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What Would Dad Say » New Job Searching App for the IPAD
The LinkUp IPad app (FREE, what did you expect from LinkUp?) is now available via iTunes. Just search on ‘job search’ and you can see it, download it, marvel at it.
You will marvel at it. It’s that good. Mah-va-lous.
Our development team used all the Ipad features and functionality. This is not some slap it together, let’s get it out Ipad app. It is not an universal app either…you know, one that was really made for the IPhone, but now made to fit on the IPad, but it just floats in the middle like a piece of software crap an embarrassing signal of development incompetence for the entire world to see and unmarvel at…NOT our LINKUP app.
Like Billy Crystal said, “It’s just mahvelous.”
If you have an Ipad, download it. Then browse around. If you have a job you can see all the other companies who are now beginning to hire–over 450,000 job openings whoohoo. Real jobs, open, and mostly un-advertised elsewhere.
If you don’t have an Ipad, the LinkUp app is a good reason to get one.
Just saying.
Ed note. You can check out LinkUp Ipad features here.
via blogs.jobdig.com
What Would Dad Say » New Job Searching App for the IPAD
The LinkUp IPad app (FREE, what did you expect from LinkUp?) is now available via iTunes. Just search on ‘job search’ and you can see it, download it, marvel at it.
You will marvel at it. It’s that good. Mah-va-lous.
Our development team used all the Ipad features and functionality. This is not some slap it together, let’s get it out Ipad app. It is not an universal app either…you know, one that was really made for the IPhone, but now made to fit on the IPad, but it just floats in the middle like a piece of software crap an embarrassing signal of development incompetence for the entire world to see and unmarvel at…NOT our LINKUP app.
Like Billy Crystal said, “It’s just mahvelous.”
If you have an Ipad, download it. Then browse around. If you have a job you can see all the other companies who are now beginning to hire–over 450,000 job openings whoohoo. Real jobs, open, and mostly un-advertised elsewhere.
If you don’t have an Ipad, the LinkUp app is a good reason to get one.
Just saying.
Ed note. You can check out LinkUp Ipad features here.
via blogs.jobdig.com
Getting Writing Done With SimpleNote On The iPad
The default writing tool of the iPad is its Notebook. It’s a basic text tool useful for what it is named for. But one of the features most of us writers need is a way to export our documents from the iPad to another computer and word processor. With the iPad’s Notebook you can only export documents via email. A better and faster way is to wirelessly sync your writing between your iPad and an online account, which can then be accessed from any computer.
The free ad-supported iPad app, SimpleNote (iTunes Store link), works well for automatically syncing straight forward text documents between your iPad and your online account. SimpleNote has no tools for formatting text, embedding images, or saving documents in different formats. But wireless syncing capabilities are required in my view for writing production on the iPad, especially since the device lacks a traditional Finder for saving documents beyond apps or even to a USB drive.
For extended writing, Apple offers an iPad version of its desktop application, Pages, which is similar to Microsoft Word. However, Pages comes with a $10 price tag. Although it includes lots of advance features not found in SimpleNote, I believe Page’s wireless syncing feature also comes at a price, for you have to upgrade to the Pages ‘09 in order to wirelessly sync documents between the iPad Pages app and Apple’s iWork.com site. Your SimpleNote account, on the other hand, is totally free.
SimpleNote works as a word processor on and offline, and it saves your writing automatically. Once connected, SimpleNote immediately syncs to your online account. You can also type in both portrait and landscape positions.
Another big plus for using SimpleNote is that it actually works with the mobile version of Textexpander (iTunes Store link), the commercial automatic text expansion application. When downloaded on the iPad (or iPhone/iPod touch), Textexpander actually seems to work in the background when you’re typing in SimpleNote – just as you would when using the desktop version of the app. The ability to use Textexpander with SimpleNote is yet another reason, from a productivity perspective, that SimpleNote is in many ways a better option than Apple‘s Pages.
