iPad By Davis: “Calendars by Readdle for iPhone and iPad review” plus 14 more |
- Calendars by Readdle for iPhone and iPad review
- Need For Speed Most Wanted heading to iPhone and iPad in the very near future
- Google+ app updated to include support for iPhone 5, now allows page owners better control
- Recall for iPhone review
- Forums: Considering insurance? Let this smashed iPhone 5 be a reminder
- Apple airs new iPod ad, Bounce
- Tonight, on the iMore show...!
- ZAGG Announces Their Thinnest, Lightest iPad Keyboards
- iMore, ADN, and the importance of different answers
- Passbook scores double-digit play for Major League Baseball
- How to grant or deny access to your location with iOS 6 privacy controls
- Microsoft Office once again reportedly on its way to iOS
- What’s on Your iPad: Tim Moore
- iPad at Work: Replacing Cash Registers at Urban Outfitters
- Deal of the Day: 45% off iGrip Charging Dock for iPhone 4S/3GS
| Calendars by Readdle for iPhone and iPad review Posted: 11 Oct 2012 01:32 AM PDT
Calendars by Readdle is an alternative to the built-in Calendar apps on the iPhone and iPad provided by Apple. I features a gorgeous interface, intuitive controls, seamless syncing with Google and iOS calendars, and more. If you find yourself commonly frustrated with Apple's Calendar apps, you'll definitely want to consider Calendars by Readdle as a replacement.
Calendars includes 5 different views: list, day, week, month, and tasks and all of the views can be used in both portrait and landscape orientation. The week view and day views are my favorite as they give a visual representation of what your days look like. When using week view while in portrait orientation, each scheduled event is represented by a colored square with the time and title. If you have more than four events in a day, a small dot will appear at the end of that day's row indicating that you can scroll the individual row to see more. In landscape, the days become the columns and the rows represent time. At the bottom of the screen, you'll find intervals of days that you can scroll though, or you can simply swipe the screen to move forward and back between weeks. Want to move an event? Simply hold your finger on it and drag it to where you want it to be. If you want it on a different week, drag it to the edge of the screen and you'll be taken to the next week (similar to moving apps between pages of your home screen). Day and month views behave similarly. The day view is very similar, only it breaks up the day into 24 rows, one fore each hour of the day.
The month view moves away from blocks to represent events, and simply lists them out in the appropriate color for each day. In portrait orientation up to three events will be listed on each day (with an ellipsis to represent if there is more) and in landscape, only two events will be display for each day, but more of the letters of the titles of the events will be visible. It doesn't matter what view you're in when it's time to add an event. You can either tap the plus sign in the upper righthand corner or simply hold your finger down in the place you want it added. In the event creation/edit screen of Calendars, you can add all the typical information: name, calendar, time, reminder, location, repetitions, etc. However, what really sets Calendars apart is its special keyboards. For example, when you create event, you are immediately taken to the Title field and the keyboard pops up -- a keyboard with an extra row. The top row includes four reminder time options: 5 min, 15 min, 1 hour, and 1 day. This makes is really easy to quickly add an event without fiddling around with different options. Another custom keyboard is for selecting the event time; instead of scrolling through dates like many apps have you do, Calendars pops up a calendar that makes date selection really quick.
One of the disadvantages to Apple's built-in Calendar apps in iOS is that you have a limited number of choices when it comes to scheduling a repeated event. For example, If you wanted to add your math class that meets during the same time on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, you can't. With Calendars by Readdle, though, you can! The good
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The bottom lineCalendars is an excellent calendar app for the iPhone and iPad. It's beautiful, intuitive, and full-featured. My only complaint is that there isn't a Mac app available to complete the trio! $6.99 - Download Now
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| Need For Speed Most Wanted heading to iPhone and iPad in the very near future Posted: 11 Oct 2012 12:56 AM PDT EA Mobile has announced that it is well on the way towards releasing Need For Speed Most Wanted for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. To show us just how near it is, EA has released a teaser video showing what to expect when it arrives. Need for Speed Most Wanted has been developed by Firemonkeys and promises stunning graphics and online gameplay.
