Something about the iPad makes it great for casual word games. For example, Words with Friends and Scrabble (which admittedly have the same type of gameplay) are really great to play on the iPad’s larger screen. But if you’re looking for something a little bit different, let me direct your attention to Jumbalaya - which not only tastes good, but also happens to be a great iPad game. Read more
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Jumbalaya, Remix Letters & Get Points. Review & Giveaway!
99 Year Old Lady Buys Her First Computer, An iPad
We know that if there’s something great about the multitouch technology it’s accessibility. It’s intuitive, easy to understand, everyone can use it.
Virginia Campbell is a 99 year old lady who’s just bought her first computer to read and write, two things she’s always loved to do. Thing is, the computer is an iPad and it’s incredible to see how she uses it without problems and limitations of any sort. Like we said many times, it just works.
The video we’re embedding after the break is going viral on the Internet, and the story even got picked by Fox12 Oregon. Also, she prefers landscape mode and uses Pages to write her poetry. Well done, Apple.
InCode, Plain Text Editor for iPad
We at MacStories are always looking forward to new and good apps, but when it comes to apps such as text editors and Twitter clients we’re definitely looking forward and living on the edge. We do this because we firmly believe that one can always do better than someone else, and sometimes it’s just about discovering that good app that’s out in the App Store but no one has ever written about. Sometimes it’s just about trusting that small team of developers that have a great idea. Most of the times though, I guess it’s just about trying new software and be open to new stuff.
That’s why we are always looking forward to the next good app. Without forgetting about the current ones, of course. Once you’re in the loop, it just happens.
The app I’m going to talk about today is a text editor, a quite simple one, that I’ve discovered while browsing the App Store the day it opened. InCode by Novastorm Software looked promising back then, what about now?
Penultimate, Sketch Your Ideas
The iPad App Store is already overcrowded with hundreds of apps that let you sketch and draw quick visual notes with your fingers. We should have seen this coming, considering the bigger screen and the fact the average App Store user loves this kind of stuff. So, we have all these apps that should enable us to sketch, but it’s safe to say that most of them are pure crap.
Penultimate is not. It’s a great app, a first release that already sports a beautiful interface and features that make this simple utility fun and, in the very end, useful.
A Clock for the iPad, As a Web App
I do miss Apple’s clock application on the iPad, and I guess many of you are. We all noticed that many developers had the idea to develop clock applications and sell them into the App Store, but what we’ve received in our inbox today is a simpler, good looking and - most of all - free solution.
The guys over at IconDesign.dk have developed a nice clock webapp, specifically meant for the iPad, which you can check out here and save as a home screen bookmark on your magical tablet. It will come with a great dedicated icon and smooth animations. The only downside is that you’ll need an internet connection to open it - but I bet you all have one if you bought an iPad. Great job.
Check out the screenshots after the break.
Check Your Daily Schedule with Easy Agenda for iPad
If you have an iPad, you’ve probably already tried to organize tasks, notes and other random pieces of text into the native Notes app. And if you really tried to do so, I guess you’re highly disappointed, considering how much Notes app should have been improved. Even though it sports a nice looking user interface now, Notes app still lacks any kind of over the air sync using MobileMe, support for better organization and sorting of notes, other fonts than damn Marker Felt. I wouldn’t suggest to people who need to take quick notes every once in a while, either.
The calendar app is pretty good instead. The interface has been highly refined, there’s a good amount of useful features and you can use MobileMe to keep your calendars in sync. Easy Agenda from 2 Boxes Studio is a simple iPad app that tries to combine the note tasking aspect of notes and the daily routine features of Calendar.
Gusto: Web Development on the iPad
I’ve been browsing the iPad App Store. I’ve downloaded more than 40 apps already. I’ve been reading tweets from people I follow about the apps they would like to see running on the iPad. I agreed with them most of the times, and I’ve started looking out for some apps coming out in the near future. Luckily, I think I’ve found what we were looking for. Basically, many friends of mine told me that what they were really missing were web development apps. Stuff like FTP apps, code editors, apps that enable you to manage your website from the magical device™. Someone even suggested that some sort of Coda for iPad would be awesome.
Gusto from Horse and the Rook is a new application that aims exactly at these people, as it’s an app that combines code editing and FTP access in a Coda-like fashion that lets you create multiple projects for all your website. We took a look at it. Is it worth your money yet?
A Single Folder For iPad File Sharing
The iPad file sharing system Apple implemented is rushed, and flawed. If you still haven’t tried it, you’re basically forced to plug the iPad via USB, open iTunes, select an app that supports this feature, choose a file from your computer and copy it into the app database. This is not a sync, it’s a Mac > iPad file sharing, and it’s broken and slow. MacObserver has a great and insightful article about it.
Fortunately some developers are thinking about a solution for this, and I’ve come across this application called “Folder” in the App Store which has turned out to be pretty useful.
Masque: Photo Editing at Your Fingertips
Better than the iPhone, the iPad is the perfect device to store photos and look at them every once in a while. Whether you just want to carry your good memories with you, or show off your latest trip to Thailand to your friends, the iPad’s display is just great for that. Mobile photos finally make sense on this device, and we can’t wait to see the first good Flcikr apps to pop into the App Store.
What about photo editing? Cody reviewed Photogene some days ago, and I think that’s a very good app with some cool “pro” touches that surely are making many people happy and satisfied. But if you want to try something simpler, yet powerful enough to allow you to make some nice modifications to your photos, you should take a look at Masque.