Apple updated the iWork productivity apps for the iPad and iPhone to take advantage of the new Retina display of the new iPad. It also includes performance improvements and other new features for the individual apps. Numbers now has what Apple calls “stunning new 3D bar, line, area and pie charts. The charts in Numbers [...]
Apple’s new iPad, either iPad 3, iPad 2S or iPad HD, will be out this month and many new users will hope to create documents on their shiny new tablet. We’ve heard pretty compelling rumors that Microsoft will release an iPad version of their industry standard Microsoft Office suite for the iPad. They already have OneNote [...]
This was an historic year at CES 2012 if for no other reason that it was the announced last keynote by Microsoft. Announced by both Microsoft and CES, that move has caused much consternation and gnashing of teeth about Microsoft (they want to move on, they don’t have that much new coming, etc…) and CES [...]
If you want to do more with your iPad than surf the web, play games and watch video, these five iPad office suites will help you be more productive. They range in price and capability and everyone can find a tool that will meet either moderately complicated needs or very basic and simple uses. Apple [...]
Missed Apple’s keynote this morning? Want to evaluate Tim Cook‘s presentation skills against fame presenter Steve Jobs? Well, you can watch the iPhone announcement in its entirety online either through Apple’s website, which will require Quicktime to be installed for streaming, or you can download the video for later viewing through iTunes. After you’ve watched [...]
With Apple’s iPhone announcement being hours away, we wanted to take a quick look at Apple’s new CEO Tim Cook who’s believed to be unveiling the next iPhone at Apple’s Cupertino, California campus. Does Cook, a man who’s responsible for streamlining Apple’s operations and helping to make Apple more profitable, have the foresight needed to [...]
Users of the previous three versions of the iOS 5 beta may have noticed that the promised “Documents in the Cloud” feature was, up to this point, missing from the party. With today’s release of the fourth iOS 5 beta though, the folks at 9to5Mac point out that Cloud Docs support is now active. Documents [...]
Hate sitting through PowerPoint or Keynote presentations? You might want to join the APPP or the Anti-PowerPoint Political Party, a Swiss political party seeking the ban the use of presentation software in Switzerland. That’s right, they want to ban PowerPoint, and probably Keynote as well. They claim that presentations costs the Swiss economy 2.1 billion [...]
DropBox is a great service and getting files onto the iPad from your DropBox storage is easy with their free iPad App. But what about going the other way from an app like Pages? Thanks to a service called DropDAV it is pretty easy too. First, sign up for a free 2GB DropBox account. Once [...]
I just thought I would post up that the CES Keynote is being shown live if anyone wants to check it out!
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
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