Activity Monitor is an essential utility on a Mac that gives you a wealth of real-time information on CPU activity, memory usage, disk activity and more on your Mac PC. Activity Monitor Touch brings the look and feel, and some of the functionality, of Activity Monitor to the iPad (and iPhone).
Activity Monitor Touch has four sections, all easy to get to in a single tap on its bottom nav bar: Info, Usage, Battery, and Process. Here’s what each shows you:
Info: Basic system info for your iPad – the device name, UDID (Unique Identifier), OS version, capacity and more. It also shows a snapshot of current system status with details like Uptime, free (program) memory, free space, remaining battery percentage, and WiFi connection status / details.
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iChromy is new browser app for the iPad that promises to bring ‘the best of Chrome’s interface and speed to the iPad’. I’m a huge fan of the Chrome browser on my MacBook Pro desktop; it’s my every day primary browser on the Mac, usually with a crazy number of tabs open all day long (26 as I write this post). I find it to be blazing fast generally and much, much faster than Safari.
So as soon as I saw iChromy hit the iPad App Store I was very interested and very keen to see whether the app could do a good job at bringing a Chrome-like experience to the iPad. I’ve had it on my iPad for a couple days now and have used it quite a lot. So far, I’m quite impressed with it.
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New Desktop app lets you ‘multitask’ on the iPad
OK, so this is not real multitasking. Let’s get that out of the way right off. The new Desktop app for the iPad does not suddenly make it possible to run multiple apps at once on the iPad. But … it does let you use a series of useful widgets within the app itself that will allow you to multitask while using it.
So, for example, you can have a Maps widget open at the same time as a Calculator widget when trying to calculate a journey time. Or have a browser widget open at the same time as one for composing a new email, and copy and paste between the two and send a mail without leaving the app.
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PhotoFramePlus for iPad is an app that helps you turn your iPad into a lovely digital picture frame when it’s not in use – with a clock and calendar added into its display.
I love the idea of using the iPad as a photo frame when it’s not hard at work, I’ve been looking forward to this app since I first heard it was coming to the iPad, and I bought it and installed it as soon as I had a chance.
Sadly, although the app ‘does what it says on the box’ it is a disappointment to me in its 1.0 version. Read on for some quick reasons why …
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