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Posts tagged with "iPad"

iPad, Google Voice and Incoming / Outgoing Calls [Video]

To those who said the iPad was “just a bigger iPhone”, I can now say you were right guys. After watching this video you’ll see how indeed the iPad is a bigger iPhone which lets you even make bigger calls. Yep. Or maybe not.

Thing is, I stumbled upon this video on Youtube of this guy who’s managed to create a pretty straightforward method to use Google Voice on the iPad, call and receive calls even when the screen is locked. You just have to forward your GV number to Gizmo, run the iSip iPhone app on the iPad and insert your Gizmo settings. Also, you can use a bluetooth headset for it.

I think it’s cool, and I’d love to test Google Voice someday myself. Sadly, it’s not available in Italy. Check out the video after the break.

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Articles for iPad: Wikipedia Where It Was Meant To Be

Some applications make more sense on the iPad, some don’t. When I first reviewed Articles from Sophiestication in its iPhone version, I said it was the best Wikipedia app for iPhone out there. I still think it is, as no other application has managed to get even near to the sheer amount of quality Sophia has put into that tiny Wikipedia client. But one could argue whether the iPhone is any good for reading, and that’s a complete different story. Once you try an iPad, you realize how much it is better for reading and consuming content than the iPhone, which is meant for accessing that content on the go.

As you try an iPad you realize how much a previously iPhone-only application makes more sense on it, and Articles is no exception.

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Ego for iPad: With More Pixels, You’re More Important

You have a blog, and you know that keeping an eye on stats is important. You track visits and unique visitors, but you’ve gotten used to monitor outbound links, referrers and landing pages, because you also know that details are important. You track your Twitter followers, RSS subscribers and Vimeo play counts. Sometimes you wish you could track who follows and unfollows you every day, oh wait - you’ve installed Birdbrain on your iPhone for that. You’re a web analytics junkie. You can’t wait to wake up in the morning to see if someone on the Internet is talking about you, just to see if your latest post has turned out to be that success you expected.

Your most loved iPhone application is Ego. And now you can have it on the iPad as well.

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Magical Device: The First iPad Marriage Proposal

Steve Jobs told us the iPad was magical, and it turns out that many people took that words really seriously. TechCrunch reader Zach Iniguez used his new iPad to ask her girlfriend to marry him, in the same spot he asker her out 2 years ago. We’ve heard of many other “Apple-related” marriage proposals before, but this is one stands out for the “implementation”.

Really, take a look at the original email from Zach below.

“Hi TechCrunch,

I’m a huge fan of your blog and read it every day, and I thought you might be interested in this. This weekend I brought my girlfriend to a local ice cream shop where we had our first date. I also brought along my iPad, since I wanted to “field test” it, as I told her. We sat outside on the same bench we had 2 1/2 years ago, and I asked her to put on earphones. I then handed her the iPad and played a slideshow with music and photos of the two of us together, with a message at the end: “will you marry me?” I got down on one knee and proposed, and fortunately she said yes. Maybe Steve Jobs was right–the iPad is magical!

Thanks for providing me with years of news and entertainment.

Zach”

Oh by the way, she said yes.

Issuu Updated for HTML5 iPad Reading

Issuu, the popular website that allows you to upload any kind of document and make a magazine out of it, has been updated for the iPad.

Instead of displaying content in Flash, now there’s a fallback in HTML5 for Apple’s new device, together with a nice interface that fits the iPad screen. Take a look at the screenshot beyond the break.

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Omnifocus for iPad, Coming This June

With a post on the official company blog, the Omnigroup has announced the roadmap for all their other Mac applications which are being ported to the iPad.

Omnifocus, surely one of the most popular apps from the Omni guys, is coming in less than two months:

“We’re currently working on OmniFocus and OmniOutliner in parallel. OmniFocus has a bit of a head start, thanks to the work we’d already done in bringing it to iPhone, so we anticipate its iPad app will be ready in June. OmniOutliner is a little further out, and our current projection is that it will ship this summer. Finally, after we’ve shipped those four apps, we’ll round out the set with OmniPlan for iPad which we’re currently anticipating will ship sometime this fall.”

Great news. We’ll take a look at it as soon as possible.