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The Gorillaz recently released their latest album, The Fall, accompanied by the announcement that the album was produced almost entirely using an iPad. While The Gorillaz did let a few traditional instruments in on the album, there have been a whole slew of artists, professional and amateur that have been showing just how far you [...]
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If you weren’t one of the lucky few who snagged Shazam back when it allowed free and unlimited tagging, you’ll be happy to know that SoundHound have updated the free version of their app to allow for just that. While the two apps do exactly the same thing – record a small snippet of music [...]
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Did you upgrade your iPad to iOS 4.2 and are now regretting it? Are you tired of waiting for a decent jailbreak to come out for 4.2? Well, I was; so last week I decided to downgrade back to 3.2.2. Read on if you’d like to do the same. Will I miss all the incredible [...]
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Now that we’ve started a new year, you probably have a lot of lofty goals set for yourself. That’s good, you’ve taken some initiative this year. Depending on what those goals are, however, you may need some help to see them through. Whether you’re looking to get in better shape physically (or mentally), straighten out [...]
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Do you use your phone to locate things or places around you? Food? Parking? How about gas stations? Geolocation services have come a long way, and while some vary depending on what you’re looking for, each of them has something unique to offer. Localscope is a “social data”-powered GPS tool unlike any other. It allows [...]
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Sendible, the social media management application, have just released an iPhone app [iTunes link], making it easy to manage your social networks on the go using your phone. The iPhone app is available for free until January 31st, after which it will only be available to Sendible members with a paid plan. Sendible makes it [...]
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For most of us iPad and iPhone users, our mobile devices become personal and business management tools for setting calendar dates, checking news and weather, storing and reading documents, browsing the web, etc. For organizing and managing daily tasks and goals, a useful task management program is nearly essential. There are many management apps to [...]
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One of the most common complaints about smartphones heard around the office is that they “do not like the touch keyboard!” Surely this is a very important concern for someone who does not like the lack of tactile feedback or is just not very adept at typing on a touchscreen while on the go. This [...]
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DailyBooth, for those of you who don’t know, is a daily photo-sharing website similar to those mentioned here and other sites like ShutterCal. We first covered the service back in early ’09, but just a couple of weeks ago Angela refreshed our memories with her article entitled How To Make The Most Out Of DailyBooth. You [...]
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Do you find yourself using your iPad for school and job related tasks and projects? We know the device can be great for reading ebooks, PDFs, brainstorming notes, and doing web related research. But I’ve discovered three new resources — a Diigo bookmarklet for annotating iPad Safari web pages, and two productivity apps — that [...]
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Last week, we asked readers “Which Is The Best Site For Stock Photos?” and found some interesting results, including the fact that most of our readers like to get stock photos for free. With 143 votes tallied, we’ve got the following breakdown: 27% MakeUseOf readers prefer to get stock photos from Flickr; 26% use iStockPhoto.com; [...]
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While you can actually log into Google Reader on your iPad, and follow all your favourite blogs and sites on the go, there is no shortage of free apps that make it much easier to stay up to date on the latest news, while some will even give you offline access. With a variety of [...]
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How far have you gone with your Christmas decorations this year? I don’t know about you, but where I live the whole neighborhood goes all out with the Christmas lights and decorations each and every December. It can be a lot of work, sure, but it’s also a lot of fun to see what everyone [...]
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Text messaging is one of those technologies that people love to hate. Or hate to love. Although text messages are ‘trivial’ in terms of data to send, providers in the United States and elsewhere charge an arm and a leg for text messaging plans (by some calculations they cost approximately $1,310 per megabyte). On the [...]
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With hundreds of thousands of apps in Apple App Store, it can a little difficult to find free awesome applications that both work as described and are not laden with advertising. Over the last week or so, I’ve downloaded a handful of practical apps fully optimized for the iPad. This is not a definitive list [...]
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