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Big news tonight folks, Apple has just approved a bunch of new apps for the iPad and we’re able to show you some good previews.
The New York Times Editors’ Choice app features a unique display of media content like photos and videos optimized for the iPad, offline reading and sharing options. All of this packed in complete new user interface and navigation. Check out the screenshots below.
Party games weren’t that huge of a success on the iPhone. Wait, were there party games on the iPhone at all?
The iPhone wasn’t (isn’t) exactly the best fit for party games, but things are gonna change with the iPad. Thanks to the bigger screen (yes, once again) some developers thought that it would have been interesting to step into the unexplored land of local multiplayer and offer users the possibility to touch things on screen - together.
Globetrotters is the first games we’ve just stumbled upon, it features (what they seem) nice graphics and allows you to play with 3 other friends on the same device. From what we can see right now, you basically have to jump from a planet to another and collect some colored stars to win. Sorta. But anyway, the thing is - party games are now possible. Too bad I won’t have 3 other friends with an iPad to test Globetrotters, because it looks good. Take a look at the screenies after the jump.
I did see this coming. Already available on the iPhone, the Yellow Pages app can surely make a great use of the additional screen real estate, thus providing a far better experience for the user. Look at the tab bar though: 10 icons. Couldn’t it just use popovers instead of all those tabs? We’ll see. Until that day, take a look at the screenshots below.
We know the iPad is going to change many things, but reading is no doubt the experience that will undergo the most significant changes thanks to Apple’s new product. We have this large screen, we have iBooks..but what about comics? We heard Panelfly was working on the iPad version of its popular application, but today we’ve found a video of an alternative to Panelfly, iVerse Comics, which is noteworthy.
Thing is, this video of iVersa gives us a glimpse of what in-app purchase looks like on the iPad and you can see, the guys have basically embedded the App Store interface right inside the application. Coverflow and all, it’s there. You can sort comics with a popover on the left, swipe and slide to see what’s hot, purchase. Modal windows everywhere, it seems like it will be a real pleasure to spend money just to buy the latest issue of Star Trek.
We’ve embedded the video below. We can’t wait to see more.
It’s not an official Flickr app, yet you’ll be able to browse Flickr and download photos on day one with a native app. It’s called Flickr Photos, and it lets you preview, download photos and even browse your contact’s streams and sets. It makes use of both the landscape and portrait view, and it will be available at $2.99. Check out the screenshots after the break.
It turns out d-jay apps are taking a major spot in the “we’re working on an iPad app, available on April 3rd” market and actually, I’ve seen some pretty great apps in the works. Sonorasaurus Rex is a new application for the iPad which sports a stunning user interface design and tons of features which I’m sure will make it stand out from the crowd. I can already see this software being used in some live set, as it’s very promising and I have no doubt pro users will find creative uses for it.
Check out the video after the jump and if you’re into this kind of apps, you know what you’ll have to do on April 3rd.
We don’t know if this is going to be approved by Apple but if it will, things will get interesting. There’s been a lot of buzz around multitasking and widgets on the iPad, so I guess it was just about time that someone came up with an idea like this: combining them. Widgets and multitasking, for the web: browsing multiple websites, do multiple things at the same moment without losing the ability to keep everything under control, just a glimpse away. Like splitting your Safari windows to fit half the screen and watching Lady Gaga while watching Lady Gaga. He would approve that.
But anyway, the concept of DashApp is simple: enabling you to open multiple websites at once using the iPhone visualization (thus resembling a widget mode) and multitasking. Updating Facebook Mobile while listening to a song on Youtube. Sounds nice to me, and if DashApp could perhaps use some UI refinements and improvements, no doubt we should expect more stuff like this in the future. Take a look at the video after the break, and follow the developer of DashApp on Twitter to stay updated.