The screenshots and video certainly make it appear that EA and Firemonkeys have a big hit on their hands. The graphics look pretty awesome to me and the fact that you can play online and compete across different platforms make this a very enticing proposition too; imagine playing a game on your iPad against someone on a PS3 or Xbox 360. All we know for now on the availability front is that it is coming in October. We will let you know as soon as it arrives in the App Store. Source: Need For Speed
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| Google+ app updated to include support for iPhone 5, now allows page owners better control Posted: 11 Oct 2012 12:36 AM PDT
If you're upset with Twitter, haven't joined ADN, are tired of Facebook or just prefer Google+ over everything else then you'll be pleased to know the folks in Mountain View, California have finally rolled out the latest update to their Google+ iOS app. In this release, you'll certainly find that iPhone 5 and iOS 6 support is now in full swing but to go along with that, there are also a few other changes Google has managed to fit in that should please users. Aside from the mentioned iPhone 5 and iOS 6 support, Google did manage to add in support for Google+ pages. Now, if you're an owner of a website or business on Google+ can now view, post and comment from mobile -- kind of crucial to be able to interact with people on the go so, nice to see it added. In additon to all of that, Google has also added a nice new search feature that allows you to find people easier and also includes the ability to search for specific posts on either the iPad or the iPhone. Overall, it's not a bad update though, there are stilll some expanded features such as Messenger that are are not on par with that of the Android version. If you're looking to check it out, the update is available now. Free - Download Now
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| Posted: 10 Oct 2012 10:25 PM PDT
There are always new movies, music, books, TV shows, and apps coming out and friends giving recommendations about the old and new. It can be hard to keep track of what blockbuster hits you wanted to see, which Indie band your friend was telling you about, and that classic book you've been meaning to pick up for ages. With Recall for iPhone, you'll never forget again! Recall lets you quickly add music, movies, tv shows, apps and books to your list and provides you with all the info you need, allowing you to get in and out of the app within seconds. If you want to be reminded on a release date, Recall will do that for you, or if you want to be reminded to download that book on the night before you travel, Recall will do that too.
The interface of Recall is nice and basic and easy to use. The default tabs are Music, Movies, Apps, and Books, but you can swap out with TV Shows, Other, or All if you wish by tapping Edit from the More tab. From the sidebar, you can choose what content appears on the tab: My Items, New Releases, or Top Charts. To add an item, simply tap the plus sign and type in the name of the movie, artist, song, app, book, author, or tv show. When you make your selection, you'll be given the Rotten Tomatoes rating, a description, and the cast, if available. Tapping on the Rotten Tomatoes rating will take you to the website or Rotten Tomatoes app if you have it installed.
If the item you searched for is currently available in iTunes, the App Store, or the iBookstore, you can head directly to appropriate store to purchase it or you can add it to you list and set up a reminder to purchase it later. If it's coming out sometime in the future, you can have Recall remind you when the release date has arrived. Although Recall is integrated with Apple's stores for purchasing, the database is not. Recall is using their own database for release dates, and since DVD and iTunes release dates are not always the same, this can be rather annoying and you'll need to set up custom reminder dates if you want to be reminded on an iTunes release date. Hopefully the developers tie in better iTunes integration in the future. The good
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The bottom lineRecall is a very beautiful and efficient way to keep track of and be reminded of movies, music, books, TV shows, and apps that you don't want to forget about. Adding items is super fast so that it's not a hassle to quickly use Recall in an situation. With Recall, you'll never forget another media recommendation again. To see Recall in action, check out the promo video below. $0.99 - Download NowRecall from Overcommitted on Vimeo. 
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| Forums: Considering insurance? Let this smashed iPhone 5 be a reminder Posted: 10 Oct 2012 06:12 PM PDT
Found an interesting article you want to share with iMore? Have a burning question about that feature you just can't figure out? There is ALWAYS more happening just a click away in the forums. You can always head over and join in the conversation, search for answers, or lend your expertise to other members of our community. You check out some of the threads below: If you're not already a member of the iMore Forums, register now! 
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| Apple airs new iPod ad, Bounce Posted: 10 Oct 2012 05:56 PM PDT Apple has aired a new iPod ad to coincide with the release of the new iPods called Bounce -- and boy is this a fun ad! It starts out with a new blue iPod touch and a finger that hits play for the song Yeah Yeah by Willy Moon. The iPod then starts bouncing to the beat, changing colors, and eventually splitting into iPod nanos who then split into iPod shuffles. All the colors are represented and it's like one big iPod dance party. Super fun! What do you think of Apple's new ad? 
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| Tonight, on the iMore show...! Posted: 10 Oct 2012 04:35 PM PDT
The iMore show returns tonight to with all the iPhone 5, iPad mini, and iOS 6 talk that's unfit to print. (Which is pretty much why we just say it out loud.) Got a question you want answered? Leave it in the comments below, send it to podcast@imore.com, or tweet it to us with #imoreshow. Got it? Good! Join us LIVE at 6pm PT, 9pm ET, 2am BST. Set an alarm. Bookmark this page. Be here. Want to go full screen? Head to iMore.com/live. Want to watch via iPhone or iPad? Grab the Ustream app and search for "mobilenations"! 