Also, the online syncing feature of SimpleNote means that your documents will sync to your iPhone or iPod touch. While you might not want to do heavy duty typing on the iPhone, you will be able to read your documents and perform simple edits which will get synced back to your online account.
You can get a premium SimpleNote account for $8.50 per year that includes disabling ads, frequent automatic backup and the ability to set up an RSS feed for your documents. However, the free basic features are sufficient for your regular writing needs.
If you’re an iPad user, let us know which word processing tools you use, and the features you would like to see added to the iPad for getting writing done on the device.
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List of magazines currently available on the iPad - Apple iPad Girl: iPad comics, e-reading, app reviews, iPad news
The following is a list of magazines that are currently available for the iPad as separate apps. If you notice that I've missed any, please post in the comments section. Please note that prices may change, some titles may only be accessible in certain countries, and some of these apps may represent specific issues rather than a subscription.
You should also check out the Zinio Magazine Newsstand & Reader, which will give you access (usually for a fee, though there are freebies) to issues and subscriptions to a wide range of publications.
AVAILABLE AS IPAD APPS
3D Artist magazine: $1.99
Bucks Life: $0.99
Develop3D: $0.99
Digital Artist Magazine: $1.99
Dirt Mountain Bike: $0.99
Dwell: $0.99
Eliza: $0.99
GQ: $2.99
How It Works: 1st issue free for a limited time
iCreate: $1.99
Interview: $2.99
Letter to Jane: $0.99
MacUser: $0.99
Mainline: $0.99
Maxim: $2.99
MotorHome: $1.99
The Nation: Free (1st issue)
Opera: Limited free preview of current issue.
Outside: $2.99
Photoshop Creative: $1.99
Play: $1.99
Popular Science: $4.99
SciFiNow: $1.99
Time: April 12 issue, $4.99
Women's Health: Free (until July 31, 2010)
Dropbox for iPad – Quick App Review | PadGadget
If you don’t know what Dropbox is, the service offers about 2GB of free space in their cloud for your files, and automatically syncs your cloud storage space with the folder of your choice on your Mac or PC. Dropbox for iPad instantly allows you to view these files on the go, as long as you are connected via 3G or WiFi. You can for instance open a Keynote/Powerpoint document available in your dropbox folder via Keynote on your iPad.
The app has been ported from the iPhone to the iPad about 2 weeks ago, and the added real estate makes a huge difference, as it offers a much more convenient access to your files via a split-screen layout. The app supports many file formats, and has recently been updated in order to allow you to upload files such as pictures to your dropbox, or zoom. PDF support is a bit flaky, but given the amazing job the developer did with the app, and the fact that the app is free, it’s hard to complain.
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The iPad doesn’t need to do everything
Rationalizing the purchase of an iPad usually includes a few of these:
- I’ll carry it around most of the time.
- I’ll be able to replace my laptop with it.
- I’ll be able to replace my Kindle with it.
- I’ll bring it on trips instead of my laptop.
- I’ll respond to email with it.
- I’ll get work done with it.
- I’ll take notes with it.
After a month of heavy use, I don’t think it’s good for any of those. A more accurate list might be:
- I’ll play games on it.1
- I’ll check email on it, but not respond much, because that requires a lot of typing.
- I’ll check RSS and Twitter on it, but not exclusively.
- I’ll read for short periods on it before my hands get tired of holding it.
The iPad is a great device, but what’s it for, really?
Logically, it doesn’t make a lot of sense for most computer owners. In reality, if you needed a laptop before, you probably still need one. If you want to read novels, the Kindle is still a much better device for that. If you need a small computer for ancillary tasks that’s always connected and always with you, an iPhone is better (and you probably already have one). And, even though it’s a great deal for the hardware, most people will have trouble justifying the $500 entry price.
But using it is satisfying and delightful, and there are some things that it does better than a computer. That list isn’t as big as I, and probably most early buyers, initially assumed. And that’s OK.
