Best Free iPad App of the Week: Hipmunk Flight Search

by AliciaB June 25, 2011

Our choice this week falls on the release of Hipmunk Flight Search app, which is now available as a free universal app for iPhone and iPad. Those familiar with the web and iPhone version will not be disappointed. Sexy flight search meet sexy platform. It’s hard to describe the unique appeal of Hipmunk’s UI – [...]

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Quick review: Instamap for iPad

by AliciaB June 8, 2011

The one thing all 3rd party Instagram viewing and browsing apps for iPad and iPhone have in common is they all tap into the secret of the success of the photo snapping and sharing community. What’s this secret? The images themselves. The panoply of multi-coloured images arranged attractively in grids that can be pleasurably browsed [...]

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With the new iPad 2 ad Apple’s just getting started

by AliciaB May 4, 2011

No doubt a lot of you out there are too young to remember the excitement us Apple watchers felt in the early days when a new iPod commercial came out. There were gasps of “cool!” all over the proto-twitterverse/blogosphere in reaction to the new Indie song that had been chosen to herald the iPod in [...]

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Qwiki for iPad delivers Wikipedia on speed

by AliciaB April 22, 2011

I try to keep an open mind when test driving an app for the first time. The 3 main questions going through my mind are – what does the app do? Does it do it well? And, will I use it?  I apply these three basic questions to any app, whether it’s being heralded as [...]

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A look at Hitpad & Zite for iPad

by AliciaB April 18, 2011

Flipboard for iPad has set the bar quite high for up and coming news aggregating iPad apps who aim to imitate their secret formula: a simple clean elegant UI, fun and compelling to use, one that makes you keep coming back for the experience. I recently discovered two apps – Zite and Hitpad – that [...]

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Why the iPad will change education as we know it

by AliciaB April 11, 2011

(image source: http://www.ninjamarketing.it) When I was in high school, we lugged really heavy and expensive textbooks around e.g. Gardner’s Art through the Ages (Amazon link), our backs bearing their combined weight during our commute. Now in 2011, a student’s life is being transformed to adapt to the digital age (at last). As we’ve seen since the [...]

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Why I love my white iPad 2 and why you might too

by AliciaB April 6, 2011

Like many Apple watchers, I sincerely hope that the mystery of the mythical white iPhone 4 will soon be solved. Now it’s apparently been taken from the Apple store, despite indications that it would be available in spring 2011 (there’s no mention of it on the iPhone 4 page). Hmm. Even stranger than the question [...]

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3 ways to enjoy Instagram on iPad today

by AliciaB April 6, 2011

  One of my most-used iPhone apps is Instagram – the photo sharing platform/community that gives users an entertaining and pleasurable way to post, customize and comment on images (check it out here in case you haven’t had the chance yet) so it was no surprise that having gotten my iPad, I was soon itching [...]

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Quick look: Reader’s Digest App for iPad

by AliciaB March 30, 2011

I am one of those people who loves to read. Back in the day I loved the smell of books from the library, magazines from the newsstand, encyclopedia volumes in our home library. My mother would hoard past issues of various magazines and periodicals, refusing to throw them out for years and years (!). Times [...]

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iPad 2 launch day lines in Austria

by AliciaB March 25, 2011

My iPad 2 launch day ended up pretty good. Since my last post 2 days ago, I talked myself into taking the plunge and plunked down in full for my iPad 2 of choice (white, 16GB, wifi, € 479) gambling that this would increase my chances of actually getting the unit this Friday. It worked! [...]

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Want an iPad this Friday in Austria? Standing in line won’t help.

by AliciaB March 23, 2011

  It looks like the launch of the iPad 2 in Austria this Friday is going to be loads of fun for all wannabe customers – NOT! As we witnessed in the US, Apple seems to have “underestimated demand” (to put it politely) for the 2nd iteration of the iPad, delivering way below the actual [...]

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