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Khan Academy for iPad Updated: Brings 150K Learning Exercises & More
The wonderful Khan Academy iPad app has been updated this week, to Version 2.0. This is a major update for an already superb educational app. It brings access to everything that’s available at Khan...
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Awesome Little Features: Touch Preview in Spotify for iPad
I like Quick Look on OS X a lot. All you have to do is select something in Finder (the file browser), tap the space bar, and a small window opens up to show you a preview of the file. Text and .doc...
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Using Drafts for iPad As An Action Inbox
Using Drafts for iPad As An Action Inbox Drafts 4 is great for keeping notes and sending them elsewhere, but without the proper settings in place, it can be very easy to compile a very large list of...
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Notes Plus for iPad Giveaway: 5 Free Codes to Be Won
You may remember last year I wrote a post about the excellent note taking app Notes Plus. My opinion was that it was a really well thought out app with plenty of options and excellent handwriting...
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Dropbox for iPad Gets A Share Extension
Dropbox for iOS was updated today with one killer new feature: a native share extension. This means that any app that brings up the iOS 8 share dialogue can save files directly to Dropbox, without any...
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Calcbot 2.0 for iPad
Calcbot used to be my favourite calculator app before I discovered other innovative calculator alternatives like Soulver and Tydlig. However, when I saw on Twitter that Calcbot 2.0 had been released,...
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Pixelbite Reckless Racing bundle for iPad
If you like casual/arcade racing games for the iPad like I do, the Reckless Racing titles might be familiar to you. Pixelmate, the makers of the Reckless Racing series is offering all five of their...
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Soulver for iPad: The Notepad I Wish I’d Had In Math Class
I can’t believe I haven’t actually written about Soulver for iPad yet, seeing as I’ve been using it on a daily basis for the past four or five months. Soulver is a great little calculations notebook...
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MLB At Bat iPad App Updated for Opening Day
MLB At Bat, the official Major League Baseball app for iPad and iOS, has been updated right on time for Opening Day of the 2015 season. The app was updated to Version 8.1.1 yesterday and is looking...
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Office for iPad Needs To Improve File Caching
Microsoft is updating their Office apps on iOS at a pretty blistering rate, with a major update every one or two months, but it’s still lacking one basic feature for me: easier local storage. Having...
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Google Photos for iPad
Google introduced their competitor to iCloud Photo Library yesterday and it’s simply called Google Photos. It’s available right now across iOS, Android, and the web. The huge draw of Google Photos...
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Next-Gen Business Apps for iPad: Featured App Store Collection this Week
The Featured section of the iPad App Store is jam packed with good stuff this week. One of the featured collections that caught my eye is titled ‘Next-Gen Business Apps’. It’s a compelling title, and...
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Apple introduces a new News app in iOS 9; will it replace your favorite RSS...
At the World Wide Developer Conference last week, Apple introduced their all new RSS reader app called News. In all honesty, I see it as a good move on their part–it makes sense. By offering a free...
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Google Maps for iPad Gets Updated Transit Directions
Apple Maps in iOS 9 now grant transit options for users in a select number of cities (inlcuding Toronto, thank goodness!). However, Google isn’t sitting on their laurels in the mean time. Yesterday’s...
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Musixmatch Can Provide Lyrics For Apple Music
Musixmatch is a great case of a new breed of iOS apps that tend to function more as services than outright applications. Musixmatch does have a UI for when you load it up, but it’s really best used...
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2Do for iPad Is Getting Push Sync In The Next Two Weeks
Background App Refresh was introduced with iOS 7 two years ago, but I’ve found that it only seems to work about 50% of the time for me. I still see many of my apps — e.g. Reeder, 2Do, Evernote —...
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Searching for Instagram Apps for iPad…
I’m now responsible for a number of Instagram accounts at my day job, and so I’ve been the lookout for apps that can manage multiple accounts, simultaneously. Given the popularity of the service, I’m...
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Overcast for iPad
I’ve started to listen to podcasts again, but the first-party Podcasts app from Apple is still a little buggy as of beta 4 of iOS 9. Beta 5 did come out yesterday and it may have fixed the issue,...
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Trying Out OneNote for iPad
I’ve continued to use the Notes app in iOS 9 and it’s been a great, simple scratchpad for ideas and compiling research links. However, the kicker is that it’s just not accessible on my work PC. The...
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Final Fantasy VII Now Available For iPad
Final Fantasy VII arrived earlier this week, and early reviews on the App Store are calling it a pretty good port. The game first debuted in 1997 and sucked up hundreds of hours of my childhood, and...
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