It’s once again that time when we put the spotlight on the best iPad apps we’ve unearthed. Getting an iPad 2 tomorrow? Here are five top class software nuggets to lavish upon your shiny new purchase. This week we’ve got four games for you, plus one news app – you know, to balance out all that lightheartedness with a shot of serious. Read on for our picks.
March, 2011
The fate of the iPod Classic has been debated frequently in the past few years with Apple leaving its original pod largely unloved besides the odd capacity bump. Now a concerned Apple customer claims they fired off a worried email to Steve Jobs and received a response confirming that the iPod Classic is not on the death list. Read on to read the emails for yourself…
If you’ve got a PC, you can get Angry Birds free. The Intel AppUp Center and BestBuy have teamed up to make the game free for a limited time and its simple to snap up.
All you need to do is download the AppUp Center from the Best Buy website below (reinstall AppUp Center if you’ve already got it) and register for a new account. Make sure you say you live in the US, even if you don’t, and logging in will reveal Angry Birds for free. There’s a nice gift for a Thursday morning.
Out now | £free | Best Buy
Here’s an odd iPad 2 bug: the Apple Discussions forums are reverberating with reports that the iPad 2 front camera locks up when using the FaceTime app to establish a video call.
The bug doesn’t affect every iPad 2 but it appears to be down to an iOS issue that should be relatively simple to fix. According to iPad 2 user reports, you need to restart to unfreeze the camera. Hopefully we’ll see a fix in time for the iPad 2′s UK debut tomorrow.
Google has kicked out a surprising experiment – Think Quarterly, an online magazine designed and edited for Google by The Church of London creative agency. It’s a visually arresting product with contributions from lots of respected journalists including Simon Rogers (editor of The Guardian’s Datablog). Read on for more details on Think Quarterly…
Apple AirPlay slings audio from Apple devices to AirPlay speakers and the like right now but Bloomberg says that feature is set to expand. The rumour claims Apple is set to begin licensing AirPlay for video streaming with HDTVs with AirPlay on the cards.
The move would allow movies and TV shows to be flinged from your iPhone, iPod touch to a larger display. It sounds like a very sensible expansion to the AirPlay functionality and slightly more believable than the Apple HDTV rumours.
Rise and shine, it’s time to kick off your morning with the US Update. Headlining this morning’s news is an update on PS3 jailbreaker Geohotz who reportedly left the US for a South American vacation. We follow up with rumors of Motorola Mobility’s web-based OS then drop details on the BlackBerry PlayBook battery life. This and more on today’s US Update.
RIM has kept battery details for its upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook on the hush — that is, until now. The 5300 mAh battery has been the subject of much speculation, but today Staples has taken the initiative by listing battery life information online. Look at their website, the page clearly states, “10 hours with continual use”.