The Kindle has a built-in web browser and is always connected to the internet for free. That’s amazing. Imagine how useful that is! But, in reality, it’s not. It’s such a terribly suited device for web browsing that the browser is buried in an “Experimental” menu and almost no Kindle owners are likely to have used it more than once. The Kindle isn’t even great at reading all “books”: textbooks and anything relying heavily on graphics, color, navigation, or precise formatting are all nearly unreadable on the Kindle. Even most periodicals offer a passable-at-best reading experience, despite having the huge technical advantage of scheduled, automatic, wireless delivery.
It doesn’t matter, though, because the Kindle is great at one thing: reading novel-length text.
We don’t need every computer-like device to do everything. A gadget just needs to be good at something that you need or want to do.
For me, my iPad is the ideal Instapaper device. It’s also a lot of fun for games, especially with multiple people gathered around. And it’s convenient to casually browse RSS, Twitter, and the Tumblr Dashboard on it while hanging out around the apartment away from my computer, even though I also do these things on computers. It’s the perfect living-room computer that lives on the coffee table and can be used to quickly look up a fact, find a restaurant, check mail, browse news, and play a game.2
It’s absolutely not a productivity device for me, but that’s OK: I have computers for that.
Accepting that the iPad isn’t an all-purpose computing device is going to be a slow process for everyone, including Apple. They can’t quite explain what it’s for, either, which is why the launch marketing, software, and accessories are a bit scatterbrained. For instance, if you’re using a hardware keyboard with the iPad very often, you’d probably be much better served by a MacBook Air.
This doesn’t make the iPad a worse product or a waste of money3. It’s just not as general-purpose as a regular computer. (Nothing could be. That’s an impossible goal.)
Find the balance: use the iPad for what it does well, accept that it won’t be everything, and use other tools for the rest.
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Plants vs. Zombies has probably sold more iPads than iBooks has. ↩
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The iPhone also does all of these things, but I’d rather use the iPad if it’s nearby because the additional screen space will allow me to do these things more effectively and efficiently than on the iPhone. It’s like having both a desktop and a laptop: you use the desktop if you’re near it. ↩
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But you may not be able to as easily rationalize its cost, e.g.: “If I buy an iPad, I can sell my laptop!” Because you probably won’t. ↩
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Saddleback Leather Gadget Pouches are all Class | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Gadget bags and cases are almost uniformly hideous. Made from neoprene, nylon and brightly-colored fabrics, they offer protection at the expense of style. Dressing well and toting a notebook or cellphone inside a standard bag is like turning up to a wedding wearing a tailored suit with a ski-jacket.
The alternatives are usually expensive. These cases, though, from Saddleback Leather, are both reasonably priced and gorgeous. Made from heavy, good-quality leather, they’re guaranteed for 100 years, so they’ll still be with you when your face starts to look like your laptop bag. And the prices? Amazingly, pretty low. The iPad sleeve, seen above with a couple of smaller pouches perched on top, is just $55.
But best of all is the website. There is a page titled “Our Rivals“, which is a list of links to other leather-makers’ sites. The FAQ is probably worth sending off to your Instapaper to read later. Some examples:
How can I get ink off of my leather?
Well, you’re pretty much screwed. One person said that hairspray worked to get their ink out, but there’s something cooler you can do. Take it to a tattoo artist and have him make a sun or cross or something like that with it. It’ll look cool and you’ll have a good story too.
and from the warranty details:
Saddleback Leather products are made to last a lifetime, but the warranty does not cover misuse or abuse such as the following: Like if you take it shark diving in salt water (see video) and a rivet corrodes.
These are the kind of people I like to do business with. All products available now, with international shipping. And if you can’t choose what color you want, there’s even a personality test to help you decide.
Gadget Pouches [Saddleback Leather via Uncrate]
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The iPad Job Search
Part of this is my Apple fanboy-ness and part of it is my desire to remain ahead of the curve.
A lot of job search has moved mobile. So many apps are now out there for mobile job search that it has become a major source of job search traffic and also a major tool in the modern job search.
I just perused the list of iPad launching apps and to the best of my knowledge, there are no job search apps on there yet. What I’d like to do is have us all keep our eyes out for when the first one launches.
