Just over a week ago, Readdle released an update to PDF Expert for iPad with tons of new features and today, they have released a brand new iPad exclusive app called Remarks which has just gone live in the iTunes App Store and is now available for download. Remarks, which was revealed first during the Macworld Expo 2012, lets you take notes, annotate PDFs as well as draw free-hand on your iPad with a ... Read More]]>

Just over a week ago, Readdle released an update to PDF Expert for iPad with tons of new features and today, they have released a brand new iPad exclusive app called Remarks which has just gone live in the iTunes App Store and is now available for download. Remarks, which was revealed first during the Macworld Expo 2012, lets you take notes, annotate PDFs as well as draw free-hand on your iPad with a sleek new interface.

The app packs a great interface, wrist protection, powerful PDF annotation tools, zoom mode and a precise drawing engine.

Here is the iTunes description:

Write down your thoughts, capture ideas and information, annotate documents and outline notes anywhere from university class to sofa at home.

To let you write anything you have in mind we included all the tools you might need: pens and highlighters of different colors, floating text boxes, shapes and of course an eraser.

At the same time Remarks is a fully featured PDF annotating application. You can highlight, underline, strikeout text, draw upon the documents – that means anything you can do with the document on paper and even more.

“What you see is what you get, and get it fast” is the best description of Remarks interface. It’s clean, simple and lets you focus on making a note or annotating a document, not paying attention to everything else.

All your notes are PDF files that you can easily view, print and edit on your computer. Also, it means that you can share you notes with anyone and they are able to read and edit them as well.

With Remarks you can:

Make notes

Write everything you think is important on a meeting, lecture or presentation.

Sketch new ideas
Draw the plan to take over the world. Maybe even two, just in case.

Type in text notes

Prefer typing text to handwriting? We have a tool for that!
have come across.

Annotate PDFs

Mark important things in books, journals or documents that you need to review.

Draw with your finger

Use it to make remarks in scanned books or simply draw something beautiful.

Co-edit notes with friends 

You can edit notes made by any other Remarks user and vice versa.

Annotate Email Attachments

Open PDF attachments directly from the Mail app to annotate them.

Import PDFs from Dropbox, Box.Net, Safari and other applications.

Use “Open In” to transfer documents for note-taking or annotation from any popular cloud storage or iPad app.

You can grab Readdle via the following App Store link for $4.99.

• Download Remarks For iPad – Write notes and Annotate PDFs

Below is a little video to show you what you can do with Remarks app for iPad. Check it out:

PDF Expert, the popular PDF client for the iPad which allows users to read and annotate PDF documents, highlight text, make notes and even fill PDF forms, has just been updated to version 3.2. The update is now live and can be download from the App Store. With PDF Expert 3.2, users are now able to perform full text search across the entire PDF library. Other new additions include sorting ... Read More]]>

PDF Expert, the popular PDF client for the iPad which allows users to read and annotate PDF documents, highlight text, make notes and even fill PDF forms, has just been updated to version 3.2. The update is now live and can be download from the App Store. With PDF Expert 3.2, users are now able to perform full text search across the entire PDF library. Other new additions include sorting panel and an eraser tool.

Check out what’s new in PDF Expert version 3.2:

# Document Search now looks far beyond the file name. It lets you find the needed documents faster and easier than ever before!

# New sorting panel lets you reorder the files based on Name, Date or Modified Date. Just scroll the document list to the very top to reveal it, pretty much like in iBooks or Pages.

