For the moment, Sobees for Facebook is the slickest way to view Facebook content on your iPad. Sobees Let’s face it: the pixel-doubled version of the current Facebook app, well, bites. I’m sure the company will give us an iPad-optimized version at some point, but until then (and possibly even after then), I’m sticking with …
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Think about some of the best movie trailers you’ve ever seen; the ones that made you sit up and say, “I gotta see that!” (For my money, they don’t get any better than the trailer for Cloverfield.) A good game trailer can have the same impact. For example, I just got my first look at Daredevil Dave: Motorcycle Stuntman! Immediate …
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The App Store is home to numerous apps that let you connect to a desktop PC from afar. Granted, navigating Windows on a screen as comparatively tiny as the iPhone’s is not a lot of fun, but it works better than you’d expect. TeamViewer brings powerful remote-access features to your iPhone, yet it doesn’t cost a dime. Indeed, I’ve used …
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Last October I conducted a simple poll: What’s your favorite iPhone Twitter app? The winner, with around 28 percent of the votes, was Tweetie 2, then a $2.99 app. Last month, Twitter acquired Tweetie, rebranded it, and dropped the price tag. The result: the official Twitter for iPhone, aka Tweetie 3.0. It just landed in the App Store with a …
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Magic Window turns your iPad into, well, a magic window, allowing you to look out on over a dozen dazzling animated scenes. Jetson Creative LLC Does your iPad pull a lot of desk duty? Does it adorn your kitchen counter or even your nightstand? Do you routinely leave it on a dock or charger? If so, you should put that …
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To paraphrase the Soup Nazi: No Wi-Fi sync for you! A couple of weeks ago we brought you the tantalizing news of an app called, simply enough, Wi-Fi Sync. Its promise: to wirelessly sync your iPhone, iPod, or iPad. Late Thursday I received word from developer Greg Hughes on the app’s sad (but not entirely unexpected) fate: Wi-Fi Sync was …
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The iPad’s onscreen keyboard hasn’t won many fans. In portrait mode, it’s a bit too narrow for touch-typing. Landscape mode is more accommodating, but if you’re holding the iPad in your hands, the keyboard’s actually a bit too wide for thumb-typing. Enter Keyboard Upgrade, a data-entry alternative. It’s a split, two-piece keyboard, one you can size and position to your …
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I love magazines. I subscribe to around a dozen of them and even started one of my own many years ago. (PalmPilot users may remember it: Tap, which later became Handheld Computing.) Unfortunately, most of the magazine content I’ve seen on my iPhone has been mediocre at best. Usually it’s poorly formatted, incomplete, out of date, and/or not of particular …
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It’s just a rumor, but wouldn’t it be great if Apple decided to stop charging for MobileMe? Apple From the Rumors We Want to Believe Dept., MacDailyNews reported Friday that “Apple is planning to make MobileMe free.” As most iPhone owners know, Apple currently charges $99 per year for the service, which keeps your data (e-mail, contacts, appointments, etc.) in …
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What is the future of newspapers? Ask any iPad owner and they’ll probably trot out their New York Times Editors’ Choice and USA Today apps–both of which deservedly earned spots on CNET’s recent roundup of top 20 free iPad apps. Ah, but what about folks who prefer a more traditional, more local newspaper experience? What option is there for those …
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