Will it be Careerbuilder, an early and heavy user of the iPhone app ecosystem? Will someone make a mashup app for craigslist?
Or will it be more interesting?
Just as the mobile web has given us a new way to job search, will the iPad bring us something we can’t imagine yet? Will the iPad become something (more interestingly for me, certainly because I own a resume writing business) that is a presentation device? Will it be something we bring along to interviews and job fairs? Will the iPad become the modern brief case? Will this be the way we show off our resumes or portfolios?
I don’t know the answers yet, but I want to make sure we’re all there when we find out.
So, I’ll be getting my iPad on Saturday. And I’ll post some stuff here about it.
But help me out as well. If you see some job search oriented iPad apps pop up, please, let me know. If someone starts using the iPad for job search in new and interesting ways, please let me know.
I’ll share it here, and we can all dissect and evaluate it. Is it the future? We’ll decide together.
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The 10 Top Free Apps For The iPad
I’m also sure you have heard that you can download the iPhone and iPod touch apps you already own to your iPad tablet. But my humble recommendation is not to add all them of them to your iPad, only the free iPad apps that you really need to use.
Original apps made for the iPhone/iPod touch can be viewed in their original size on the iPad or they can be enlarged using the zoom-in button. But neither view takes quality advantage of the iPad screen. Zoomed in, the original apps become a little pixilated. In their original size, they look, of course, too small. It may not be a big deal for some iPad users, but for me, once you see the optimized apps for the iPad, you might think twice about adding non-optimized apps to your device.
Okay, so now let’s move on to some optimized free apps for the iPad that look really great.
Evernote
MUO has several articles on the free notebook application, Evernote. Not only can you get a free Evernote account, but the iPad app is also free. It take full advantage of the iPad screen real estate in which all your notebooks are displayed in icon form.
When you click on a notebook, you get a really nice icon view of your individual notes and documents in the selected notebook, with selected content displayed underneath. I could write an entire article about this app, but suffice to say, the design is just great.
Apple’s iBook
If you’re looking forward to reading e-books on the iPad, you will want to download of course Apple‘s iBooks application. I haven’t had a chance to read an entire book using the application, but based on reading a few pages from a sample book I downloaded from the iBooks store, the experience is pretty much like reading on the Kindle for the iPhone, but with a larger screen.
Apple has thrown some impressive eye-candy into its e-reader that resembles reading a paper book. Personally, I’m glad I put off buying the Kindle and waiting instead for the iPad. If you’re a dedicated Kindle customer, the Kindle for the iPad is equal to the iBook, for highlighting and bookmarking text and pages, though the iBook has search capabilities absent in the Kindle iPad app.
Fwix
Fwix is a news reader that downloads top news stories about your local area. Stories are taken from various sources, and its elegant, clean interface scanning headlines very easy. And unlike newspapers, there are no ads on the front “table of contents” page. When you click to read the full version of a story, you do get ads on the source pages.
NPR
The NPR app is another free app I‘ve written about for MUO. It’s a great news app that is even better on the iPad. It has small ads at the bottom of the screen, but they don’t distract from the clean design of the interface. You get top NPR news stories in both written and radio format. You can also create a playlist of stories that you want to save or read later.
Furthermore, you can listen to local NPR stations and save them as your favorites. The app will locate the nearest stations for you, or search by zip code.
Fluent News Reader
Okay, one more news app. This one downloads top news stories based on categories and topics you want it to search for. The sources include Wall Street Journal, Fox News, CNN, Time, USA Today, and others. You can also save stories for later reading.
Dragon Dictation
You will definitely want to download Dragon’s Dictation app to your iPad. It does the same thing as the iPhone version, but in the larger iPad version, you can save dictated notes as you do with Apple‘s free notebook. The only drawback is that you can’t see text as you dictate, so it takes a little getting used to.
Twitterific
I’m simply loving Twitterific for the iPad, even with its unobtrusive ads. The developers also take full advantage of the iPad’s screen real estate. In horizontal view, you get every feature of the app available to you in on a single screen. In vertical view, you simply click on your account name and a menu bar pops out to access Twitter features. The entire design deserves an Emmy.