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| ZAGG Announces Their Thinnest, Lightest iPad Keyboards Posted: 10 Oct 2012 01:58 PM PDT
ZAGG have announced their latest, greatest iPad keyboards, the new ZAGGkeys Pro and ZAGGkeys Proplus. The company touts them as their thinnest, lightest keyboards yet and one of the thinnest on the market.
Other notable features of these keyboards include: – Integrated stand that's said to hold the iPad at an optimal angle for viewing and ease of use. – Island style keys and dedicated function keys for iPad 2/3 features – Bluetooth 3.0 wireless connectivity – Rechargeable built-in keyboard battery that's said to go months between charges (...) © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us
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| iMore, ADN, and the importance of different answers Posted: 10 Oct 2012 01:31 PM PDT
We've had @iMore set up on App.net for a while now but this week we flipped the switch to start posting our stories there. We're using IFTTT.com to handle the posts, and it's not a great solution. Basically it checks the iMore RSS from Twitter and then copies that over to ADN. Unfortunately that includes @replies, which I'd rather it didn't. That's part of the reason we waited -- hoping that something better would come along, like the twitterfeed.com service we use for Twitter, but nothing seems to have so far. We could have kept waiting, but because two major barriers to entry dropped last week, and APN picked up steadily, it made sense to start now. We had readers there, they wanted to get iMore content there, it's our job to provide it. We won't be abandoning @iMore on Twitter, of course. ADN is still mostly by geeks for geeks, and Twitter is still home to most of our mainstream readership. We'll just be using both. Now some of you have asked if we'll be posting the same things to APN that we post to Twitter. Yes, of course. If you're worried about that seeming duplicative, you shouldn't be. A long time ago I asked one of the smartest and best teachers I've ever met how he got to be so smart and so good at teaching. He replied that he went back and took the same classes again and again, multiple times. I asked him why, since that seemed not only redundant but boring. He said it was because each class had different people in it, and that meant different questions were asked, and that meant different answers were given. He derived so much better, broader understanding of his subject matter by listening to different people ask different questions, that he ended up very literally lapping all of his peers. I follow pretty much the same people on ADN as I do on Twitter and some of them post the same things on ADN as they do on Twitter, and that doesn't bother me at all. Because, despite that, it's different. Social is a complex system that depends a lot on conditions over time -- who sees and replies/repots what, when -- that two almost identical stones (posts) thrown into two almost identical rivers (timelines) still produce remarkably different ripples (conversations). This might annoy some people, more precisely those who believe each network should be kept pristinely unique, but as any good ZEN and TECH viewer knows, expectations aren't obligations. No one has the right to tell anyone else how to post on Twitter, ADN, or anywhere else, and if they think they do they should start satiating their corrective compulsions somewhere much closer to home. Post and let post. So, if you use both Twitter and ADN, we encourage you to follow us on both Twitter and ADN. It makes it doubly certain you won't miss anything great, and doubly likely we'll have some great conversations. And we'll keep improving the way iMore pushes to both Twitter and ADN just as much and as frequently if we can. Here's where you can find all of iMore on ADN:
And Mobile Nations editors and podcasters on ADN:
Now bring the conversation, and be sure to leave your username in the comments so @iMore can follow you back! 
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| Passbook scores double-digit play for Major League Baseball Posted: 10 Oct 2012 11:42 AM PDT
Passbook is helping Major League Baseball transition away from traditional physical tickets to digital ones. In in an initial test run with four teams in the final two weeks of the season, Passbook was used for 12% of electronic tickets, which account for over two thirds of all ticket sales. While the convenience of Passbook has delighted fans, it also seems to have struck a chord with the league as a whole. Though Passbook itself doesn't hold personal information, the apps that feed Passbook, in this case, the MLB iPhone app, do. Using the app, teams and parks can more specifically target advertising, or make specific offers to loyal fans. MLB Advance Media CEO Bob Bowman told MarketWatch:
Passbook has its share of problems, with a limited selection of apps that utilize it, or, in some areas, a lack of locations that accept electronic tickets and passes. However, with Passbook being used for about 8% of all MLB tickets just three weeks after launch, perhaps others will finally take a look and give Passbook and electronic ticketing a try. If users show enough demand, it might happen sooner, rather than later. Have you used Passbook to go to one of these games? Are you a regular Passbook user, and if so, how has your overall experience been so far? Source: MarketWatch 
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| How to grant or deny access to your location with iOS 6 privacy controls Posted: 10 Oct 2012 09:18 AM PDT
iOS 6 brings with it granular privacy controls so you can now fine tune exactly what built-in and App Store apps can access your location and share it on a pre-app basis. If you prefer not to have any apps accessing your location, you can disable location services altogether. If you don't want your favorite Twitter app to locate you, you can turn it off while still allowing your Weather app or the Camera access. How to grant or deny location access the first time you launch an appApps have to ask you to use your location the first time you use them. If you would like the app to have access to your location, choose the OK button. If you don't want the app to use your location at anytime, tap the Don't Allow button.
