by Simon Ng on March 13, 2010
The wait is over. Starting from today, you can pre-order Apple’s iPad through its online store or reserve it at any Apple retail store. For now, pre-order is only available in U.S.
Should you pre-order the iPad? As mentioned by Informationweek, the initial supply of iPad may be limited:
Reports have been inconsistent about this, but there’s a possibility that initial demand may outstrip supply. If you’re serious about acquiring an iPad the first day it’s available for sale (April 3), pre-ordering is the best way. Apple is going to let users sign up and reserve a unit for in-store pick-up. Your odds of scoring an iPad will be much better than if you just show up at an Apple Store on launch day. I mean, seriously, more than, like, 10 people might be interested in your neck of the woods, so be sure to pre-order.
My take is if you love to be the early adopter of the “revolutionary” and “magical” device, remember to reserve an iPad via Apple’s website. But don’t forget you will still need to wait for another 3 weeks until you can actually get the hands-on with the iPad.
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by Simon Ng on March 12, 2010
DigiDNA has launched FileApp Pro and is now available for free download for 2 weeks only. In brief, FileApp Pro is a simply file and document manager for iPhone and iPod touch. It allows you to easily transfer files from computer to iPhone via WiFi and manage them on the go.
Advertised as a document manager, not only you can view various types of files, FileApp Pro offers additional features to manipulate files and folders on your device. Some of the features include file renaming, move files/folder, copy file/folder, compress & decompress file/folder, as well as, folder creation. If you need to create a simple text file, FileApp Pro also provides option for you to create and edit text file.
Similar to other document reader applications (e.g. AirSharing), FileApp Pro also comes with a document viewer. The viewer is primitive but supports nearly all common types of files:
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by Simon Ng on March 11, 2010
How many times you come across a web page and you do not have time to read it in front of computer? If you are looking for an app that lets you save a web page and read it on iPhone while you’re on-the-go. Remember to check the “Read It Later” app.
Basically, this app allows you to bookmark & save any web pages you find interesting and read later on your iPhone even without internet connection.
Read It Later service is completely free. But when you download the app to your iPhone the first thing you will have to do is setup an account with “Read it Later”. Choosing a user name and password is all that is required.
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by Simon Ng on March 10, 2010
Not sure where to buy a book in San Francisco International Airport or looking for a fine restaurant in New York LauGuardia Airport? Featured in Apple’s recent iPhone commercial and developed by Mobility Apps, GateGuru is an iPhone app targets to be your personal guide when you’re in any of the top 85 US airports.
Just like Foursquare, Flyertalk and Yelp to provide interesting locations and restaurant for cities, GateGuru is the Yelp for airports offering comprehensive information to locate the best food, shopping and service option within airport. It is extremely helpful little app for anyone that does a lot of flying in the US. Not to mention, the app is free.
To get started with GateGuru you need to sign up. Once that is done, the app itself is very easy and intuitive to use. You can allow the app to discover your location or you can search and choose one of the 85 US airports available in the list. Once you have chosen the airport, you then pick the terminal you are in. Or you can let the app to locate your location. From there, you are presented with a tabbed screen that has four tabs: All, Food, Shop and Services.
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by Simon Ng on March 9, 2010
While many of you are using the built-in Safari browser on your iPhone or iPod touch to surf the web, there are a few alternative browsers available in App Store that offers additional features. Here is one: VanillaSurf.
VanillaSurf is a free mobile web-browser app for the iPhone that rivals the native Mobile Safari app. The app is built-in on the same web browser engine as Safari but it offers some excellent functionality that is not currently available with the Mobile Safari app.
As you launch VanillaSurf for the first time, you should notice its interface is very similar to that of the built-in browser. You have an address line with a search icon at the top and number of icons at the bottom that lets you: surf back and forward, set your options, download, actions, bookmarks, tabs and full screen.
So, you can see what functions quickly set this app apart from the Mobile Safari: download, actions and full screen.
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by Simon Ng on March 8, 2010
Apple’s chief executive Steve Jobs attended the Oscars and his company took this advantage to air the first iPad commercial. With an upbeat song, the 30-seconds short video shows you all the magical features on iPad.
As announced earlier, the iPad will be available for pre-order from March 12 and debut on April 3. For international customers in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, it will be available in late April.
You can check out the video below or simply watch it on Apple’s website (with higher video quality).
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by Simon Ng on March 8, 2010
iBlueNova is a cydia application that lets you transfer any file (including photos, music, document, etc) from iPhone to other bluetooth devices. Formerly known as iBluetooth for iPhone OS 2.0, iBlueNova supports OS v3.0 or up. Same as iBluetooth, the bluetooth app is a paid application that is available for US$5.99. But it also offers a 15-days free trial period before you need to purchase the app.
iBlueNova claims to allow you to transfer any type of files on iPhone to other bluetooth devices including computer and mobile phones. The app is pretty easy to use. After launched, simply enable both “Enable” and “Visible” to activate the bluetooth transfer service. Then you’re ready to transfer files over bluetooth.
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by Simon Ng on March 7, 2010
Have you ever experienced this situation while using iPhone?
You tap on an app icon to launch the application. It launches and then closes unexpectedly.
I believe it’s not a rare issue for iPhone users as Apple has officially published a support article about how you can deal with the issue.
First, why does the application close unexpectedly? According to Apple, your device is running too many memory-intensive tasks and has begun to run low on application memory. So, when you try to open up extra application, the device does not have sufficient memory to handle the app launch and thus closes the app consequently. As the article suggests, here are some situations that represnts your iPhone is running low on memory:
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by Simon Ng on March 6, 2010
Apple has just announced the WiFi model of iPad will be available in Apple stores on April 3. The 3G model will be available in late April. In addition, you can pre-order it starting from March 12.
Initially, iPad is only available in U.S. For international customers in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, both models of iPad will be available in late April. For other countries that are not on the list, iPad will ship later this year.
According to the press release, iPad will come with the new iBook app that includes Apple’s new iBookstore for browsing, buying and reading books. The iBookstore will feature books from the New York Times Best Seller list from both major and independent publishers, including Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Group and Simon & Schuster. But initially, the iBook app will be available in U.S. only.
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