TweetDeck
If you’re a Twitter power user, you’ll want to add TweetDeck for the iPad. Its interface works much better on the larger screen, and you also can sync searches between other devices you have TweetDeck installed on.
Netflix
If you have a Netflix account, you can now watch streaming selected movies and TV shows on your iPad with this free app. It’s part of your Netflix unlimited membership, and is not available for the iPhone.
ABC Player
I’m not much of a television watcher, but the ABC network app looks to be a great way to watch streaming ABC shows. This app is not made for the iPhone, but with the much higher screen resolution of the iPad, the shows look great.
Well, that’s my top ten selections of free apps, selected in the first 48 hours of the iPad’s release. I know there will be many other free apps that MUO readers could recommend, so please do so in the comments section.
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MovieBuddy for the iPad: a new way to look at Netflix
MovieBuddy for Netflix [US $0.99] is a new native iPad app that serves as a graphically beautiful front-end for Netflix subscribers. Billy Crystal, as Fernando on Saturday Night Live, had a catch-phrase that went: "It's better to look good than to feel good," and that's what kept going through my mind as I looked at this
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Minimal Initial thoughts…
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Last week I bought an iPad. A 32Gb Wifi only model.
I bought a Wifi only model because a) I usually am around places with wireless, b) I have an iPhone and it’s enough for when I need something if I am in the middle of the street and c) I don’t want to pay AT&T more money for a service that will be spotty at best. 32Gb is enough for me right now, so I put the extra $100 that would’ve cost to get the bigger model onto buying a case (an Incase neoprene case similar to the one I have for the Macbook) and an extra charger. It was worth it.
Last night my wife commented on the fact that I haven’t touched the laptop in a week.
True. I’ve been using the iPad for everything except run Xcode. I haven’t noticed anything missing so far. It’s just fantastic.
I will post a more detailed review of it, but for now I needed to say what I already knew:
Devices like the iPad are the future for every-day devices. OS’s like the iPhone OS are the future for every-day devices.
How Apple should display iPhone apps on iPad on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
See the icons for Tweetie, Birdbrain, Flight Control, Compression.
Those apps are all iPhone apps, and when run on an iPad they run small in the center of the screen with black surrounds (or at an ugly 2x scaled).
On the home screen, these iPhone apps are currently represented much the same as iPad apps, except their 57x57 pixel icons are blown up to be an ugly blurry 72x72 next to the higher res iPad icons.
In this mockup, with the black borders they could keep their sharp 57x57 pixel size, and have the added benefit of being easily recognizable as iPhone apps to the user.
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Using A Macbook From An iPad With iTeleport
Since I saw the first real photos of the iPad and its gorgeous screen, I wondered how many developers would start developing VNC clients for it. I mean, back then it was pretty clear that the iPad’s screen was perfect to access your computer remotely, and it’s more than clear now that we’ve tested a bunch of applications to do so.
I’ve downloaded and tested many VNC clients for the iPhone and the iPad, and I think that many of them show good ideas and possibilities, but most of them fail in the most important aspect: providing a stress free and easy way to just show your computer’s screen on a mobile device, and interact with it. They overwhelm the user with tons of useless features but, fortunately, iTeleport is nothing like that.
I’ve downloaded and tested many VNC clients for the iPhone and the iPad, and I think that many of them show good ideas and possibilities, but most of them fail in the most important aspect: providing a stress free and easy way to just show your computer’s screen on a mobile device, and interact with it. They overwhelm the user with tons of useless features but, fortunately, iTeleport is nothing like that.
iTeleport is now available as a universal app, so if you buy the iPhone app you’ll be able to install it as a native app on the iPad as well. I was a previous customer of the iPhone version, and I got the iPad update for free. Also, let me say this straight up: it’s not the cheapest app ever. It comes at $24.99 in the App Store, so think about it very well before clicking the buy button.
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