Posts tagged with "iPad"

Elements 1.1: New UI and Improved Usability

Elements is the best Dropbox-powered text editor currently available in the App Store, and the latest 1.1 update, which was approved earlier today, brings many improvements and fixes users have been asking for since the first release of the app.

A new UI, if you were not a fan of the previous “marble-like” one, with subtle navigation bars and backgrounds. Elements now comes with full-text search for your documents stored in Dropbox, so you’ll be able to either enter a title or some text and start searching. You can also rename and delete files, sort them by modified date or title.

Last, lots of fixes and “under the hood” improvements. Elements is still available at $4.99 in the App Store, and the 1.1 version is more recommended than ever. Check out the full press release and screenshots below. Read more

The New Yorker iPad App Launches

The New Yorker, an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry published by Condé Nast, was released today for iPad. Read the editors’ note about the app.

What’s cool: A video with Jason Schwartzman (directed by Roman Coppola) demonstrating the app, and the use of the Digital Magazine Solution from Adobe. What’s not cool - $5 an issue; a printed subscription is way cheaper. Demo video after the break. Read more

Gourmet Live and Rewarding Experiences→

Gourmet Live and Rewarding Experiences

Gourmet Live is something new, and interesting, and I’m excited that Gourmet Live is doing so well — as I write this, it’s the #1 iPad Lifestyle app in the store, and just below the Top 10 for free apps overall. But I’m far more proud of the ideas that inform and inspire it, because while the app is just in its very first version, the ideas are deep enough to support Gourmet Live evolving into something truly fantastic. So I thought I’d offer a little peek behind the scenes, because I think it represents something new, and it’s gonna take a ton of insight from a bigger community to help it reach its potential.

As John Gruber reminds us, Gourmet is now only an iPad app.

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Latest Report from Shenzen: New iPad Is Ready, Looks Like an iPhone 4

Shenzen is a sub-provincial city in southern China, and it’s the city where Foxconn (the biggest Chinese manufacturer of hardware, the one Apple uses for all its products) has got one of its production bases. According to the latest report by website Shanzai.com (via Softpedia), word on the street is that Apple’s new iPad is basically ready and its design resembles more that of an iPhone 4, rather than the original iPad’s one. Read more

Apple Profiles Researchers Using iPads in Pompeii

Pompeii is one of the most beautiful and historically rich archeological sites in the world. Scientists and researchers from all around the glober gather in Pompeii every week to study and analyze what that lost population left us. And to collect their notes and sketches they’re using iPads now; Apple thus decided to create a new webpage for scientists working in Pompeii with an iPad. Read more

Ruler 2 - How Does It Measure Up?

Admit it, the iPhone in your pocket is like a Swiss Army Knife - it’s easy to carry and has a tool for almost every job; oh yeah, and it makes phone calls too. A ruler isn’t something you need all the time but oh-so-important when you do. So why not have an app that takes precise measurements? That’s where Ruler 2, by Andrew & Alexa, comes into play - its simple, easy to use and precise for not being an physical analog ruler. The UI elements are large, easy to read and retina display ready. The ruler has a great texture and looks very lifelike and the little cog wheels give the slider realistic movements. Read more

iWork Apps for iPad Updated with “Export to Office” And Lots Of New Features

The iWork apps for iPad (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) were just updated to include support for “export to Office” features: you can now export documents to .xls, .ppt and .doc formats directly from your iPad. Other notable features in version 1.2include the ability to group and ungroup objects and CSV files in Numbers, the ability to copy documents between the app and iDisk or WebDAV server, word count in Pages. “Copy documents to iDisk” doesn’t exactly sound like “full MobileMe integration”, though.

Then there are the bug fixes and improvements. Lots of them, just take a look at the full changelogs below. Read more

Writer for iPad: The Key to Good Writing?

This is one of the apps for iPad I was really looking forward to: Writer for iPad, developed by Information Architects. I knew that the guys over at @IA were working on a new iPad app that should “change” the way we write on the tablet, and based on the tweets I read from its beta testers (people like Om Malik and Aza Raskin) I figured Writer was set to be a great app.

It came out last night, and I’m downloading it right now as I’m writing this. Here’s why I’m excited, and why I think Writer could perfectly fit in (and improve) my writing workflow. Read more