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New iPad multitasking gestures are not so hot with a toddler.
When iOS 5.0.1 came out my original iPad got new multitasking gestures. I was excited because now I could use four or five-finger gestures to swipe up and reveal the multitasking bar, pinch to return to the Home screen, and swipe left or right to switch between apps.
As I was testing them out I was finding it a bit difficult at first. However when Lily took ahold of the iPad, she had no problems; and that was a problem.
She’s be playing her piano app and use her whole hand to hit all the keys; which then registered as a five-finger gesture. Before we knew it, her piano app was gone and she was now in Facebook, or Mail, or whatever else I had open.
Turn your iPad or iPhone into a weather radio.
I’ve been looking to get a new weather radio and I found a really good, and cheap, one that happens to be an iOS app.
NOAA Weather Radio is an iPhone and iPad app that lets you listen to over 160 weather radio stations from all around the country and even a few in Canada.
The app also has current weather conditions, radar and forecast.
If you setup your location, it’ll alert you via push notifications when there are severe alerts in your area. Just like a normal weather radio, it’ll make the weather radio warning sound too.
Spent $0.99 on Bird Zapper for iPad and it’s awesome.
I don’t usually impulse buy games for my iPad, but when I saw Bird Zapper the other day, something made me download it and I’m glad I did.
Bird Zapper has fantastic graphics, good game play and it keeps me wanting to play more. Basically you use your finger to connect three or more like birds and zap them. There are plenty of combos and bonuses and it just hooks ya.
If you’ve got an iPad or iPhone I think you should check it out. For $0.99 it’s a heck of a lot of fun.
Life on just the iPad doesn’t work for me.
Well I made it though a week without my iMac. How did I do? Well…. not so good.
I was doing fine for a few days. Granted it helped that Lily was sick and I had to sleep with her a few nights and that took away from my computer time.
However I found it difficult to live just on the iPad.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the iPad and think it’s a great machine. But it lacks advanced controls that you get on your computer and multitasking is pretty much non-existent.
Can I survive a week with only the iPad?
My iMac is currently in temporary storage. We were to get our carpets cleaned today, now it’s not until next Monday. So instead of moving everything back, it’s staying in storage. That means that my desk and iMac are not available to me.
Ok, they could be if I really wanted. But I thought it might be fun to see if I could survive a week without my main computer. Instead of an iMac, I have my iPad.
Saying Goodbye Remember The Milk Pro
A year ago I decided to try Remember the Milk Pro, however this year, I have decided that it’s not for me.
I was trying to replace Toodledo with Remember The Milk. RTM has a nicer interface, seems simpler, a lot of people rave about it and it just felt like a good move.
A Pro account is $25/year and it includes apps for Android, iPhone, Outlook, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and an option to see new features before others. My main reason for upgrading was for the iPhone app.
What are you asking Mac Santa for this year?
What kind of cool Mac gifts are on your Christmas wish list this year?
I’m hoping to get iLife 11 as it’ll be a nice upgrade from my iLife 08. I’d like iWork 11 as well, but that’s not out just yet.
I’m also hoping Santa brings me an Apple iPad case. I love my iPad but lack a decent case.
And maybe a set of composite AV cables. I hear good things about people being able to project videos and photos on the TV and I’m thinking maybe I’d like to do that.
Friendly is a Multi-User Facebook iPad App
Chances are, if you have an iPad, it’s used by more than one person in your household. And those other people probably have Facebook accounts too.
Instead of logging in and out, download Friendly.
Friendly is an iPad Facebook app that allows for multiple accounts. When you startup the app, it’ll ask you which account you want to use. It also has user switching built into the app if you need to switch while using the app.
There are other features too like an iPad optimized interface, full screen photo presentation, Facebook chat and all the Facebook features.
Does The iPad Have To Worry About Screen Burn?
I hardly ever think about screen burn anymore. The idea of leaving one image on my computer screen for so long that it starts to burn the image into it forever doesn’t seem like it would happen. That’s what the screen saver or sleep mode is for anyway.
But what about my iPad?
Most of the time, I wouldn’t even think of my iPad getting screen burn. However, some apps are designed to be on all the time and I’ve started running some of them for hours.
My iPad has a sound issue much like the iPhone antenna issue.
Remember when people were complaining that the iPhone 4 had reception issues? Of course you do, it wasn’t that long ago.
Well it turns out, that if you put your finger over the antenna, then the signal strength dropped.
Guess what? The iPad has the same design flaw, only with sound!
You see, I was playing music on my iPad while surfing the internet the other day when my sound quality dropped. I couldn’t belive it. My seriously cool iPad sounded like crap.
Turns out, that if you put your hand over the speaker, then the sound quality drops.
