Pencil: the coolest, natural iPad stylus

Meet Pencil: The Best iPad Stylus Yet, From the Makers of ‘Paper’ Kyle VanHemert, wired.com As Georg Petschnigg, one of FiftyThree’s founders, puts it, a stylus gives you the chance to “think with your hands.” http://flip.it/3Xc8i Related articles The Company Behind The iPad App Of The Year, Paper, Is Making A Stylus For The iPad … Continue reading Pencil: the coolest, natural iPad stylus

David Hockney paints on iPad

David Hockney’s iPad drawings go big, 12 feet big by Leslie Katz, cnet.com A giant exhibit at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum highlights the influential artist’s foray into iPhone and iPad art, as well as films he made using multiple digital cameras. There are iPad draw­ings you look at on a screen, and there are iPad… … Continue reading David Hockney paints on iPad

Live scribe 3 is best tool for field based research note capture

Livescribe 3 sends handwritten notes straight to your iPhone or iPad by Rick Broida, cnet.com This pen is definitely mightier than the stylus, as it gives you real-world note-taking coupled with mobile device world syncing. The Live­scribe 3 is a wire­less ink pen that auto­mat­i­cal­ly syncs your hand­writ­ten notes with your iPhone or… http://flip.it/A0lDq Related … Continue reading Live scribe 3 is best tool for field based research note capture

Your digital footprint

5 Places to Look for Your Digital Footprint TechNewsDaily, mashable.com Recently, many iPhone and iPad users were incensed to learn that Siri — the personal digital assistant for iOS devices — has an eerily long memory. Unbeknownst to Apple customers, Siri sends all your queries directly to Apple’s company’s servers,… http://flip.it/hKkfD Related articles 5 Places … Continue reading Your digital footprint

Many use Netflix without paying

10 Million People Watch Netflix Without Paying Rebecca Greenfield, theatlanticwire.com All that anec­do­tal pass­word shar­ing we’ve been hear­ing about is more than just a few media savvy friends pass­ing around their logins: One ana­lyst esti­mates that some­thing like 10 mil­lion peo­ple watch Net­flix Instant, gratis,… 10 Million People Watch Netflix Without Paying http://flip.it/WGPOG http://flip.it/yLNqF Related … Continue reading Many use Netflix without paying

ProScope micro mobile iPhone mega close ups

ProScope Micro Mobile lets your iPhone get mega-close-ups Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com Optics manufacturer Bodelin is no stranger to hand-held microscopes, having previously brought us a series that can be connected to the USB port of a laptop. Given that smartphones are in many ways replacing laptops, however, it shouldn’t come as … ProScope Micro Mobile … Continue reading ProScope micro mobile iPhone mega close ups

American replaces outdated flight bags with iPads

Step inside the modern iPad-enhanced cockpit of American Airlines Élyse Betters, 9to5mac.com Gadling, an AOL-owned trav­el blog, went aboard an Amer­i­can Air­line recent­ly to get a sneak peek at the iPad Elec­tron­ic Flight Bag that the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion orig­i­nal­ly approved in 2011. The iPad flight bag… Step inside the modern iPad-enhanced cockpit of American … Continue reading American replaces outdated flight bags with iPads

Can the iPad rescue education?

Can the iPad Rescue a Struggling American Education System? Christina Bonnington, wired.com Tablets are reinventing how students access and interact with educational material, and how teachers assess and monitor students’ performance at a time when many schools are understaffed and many classrooms overcrowded. Christina Bonnington Can the iPad Rescue a Struggling American Education System? http://flip.it/Ym399Continue reading Can the iPad rescue education?

