Category Archives: iPad

Don’t Run With a Plasma Sword Upgraded to Version 1.1.1

Program:    Don’t Run With a Plasma Sword Cost:  Currently Free! Publisher: XperimentalZ Games URL:     http://www.xperimentalzgames.com/ Don’t Run With a Plasma Sword (DRWAPS for short )is a high paced action game in which you are out to save the world from the alien invaders.  You jump, slide, dive and run through the levels, gathering stars, killing [...]

Is Microsoft Office Suite for the iPad Really Here?

A photo on the Daily, a news site covering a variety of topics, claims to be the next generation Microsoft Office Suite for the iPad.  While not all that far fetched since One Note was released for the iPad, the fact that Microsoft would want to go beyond the On Live concept with their iPad [...]

Twitter App for iOS Updated

Twitter has updated their App for iOS to version 4.1.   The new version moves the App in line with the direction the website has been moving in recent months, adding more functionality including: Swipe shortcut Copy and paste for tweets and profiles Press and hold actions on links in tweet details Font size settings Direct [...]

An A.P.P.L.E. Review: AirServer — Play Videos from iPad to TV

Program:   AirServer Mac Cost:          $7.99 Platform:  Mac OS X 10.7.3 System:     Mac Mini URL:          http://www.airserverapp.com This month’s review is one of the more useful utilities we have found in a while.  Not exactly new or the latest and greatest, however, the App does what it claims to do and we figured this one deserved a [...]

A Public Sneak Peek At Messages from Mac OS X Mountain Lion

While the preparations for Apple’s next major OS upgrade have gone on quietly for some time now, the way Apple is treating its latest addition to the Apps of Mac OS X is anything but quiet.   Messages is Apple’s new app which allows users to “send messages to any Macintosh, iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch.” [...]

New Inexpensive Solution For iOS Retro Gamers – iCade 8-Bitty

ThinkGeek now has a new item in their store which will fit right into those hands of the retro gamers.  The new 8-Bitty is a wireless hand controller which has Nintendo Entertainment System style D-Pad controls and multiple buttons for those games requiring more than the usual A or B button.  The item was announced [...]

Don’t Download Pinball Arcade — Waste of time unless you like ads and sluggishness

Program: Pinball Arcade Version: 1.0.8 Size: 17.5 MB Language: English Seller: FarSight Studios URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pinball-arcade-free/id497189134?mt=8 After months of being hyped by many in the media, the biggest bust of the year must be Pinball Arcade by Farsight Studios.  I was totally looking forward to playing some of the pinball games from over the years that [...]

Piracy is a good thing? Rovio seems to think so.

While there are many agencies and groups which take a hard line against any kind of piracy, including the SBA, RIAA, amond others, there seems to be one company now that actually thinks it is a good thing to some extent. Rovio, the maker of the popular game Angry Birds seems to be taking a [...]

Jumsoft Releases Book Palette for iBooks Author

Jumsoft has released Book Palette, a package which adds 10 book templates to iBooks Author.  The package also allows you to change and modify the templates to give the effects that you need in your books.  It also allows you to save your modified templates, thus making it easier to create your documents with uniformity [...]

Apple Releases iBooks Author 1.0.1 to Address EULA Issue

Apple has updated iBooks Author, updating the End User License Agreement, getting even more specific about what can or cannot be sold when producing content with the application.  In the original EULA, Apple had said that “If you charge a fee for any book or other work you generate using this software (a ‘Work’), you [...]