Ken Follett’s novel “Pillars of the Earth” is being released today as an Amplified Edition, an interactive electronic book for Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Videos and other content from the eight-hour Starz TV miniseries of Pillars are integrated within the […]
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Amazon recently updated the Kindle app for for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. This new version will allow readers to access audio and video features embedded in texts. Early examples tend to be practical rather than literary. They include a travel guide, […]
Kindle App Update Adds Audio and Video Features to Text
In my last post I wrote about the updated MobileMe iDisk app for the iPad. MobileMe is Apple’s service to store your email, contacts, calendars and more in the cloud and sync that information over the air with your iPhone, iPod Touch […]
MobileMe for Less
Apple has updated the MobileMe iDisk app to include a version (1.2) for the iPad. MobileMe is Apple’s version of a cloud-based (online) service offering storage, mail, picture gallery, contacts, calendars and a few other useful utilities. The MobileMe service costs $99 per […]
Apple’s MobileMe iDisk App Updated for the iPad
In previous posts I wrote about PDF apps for the iPad and the improvements coming soon with the update to Apple’s iBooks app. The new iBooks app (version 1.1) arrived June 21st. I’ve spent a little time checking the PDF […]
iBooks Update and PDF Support – Convenient But Not Complete
Matthew Miller over at ZDNet just published a review of four office app suites in an iPad Office App Showdown. He critiques the iWork apps (Pages, Keynote and Numbers), Documents to Go, Office2 HD, and Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite (Quickoffice HD). Though each had […]