You have a blog, and you know that keeping an eye on stats is important. You track visits and unique visitors, but you’ve gotten used to monitor outbound links, referrers and landing pages, because you also know that details are important. You track your Twitter followers, RSS subscribers and Vimeo play counts. Sometimes you wish you could track who follows and unfollows you every day, oh wait - you’ve installed Birdbrain on your iPhone for that. You’re a web analytics junkie. You can’t wait to wake up in the morning to see if someone on the Internet is talking about you, just to see if your latest post has turned out to be that success you expected.

Your most loved iPhone application is Ego. And now you can have it on the iPad as well.

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You know it had to happen. We’ve already reviewed Edovia’s TouchPad for the iPhone and iPod touch, but now it’s back and better than ever in high def for Apple’s very own Moses Tablet (quoting @patrickrhone). If you’ve ever wanted a touchpad the size of a dinner plate, strap in, because I’m about to blow your mind.

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Issuu, the popular website that allows you to upload any kind of document and make a magazine out of it, has been updated for the iPad.

Instead of displaying content in Flash, now there’s a fallback in HTML5 for Apple’s new device, together with a nice interface that fits the iPad screen. Take a look at the screenshot beyond the break.

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The idea of using the iPad as a tool in school is an interesting prospect. On one had the tablet form factor of the iPad allows it to be used like an open notebook - the screen is suitable for writing text and taking notes. However, Apple has nearly killed that idea without the option for a stylus, and unless you happen to love sausage or ill-reviewed Pogo Stylus, it ain’t happenin’. While we have a keyboard, what student wants to type on a virtual keyboard? My whole success to taking notes via Evernote on my laptop is because I can furiously type on my Macbook’s keyboard without ere - eyes fixated on the instructor and not on the screen. But the idea is still intriguing: how well does the iPad fair as a note taking device? For this review, I’ll be using an application called CourseNotes. Read more

I’ve been a NetNewsWire user for a long time. It’s my default RSS app on Mac OS X, and I downloaded the iPhone one with a lot of excitement the same day it was released in the App Store. Sadly, for as much as I love the Mac iteration of NNW (seriously, there’s no better app - yet) I was very disappointed by the iPhone counterpart of Brent Simmons’ app. It was slow, sluggish and, also, it didn’t look nice as I expected. I was so disappointed it that I uninstalled and never installed back again on my iPhone.

For this reason, and because I’m always hoping things may eventually change, I approached NetNewsWire for iPad with a lot of caution. I mean, it comes at 10 bucks, and it will soon go up to 15. It’s a considerable expense, and I didn’t want to be disappointed again like it happened before.
Fortunately NetNewsWire for iPad is a good application, a great first version, which I’m sure many people out there are already loving. I’ve been testing it for over a week now, let’s see what it looks like.

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Who said books on the iPad are lame? No seriously, because after this one you’ll have to fire up your credit card and buy this book in the App Store. Perhaps you’ve already heard about it in the past few days, but we’ve had the chance to put our hands on a copy of Alice for iPad, a recently released book which runs on the iPad but it’s not available in iBooks.

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Remember myPhoneDesktop? It’s that neat utility for iPhone we reviewed here that lets you share any kind of information you want from your Mac to your iPhone, using the Cloud and push notifications.

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Imagine this: it’s 5am in the morning, your wife is sleeping. But you’re awake, and you don’t want to leave the internet as you’ve got some cool conversations going on with your Twitter followers that just can’t be interrupted now, even if your wife is sleeping and you feel a little bit guilty about it. You stayed up until 5am again. Every day, every night, with the usual excuse that you have to work on your website, you decide to avoid the bed and focus on the latest stories from John Gruber instead. You know everything about iPhone multitasking. You got pissed off when that Adobe’s employee published that post against Apple, you installed iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 1 and you watched Twitter’s Chirp live streaming while having a good cup of coffee. You’re an internet guru, but that doesn’t mean you have excuses for staying up all night again, alone in the dark with your glasses shining in the light of your Macbook.

Then one day, completely enlightened, you thought that maybe, just maybe, you should find a productivity purpose for your dirty little AM secret and do something good for yourself instead of faving tweets. Perhaps you should work? No, something more intellectual. Something that requires darkness, a comfortable chair and silence: you realized you can read in those morning hours. A calm, relaxing and stress-free read you’re usually not able to have during the day because everything is too fast, too short. Read can’t happen when writing blog posts. Definitely not.

Maybe it’s time to give Instapaper another spin.

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