We Doodle is a pretty good version of the popular game Pictionary for your iPad.

Like most of ngmoco’s games it’s free to play with a ton of in-app purchases, should you choose to buy them.

You start off with the the very basics for drawing; a line and some colours. As you progress through the game you earn experience and coins that you can spend to upgrade your artistic … Read More

Expense Tablet
$0.99

Good budgeting and expense tracking software on the iPad is hard to come by. They’re either too extravagant, with features that are hard to comprehend or so mired in bad interface design that they become unusable.

Expense Tablet is perfect for anyone who wants a well designed, easy to use application to keep track of their spending.

It’s simple. Enter in the money you have to spend in … Read More

The Ultimate Alphabet is part word puzzle, part photo search and part vocabulary test. If you’re a word-nerd like me, you’re going to love this game.

Based on the best selling book by Mike Wilks, the game presents you with an intricately designed image based around a given letter of the alphabet. Each picture contains hundreds of hidden words.

To add even greater challenge, most items … Read More

With the lack of a native iPad version of the Facebook app for the iPhone, most people are left browsing Facebook through Safari. And it works just fine. But for those of us who enjoy a unique experience on that plays to the strengths of the iPad, it comes up lacking.

Currently there are two contenders in the race for your home screen: Social and Friendly.

Both … Read More

I’m good at remembering a lot of things in my life, but birthdays are not one of them. I’ll never have to miss another birthday greeting again though thanks to Jubiliee.

Jubiliee for the iPad has a beautiful interface, great functionality and a nice selection of eCards to justify it’s $3.99 price tag.

Jubilee automatically imports birthdays from your Address Book contacts and displays them on nicely visualized … Read More

Between my oily fingers and my toddler’s obsession with Plants vs. Zombies, I’d all but given up on ever having a clean iPad screen again.

Then someone told me about micro-fibre cloths. With my tubs full of cables, computer accessories and various connectors you’d think I’d have dozens lying around my house. But somehow I missed the memo on their existence. If you’ve never used one before, you’re in for a … Read More

If you’re anything like me in the morning you roll over, unplug your iPad from the charger and see what’s happening in the world.

I have a pretty reliable system: first I check Facebook, then Twitter then The Globe & Mail app.

What sets The Globe & Mail apart from more established news apps is its uniquely Canadian perspective on the news.

The app does a great job of … Read More

Devour is a very simple and very effectively executed idea: a curated list of YouTube videos to watch on your iPad (or iPhone). What’s brilliant is that it isn’t even an app, its a website designed with iDevices in mind.

Here’s how they aptly describe their site:

Devour is here to help. Using a scientifically technologically artificially intelligently awesomely robotically humanly system (we hand-pick every video on the site), Devour … Read More

The best game I never finished was Riven. The sequel to Myst by Cyan Worlds took the eerie, other-worldly puzzler to new levels of beauty and complexity.

So I am extremely excited to hear that Riven HD is coming to the iPad later this fall.

Riven is perfectly suited for the iPad since the gameplay basically consists of point and clicking your way through environments. Being able … Read More

I’m a new writer here on the site and thought introductions were in order.

My name’s Dan. Nice to meet you.

I spend my days as an Art Director at a fancy-pants ad agency and my nights talking about geeky things like typefaces and Doctor Who. I’m a technology junkie and spend most of my free time listening to podcasts and scouring RSS feeds.

My iPhone and iPad are pretty much permanently at … Read More