Curious rituals: the anthro of tech behaviors

‘Curious Rituals’ Examines Technology-Induced Gestures & Posture core77.com We’ve all seen it: the teenagers with one earbud in, feigning interest in conversation; iPad users brandishing the device like a radiation barrier to snap a photo; the veritable hypnosis of the “cell trance.” In fact, maybe you’re reading these ve… Anthro study of tech postures http://flip.it/57qCfContinue reading Curious rituals: the anthro of tech behaviors

Night reading on ipad to protect melatonin production

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End computer induced blue light insomnia

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Square business in a box

Square unveils ‘Business in a Box’ by Daniel Terdiman, cnet.com The online-payment company’s Business in a Box bundle has everything needed to get up and running with Square Register. iPad not included. Square today unveiled its “Busi­ness in a Box” pack­age, a bun­dle includ­ing all the com­po­nents need­ed… http://flip.it/Z0OIN Related articles Square unveils Stand for … Continue reading Square business in a box

Clamcase Pro offers a much-improved take on the iPad as a laptop

Clamcase Pro offers a much-improved take on the iPad as a laptop (hands-on) By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com The orig­i­nal Clam­case was one of the most flawed iPad key­boards we tried in our roundup — since then, the com­pa­ny has gone back to the draw­ing board and is now debut­ing a much-improved new model called the … Continue reading Clamcase Pro offers a much-improved take on the iPad as a laptop

Kno launches Kno Me interactive textbook metrics

Kno launches ‘Kno Me’ interactive textbook metrics, lets you study your studying James Trew, engadget.com It was almost a year ago that we first heard about Kno’s smart text­book met­rics sys­tem “Kno Me.” Now the soft­ware is set to actu­al­ly launch, and find its way into stu­dents’ (and par­ents’) hands. As a refresh­er, the sys­tem … Continue reading Kno launches Kno Me interactive textbook metrics

Zoom iQ5 professional stereo microphone

Zoom iQ5 professional stereo microphone hands-on Kevin Wong, engadget.com Ear­li­er at CES, we got our hands on the Rode iXY 30-pin stereo micro­phone iPhone add-on that left our Light­ning users a bit sad. Cheer up! The folks over at Zoom got us over to their booth to take a peek at the com­pa­ny’s new iQ5 … Continue reading Zoom iQ5 professional stereo microphone

Get instant pulse readings with iSpO2 for iPhone

Get instant pulse readings with iSpO2 for iPhone, iPad by Jennifer Van Grove, cnet.com Need a pulse check? iSpO2 — an iPhone and iPad accessory — gives you an immediate reading on your vitals. LAS VEGAS—The iSpO2 by Masi­mo ports the hos­pi­tal check­up expe­ri­ence to iPhones and iPads and makes on-the-spot pulse read­ings… http://flip.it/wJG9a Related … Continue reading Get instant pulse readings with iSpO2 for iPhone

Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services

Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services John Paczkowski, allthingsd.com Apple does hard­ware and soft­ware well, and it’s at the top of its game when it does them togeth­er. But when it comes to Web ser­vices, the com­pa­ny is a lag­gard, with an ever-lengthening conga line of mis­steps. There are hands-down fias­co… http://flip.it/fuyg5 Related … Continue reading Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services

Xmas rules for proper iPhone conduct

Teenager Gets New iPhone For Christmas… Along With 18-Point Contract From Mom Killian Bell, cultofmac.com Imag­ine your delight as a teenage boy who’s just unwrapped a shiny new iPhone for Christ­mas. It’s prob­a­bly your first smart­phone — maybe even your first cell­phone peri­od — and you can’t wait to turn it on and start play­ing … Continue reading Xmas rules for proper iPhone conduct

Driving apps reviewed: do black box apps really work?

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Dashcam: iPhone black box app for car

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Wirecutter picks best iPad case

Not-Horrible iPad Cases Alexander George, thewirecutter.com Some peo­ple think the iPad is so gor­geous it doesn’t need a case. I dis­agree, and my favorite over­all case is Joy Fac­to­ry’s Smart­Suit 3. (Updat­ed 17 July 2012: I recent­ly looked at a num­ber of new cases, then spoke to Flo­rence Ion,… Not-Horrible iPad Cases | The Wirecutter … Continue reading Wirecutter picks best iPad case

Lifehacker top iPhone apps

Most Popular iPhone Apps and Posts of 2012 Thorin Klosowski, lifehacker.com 2012 was an interesting year for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. We got a new operating system with iOS 6, and that came with a fair share of problems. Still, lots of new features, apps, and fixes came along. Here are the most popular iOS-related … Continue reading Lifehacker top iPhone apps