and St Patrick’s Bell, to the Intel microprocessor chip and the Eileen Gray chair at their fingertips. They will also have a map to encourage them to come and see the objects in person. The Tánaiste said, “This unique project will give people across the world the chance to download their own virtual treasury of Irish history and culture. It demonstrates how our history is shared worldwide... more... - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

This is available in e-book format as well. - Spidra Webster

"The iTunes App Store offers Lightroom 4 Retouching for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad for free. That's a $6 drop and the best price we could find for this tutorial, which teaches the basics of retouching with Lightroom 4." - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

"Scientists attached a £5 lens to the Apple iPhone using double-sized tape and, with the addition of a torch, were able to use the phone to detect intestinal worm infections in schoolchildren in rural Tanzania. Pictures of stool samples were taken with the phone and studied for the presence of eggs – the main sign of the parasite. When the results were compared with a laboratory microscope, the iPhone pictures picked up 70 per cent of the infections. The study was published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr Isaac Bogoch, specialist in internal medicine at Toronto General Hospital, said he had read about trial of smartphone microscopes in laboratories and wanted to “recreate it in a real world setting”. Related Articles Apple in extraordinary attack on Samsung ahead of Galaxy S4 launch 14 Mar 2013 Boy runs-up £1,000 bill buying virtual doughnuts on iPad 13 Mar 2013 Apple to lose dominant position in tablet market 12 Mar 2013 iPad sales to be overtaken by... more... - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

"The first edition of Apps for Democracy yielded 47 web, iPhone and Facebook apps in 30 days - a $2,300,000 value to the city at a cost of $50,000 (all apps created are here). Our mission with "Community Edition" is two fold: to engage the populace of Washington, DC to ask for their input into the problems and ideas they have that can be addressed with technology and then to build the best community platform for submitting 311 service requests to the city. Submit your ideas and problems here!" - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

"Got a great song in your head but don’t have time to make sheet music? The new ScoreCleaner Notes app will let you sing, play an instrument or even whistle the song and the app will translate your song into musical notation. Our sibling blog Social Times has more, including a cello test of the software: After 20 years of research on music cognition, folk musician Sven Ahlbäck, who teaches at the The Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and bass player Sven Emtell, who studied computer science at The Royal Academy of Technology, have built a practical tool for songwriting. The DoReMIR Music Research team currently sells the ScoreCleaner Notes music notation app for $0.99 in the App Store." - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

"AP)—You may not be a disease detective, but now you can play one at home. The nation's public health agency has released a free app for the iPad called "Solve the Outbreak." It allows users to run through fictional outbreaks and make decisions: Do you quarantine the village? Talk to people who are sick? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the app was designed in-house and wouldn't give an estimate for development costs. The agency says it is using social media to educate the public about diseases and to promote an appreciation for public health work. The app went live this week. More information: CDC app: content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/USCDC-6d0654" - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

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"Get a bird's-eye view of the entire history of math, including the explosion of discoveries in recent times. See the rich interplay of ideas between contemporary mathematicians, culture and history. Step through the entire timeline, one object at a time. Discover each mathematician through a high-resolution portrait, detailed personal biography, achievements, related artifacts and links to online information resources. Explore more than 500 high-resolution images of artifacts selected and painstakingly retouched from the original Mathematica exhibit. View a fully navigable, ultra high-resolution version of the original Men of Modern Mathematics poster that has been proudly displayed in mathematics departments and classrooms around the world. Watch nine original Eames educational films, experiencing these master educators' genius at making complex topics easy to understand." - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

"The iPad is a marvelous tool for musicians. There’s a huge quantity of apps for performers; unfortunately, they’re all mixed in with apps for playing music, so they can be hard to find. This is my personal list of favorite musical tools. These are the ones that I use often, once a day at least or more. forScore by MSG Development. This app lets you display PDF files. I use it for holding the chord charts that we use in my church music group. It can access files stored in Dropbox and it lets you annotate those documents. For example, if we decide we need to use a capo on a song, I can write that on the chord chart and it will show up the next time I view it. In addition, it lets me resize and crop documents so that they’re easier to read. AudioBus by A Tasty Pixel. This app is nothing short of miraculous. It lets you link together the audio inputs and outputs of other compliant apps into a seamless whole. See audiob.us for a list of the apps that support it (there are a ton of them).... more... - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

"The iTunes App Store offers downloads of 1Password for iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad for $8.99. That's a $9 drop and the lowest price we could find for this secure, password-storing app, although we saw a previous version for a buck less last month. Also available is 1Password for Mac for $24.99. That's a $25 drop, $3 under our Cyber Monday mention, and another low." - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

"As a reader discovered, the Apple Store has downloads of nine Orca MD Medical Apps for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad (SpineDecide pictured) for free. Each is $5 off and the best deal we've seen for these apps. Hotness: New!" - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

As might be expected if anything medical, these are not small apps so set aside some time for downloading. - Spidra Webster

"Today only, the iTunes App Store offers the File Manager Pro for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad for free. That's a $5 drop and the lowest price we could find for this document manager app." - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

