I’ve used my new iPad for two days now; it’s not faster than iPad 2 – and it takes much longer to charge. The camera is better, but I don’t use it that often. The screen is “four times better” but honestly the original iPad screen was pretty spectacular anyway! Most of the time I [...]
I used to read Readers Digest Magazine, and now I can read it on the iPad – the print magazine is small format, so it’s transfer to iPad works very well in portrait mode (although rather less well in landscape): There’s a few oddities with this first release – downloading is too ready to fail [...]
It is worth exploring your iPad – check out Accessibilty options in Settings / General, where you will find the “White on Black” option: This option simply inverts all colors, resulting in a very strange home screen: But reading iBooks at night might be easier on the eyes: Also in Accessibilty, you can set clicking [...]
I’ve already written about the “official” iBooks App (and the issues I had with it), and about Amazon’s Kindle App. Quick reminders: The iBooks App is perhaps the nicest looking and most usable, with a fully integrated book store and the “book shelf” library theme: In portrait mode, a single page is displayed: In landscape [...]
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Finally, we get to see the iPad version of WIRED, at an unpleasant $4.99 (especially as I already pay for the print version). So far, it’s good – but not perfect. The whole App works nicely in both portrait and landscape mode; it’s been properly created with layout altering subtly so that it views sensibly [...]
Even if you don’t own a BMW, you should check out the BMW magazine App. Unlike other magazine Apps I’ve tried, this one has a really quite good user interface and behaves much closer to what I was hoping for when I got my iPad. The App works best in portrait mode; load it up [...]
Kindle for iPad offers a quite different experience to iBooks, with a less elegant interface – especially in landscape mode: The same page in landscape mode – a big waste of display space, not as nice as the iBook “two up” display: Using the Kindle App is nowhere near as simple as iBooks either; you [...]
I haven’t done much reading yet on the iPad, but before my flight home I thought I’d check out what’s available – and sadly there’s not so much really! But I was interested by Craig Ferguson’s American On Purpose, promoted on the front page of the iBooks store today: So I downloaded it, read the [...]
I’m still interested in magazines on the iPad, but apparently it’s still too early … I decided to check out How It Works Magazine, as it sounded really interesting. Luckily, it’s free to try, including one issue … it begins badly, by displaying instructions on how to access the pages, including how to zoom in [...]
