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

As a student, the most exciting possibility that the iPad held for me, other than eBooks, was note taking. I’ve always been a pen and paper student, and I always got weighted down by massive amount of paper.

I’ve done lots of searching for apps, and I’ve tried a few. Part of the problem is performing an actual trial. You need the environment of a class … Read More

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

The rub
Sometimes I just want to compare two websites side by side without flicking between open tabs. You? Well, ‘Side by Side‘ (formerly 4 Desktops) lets you do that and more.

How it works
Open up the app and you see two panels, side by side (wonder where they got the name for the app….). You can straight away choose between various websites, including a few … 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

If you haven’t heard the incredible news, Netflix has officially launched in Canada. They have offered up some of the most aggressive pricing I’ve seen for streaming content–just $7.99/month for unlimited all-you-can-watch.

But there’s a caveat though–there are only about 7000 titles and newer content is still coming. However, there are still hidden gems available–you just have to search for them. For me, I just started watching Mad … Read More

We all know the story. A woman shows up to a party in a beautiful new gown, only to discover another woman wearing the exact same dress.

I’ve never had that experience before with clothing, but I can now say I know how it feels with new tech. Here is what happened.

I found myself hanging out on campus this weekend with a bunch of my peers at a back to … 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

With Present Pad for the iPad you can set up your presentations in a ‘multi-directional’ format. What does that mean? Let me explain…

The basics
You save your final, ready-to-go Keynote or PowerPoint presentation in PDF format. You then import it into the app (see below on the two ways to do this) and drag the ‘slides’ around the editing grid, arranging them so that when presenting you can … Read More

Well it has been just over 30 days since I finally got my hands on the iPad and I thought it would be a good time to write a quick review of my experience so far.

What I like

The format of the iPad (size, weight) is great for working, surfing or playing on a bigger screen without the bulk of a regular computer. I also like the battery life which allows … Read More