"The iTunes App Store offers downloads of Fuelly's GasTracker + for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad for free. That's a $2 drop and the lowest price we could find for this vehicle fuel efficiency calculator app." - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

i know nothing about any of them so i present the search link https://www.google.com/search... - chaz2b

Thanks, Rodfather! That ended up being something that would work for his purposes. - Spidra Webster

"The iTunes App Store offers downloads of Skyfire Web Browser for iPhone and iPod touch for 99 cents. That's a $2 drop and tied with our March mention as the best price we've seen for this Flash-enabled browser. Update: Headline adjusted" - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

It's a pretty nice app for getting around Flash limitations on iOS. - Spidra Webster

"!! Free Campaign to Mark Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday !! View, create, edit and share Microsoft Office documents on your iPhone or iPad. Smart Office makes creating, editing and sharing Microsoft Office and other documents on the move even easier through a contextual interface, drag and drop editing and sharing to email in original or PDF format and sharing to Drop box or Google Docs. PRINTING included! No need to buy a separate Printer app. You can print to thousands of wireless printers from 34 manufacturers including HP, Epson, Canon and Samsung. However, not all printers or network configurations are compatible. CLOUD FILE ACCESS! Download your files directly from Dropbox and Google Docs. Manage files using Picsel’s Visual Explorer file manager. See thumbnails of your document in the Timeline view and helpful information in Document Info View. The Smart Office 2 Dashboard is your new hub for mobile office activity. Our benchmark viewing technology means you can view Adobe... more... - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

"The iTunes App Store offers downloads of several apps for Apple iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad for free, as listed below. At up to $5 off, each is the best deal we've seen. The deals: Hairy Balls for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad: Puzzle game Armorslays 2 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad: Action game ZOOKEEPER DX Touch Edition for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad: Puzzle game IQ Mission for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad: Brain-training tool Peterson Birds of North America for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad: Birding tool Aerox for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad: Accelerometer-based puzzle game Listo for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad: List-making tool" - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

The Peterson Birds app is free right now. - Spidra Webster

But people have since told me that that was wrong, that you *don't* need net access to read a Kindle book. Which is it? Is it that you initially need a net connection just so the book can "call home"? - Spidra Webster

The only restrictions on internet/downloading I've seen have been from the library books I've downloaded, since they have some restrictions on how you get it to the device (of which there are several variations, for the most added confusion.) Some of those did require that Wi-Fi be on. - Jennifer Dittrich

"The iTunes App Store offers downloads of Hurricane by American Red Cross for iPhone and iPod touch for free. That's the best deal we've seen for this app. It allows you to monitor hurricane-related weather conditions, send an “I’m Safe” alert to family and friends, find open Red Cross shelters, and more. Of note, Google Play also has it for free for Android." - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

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"The iTunes App Store offers Audubon Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians for Apple iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad for 99 cents. That's a $4 drop and the lowest price we could find for this lizard identification app. It'll allow you to answer the question "I wonder what kind of of lizard that is?" (even though you should be asking, "Why are there so many of them in my laundry bag?!") Deal ends October 24. Hotness: New!" - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

"We keep hearing about a wi-fi bug that leads to iPhone 5 owners racking up huge data bills when they thought they weren’t on the mobile data network. When Matt contacted Verizon about it, the ever-helpful customer service representative told him that it was just because the iPhone 5 is a 4G LTE device. This is probably the cause of many data complaints that new smartphone users have, but isn’t the case for Matt. He says that he hasn’t changed his browsing habits: using the same amount of data in a shorter amount of time doesn’t mean that he uses more data. At least, not according to the math that everyone except Verizon uses. I just got off of the phone with Verizon customer service having called them because my iPhone 5 data usage in the first 22 days of the month is way over my highest ever full month usage on the iPhone 4s. They tried to give me the “since its 4g it uses more data quicker” nonsense. I said you still have to use the data and I haven’t changed my habits a bit. I... more... - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

yeni aldım ama yüklediğim mp3 ler çalmıyor kandırıldıkmı me anlamadım :) - Barış Zinn

"Here’s a bad morning if you’re a Taiwanese general: you open your morning newspaper, and you find a map of your brand new TOP SECRET $1.2 billion radar facility. Even worse, the map is a screenshot of Apple’s new iOS mapping software, which means there are millions of people with access to satellite images of a classified military facility. And it’s not like the facility is a minor, unimportant building. According to PhysOrg: The Hsinchu base houses a cutting-edge long-range radar procured from the United States in 2003. Construction of the radar is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The ultra-high-frequency radar, supplied by US defence group Raytheon, is capable of detecting missiles launched as far away as Xinjiang in China’s northwest, military officials say. They say the radar, which cost $1.23 billion, is designed to give Taiwan minutes of extra warning in case of a Chinese missile attack. Well, one thing’s for sure: If China didn’t know where the facility was... more... - Spidra Webster from Bookmarklet

Like some of the commenters on that article, I find it hard to believe China doesn't already know where stuff like that is. Don't they have spy satellites and spy planes? - Andrew C (✓)

I'd imagine there are other folks besides China who might be interested in where things are, like protesters. - Spidra Webster