Category: iPad

Six iOS Apps Reviewed

iPad, iPhone, Review 0

I love iOS apps, and felt like writing a review on six of the ones I have purchased as of late. I will try to keep it brief, giving you my opinion as terse as I can. Let’s begin!

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Sonoma Wire Works GuitarJack Model 2 – User Report

Adapter, Apps, Audio, Features, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Music, Review 0

GuitarJack is an audio interface for iPhone and iPad that allows the user to connect a wide range of instruments, microphones, and other audio hardware to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This user report takes a look at the latest GuitarJack Model 2 (GJ2), which is designed to be compatible with iPhone 4, iPad 2, iPad, iPod touch (2nd, 3rd and 4th gen.). I tested the unit with an iPhone 4S running iOS 5.01. GJ2 has a broad range of functionality, so make sure to visit the company’s website for full details.

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ZooGue BinderPad Pouch – Review

Apple, Cases, iPad, iPad 2, Review 0

The BinderPad is a soft, yet durable polyester case custom-fitted for the iPad 2. What sets it apart from other tablet cases is that there are grommets that fit any standard three-ring binder along the case’s left-hand edge. Measuring just under the standard notebook paper size of eight and a half by eleven inches, the BinderPad fits nicely inside of just about any three-ring notebook.

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Two iPad Accessories You Need to See – Review

Apple, Apps, Cases, Cover, First Look, iPad, iPad 2, Review 3

The SmartMate case is a protective, hard-plastic case that simply snaps onto your iPad 2. The most noteworthy exception to the norm here is that the case is designed to work in conjunction with Apple’s Smart Cover. Most hard cases don’t allow you to do so, and having that option is great. I love using Apple’s Smart Cover and I’m always annoyed when a case won’t work with it.

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Interesting, but Ultimately Flawed Audio Player – Review

Audio, Features, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod Classic, Music, NAS, Network, Review 1

Pioneer, a venerable name in home audio, has come up with a pair of interesting devices to better integrate the audio part of the internet and your own digital music library into your home audio system, the N-30 and N-50 Networked Audio Players. The Networked Audio Players are part of Pioneer’s Elite product line, noted for their excellent construction and superb audio quality. Pioneer foolishly loaned me an N-30 to evaluate. I say foolishly only because I seem to attract products for review that have fundamental flaws that cause me to write far too many negative reviews. Sadly, this is one of them.

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Do Apple’s Education Announcements Pave the Way for the ePad?

Apple, iPad, Opinion, Original Blog, Tablet 1

Apple’s January 19th education event brings the iPad to the forefront as an educational tool to replace textbooks and classroom computers.  Apple is once again focusing on the K-12 education market, a market it dominated in the early 1980’s with the Apple II.  But is the iPad really the device Apple is focusing on here?  Or is there another device in Apple’s future that this event is paving the way for?  I think Apple needs a new device, I call the ePad.

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Visual QuickStart Guide: iCloud – Book Review

Apple, Book Review, iOS, iPad, iPad 2, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac OS X 0

When Lion and iOS 5 were released, I timidly stepped into the Apple iCloud experience and began using some of its offerings. Although I still do not use all of the iCloud features, what I have chosen to enable has been through my own trial and error approach. For those of you that have not yet ventured into the iCloud, the iCloud: Visual QuickStart Guide will definitely allow this to happen with ease.

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