What a nice second preview I’ve received from my friends Matthew Rex and Jonah Grant today. If you’ve ever dreamt to be a modern Moses, then Commandments is aimed at you: packed in a beautiful interface and a delicious icon, it allows you to carry then ten commandments with you all the time.
Posts tagged with "iPad"
Commandments for iPad, The Original Tablet App
Preview: Design Brief for iPad, Because You Have to Ask the Right Questions
Web designers, this one’s aimed at you. We all know client work can easily become a nightmare sometimes. Well, most of the times somebody would say. Thing is, one of the problems with designers and clients, is that the former don’t really do a good job at first, while approaching a new client: they either don’t ask the right questions, or understand what the client indeed wants. Or perhaps properly store the information they collected about the client.
Design Brief, an upcoming application for the iPad developed by Ben Duivesteyn, aims at solving this problem by providing a beautiful and easy way to capture information about a new client.
Preview: CourseNotes, The First Alternative Note Taking App for iPad
I knew this was gonna happen, but I didn’t expect it to actually happen that soon. I’m talking about note taking apps, probably one of the most popular genres on the iPhone App Store, ready to take over the iPad store as well. What better than a new application that supports notes, note sessions and todos then?
Here’s a preview of CourseNotes. It looks good.
Browsing the iPad App Store: A Video
We’ve seen so many screenshots of the iPad App Store , but what about some video footage? We’ve just been sent a short video that shows the actual store being used, with all the applications we’ve seen so far: the Yahoo Entertainment app, Twitterrific, OmniGraffle and OmniGraph Sketcher, Real Racing.
Check it out after the break.
Syncode Announces “Synotes Slate” for iPad
Syncode, the developers behind the Synotes iPhone app we reviewed a while ago here, have just announced that they have submitted “Synotes Slate” for Apple approval. If everything goes fine the application should be available for the App Store Grand Opening on April 3rd.
Synotes for iPad will offer pretty much the same features of the iPhone counterpart, obviously benefitting from the bigger screen and new interface elements of the iPad.
From the blog post:
“We felt, as many other developers have expressed, that a universal application was not for us. The new platform brings many new opportunities, and to fully utilize them with a changed user interface we have decided against a universal binary. It is important to note that the application has been written from scratch for the new platform. This means a better user experience for everyone involved.
The biggest difference between designing for the iPad compared to the iPhone is the capacious screen we had to work with. Before even thinking about how Synotes Slate would be designed, we carefully studied and analysed Apple’s standard iPad applications and their design in both function and form. Like many iPad apps, Synotes Slate uses universal iPad UI elements such as a UISplitView and Pop-Over menus to both increase productivity and provide a continuous experience between multiple applications.”
Extensive use of modal windows, popovers and split view, as you can see from the screenshots posted by the developers.I can’t wait to put my hands on this, waiting for an iPad version of Simplenote to be announced.
Omnigraffle for iPad Will Be Available On Day One…at $49.99
Tyler Tschida of AppAdvice:
“OmniGraffle, one of the company’s flagship applications, has already been submitted and approved by Apple, and will be available for iPad App Store’s grand opening on April 3rd.
OmniGraffle, an app normally available for Mac OS X for $99.95, will be hitting the App Store for $49.99. That price may sound a bit high, but OmniGraffle for the iPad should offer nearly the same experience that the Mac OS X version offers, just with touch controls and a reworked interface. The feature set seems quite extensive as it offers the same automatic layouts and “Smart guides” as the desktop app, and allows PDF export along with the ability to open your creations on OmniGraffle for Mac.”
Look, I can pass along on Omnifocus for iPhone priced at $19.99 (but it’s difficult to accept) but, seriously, 50 bucks? They’d better build a hell of an app, otherwise they’ll just be another dev team who aims at making a truckload of money from the iPad, using the bigger screen as an excuse. We’ll see.
Spreads for iPad: A new Way to Be Informed
We all know that the iPad is gonna change the way we consume media, though we still don’t know how exactly. Sure the first step will be iBooks, with newspapers and magazines to follow with iPad specific apps and subscription services. But back to where we are now, what about RSS feeds? Yeah, those things you’re likely to use with Google Reader which should have been died 2 years ago but they’re still here. I honestly don’t see RSS completely die anytime soon, I’m more orientated towards an evolution and change and maybe - I don’t know much about it at this time - Spreads for iPad will contribute to this change.