Although most of us only buy the apps we really need and for the most part the prices are really good, recently “The Most Expensive Journal”
came out with a list of the 10 most expensive iPad apps which just shows the potentia for high quality apps to be prices similar to their expensive desktop equivalents.
There’s a lot you could buy for $1,000. Three iPad app developers expect you to drop it all on them. The cheapest retails for $299.99 and the top three retail for $999.99 each.
The Alchemist SMS – $999.99 This app “provides users in the steelmaking and scrap metal recycling industry with the tools necessary to achieve reductions in raw material costs.” Intuition Control Solo WolfVision – $999.99 Patent-pending technology that revolutionizes video conferencing
The first and only iPad application that lets you easily control your WolfVision visualizers! NOW offered to educational institutions at 50 percent off its regular price through the App Store Volume Purchase
Although these apps don’t appeal to me it looks like specialized software or apps that give niche specific users exactly what they want in a easy transferable and portable manner will be snatched up by those niche specific users. So, if you have an iPad app idea and though that only a small percentage of people will use it, go ahead and speak to a developer, you might just be surprised at the outcome.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has released the first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame app for the iPad and iPhone. The app is a multimedia showcase of the “Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll” interactive exhibit. Selected by the museum’s curatorial staff, education staff and a number of rock critics and historians, the songs are some of rock and roll’s most influential recordings. The list includes a variety of songs from artists and genres illustrating the evolution of rock and roll since the 1920s.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame app features more than 600 songs and includes a slide show that users can swipe through to experience the music from a specific decade between 1920 and 2006. Once a decade is selected, the app features an album cover slideshow to scroll through and select music. Users can then play the song sample from iTunes, purchase the song or add it to a custom play list contained within the app.
“The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame app allows our visitors to take a piece of the museum home and at the same time shares the experience with music lovers who haven’t had the opportunity to visit,” said Todd Mesek, vice president of marketing and communications at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. “We wanted to share the ‘Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll’ exhibit and tell that story in as many ways as possible. Using the Sideways platform, the iPad and iPhone both offer multimedia features that go beyond what books, songs and documentaries can provide. While this is our first foray into apps, down the road we hope to develop others with different themes.”
“The multi-media capabilities of the iPad and iPhone make them highly suited to an audio experience that is tightly married to great visuals and rich information,” said Eliza Wing, founder and president of Sideways. “As a person with a longtime fascination with and love of rock and roll, this app was a great, fun opportunity to showcase some of the best music of all time. The app brings the latest incarnation of the ‘Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll’ to life and offers unparalleled functionality and interactivity.”
You can purchase the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame app now in the iTunes App Store for $1.99.
I don’t know about you, but it is about time that this happened.
After neglecting the “apps” scene for a while, Napster has finally launched an official app for Apple’s iOS operating system, giving users a well-known alternative to the device’s concentrated connection to iTunes.
Napster, completely divorced from its illegal peer-to-peer sharing roots, lets users stream unlimited music for a $10 monthly fee. The company tried for a while to sell its own dedicated MP3 players linked to user accounts, but that venture never really worked out.
Instead of developing dedicated mobile apps, Napster had until now tried a different strategy. It set up a catch-all mobile website for every smartphone user to access. But that site didn’t give access to streaming music, only offering MP3 downloads that would be delivered directly to the phone’s hard drive. Subscribers to Napster get a limited number of downloads every month.
Today, Napster has officially launched the iPhone app, which not only gives users access to those downloads, but to the more than 8 million streaming songs available as well. It is a free download but of course requires the $10 monthly fee to get any use out of.
Napster also last month released an app for Internet-connected Samsung TVs, allowing users to stream their music directly to the silver screen. There’s no word yet on an Android app or apps for other platforms, but clearly Napster is expanding in that way so it wouldn’t be a surprise to see more Napster apps popping up soon.
I don’t know about you, but this is what I like to see, applications that produce some sort of competition on a mobile platform. Of course, if you own an iPhone or an iPad and have a napster subscription, then you will definitely want to have a look at this.
The Ten One Design Firm has brought out software which will greatly improve the drawing capabilities of the iPads multi-touch display:
The iPad is great for sketching and taking notes, but could it be even better if it was able to respond to pen pressure?
We plan to release this capability as a free software library so it can be included in any application. However, this may not be possible for a while as the library now uses a private function call to access the required information
Chris Pirillo recently showed an artist drawing portraits using the iPad and if the technology from the Ten One Design team gets incorporated it will make a big difference to artists playing with the device
During the recent 1C Company Another Night in Moscow 2010 event, I happened to run into David Newman. He is an artist who can do some pretty amazing portrait work – right on the iPad. I had to see it to believe it for myself, so I sat down and let him draw.
The Ten One Design Firm has brought out software which will greatly improve the drawing capabilities of the iPads multi-touch display:
The iPad is great for sketching and taking notes, but could it be even better if it was able to respond to pen pressure?
We plan to release this capability as a free software library so it can be included in any application. However, this may not be possible for a while as the library now uses a private function call to access the required information
Chris Pirillo recently showed an artist drawing portraits using the iPad and if the technology from the Ten One Design team gets incorporated it will make a big difference to artists playing with the device
During the recent 1C Company Another Night in Moscow 2010 event, I happened to run into David Newman. He is an artist who can do some pretty amazing portrait work – right on the iPad. I had to see it to believe it for myself, so I sat down and let him draw.
