As promised, this week I take you through one of the most anticipated apps, at least for existing Spotify users, and that's Spotify for iPad.
Spotify is a subscription based service that allows you to access millions and millions of music tracks,
With a Mac client and an iPhone client available, the iPad has been long neglected, but that has all changed with the introduction of the iPad app. Not only is it available, but it's stunning in it's design and execution.
This week's tutorial takes you through all the important features and demonstrates how to get up to speed with the app quickly.
Twitter is maturing into an indispensable messaging platform for many millions of people. The importance of Twitter has been recognised by Apple by its deep integration with iOS5.
Unfortunately, the official Twitter client leaves a lot to be desired, and the quest for the ultimate Twitter client continues unabated.
This week, I take a look at what may take the title of the ultimate Twitter client, and that's Tweetbot.
Continuing on from last week, I continue looking at using GoodReader.
Initially designed as a File Viewer and PDF annotation tool, GoodReader has matured into the "Swiss Army Knife" of file transfer applications.
In this second part, I take you through some of the more advanced file transfer capabilities of this amazing application.
Do you wish file transfer on the iPad and iPhone was just a little bit easier?
This week I take a look at an application that may ease some of your frustrations - GoodReader.
Initially designed as a File Viewer and PDF annotation tool, GoodReader has matured into the "Swiss Army Knife" of file transfer applications.
In the first of a two part series, I take you the capabilities of GoodReader and look at some basic file transfer methods - there are many to choose from!
Two applications in this week's tutorial, both from the same vendor.
The main focus of the tutorial is Drafts, a new application intended to remove the friction of entering short text notes on your iOS device.
Just fire up the app and you'll be presented with a new note - no creating or naming required. Once you've entered the text, you can send it to all sorts of places - Twitter, email, clipboard, etc.
Add in Markdown and TextExpander touch support, and it's earned a place in my doc.
I also take a look at Terminology, a great Dictionary/Thesaurus application with native integration with Drafts and other applications.
The iOS Music player sucks, especially on the iPad!
OnCue comes to the rescue and allows us to play our music in a flexible and fluid way. No longer restricted to rigid playlists, OnCue allows us to create a dynamic playlist on the fly. Listen to a track and add additional tracks to your queue as it plays. See what's coming next and re-adjust the queue by tap, hold and drag. It's a brilliant way to control your music.
How many times have you listened to a random track, wanted to play more from that album but not bothered because of the hassle? OnCue makes it simple to queue up tracks from the same artist or Album currently playing, even find and play YouTube videos of the song. Want to create "Smart Queues" directly on you iOS device - OnCue can do that too!
This week is all about storage on your iOS device. With the advent of the new Retina Display on the new iPad , the issue of storage becomes critical for many people juggling Apps and Media on their iOS devices.
Apple have provided some useful tools and views to see just what is installed on your iOS device and how much space it is taking up.
This tutorial takes you through the different views, and demonstrates how to manage your storage.
I also take a look at iCloud backups and give you some background and guidance on how to optimise your usage.
Edit, view and share your photos, directly from your iPad or iPhone. Apple have done it again with a groundbreaking new application for iOS.
iPhoto for iOS allows you to edit your photos with multitouch gestures, right on your iPad or iPhone. Leapfrogging the capabilities of iPhone on the Mac, iPhoto for iOS has some groundbreaking features, allowing for direct manipulation of your photos via touch.
In this tutorial, I take you through some of the new editing and sharing features of iPhoto for iOS, and examine some potential workflows.
Edit, view and share your photos, directly from your iPad or iPhone. Apple have done it again with a groundbreaking new application for iOS.
iPhoto for iOS allows you to edit your photos with multitouch gestures, right on your iPad or iPhone. Leapfrogging the capabilities of iPhone on the Mac, iPhoto for iOS has some groundbreaking features, allowing for direct manipulation of you photos via touch.
This first part of a two part series starts off by looking at some iPhoto basics, before moving to some more advanced features next week.
Readability is a new way of reading and collating your online material.
Whilst there is a lot of great content on the web, more often than not, the great content is surrounded by adverts, banners and all sorts of distractions that detract from the reading experience. Mobile Safari has "Reader" built in to remove the distractions, but Readability takes distraction free reading to the next level, as well as allowing you to collect and store your online reading material is a single reading list. If you have an iPhone or iPad, you can even take it offline with you.
This week's iOS show focusses on using Readability via Mobile Safari, the new Readability iOS app, as well as exploring it's integration with other 3rd party iOS apps. If you'd like to know more about using Readability on Mac, check this week's Mac tutorial.
All about PhotoBooth, Facetime and YouTube on the iPad.
As promised, this week I take you through one of the most anticipated apps, at least for existing Spotify users, and that's Spotify for iPad.
Spotify is a subscription based service that allows you to access millions and millions of music tracks,
With a Mac client and an iPhone client available, the iPad has been long neglected, but that has all changed with the introduction of the iPad app. Not only is it available, but it's stunning in it's design and execution.
This week's tutorial takes you through all the important features and demonstrates how to get up to speed with the app quickly.
All about Reminders on the iPad
All about Calendar on the iPad
1Password for iOS allows you to securely store all your passwords, personal information, credit cards, software licences and much more on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.
This tutorial shows how to effectively use 1Password within the limitations of iOS multitasking and fast application switching.
[Originally published March 2010] Time to start thinking about what Apps to put on to the iPad!
This is the first in an occasional series of screencasts where I select my absolutely indispensable apps for the new iPad. No iPad?
Well not to worry, as these will all work just as well on the iPhone or iPod Touch. Actually, as the iPad was still unreleased at the time of recording, I can’t get access to native iPad apps so these are the iPhone versions, but should work just fine on the iPad!
