The iPad Show – Episode 20 – iPad Advice
June 7th, 2010This week we have some more great app reviews and some controversial iPad news. We are also joined by Robin Rhys of App Advice and the great web show App Advice Daily on the eve of the iPhone 4 event during WWDC 2010.
iPad Apps
- Steve TV/Entertainment theme
- IMDB – Free – iTunes App Store Link
- Joost – Free – iTunes App Store Link
- Circuitous – free – Thanks @schrop
- Dave
- iFilmSlate $.99 – iTunes App Store Link
- Wired Magazine $4.99 – iTunes App Store Link
- iCab Mobile $1.99 – iTunes App Store Link
- Robin
- Paper Toss HD $2.99 – iTunes App Store Link
- Adobe Ideas – Free – iTunes App Store Link
- Spin My Party $4.99 – iTunes App Store Link
iPad Tips and Tricks
- Apostrophe shortcut
iPad News
- Steve Jobs D8 Interview
- Steve agrees with .. Steve … that secretly gathering analytics data about users is SPYWARE
- AT&T – Connect the dots (steve)
- AT&T New Data Plans – link
- DataPlus: 200MB data – $15/month
- DataPro: 2GB data – $25/month
- Tethering: additional $20/month (available with iPhone OS 4.0 release)
- I’ve never used over 1.7GB in a month
- not yet, but what if we have a device that makes us want to use more… like video chat over 3g? Talk about this on Appisode 132.
- Brian Bucher points out in an email that he may as well cancel his 3G and buy a wifi model – downloading our show takes half of his bandwidth!
- Could this be anti-competitive against Skype?
- Elements app is 1.7 GB wired app is 500mb
- AT&T New Data Plans – link
- MyFrame Removed from the App Store! link
- He posted a blog entry praising Apple for removing other developers apps back in April
- For some reason Apple allowed Desktop, though
iPad Hardware
- HardCandy – Squishy Case $39.95 – Link
- We’ve found a source for Dave’s iPad stand thanks to John Kanellis! – link
- Steve found a cool wire stand at a local crafts store for $5.00
- Square Card Reader for the Square Payment System – link
Emails
Nice show guys.
Can anyone recommend a good additional e-mail app (for pop3) to be used alongside the pre-installed one, just so that I can keep business and personal stuff separate (security is not a real issue for me, just the convenience). The ones that I have looked at so far don’t seem up to it (judging by the reviews). A perfect solution would be to have a second installation of the pre-installed mail app, if anyone could fix it for that to happen.
It would be great if something like this were reviewed in your show.
Regards
Neal
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Answer: No, Apple has been actively prohibiting such programs from entering the App Store because it doesn’t want to “duplicate the features already on the phone”. Somehow, they think that would be confusing to users (smell the BS). The closest thing that I’ve seen to this is the reMail app that was bought by Google in February and made open source. The email software does have multiple accounts.
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