If you ever need to change these settings you can do so easily. How to enable or disable location services altogetherWhen you first set up iOS 6 or a new iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you'll be asked if you want to globally enable location services. You almost always want to do that, otherwise things like Maps or turn-by-turn navigation could never work, local time and weather wouldn't function, and other services would have to be set up manually or simply not used. If for some reason you later decide you want to turn off any and all access to location, you can do so at any time.
    Now no app or system service will be able to use your location. How to enable or disable location services on a per-app basisIt's almost always a better idea to leave global location on and disable any apps or services you don't want to have that access. The new iOS 6 Privacy controls let you do just that on a per-app and per-service basis.
That's it. And if you change your mind, or you find a specific service won't work without access -- for example, Instagram won't work without access to location due to geo-coded information in your photos -- you can always return to the Privacy controls and turn the appropriate app or service back on. 
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| Microsoft Office once again reportedly on its way to iOS Posted: 10 Oct 2012 08:55 AM PDT
Microsoft Office may finally be making its way to iOS. Yes. Again. This time the rumors come courtesy of a press release from Microsoft's Czech Republic team, as well as Microsoft product manager Petr Bobek. Tom Warren at The Verge got busy translating:
While Microsoft already has a number of apps for both iPhone and iPad, including OneNote and SkyDrive, most of the Office Suite has so far remained desktop-only. There have been rumors of release earlier this year, with many speculating that Office for iOS would debut with the iPad 3, but no such luck, and Microsoft denied the legitimacy of a photo of Office running on an iPad. Many other developers on the App Store have tried to make replacements for Office, and Apple themselves have released their own iWork apps, but some consumers feel that the presence of Microsoft Office is necessary for them to consider the iPad a device on which they can work. With the launch of Windows RT, Office will finally be coming to tablets, and while Microsoft hopes for the success of Windows RT tablets, and with existing online versions of Office and Outlook, it may feel that it is prudent to put their software on devices that millions of consumers already own. Still, how many tech companies would "announce" a major, transitional new product via the equivalent of a the deputy team dude in eastern Europe? Could you see Apple announcing Xcode for Windows via the lead designer in Latvaria? And they list Symbian as a supported operating system, which makes about as much sense as BlackBerry 7. Either Microsoft's marketing communications are as out of whack as their branding, or somebody's going to have some explaining to do... Any bets on which one? 
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| What’s on Your iPad: Tim Moore Posted: 10 Oct 2012 08:17 AM PDT
What's on Your iPad? A simple question but one that leads to some fascinating answers. This is another installment of our now-regular series of What's on Your iPad posts. I enjoy these a lot because I love seeing how people put their iPads to use – and I find them a great resource for discovering new apps. Today's answers are provided by Tim Moore. Tim is one of the most interesting people I follow and converse with on Google+. Here's some bio information on him:
Here are Tim's answers – questions are in regular text, Tim's answers are in block quotes: Which iPad model do you use? (original or iPad 2, Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi___33 + 3G, storage size) Any particular reasons for choosing this model?
Do you use any sort of case with the iPad? If so, which one/s and why?
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| iPad at Work: Replacing Cash Registers at Urban Outfitters Posted: 10 Oct 2012 07:37 AM PDT
Urban Outfitters, the popular retail fashion chain, is ditching cash registers and replacing them with iPads. They'll also be equipping their sales people with iPod Touches. As Business Insider reports, their CIO is bullish about the switch to iPads:.
This is another fine example of how the iPad is used as far more than just a 'consumption' device, as Microsoft always seems to want to portray it. Back in August we learned that AT&T is rolling out iPads as primary point of sale devices in their retail stores, and I see other similar reports quite often – so this now looks like something of a growing trend in retail. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us
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| Deal of the Day: 45% off iGrip Charging Dock for iPhone 4S/3GS Posted: 10 Oct 2012 07:22 AM PDT |
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