# Support of “Tab” and arrow keys on the bluetooth keyboards when filling PDF forms makes the process lightning fast.

# An eraser tool for your handwriting has arrived! It is located on the Pens toolbar and works exactly like you expect.

# Handwriting and Wrist Protection are now better than in many note taking apps.

# Data protection. All your documents are now secured.

Below is the App Store link:

• Download PDF Expert 3.2 For iPad

It’s no secret – the newspaper industry is facing some pretty tough times. Print subscription volumes have been slowly declining year over year, and with it follow print advertising revenues. While many of them have made the transition to online versions and subscription models, they’re still finding difficulty making the it work. Moreover, the online experience has a number of shortcomings compared to its print sibling; desktop news sites ... Read More]]>

It’s no secret – the newspaper industry is facing some pretty tough times. Print subscription volumes have been slowly declining year over year, and with it follow print advertising revenues. While many of them have made the transition to online versions and subscription models, they’re still finding difficulty making the it work. Moreover, the online experience has a number of shortcomings compared to its print sibling; desktop news sites have far too many banner ads for my taste (or stuck behind the much accursed pay walls), while mobile versions tend to strip away the photos and graphics that make news reading easy to digest. Even more annoying is the ultra-focused nature of a web experience, driving visitors to read only editor-curated stories rather than allowing readers to browse and discover the stories that matter to them most. With these web deficiencies in mind, PressReader bridges the gap between traditional print and digital newspapers, and does it with the style and flare that you would expect in an iOS app.

In case it’s not obvious, PressReader is a news reader app on the iPad and iPhone (as well as Android devices, Blackberry Playbook and Windows Phone and Windows 7 devices) from PressDisplay.com. In such a saturated space already dominated by the likes of Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily as well as dedicated apps from local news sources like the CBC, National Post and The Globe and Mail, PressReader stands out by simply going back to basics. Unlike all the other apps I’ve already mentioned, PressReader doesn’t try to adapt a print medium for a tablet and fill it with rich media and scrolling newstickers, it simply puts the print version on the tablet. Verbatim and formatted exactly like the print version you would get at the newsstands. Including the full page print ads and classifieds. You can flip through each page either in single-page, or double-page views in full colour, as well as pinch and zoom if you want to read something in greater detail. It’s a bold move and one that I appreciate.

Reading in the traditional newsprint layout format not your cup of tea though? PressReader fully embraces the modern digital reader with a slew of features for everyone. There’s the Smart Flow UI that is akin to Flipboard that allows you to flip through articles one at a time, allowing you to expand to read the full story. There’s also a Listen feature that reads the article back to you in a synthesized voice. Want a wide range of perspectives on an issue? Not a problem. The app features a search function that lets users look up various topics and keywords across selected newspapers, or across their entire library. Lastly, the app comes with the usual retinue of social media sharing options (Twitter, Facebook, email, as well as a Reddit-like voting mechanism) as well as AirPrint and Copy-Paste support, making it a very modern iOS app.

What really stood out for me was their vast selection of newspapers from around the world. PressReader boasts over 280 newspapers from Canada alone, including the national prints such as National Post, The Globe and Mail (including regional editions), as well as local papers like The Edmonton Journal, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, Le Soleil, 24 Hours (all the regional editions) and the Toronto Star. Internationally, they have over 300 US papers, over 150 UK papers, as well as regional papers from China, Japan, Slovenia, Russia, Paraguay and even Haiti. Because of its unique way of presenting the news, the app can display newspapers written in its native tongue. While not all the features are available for all languages (Smart Flow and Listen are for English papers at the moment) and not all papers are represented (New York Times and Wall Street Journal are missing), the depth of international content still makes PressReader a truly world class app.

Such richness in features shouldn’t be free, but PressReader isn’t an expensive service either. They offer two plans – one for the casual reader at $0.99 per issue, and another for the serious news junkie at $29.95 per month. The monthly subscription allows for an unlimited number of downloads per month, and is a no-brainer for individuals who subscribe to multiple papers or lack access to international content. Users can set up subscriptions and notifications are sent to the iPad whenever new editions are available. One thing that I’d like to see is the edition being downloaded automatically overnight a la WhisperSync, but I’m sure this is already in the works.

