A few months ago I was looking for a white noise iPad app to help me get to sleep in my noisy urban neighbourhood. After looking at a few, I decided to give Soundwaves a try. It was free and featured several different ambient sounds, including White Noise, Brown Noise, Forest Night, Hard Rain and even Furnace and Dishwasher(!). And if these weren’t enough choice, you could unlock additional noises … Read More

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge is perfect for the iPad

When LucasArts released The Secret of Monkey Island for the iPhone last year, I was thrilled.

Like many male North American gamers of a certain age, I had grown up on the Monkey Island franchise of point and click graphical adventure games. I enjoyed their wise-cracking anachronistic humour. I identified with the bumbling goofy hero, Guybrush Threepwood, I liked the … Read More

I read a lot of books, both fiction (mysteries, science fiction, modern fiction, humorous fiction) and non-fiction (science and technology, history, politics, culture, religion). I still read a lot of them in print format, but more and more, I’m reading them on the iPad, in iBooks, Kindle and Kobo, depending on which app has available the particular book I’m interested in, in stock.

I’ve noticed that the iPad has changed my … Read More

My iPad in Canada colleague acinwong has a list of five great apps for back to school here. I just have two to add to the list, apps that I find indispensable as a grad student.

1. Complete Class Organizer ($4.95) has a somewhat quirky interface, but it allows you to set up your classes, write and organize lecture notes by course, and date and it can synchronize audio recordings … Read More

Forecast the future, or the weather, and more, on your iPad.

Last week I wrote about some of the many iPad apps that help you be productive (Portable Productivity on the iPad). That article concentrated on serious-type apps — word processing, spreadsheets, remote computer management, and the like. To herald the last long weekend of summer, let’s have a bit of fun this time and look at … Read More

A brief word of introduction. My name is Terry and I’m a PhD student at Simon Fraser University studying the immersiveness of videogames on portable devices (like the iPad). I’ll be posting to the ipadincanada site every Friday (I hope). I’m also the technology columnist for the online Vancouver Observer (www.vancouverobserver.com). You can find out more about me at terrylavender.ca.

You can create as well as consume … Read More