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CloudMagic for iPad: Blazing Fast Search for All Your Cloud Data

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Search on the iPad is one of those subjects I don’t think about much, except of course when I really need to find an email or document – and then my thoughts generally just extend to being disappointed with incomplete results or the need to search in multiple places, because just about all my essential data is held in various separate cloud services.

The CloudMagic app offers a fantastic solution for finding data very easily on the iPad – across a great range of cloud services. It supports iCloud, Dropbox, Evernote, Gmail, Google Contacts and Calendar, Google Drive, Google Apps, Box, SkyDrive, Exchange, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, Office 365 and quite a few more popular services.

Oh, and did I mention that it’s ridiculously fast too? It is – it starts showing results as you type and it returns full, categorized results just about instantly when you finish entering a search term.

Here are a few more of the features highlighted on its App Store page:

Multiple accounts
- Add any number of accounts and search through all of them in one go. Got more than one email account? Add both and search through them together.
One view of all your data
- Get a quick snapshot of all recent updates across all your data.
Rich previews and actions
- Allows you to quickly preview content and take common actions like open attachments, reply, forward, retweet, etc.
Partial word search
- You can find what you are looking for in just a few keystrokes.
Multiple devices
- Works across desktops, smartphones and tablets.

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Quick Look: Analytics Tiles App for iPad

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Analytics Tiles App

Analytics Tiles App is an iPad and iOS app that presents your Google Analytics (GA) website data in a new and unique way. As the name might imply, the app offers up your data in a set of colorful tiles that you can manipulate.

It uses one tile for each GA report area – e.g. page views, visits, average time on site, top referral, top keywords, and so on. There’s generous spacing between the tiles, so it’s easy to take in the information as you browse through them. You just tap, hold, and drag to re-order the tiles any way you like. With a swipe up you can add or remove tiles, an with another swipe up you can modify the color scheme. I keep tabs on a handful of sites I own or am involved with – it’s great being able to color-code them and easily distinguish one from another at a quick glance.

Tiles is all about making the right decisions fast! Put stats that matter to you up front and don’t waste time digging through endless content. Just add, move and remove the stats that you need. If you’re monitoring a shop, put the transaction and e-commerce metrics on top, if you are into goals, put your conversions on top. It’s kind of like a grid and you’re in control of what comes where.

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Quick Look: iTranslate Voice HD for iPad

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iTranslate Voice HD iPad app

iTranslate Voice HD is a new live translation app for the iPad, released last week. It promises a lot in its App Store page intro (note there’s also an iPhone version as the text below alludes to):

Instantly speak another language, voice to voice. Can you imagine talking into your phone in one language and immediately hearing yourself in another language? That’s exactly what iTranslate Voice does. Just speak into your phone and it immediately speaks back to you in one of our 31 languages.

With iTranslate Voice you can:
★ Instantly speak 31 languages…
Instantly start a voice to voice conversation into one of our 31 languages and dialects.
★ Look up words…
Look up definitions and meanings for common words & phrases, just using your voice.
★ Share translations…
Simply click on a translation to copy, mail, text or tweet it.
★ Super accurate voice recognition…
Forget typing… The accuary of our voice recognition is so amazing, that you don’t need your keyboard anymore.

I’ve been trying the app out over the last week or so and I’m very impressed with it.

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Pad & Quill – Old School Notebook Style Notes App for iPad

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Pad & Quill is a new note taking app for the iPad and iOS. Here’s its intro in the App Store:

Pad & Quill organises your notes in classic notebooks kept on a wooden shelf. It’s intuitive, simple and beautiful. Inspired by the Italian bonded leather cases made by Pad & Quill, the app turns your device into books you will truly love.

And some of its key features:

- organise notes into different books
- sync notes on all your iDevices
- realistic page turn effects
- universal app
- beautifully designed

This is an appealing idea for an iPad notes app, so I installed the app very soon after it was released in the App Store and have got to know it quite well. My reactions to the app are  mixed. There are some very nice things about it, and some decidedly not nice things as well. Hit the break for details on highlights and lowlights of Pad & Quill …

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Printer Pro – Another Good Wireless Printing App for the iPad

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Printer Pro for iPad

Printer Pro is another good ‘all-rounder’ type printing app for the iPad. I say all-rounder because it is not tied to a particular make of wireless printer and is capable of printing a broad range of different document types and from various popular apps and services. It can print directly to many Wi-Fi printers and to any printer attached to your Mac or PC via a helper application installed on your computer.

It has similar set of features to Print Central, which I mentioned in an earlier article on printing from the iPad.

Oh, and just in case you thought you need to wait for Apple’s release of iOS 4.2 for the iPad for printing to work, check that article out – because printing already works very well on the iPad with its current (3.2.2) operating system version.

Now, on to some thoughts on Printer Pro …

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My favourite app Tuesday – iAnnotate

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iAnnotate* is a great pdf reader for the iPad. It’s one of the apps that I use regularly on my iPad and one that I find truly pleasurable to use. And it’s also one of those apps that get me excited when an update is announced because this means the good only gets better. There’s [...]

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Using Manage to Get Things Done on iPad

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Since I aim to integrate the iPad into my workflow more and more, I recently shopped around for an app that would replace the 1000 post-its that accumulated on my desk during my work day. Surely there was an app for that, I thought to myself. Problem was there are many. Apps to aid us [...]

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