When the iPad launched in Canada only a few months ago, many users were expecting some type of stylus device to be available at launch. While the majority of users enjoyed the touch interface and full keyboard, some users preferred a pointing device that wasn’t their finger.

AluPen by Just Mobile

Soon after the launch, many accessory makers began designing a stylus device for the iPad. The common feature among all of … 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 only a 16G iPad, I don’t have enough space to fill it up with all the media I’d love to have with me. I also have lots of files that aren’t in the ‘official’ iPad format, for example I want to play avi and flv files, which the iPad does not natively support, and don’t want to spend all my time converting files.

Enter Zumocast, a free … Read More

I do not claim to be built by any standard; on the continuum of feeble to buff, I fall somewhere int he neighborhood of “fragile”. It may have something to do with the healthy dose of time I spend in front of my Mac and iPad, or the pile of books by my bed, or the innate love of naps.

Sometimes, though, we all need to feel the sweat on our … Read More

I don’t recall how or where I discovered the game Cooking Academy and installed it on the iPad, but it is by far my kids’ current favorite game on the iPad.

Is it because they like helping out in the kitchen once in a while and feel that they are learning recipes? Is it because we watch the Food network with them sometimes? I don’t know. OK, I admit that … Read More

After going through much debate on whether an iPad is a suitable replacement for a netbook (or as Steve calls it “a piece of junk”), it has finally reached its first term at school (for most folks who didn’t take summer courses). Sure, many people call the iPad a giant iPod touch and use it mostly for music and games on a big tablet, but what about the times … Read More

Photogs and photo-junkies alike would most likely agree on two things.

1. The iPad is a great device to display gorgeous photography.

2. The Boston Globe’s Big Picture blog showcases some of the best photos from around the world.

Given that, you’d think that an iPad Big Picture app from the Boston Globe would be a match made in heaven. It pains me to say that this is, unfortunately, not the case.

The … 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

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

So I bought Uno because it is a game that my kids and I appreciate and I hoped that we could actually all play it together on the new device.

The game has a very familiar look since it uses the same look as the original card game so we are in familiar territory. It offers a couple of game modes which I will detail below.

Single player modes

The single … Read More