It’s apparent that the folks at PressDisplay have really thought through the news reading experience and have created an app that caters to a wide variety of individuals without making compromises. PressReader will definitely appeal to those who are always on the go, love to catch up on the news, but isn’t always connected (say on the subway here in Toronto). Sounds like most iPad users I know…

I know I loved PressReader, but we’d love to hear what you think. Let us know in the comments below.

PressReader [Free + Subscription, iTunes Store], PressDisplay.com

OnLive Desktop for iPad has just gone live in the App Store and is now available as a free download. The app provides instant access to an iPad optimized cloud-based Windows desktop complete with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint allowing Office documents to be viewed, created and edited. Users do however need an account with OnLive to use the program. Both free and paid plans are available offering upto 50GB of storage and priority ... Read More]]>

OnLive Desktop for iPad has just gone live in the App Store and is now available as a free download. The app provides instant access to an iPad optimized cloud-based Windows desktop complete with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint allowing Office documents to be viewed, created and edited. Users do however need an account with OnLive to use the program. Both free and paid plans are available offering upto 50GB of storage and priority access. With a free account users get 2GB of cloud storage and access to the Microsoft Office suite.

Here is the iTunes description:

OnLive® Desktop is a service that provides a seamless, no-compromise, instant-response cloud-based PC desktop, wherever and whenever you want it. OnLive brings to your iPad a high-performance PC experience, regardless of the content, even when interacting with fast-action media.

Features:
• Instantly view, edit and create documents using actual Microsoft® Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Easily transfer files between OnLive Desktop and other devices
• Experience high-performance, instant-response PC applications
• Interact with lag-free animation and video

Based on groundbreaking video compression technology, OnLive harnesses the power of cloud computing to deliver a seamless, no-compromise remote PC desktop solution.

Sign up for free at www.onlive.com/desktop

You can get OnLive Desktop via the following App Store link:

• Download OnLive Desktop for iPad [US iTunes Account required]

Video sharing site Vimeo has unveiled its new mobile apps for Android and Windows Phone 7 devices at the CES Las Vegas 2012 with upload functionality and ‘watch later’ queue management. But more importantly, Engadget has learned from their sources that an iPad version is in the works too.It appear that upcoming Vimeo for iPad will feature full HD streaming with access to the Vimeo Music Store and browse-while-watching capabilities.

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Video sharing site Vimeo has unveiled its new mobile apps for Android and Windows Phone 7 devices at the CES Las Vegas 2012 with upload functionality and ‘watch later’ queue management. But more importantly, Engadget has learned from their sources that an iPad version is in the works too.It appear that upcoming Vimeo for iPad will feature full HD streaming with access to the Vimeo Music Store and browse-while-watching capabilities.

Citing from the source:

“Absent from the PR is the upcoming iOS overhaul what will welcome iPads to the party — due out later this month. Enabling Full HD streaming on the Apple slate, the updated app includes an editor with access to the Vimeo Music Store, browse-while-watching capabilities and functions of the regular ol’ apps.”

There is not ETA for the release yet since Vimeo app for iPad has not been officially announced. However, we’ll keep you posted with all the updates, stay tuned!

2012 is upon us, and you know what that means? More New Years Resolutions that will flounder for a few weeks and abruptly disappear come spring. While many of our resolutions will never see fruition, I hope your most important ones won’t, and maybe the iPad can come to the rescue. Here are a few ways that your iPad can help.

Health and Fitness

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2012 is upon us, and you know what that means? More New Years Resolutions that will flounder for a few weeks and abruptly disappear come spring. While many of our resolutions will never see fruition, I hope your most important ones won’t, and maybe the iPad can come to the rescue. Here are a few ways that your iPad can help.

Health and Fitness

Let’s be honest. The iPad isn’t exactly the most healthy of devices. It may help you get off the couch, but that only means sitting in bed playing Angry Birds or sitting in a coffee shop typing out my next blog article (no judging please!). It certainly doesn’t get you on the treadmill or watching what you eat…or does it? Fortunately, there’s plenty of apps and accessories that does exactly that. Here’s a few choice picks.

