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The Feed, Immersive RSS App for iPad

At this point, I guess you know I’m a huge Reeder fan. I use the app on my iPad on a daily basis, I fire up the iPhone version when I’m on the go and I was lucky enough to be accepted into the private Reeder for Mac alpha. Reeder has become my RSS app of choice, and I haven’t been able to switch to any other alternative since I tried the iPhone client last year. Yes, it’s that good. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t tried companion apps to Reeder.

Reeder is meant for RSS power consumption. Being based on folders and feeds navigation, Reeder isn’t meant for those people who want to sit down, pull out the iPad and start reading immediately. You have to do something to find your way through the feeds waiting for you in Google Reader. And that’s ok for me: Reeder is great Google Reader client. But what if we had the chance to have an Instapaper for Google Reader? An app that allows you to lean back, and just read? No folders, no menus, no navigation - just a flow of articles and text. Read more

Sleeve360: iPad Case With Hand Strap Mode

The guys at ThinkFast have been working on a very cool case for iPad that, among other functionalities, will enable you to use the tablet in “hand strap mode”. Thanks to a 360° spinning pivot attached to the back of the device through a case, the Sleeve360 will allow you to have the screen always at your fingertips and rotate it in any direction you want. Read more

World Without Photoshop: Neat PS Book for iPad

Created by photographer Dan Marcolina, “World Without Photoshop” is an app for iPad designed using Adobe’ InDesign publishing tools, and it focuses on showcasing the techniques and processes used by Photoshop “artists and masters”.

From the app’s description:

Now 20 years old, Adobe® Photoshop® software has changed image editing forever. Can you imagine a world without Photoshop? Over the next twelve chapters you can see for yourself what some of the best digital artists work looks like without the software. Then with the touch of your finger The World Without Photoshop is transformed and you can see and hear the imaginations of these artists come to life in their work. Pinch and zoom into over 48 works by artists, illustrators, designers, and photographers and get their insights into how twenty years of Photoshop innovation have changed their world.

Honestly, we can’t imagine a Photoshop-free world. And since I can’t imagine a world without iPad either, you’ll get the best of both worlds with this cool app / book / book app.

World Without Photoshop is available for free here. [via John Nack]

Yahoo’s iPad-optimized Homepage Doesn’t Look Bad

Oh, Yahoo. What are you, exactly? What have you become? No one really knows for sure. Are you “the guys behind Flickr”? Are you a news website? A mail platform? Many say Yahoo! lacks an identity. Maybe they do.

But anyway, the iPad-optimized homepage they recently launched isn’t that bad. Available at yahoo.com/tablet, it displays Yahoo’s sites in a sidebar and featured articles to flick through with your fingers on top.

Not bad at all.

Murdoch: Tablet-only Publication Is Exciting, Coming Soon

The iPad was meant to save the publishing industry. When Steve Jobs unveiled the device last January, no one was surprised to see the New York Times demoing an iPad-only app – we all knew that if the rumors were true, if Apple was really working on a tablet, then it must be aimed at the publishing industry. Among things.

After that, all major newspapers and publications rushed to have iPad applications out in the App Store, and now they’re carrying those same apps over to Samsung’s Galaxy Tab. Most of those apps aren’t exactly “great”, some of them are well-realized and will even follow the website counterpart to adopt a subscription-based model (see the New York Times). Read more

Real Racing HD Updated with iOS 4.2 Support and Online Multiplayer via Game Center

Award-winning game Real Racing (well, at least the iPhone version) received a major update today: owners of the iPad version are now able to start online multiplayer sessions thanks to Game Center built into the update. Multiplayer supports up to 4 players, and you can invite friends to play also via Game Center.

As many other apps these days, Real Racing HD has also been updated to support iOS 4.2: it basically supports persistent state now, so you’ll be able to quickly pause and resume when switching between apps.

Real Racing HD is available at $9.99 here. Check out the full changelog below. Read more

HootSuite Official iPad App Now Available

HootSuite, the online service to manage multiple social networks in one single place, released its first official iPad app a few minutes ago in the App Store. The app is free and available here.

HootSuite for iPad features all the options and functionalities iPhone users have been able to enjoy for almost a year now, but it sports a native interface for the tablet that takes advantage of the larger screen to display multiple “columns” at once, so you can keep track of your Twitter messages and mentions without having to switch between different views, for example.

The app currently supports Twitter accounts (lists and searches are included), Facebook profiles and pages, Foursquare checkins and, of course, HootSuite’s own URL shortening and analytics system ow.ly. Read more

Kinect, OS X and iPad Come Together In Futuristic Cubes

As if being able to display Kinect’s captured images on OS X wasn’t enough, the solid community behind Kinect’s incredible hacks managed to manipulate the data recorded by Kinect and output everything on OS X using cool futuristic cubes (a system called Box Cloud). These neon cubes may vary in size according to the distance of the subject from the camera – it’s overall a pretty cool thing to look at.

But modders and hackers took the whole concept a step further and allowed iPad users to control “planes of interest” using their multitouch tablet. With the iPad you can change the colors visualized on screen, adjust zoom by tilting the device. Somehow, it all comes together in the video below.

It’s only hacking, but we like it. [via Engadget] Read more

Wired iPad App Stable at 32,000 Copies Sold Per Issue

I’m no big fan of the official Wired app for iPad, mainly because I can’t stand all these similar magazine applications based on the same engine that doesn’t let you select and copy text and basically doesn’t let you get information out of the app. Sharing options are limited, scrolling feels weird sometimes – or at least not native – and, overall, they all feel the same. I recognize that the Wired iPad app, though, is one of the most successful magazine apps in the App Store.

As The Next Web reports, the app is now selling 32,000 copies per issues on average:

Wired’s iPad sales figures have remained almost secret since launch, only coming to light at certain times of the year. Last month we reported that the Wired app sold 31,000 and 28,000 copies in July and August respectively, a significant dip since launch. Wired isn’t worried though, sales have progressively increased as iPad penetration grows, meaning that the Wired iPad app has levelled off to a figure of about 32,000 per issue, around 39% of print sales.

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