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Zite for iPad Updated – Improved Recommendations & More

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Zite for iPad

The Zite app for iPad has been updated today, to Version 2.3. Zite is one of the leading news magazines apps for the iPad and learns from your interactions and tailors the content for you as you go along using it. I’ve seen many apps that claim to do this sort of thing, but Zite is by far the most effective at it.

This latest update is focused on further improving the app’s recommendation engine and tweaking the UI to make it even easier to use and to find the best content more quickly. Here are the new features listed for the 2.3 update:

· We’ve made huge improvements to our recommendation engine to ensure that the stories we deliver are a good match for your interests.
· Articles that you’ve read before will be greyed out (synced across all your devices).
· We’ve enhanced some articles with pull quotes.

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Price Drops: Flickr Studio for iPad Free Today Only

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Flickr Studio iPad app

Flickr Studio for iPad is available for free today only (5/21/13) – to celebrate ‘the new Flickr’. That’s down from its standard price of $4.99. Yahoo announced the new Flickr yesterday, including an upgrade on all accounts to 1TB (!) of free storage.

The Flickr Studio app is designed specifically for the iPad and offers a good set of features to work with and manage your own photostream and explore those from your contacts and the Flickr community as a whole. Here are some of the notable features:

YOUR PHOTOS
All your Flickr photos and videos, one smart app. With Flickr studio you can instantly browse your stream, sets, collections, groups, tags or find any photo with the powerful search!
AND EVERYONE ELSE’S TOO!
But Flickr Studio is not just YOUR full photo collection. Use it to view photos from your contacts, or any Flickr user for that matter – Even the Flickr community in general. Billions of photos, that’s a lot to explore!
TRAVEL THE WORLD… IN PHOTOS
The world is a big place and with Flickr Studio you can visit every square mile of it. Move around on the world map, pinch, zoom, and instantly find photos for that area, from the millions of geo-tagged photos on Flickr.
DOWNLOAD AND SHARE!
Download photos to your iPad’s photo library, add to your Flickr favorites, place a comment, examine EXIF data. Share photos via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook and any other sharing service.

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Notable New iPad Apps: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony

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Beethover's 9th Symphony iPad app

Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is a wonderful new iPad app celebrating this famous and loved piece of music. I’ve never been a big fan of classical music but something about the look of this app grabbed me and I decided to give it a look.

Wow, I am so glad I did. This is just a fantastic app, even for someone like me who’s not knowledgeable about the music. Here’s a bit of the App Store intro for it:

Beethoven’s 9th Symphony for iPad presents four of Deutsche Grammophon’s legendary recordings of this iconic work, with the amazing ability to switch instantly between each performance at any point in the piece. As you listen, you can watch the synchronized musical score, be guided by expert commentary, follow Beethoven’s 1825 manuscript or immerse yourself in the hypnotic graphical BeatMap of the orchestra, precisely highlighting every note. The app also includes a treasure-trove of specially filmed video interviews with musicians, writers and great conductors discussing Beethoven and his masterwork.

Here’s some of the app’s features that I’ve found gripping:

– The music itself of course. The app offers four of the ‘legendary’ performances of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony – and you can switch between these as you listen with just a single tap.

Ferenc Fricsay’s first stereo recording of this work from 1958 with the Berliner Philharmoniker; Herbert von Karajan’s famous 1962 recording with the same orchestra; the widely loved and charismatic maestro Leonard Bernstein’s video recording from 1979 with the Wiener Philharmoniker; and the ground-breaking 1992 recording on period instruments conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.
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Google’s Hangouts App for iPad Is an Ugly Mess

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Hangouts iPad app

At yesterday’s Google I/O event Google announced the very promising Hangouts app, a sort of unified messaging app / service for iOS, Android and web. And the Hangouts app for the iPad and iPhone was released yesterday too.

The iPad app is a horrible, ugly mess. There a number of very good iPad apps with simple, basic user interfaces. But Hangouts has a drab, clumsy UI that looks very much like it was slapped together with little to no thought or effort.

That’s one of the app’s main screens above. It’s just sad looking right? Hit the break for a couple more screenshots of the app in all its glory.

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Watchup iPad Video News App Updated: Lots of New Channels

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Watchup iPad App

The Watchup iPad video news app has been updated this week – adding a number of good new channels.

The update, issued yesterday, takes the app to Version 1.10.1. New channels added for the US include Chicago Tribune, The Motley Fool, KXAN (Yay Austin), Moyers & Company, TechCrunch and more. There are also a great number of new international channels added:

• Latin America: NTN24
• Argentina: C5N, Canal 7
• Brazil: RedeTV!, SBT, TV NBR, Ulbra TV
• Colombia: Canal Capital, Noticias Caracol
• Ecuador: RTU Noticias
• And many other channels for Australia, Canada, the UK, Mexico, Ireland, Hungary, France, Italy, Lithuania, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Venezuela and many others.

Watchup is great, simple app for keeping up with daily news via video from a strong, curated list of sources. It’s a recent pick of ours for Best Free iPad App of the Week.

Here’s an App Store link for Watchup; it’s still a free app.

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Notable New iPad Apps: Write for Dropbox

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  Last week Write for Dropbox, iPad edition hit the App Store. It’s another good text editor app for the iPad, with Dropbox sync and strong Markdown support. The app’s full title in the App Store is Write for Dropbox – A Beautiful Note Taking App (iPad Edition) – but I’m just going to refer [...]

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