Price: $1.99 Score: 8/10 Category: News If the future of magazine apps for the iPad was once in the hands of Wired and Conde Nast, the release of Hearst Media‘s Popular Mechanics Interactive Edition may mark the beginning of a power shift. Coded completely in house by Hearst’s programmers (using Objective-C) the Popular Mechanics Interactive [...]
Price: $4.99 Score: 9/10 Category: Games When a game looks as amazing as Osmos and begins by quoting Isaac Newton (Actioni contrariam semper et aequalem esse reactionem – for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction), you know it’s going to be good. Developed by Hemisphere Games, Osmos for iPad is a deviantly [...]
Price: $0.99 Score: 7/10 Category: Games Tumblie HD is a spin off of I’m Destroyer, Tiki Totems, and all the other Jenga style touch-drop-land puzzle games where the goal is to bring an object safely to a platform without using too many touches or letting the beloved object fall off the edge into nothingness. The [...]
Price: $1.99 Score: 7/10 Category: Puzzle Games Commove by Photics is the kind of puzzle game that tells a story that puts you into an alternate universe. You’re the chief engineer in the hub of a city’s transportation system in the middle of a potentially devastating blackout. It’s you’re job to restore power to the [...]
Price: $0.99 Score: 10/10 Category: Productivity For less than a dollar, GoodReader for iPad can turn your iPad into a document workhorse. It’s the answer for all those PDFs that don’t work in iBooks and the videos that aren’t necessarily easy to upload anywhere else. In fact, Good.iWare‘s Goodreader for iPad is compatible with Google [...]
Price: $1.99 Score: 10/10 Category: Photography There are few effects that look as immediately stunning as when colors radiate off of an otherwise gray scale image. That’s where ColorSplash comes in handy. Anyone with even mediocre coloring skills can use this app to control the coloration of photos on the iPad. The learning curve takes [...]
Price: $7.99 Score: 7/10 Genre: Productivity The mind is a confusing, and often difficult thing to get a hold of. With iThoughtsHD though, it’s a little easier to wrap a mind map around the thoughts that seem to ebb and flow before disappearing forever. Developed by CMS, iThoughtsHD works much like most other mind [...]
Amazon has announced new embedded audio and video functionality in its Kindle app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. The new functionality enables publishers to enhance a users experience by adding audio and video clips to text books. The first two books that will take advantage of the functionality are Rick Steves’ London by [...]
Price: $9.99 Score: 10/10 Genre: Games Plants vs Zombies HD is the iPad edition of the hugely popular iPhone game from developer PopCap. While substantially pricier ($9.99) than its small-screen sibling ($3.99), Plants vs Zombies HD is one game that firmly warrants the purchase price. A brilliantly original tower defense game, Plants vs Zombies HD [...]
Price: $2.99 Score: 9/10 Category: Navigation If you’re used to squinting down at nearly indecipherable directions on your phone’s small interface or toting your laptop around in the passenger’s seat as one of my friends is notorious for doing (he always buckled it in and prayed the battery wouldn’t run out), MotionX-GPS Drive HD is [...]
Price: $2.99 Score: 9/10 Category: Productivity The Safari web browser on the iPad works well for a clean and simple internet experience, but when it comes down to how we really use the internet A1 Perfect Browser does a much better job of recognizing our multitasking, info snacking selves. The most obvious need that the [...]
Price: $1.99 Score: 7/10 Genre: Productivity Sometimes it feels like multitasking on the iPad can’t possibly come soon enough. For anyone who tries to use their device more like a laptop than a reader, you know exactly what I mean. Copy something from the internet, close that window, reopen another (which inevitably has to reload [...]
Price: $0.99 Score: 10/10 Genre: Games Of all the games on any platform, Atlantis: Magic Smileys is one of the best I’ve ever played for $.99. That’s not to say that the game is worth only a dollar, but that it’s seemingly worth much more than that, and perhaps one of the finest steals available [...]
Price: Free Score: 8/10 Genre: Weather Unlike its iPredecessors, the iPad does not come packaged with a weather app. This is probably for the best, as a bevy of other third party apps more than provide everything iPad owners need to know when it comes to current and predicted weather conditions. The Weather Channel is [...]
Price: $9.99 Score: 9/10 Genre: Productivity While many PDF readers exist on the iPad, iAnnotate PDF stands head and shoulders above the rest. With its ease of use and robust features, this is the ultimate app for anyone who works heavily with PDFs. The first time you open iAnnotate you’re greeted with a guide, as [...]
