Get iPad Textbooks for College the Easy Way
Posted on August 23, 2011 - Filed Under Gadgets | 1 Comment
Many iPad owners have expressed some disappointment about the lack of textbook support in the iBooks Store. The iBooks application with the iBooks Store is Apple’s own eBook service for iPad users, and although it doesn’t have textbooks as of yet, you can still get the books you need for College quickly and easily. Here are a couple of ways how.
Textbooks can either be purchased through specialty apps or downloaded onto your computer, then transferred to iPad. Using apps is more convenient, but downloading a PDF textbook and transferring it to iPad is fairly easy as well. Let’s start with some apps that you can use.
Unzip Files on iPad
Posted on August 12, 2011 - Filed Under Gadgets | Leave a Comment
While iPad can do many amazing and useful things, it does not play nice with all file types. Natively, it does not open Office files, nor does it open zip files. Most of us figured out quickly that the built-in email program will open Office files, zip files remain a mystery.
Unzipping a file on iPad requires a third-party app. Here are four that cost less than $5:
Unzip for iPad
Turn Your iPod Touch, iPad, or iPhone Into a Remote Magic Trackpad (Mac or PC)
Posted on July 26, 2011 - Filed Under Gadgets | Leave a Comment
The built-in multi-touch trackpad on Macintosh laptops is one of Apple’s better implementations, as it simply allows for easier, more convenient navigation in general. Aside from this, Apple’s Magic Trackpad is a popular way to add multi-touch gestures for Mac desktop users and even allow for remote, distanced trackpad control on Mac laptops (Magic Trackpad works wirelessly with Apple notebooks). However, if you already have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you can enable some remote trackpad features that will do many of the same things that Magic Trackpad does, for free.
Receive Emails Via Text Message
Posted on July 21, 2011 - Filed Under Gadgets | 2 Comments
It is no secret that we love smartphones, but we recognize that there are still people in the world using plain, no-Internet cell phones. We envy their phone bills, but pity their lack of always-on connection to the Web.
TXTJet.com has found a way to give non-smartphone users at least a glimpse of the functionality we gadget gurus take for granted. By signing up with the service, you can receive email on absolutely any phone that can receive text messages.
Play Flash Games on iPad
Posted on July 16, 2011 - Filed Under Gadgets | Leave a Comment
Android fans love to brag about how their tablets work with Flash games, movies and Web sites. Their biggest rival, Apple’s iPad, has many more available apps and several other great features, but non-Apple salesmen love to hit home this one point: iPad cannot load Flash.
But, this point is not exactly true anymore. Sure, Flash is not built into the default Safari browser on iPad, but third-party developers have found ways around this problem. One third-party app we especially like for playing Flash games on iPad is the Photon browser.
Find a Stolen Digital Camera
Posted on July 8, 2011 - Filed Under Gadgets | Leave a Comment
Digital cameras are easy to steal. Because most are small, thieves can quickly snatch one from a bleacher at a sporting event or from inside an unlocked car, then conceal them in a pocket. They can then pawn the camera with no questions asked.
But, sometimes thieves are dumb enough to keep the camera and use it to take photos of friends and family, then post them to the Web. If your camera is stolen by this kind of thief, finding your camera is entirely possible with Stolen Camera Finder.