Eating Well

Weight Watchers – synonymous with weight loss and healthy eating has a freemium app available in the app store that brings many of the Weight Watchers benefits onto your iPad or iPhone. The free portion of the app is pretty much a healthy eating recipes listing that to inspire healthy living. It features success stories and other features that help encourage you to sign up for the paid service. The paid service opens up more features, recipes and tools that help you track your eating habits and overall health. If you’re already a Weight Watchers member, it’s definitely worth checking out in the App Store.

There are a number of other free apps available to help you staying fit, check out the My Heart&Stroke Health app from the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Staying Fit

Weight Watchers is nice and all, but it doesn’t really get you off the couch and actually move. This accessory, however, may. The Scosche fitRAIL Mount is designed to hang your iPad on the treadmill for easy media consumption as you move. It’s pretty much like having a TV, book stand, and a desktop at your fingertips as you run. The perfect companion for the gym-goer in the winter. Find it at the Apple Store or online for about $50.

Measuring Improvement

But how do you quantify your progress? Well, the Withings Wifi Body Scale can help and even comes with a companion iPad app that allows you to track and share your progress. At $160, it’s not exactly cheap, but it does track your weight, BMI and other health metrics and sends it to the cloud to help you keep it handy wherever you are. If you’re more concerned about heart health, there’s the iHealth Blood Pressure Dock, which helps track and manage your blood pressure, and shares your information with those you care about.

Learning New Languages

If you’re looking for help learning new languages, I’d recommend Rosetta Stone‘s Totale app. It’s a free download, but requires a subscription service with Rosetta Stone to activate it. However, having some experience with the program, I have to admit that it’s worthwhile if you’re serious in learning a new language. Rosetta Stone too pricey? There are plenty of other solutions too – Living Language has a number of apps available for a wide range of languages with 11 free lessons on the app, and so does Berlitz. However, there are plenty of apps to get you started on a new language on the app store.

General Resolution Tracking

Your resolutions don’t really align with mine for 2012? There are a handful of apps that help you track and monitor your resolution progress throughout the year. There are a few available, including Unbroken Chain, Resolutions [2012] and New Year Motivation 2012. All three of which do more or less the same thing. None of these really stood out above the others, but all of them should do the trick.

Whatever your resolution this year, I’m sure the iPad will have an app or an accessory to help you along the way. Even a quick search for ‘self-help’ in the iBooks store turns up a lot of great resources to get started. Even if the Mayans are predicting the end of days this year, it’s still worthwhile to invest a bit more in yourself and work towards becoming a better you.

Happy New Year everyone! To start off 2012, Apple has offered up the 2011 iPad App of the Year, Snapseed as a free download. Regularly priced at $4.99, Snapseed is a powerful photo editor that works on your iPad along with the rest of your iOS devices.

The app is free as part of the iTunes 12 Days of Christmas event in the UK, but it’s free worldwide.

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Happy New Year everyone! To start off 2012, Apple has offered up the 2011 iPad App of the Year, Snapseed as a free download. Regularly priced at $4.99, Snapseed is a powerful photo editor that works on your iPad along with the rest of your iOS devices.

The app is free as part of the iTunes 12 Days of Christmas event in the UK, but it’s free worldwide.

Click here to download Snapseed while it’s free!

Canadian Software engineer David Quail has created an app that will aggregate 2012 World Junior Hockey Championship news stories, player tweets, photos, and fan comments. The app, called Row 0, seeks to combine relevant sources of information and filter it into a single output. Think of it as a virtual playbook that is constantly updating.

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Canadian Software engineer David Quail has created an app that will aggregate 2012 World Junior Hockey Championship news stories, player tweets, photos, and fan comments. The app, called Row 0, seeks to combine relevant sources of information and filter it into a single output. Think of it as a virtual playbook that is constantly updating.

