iPad Users Group http://blogs.bard.edu/ipadsupport Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:22:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Dropbox / Free http://blogs.bard.edu/ipadsupport/2011/07/18/dropbox-free/ http://blogs.bard.edu/ipadsupport/2011/07/18/dropbox-free/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:22:28 +0000 doconnor http://blogs.bard.edu/ipadsupport/?p=172

Description:

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your iPhone and iPad and even the Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go.

Read your docs or flip through your albums when you’re out and about. Save photos or videos to your Dropbox and share them with friends in just a couple taps. Even if you accidentally leave your iPhone in a taxi, your stuff is always safe on Dropbox.

Features:
? Always have your stuff with you, no matter where you are.
? Add files to “Favorites” for fast, offline viewing.
? Easily save photos and videos to your Dropbox.
? Share your photos and docs with family and friends.
? Save email attachments straight to your Dropbox.

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Description:

GoodReader is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad – the #1 selling non-Apple app for iPad in USA in 2010! With GoodReader on your iPad, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: books, movies, maps, pictures. Use it once and you’ll be hooked. Soon you’ll be wondering how you ever managed to use your iPad without GoodReader.

GoodReader has earned its accolades by the way it handles huge PDF and TXT files, manuals, large books, magazines, and renderings of 100 mb and more with great speed. The ability to mark-up PDFs opens up new doors to GoodReader users who can now use typewriter text boxes, sticky notes, lines, arrows, and freehand drawings on top of a PDF file.

The latest version of GoodReader adds the ability for you to sync your files with remote servers! Now you can:
• sync with iDisk, Dropbox, SugarSync and any WebDAV, FTP or SFTP server
• sync entire folders or individual files separately
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GoodReader not only supports massive PDF and TXT files, but also handles the most popular file types: MS Office – .doc, .ppt., .xls,  iWork ’08/’09,  HTML and Safari webarchives, High resolution images, Even audio and video!
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ANNOTATE! Annotation is a feature long sought after by users who want to add their own mark-ups to PDFs, especially those collaborating as a team on shared documents. The types of annotations that can be created and edited in GoodReader include typewriter text boxes, popup comments (“sticky notes”), text highlights, freehand drawings, lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, cloudy shapes, text underlines, strikeouts, text insertion marks.

TRANSFER FILES! Within moments of downloading GoodReader, you’ll be transferring files in a number of ways: directly from your computer over a USB cable or WiFi connection, from the Internet or from email attachments. It also easily integrates with iDisk, Google Docs, Dropbox, SugarSync, box.net and other WebDAV, FTP and SFTP servers.

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PDF HYPERLINKS! The PDF hyperlink feature allows you to quickly jump back and forth within the document. Tapping a link quickly whisks you across a huge PDF book in an instant, and the “Go Back” button will take you back to the page you came from.

TEXT SEARCH! If you know what you’re looking for, the Text Search feature helps you find your way to the exact info you want in any PDF or TXT file.

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Description:

Save web pages for later offline reading, optimized for readability on your iPhone or iPod touch’s screen. Featured by Apple and critically acclaimed by top blogs, newspapers, and magazines!

Great for long articles and blog posts that you find during the day and would like to read, but don’t have the time when you find them. Save with Instapaper, then read later when you’re commuting, in a meeting, or waiting in line.

New in 3.0: You can now browse and save articles that your friends liked on Instapaper! Find friends on Facebook or Twitter, or via email.  Sending to Instapaper is supported by over 140 other iPhone and iPad apps! You can even send long emails to Instapaper. And if you run out of articles to read, or haven’t had time to find any, you can browse the Editor’s Picks for more, curated by hand from the Instapaper community’s most-saved stories.

CORE FEATURES:

- Saves most web pages as text only, stripping away the full-sized layout to optimize for the iPhone and iPad screens
- Distraction-free reading environment gets out of your way so you can focus on the content
- Everything you download is then available **OFFLINE**, so you can read whenever you want, even on airplanes or on Wi-Fi-only devices away from internet connections

PLUS:

- Adjustable fonts, text sizes, line spacing, and margins
- Search
- Dark mode for night reading
- Folders
- Dictionary lookups
- Tilt scrolling, page-flipping
- Article sharing via email, Tumblr, or Twitter
- Rotation lock
- Download up to 500 articles on your iPhone or iPad, and store unlimited articles on the Instapaper website
- Preview links in the built-in browser without leaving the app

And more. Details: http://www.instapaper.com/iphone

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Noteshelf let’s anyone take effective and organized notes straight from their iPad. Download this writing utility today and begin taking digital notes while having this app’s comprehensive note template library, editing, customization, and organizational options at your fingertips.

Noteshelf utilizes optimized handwriting functions to enable users to quickly and easily input notes within the app by hand without worry. An innovative ‘zoom’ writing mode allows users to use their finger to quickly write by hand in large print, which is then minimized to it original size on the app’s virtual notepad. Stroke smoothening technology ensures that no matter how hastily users write, notes will always stay legible. Noteshelf also includes a unique ‘wrist protection’ feature that ensures writers do not strain their hands while taking notes by allowing them to rest their wrist on the iPad’s writing surface while they write without creating unwanted graphic marks.

Noteshelf also features a full array of varying functionalities which ensure that the app is flexible enough to fit anyone’s needs. The app’s template library includes 17 uniquely preformatted notesheets optimized to suit many specific user needs such as creating a day planner or keeping a personal journal. Noteshelf also allows users to embed and annotate photos within their notes and includes an extensive collection of over 450 individual icons, divided into 5 separate categories, so that note takers can easily yet effectively label and organize their notes. Taking this breadth of functionality into account – hand in hand with its practical editing functions and note exporting capabilities – Noteshelf is one productivity app for the iPad that just may turn out to be the last one you’ll ever need.