The Ten One Design Firm has brought out software which will greatly improve the drawing capabilities of the iPads multi-touch display:
The iPad is great for sketching and taking notes, but could it be even better if it was able to respond to pen pressure?
We plan to release this capability as a free software library so it can be included in any application. However, this may not be possible for a while as the library now uses a private function call to access the required information
Chris Pirillo recently showed an artist drawing portraits using the iPad and if the technology from the Ten One Design team gets incorporated it will make a big difference to artists playing with the device
During the recent 1C Company Another Night in Moscow 2010 event, I happened to run into David Newman. He is an artist who can do some pretty amazing portrait work – right on the iPad. I had to see it to believe it for myself, so I sat down and let him draw.
The Ten One Design Firm has brought out software which will greatly improve the drawing capabilities of the iPads multi-touch display:
The iPad is great for sketching and taking notes, but could it be even better if it was able to respond to pen pressure?
We plan to release this capability as a free software library so it can be included in any application. However, this may not be possible for a while as the library now uses a private function call to access the required information
Chris Pirillo recently showed an artist drawing portraits using the iPad and if the technology from the Ten One Design team gets incorporated it will make a big difference to artists playing with the device
During the recent 1C Company Another Night in Moscow 2010 event, I happened to run into David Newman. He is an artist who can do some pretty amazing portrait work – right on the iPad. I had to see it to believe it for myself, so I sat down and let him draw.
The Ten One Design Firm has brought out software which will greatly improve the drawing capabilities of the iPads multi-touch display:
The iPad is great for sketching and taking notes, but could it be even better if it was able to respond to pen pressure?
We plan to release this capability as a free software library so it can be included in any application. However, this may not be possible for a while as the library now uses a private function call to access the required information
Chris Pirillo recently showed an artist drawing portraits using the iPad and if the technology from the Ten One Design team gets incorporated it will make a big difference to artists playing with the device
During the recent 1C Company Another Night in Moscow 2010 event, I happened to run into David Newman. He is an artist who can do some pretty amazing portrait work – right on the iPad. I had to see it to believe it for myself, so I sat down and let him draw.
It has been said many times that the iPad is only a consuming device and not really a device for creating content, but this has not stopped many people from using the device purely for business
You see many people use their computers mostly for the following:
Email – both offline and online (gmail)
Facebook, LinkedIn and Youtube
Reading and responding to documents sent to them via email
Viewing, Creating and editing Office Documents
If you need to read or review a lot of PDF documents I have found two great apps: PDFComrade
Filemagnet needs additional software installed on your PC or Mac but has the benefit that it displays many Office style Document formats as well as Movies
DropBox for iPad Whether you have an iPad or not Dropbox is definitely one great productivity and filesharing software.
Easily sync files between computers, Macs and Apple Devices simply by dragging them into the Dropbox folder.
Supports nearly all Office style documents , PDF’s as well as Movies
With the launch of iWork for the iPad as well as iOs4′s multi-tasking using the iPad as a business device has become a lot easier.
The area of Business in particular where the iPad is used for Business is by Traveling bloggers and Internet Marketing experts.
The Video below Shows the semi-famous Ed Dale from the website http://www.challenge.co showing a quick example of using DropBox for the iPad to view or present Video reviews for a website that a internet marketer might have created.
Many small business owners have a blog where they communicate and share ideas related to their industry. This is a great way to interact with your client base and get more exposure as well
Paul from PaulsiPad has also been testing out a lot of Business related apps and found that BlogPress for the iPad is a great tool for WordPress blog owners to create webpages while on the go and being offline, then when they are ready upload it to their server.
You can write and edit your posts offline and then publish them when and as needed.
It isn’t as full function as one would hope. Links are done in code only. You have to be a bit familiar with the innards of WordPress to do the cool stuff.
But, as you can tell here, photos are pretty easy.
The iPad is a great traveling compannion and I now only take the iPad on quick weekend breaks, so that I don’t have to carry a heave laptop with me everywhere.
Sometimes however you DO need the power of a full desktop and luckily there are a few apps that can assist: Desktop I’ve used Desktop with quite a bit of success and with the latest update the right click issues have been made a lot easier. Logme In for iPad An alternative to Desktop is LogmeIn for iPAd which is already a well known service available from LogmeIn.com Some of the Benefits include:
One click and your iPhone or iPad becomes an extension of your work or home computer
Your login information and preferences are stored securely
Access from anywhere – without having to remember passwords
Apart from these web Business centered apps there is also small image touch up programs such as http://wwwPhotoShopOnline.com for small adjustments to photo’s which you might want to add to your website or blog. More of these will be reviewed in their own blogpost soon.
I’m not sure how accurate the diagnosis you’ll get from the WebMD app might be, but it’s certainly a decent reference. There are symptom descriptions, drug and treatment information, local health listings, and a great section of first aid pointers
Most doctors will tell you that self diagnosis is dangerous, however it can be useful if you don’t have access to your doctor at the moment. The app is well designed and works fine on the iPad.
