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Popular file-syncing app Evernote’s already available for nearly every device you can think of, so it’s no surprise that an iPad version is available at launch. What pleasantly amazed me though, is how well organized and thought out it appears. The main screen seems to mimic the two pane design of the iPad Mail app…
The Charadium iPad app lets you play a game similar to pictionary against anyone who also has the app. It’s three bucks and bound to start plenty of arguments about whether that thing I drew is clearly a duck. [iTunes]
The free Epicurious app for the iPad takes the impressive achievement of the iPhone version—packing Gourmet’s Big Yellow Cookbook into a finger-friendly format—and adds some serious garnish. Now the cookbook looks as delicious as the food itself. [iTunes]
Listening to this great anecdote, it doesn’t surprise me that Steve Jobs liked Paul Rand so much. After all, he has the same philosophy: My way or the highway. And I agree with him 100%. Watch the complete interview. [Logo Design Love]
Wanna watch an episode of Desperate Housewives, LOST or whatever else is on ABC using your iPad? All you need is a Wi-Fi connection and the free ABC Player app. [iTunes]
Now MobileMe will not only find or erase your lost or stolen iPhone, but your iPad as well. We’re not sure just how well the $99/year service will work when it comes to finding Wi-Fi only devices, but there’s hope. It seems that as long as the iPad is connected to a Wi-Fi network, you…
Greensforged sells hand-made steel mouse pads. Their lineup includes the Cirque du Pwnage, the Teardrop, and the Hugepad. They’re all steel and they’re all badass. But the The Ravenholm, with a circular saw design, is the baddest-ass of them all. The Ravenholm, made of 1/8″ hot-rolled steel sheet, can be yours for only $50. It…
On the one hand, you have the New York Times: “I am an internet news application!” And then you have the Wall Street Journal: “I am a color newspaper!” And then you have USA Today: “I like Skittles!” Even before we’ve used them, we can see that they’re all groping toward what a newspaper should…
OK, ok, we get it—the iPad’s going to have us consuming media like it’s our jobs. But to all of those it’s-not-a-content-creation-device naysayers, the $8 SketchBook Pro app says, “check this out.” [iTunes]
Well, we just don’t have one yet. Sorry! Read this Boingboing review. I like it a lot. She just gets it, and pretty much thinks what I think about the iPad. [Boingboing]
We’ve seen that Greg Packer’s already waiting in an iPad line, but what about everyone else? We want you to send us your not-so-sneaky spyshots of iPad lines and the oddballs waiting in ’em. https://gizmodo.com/oh-for-gods-sake-not-him-again-5507369 Please send your pictures to [email protected]—not to me!—and use “iPad Line Photos” as the subject.
The left half of the image is the money—that’s how you’re going to be reading Marvel’s comics on the iPad. What the screenshots don’t show, however, is what happens when there’s a two-page facing layout. Do you go landscape and they go side-by-side? That seems to be the best option, rather than paging forward and…
If for some reason you want to pretend that your iPad is able to multitask and are willing to shell out five bucks while limiting yourself to a handful of functions, then the Desktop app is for you. With this app you’ll be able to use these functions in a fake desktop-style setup: Web Browser…
Everyone eventually trades up from the AIM app to IM+ or BeeJive or Meebo, but the free AIM app for the iPad actually looks decent. It looks like it has Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Twitter “support”, as in it shows updates from those services in the “Lifestream” view. Having one app that does both IM…
Well! A new PSA in Australia claims that “everytime you use your mobile phone while driving, gingers get fresh…with other gingers.” Which explains why Herrman and Buchanan spend so much time together. It’s your fault, car texters! [Buzzfeed via TheAwl] https://gizmodo.com/giz-crew-holiday-gallery-5433919
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This is not an April Fool’s post. This is a serious post about DARPA, the military’s experimental research arm, and how they want to explore human waste as a fuel source for portable nuclear reactors on overseas military bases. Seriously. DARPA’s recent Request For Information seeks a method to “enable the development of deployable nuclear…
So the first batch of iPad reviews have hit, and there wasn’t much surprising in there. The same complaints people had when it was first announced, people have now. But here’s the real question: do they really matter? [Giz] https://gizmodo.com/ipad-mega-meta-review-works-great-no-surprises-5507037
The dreaded Spinning Beachball of Death doesn’t really exist in Apple’s mobile OS. But shhhh. Download it big here. In our book, the giant iPod touch joke never gets old. And besides, the jumbo icons almost look better than the iPad’s awkward, undersized icon layout. Download it big here. You ask “why is a bloody…
Even if the PR2 is aware that other robots are out there climbing, drawing, and saving lives while it’s stuck at home folding towels, it doesn’t let it on. It just goes about its business, folding away, slowly but surely. https://gizmodo.com/four-robots-four-different-ways-to-climb-walls-5452071 Like, really slowly. That video shows the PR2, developed by Pieter Abbeel at UC…