App Features:

- Zoom Handwriting capability
- Comprehensive Template Library
- Photo embedding and annotation capability
- Categorized icon/ label collection
- ‘Wrist Protection’ Writing Comfort function
- User interface optimized for in-app navigation
- Multiple note export options including: DROPBOX & EVERNOTE
- Unlimited undo/ redo editing capabilities
- Backup/ Restore functionality
- Interactive user guide

]]> http://blogs.bard.edu/ipadsupport/2011/07/05/noteshelf-paid/feed/ 0 Apple Video Adapter (Dock to VGA) / Paid http://blogs.bard.edu/ipadsupport/2011/06/02/apple-video-adapter-dock-to-vga-paid/ http://blogs.bard.edu/ipadsupport/2011/06/02/apple-video-adapter-dock-to-vga-paid/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:42:31 +0000 Leslie Melvin http://blogs.bard.edu/ipadsupport/?p=106 Description:

Use the iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter to connect an iPad to your television, projector, or VGA display. Then see your videos and slideshows on the big screen. The iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter connects to your iPad or iPad Dock via the dock connector and to your projector or display using the VGA adapter.

Pros: This connector allows you to connect your iPad to a digital projector or display.

Cons: Not all iPad apps support VGA output, which means that some apps can be projected and some apps cannot.  If you know of apps that work well (or apps that don’t work) with the adapter, please mention them in the comments.

Other companies make similar adapters.  See more options here:  http://bit.ly/ka6KpK

 

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Description:

The easiest way to view your documents on the go.

With Air Sharing, you can:
- Mount your iPhone or iPod touch as a Wi-Fi drive on your computer (Mac, Windows, or Linux) or connect from your computer’s web browser.
- Drag-drop files between your iPhone or iPod touch and your computers.
- View and email documents in many common formats.
- Send email attachments

FEATURES

Upgradeable with in-app purchase to Air Sharing Pro features:
- Connect to your computer (on Windows, requires free desktop app)
- Mount remote file servers (MobileMe iDisk, HomePipe, Dropbox, Box.net, FilesAnywhere, MyDisk.se, CloudMe, WebDAV, FTP, FTPS, SSH/SFTP, POP3, and IMAP)
- Custom bookmarks
- PDF table of contents, page thumbnails
- Download files from the web
- Get and Save Photo Library images
- File operations (Copy, Paste, Move, Rename, New Folder)
- Zip and Unzip
- Search by File name
- Playlist interface for audio files
- Print (via printers shared by Mac OS X 10.5+ or Linux)

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Description:

Best companion for presentation: a full-featured document manager, file viewer, web browser and whiteboard with VGA-out to TV, LCD monitor or projector. Perfect if you want to show presentation materials on local folders of your iPad or on Internet or private web sites. With multi-tab support, you can switch among screens with web content, PDFs, PowerPoint slides, spreadsheets and photos/images, all within this app easily during a presentation.

This app supports to use the iPhone app “2Screens Remote” (sold separately) as a Bluetooth remote control for switching among pages/tabs and moving the “laser pointer”. So you are not required to always sit beside the iPad to control screen display during a presentation!

You can mark on a whiteboard/chalkboard tab, or use the current slide as the background. You can even take screenshots of the annotations and save for future use. The app includes a “Slide Navigator” function for easy preview during presentation.

The app is being included in AppAdvice’s app list for “Video-out Enabled iPad Apps”. See what they said about it at http://appadvice.com/applists/show/video-out-enabled-ipad-apps.

Please see this video for how it works - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YER9EvFG2Uw .

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Exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, Pages lets you create, edit, and view documents wherever you are. Every page looks stunning and clear on iPad — and also on iPhone 4 and the latest iPod touch, thanks to the high-resolution Retina display. Pages uses Smart Zoom to automatically zoom in on text while you type and zooms back out when you’re done, so it’s easy to write and edit on iPhone and iPod touch.

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“Drawing App of the Year” – Macworld’s 2010 App Gems Awards
“This drop-dead gorgeous app for digital artists packs a rich feature set into a surprisingly intuitive interface.” – WIRED Magazine.

Find out for yourself what has made SketchBook Pro the industry standard for digital sketching!

Autodesk SketchBook® Pro for iPad is a professional-grade paint and drawing application. Using the same paint engine as its desktop counterpart, SketchBook Pro delivers a complete set of sketching & painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface designed exclusively for the iPad experience.

Whether you are an occasional doodler or a professional illustrator, SketchBook Pro transforms your iPad into the ultimate digital SketchBook.

]]> http://blogs.bard.edu/ipadsupport/2011/06/02/sketchbook-pro-paid/feed/ 0 Chinese Essentials by AccelaStudy® / FREE http://blogs.bard.edu/ipadsupport/2011/06/01/free-chinese-essentials-by-accelastudy/ http://blogs.bard.edu/ipadsupport/2011/06/01/free-chinese-essentials-by-accelastudy/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:44:16 +0000 Karen Homan http://blogs.bard.edu/ipadsupport/?p=27 Description:

AccelaStudy is the award-winning language education software for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad that helps you understand and pronounce words in the shortest possible time. Learn new Chinese words quickly, easily, and permanently with AccelaStudy.

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