What makes this app interesting is the story of how it was created. Quail lives in California working for  YouSendIt. American immigration laws prevented developers like Quail from creating non-work related projects inside the United States. With the idea of an aggregated World Juniors app in mind, Quail has been travelling back and forth to Edmonton, working on the app over weekends while staying with friends and family.

This year, the World Juniors are taking place in Edmonton and Calgary with the puck dropping December 26th.

The app works for both iPhone and iPad and is free [iTunes link].

[via the Edmonton Journal]

Skitch was recently acquired by Evernote, and afterwards the simplistic and easy to use photo editing app became free in the Mac App Store. Now, the company has released their iPad version of this app, which is a must download for those looking to edit photos easily. Cool features include sharing right to Evernote and also AirPlay capabilities.

iTunes description:

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Skitch was recently acquired by Evernote, and afterwards the simplistic and easy to use photo editing app became free in the Mac App Store. Now, the company has released their iPad version of this app, which is a must download for those looking to edit photos easily. Cool features include sharing right to Evernote and also AirPlay capabilities.

iTunes description:

Express yourself with fewer words, emails and meetings…with Skitch for iPad!

Use shapes, arrows, sketches and text annotation to get your point across fast. Mark up photos, screenshots, maps, and webpages then share them with anyone you like.

Skitch lets you:
- Annotate: Add arrows, shapes and text to existing images
- Create: Draw something new
- Edit: Reposition, recolor and remove your annotations at will
- Share: Send your sketches and annotations over Twitter and email
- Present: Show your work in real time via AirPlay on Apple TV
- Remember: Save everything to Evernote for later

Use Skitch to:
- Sketch and share
- Point out objects and locations in a photo
- Brainstorm design ideas with your team
- Identify a point of interest on a map
- Annotate a screenshot of your awesome high score
- Have fun!

Skitch is part of the Evernote family of apps designed to help you remember everything.

The Evernote team noted Skitch for iPhone is ‘in the works’ and coming soon, but they wanted to release the iPad version first. Stay tuned!

Click here to download Skitch for iPad-it’s free.

Kindle for iOS app has just received a major update bringing the universal iPhone / iPad application tons of new features. The latest update i.e version 2.9 introduces an all new user interface, optimized for viewing magazines on the larger screen of iPad and also allows users to read print replica textbooks with support for formatting and printing. Other changes include a new library organization view and the ability to email documents to ... Read More]]>

Kindle for iOS app has just received a major update bringing the universal iPhone / iPad application tons of new features. The latest update i.e version 2.9 introduces an all new user interface, optimized for viewing magazines on the larger screen of iPad and also allows users to read print replica textbooks with support for formatting and printing. Other changes include a new library organization view and the ability to email documents to your send-to-Kindle  email address for Amazon Cloud storage.

See what’s new in version 2.9:

iPad: 
• New Design for Magazines: Kindle for iPad customers now have access to the huge selection of over 400 magazines and newspapers that are available on Kindle Fire. Magazines such as Martha Stewart Living, Food Network Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, Popular Science and many more are displayed in rich full-color pages. Customers can buy a single issue or subscribe to popular magazines and leading newspapers and have them wirelessly delivered to the Kindle for iPad app.
• Read print replica textbooks including rich formatting and layout of the print editions and support for notes and highlights, zoom and pan, and linked table of contents.

iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch:
• Email documents to your new Send-to-Kindle e-mail address and we deliver them to your device. The documents are automatically archived in the Amazon Cloud and available for re-download on your iOS or supported Kindle devices.
• Open PDFs from Mail or Safari, by transferring them from iTunes, or by sending them to your Send-to-Kindle email address. The Kindle PDF reader supports PDF table of contents and thumbnail navigation for quickly jumping through the document.
• New library organization allows you to view your Kindle Books, Newsstand, and Docs.

• Download Kindle For iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch