Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Google FastFlip and the iPad
One of the great things about the iPad is how beautiful it displays magazine/newspaper type screens. This is best illustrated by the USA Today app and the NY Times app. People are very impressed when the see these images on the IPad. As a diehard iPhone user and now iPad user I have to admit it is much nicer on the iPad.
Unfortunately these two apps are a couple of the limited offerings at this time. Worse yet is that other iPad magazines want to charge you a subscription fee. Most of this content is available free on normal web pages. These web pages display well and are even more usable on the iPad versus a normal computer web browser.
Enter Fastflip from Google Labs With this web app you can easy view all the web pages of several online web sites. As an example you can see all the pages of Macworld online magazine. The fast flip view really illustrates how the iPad shines. This makes it very easy to browse many pages to find articles of interest to you. Then you can red them straight out of a Fastflip or click into the normal web page.
Congratulations to google labs for this innovation.
Unfortunately these two apps are a couple of the limited offerings at this time. Worse yet is that other iPad magazines want to charge you a subscription fee. Most of this content is available free on normal web pages. These web pages display well and are even more usable on the iPad versus a normal computer web browser.
Enter Fastflip from Google Labs With this web app you can easy view all the web pages of several online web sites. As an example you can see all the pages of Macworld online magazine. The fast flip view really illustrates how the iPad shines. This makes it very easy to browse many pages to find articles of interest to you. Then you can red them straight out of a Fastflip or click into the normal web page.
Congratulations to google labs for this innovation.
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Customize you iPad wallpaper.
1. Find a web page with the image you want on it.
2. Take a snapshot of the web page. (Hold down the home key and then press the on/off button. This will save an image of your web page to you photos on the iPad.) Remember that you can size the web view in safari to try to get the image the size you want. See the next step to clean up.
3. Use the free Photoshop app (iPhone version, but it works on the iPad) to crop your picture. Don't forget to save it.
4. Go into the Settings app. Set your wallpaper. You can set the lock screen, home screen, or both.
Enjoy your new image!
2. Take a snapshot of the web page. (Hold down the home key and then press the on/off button. This will save an image of your web page to you photos on the iPad.) Remember that you can size the web view in safari to try to get the image the size you want. See the next step to clean up.
3. Use the free Photoshop app (iPhone version, but it works on the iPad) to crop your picture. Don't forget to save it.
4. Go into the Settings app. Set your wallpaper. You can set the lock screen, home screen, or both.
Enjoy your new image!
IPad
Got my new iPad. So far I like it a lot!
