People are spending more time with smartphones and apps. The phrase “people are sleeping smartphones” is no longer just a phrase but a hard reality. How much of this time is really worth spending with the smartphone? That we might not know but a rough back of the envelope calculation tells us that people are […] Read more
![Financial Times India iPad app [review]](https://thegadgetfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/IMG_0113_thumb.png)
Financial Times was one of the first establishments to challenge Apple’s hegemony over the app world and went the HTML 5 way. With India’s growing clout in the world economy, FT has decided to bet on Indian content (who isn’t) and decided to provide India its own space. Financial Times iPad app can be downloaded […] Read more
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Indian Express joins the ranks of IBN Live, Deccan Chronicle, Times of India, Hindustan Times, NDTV, IBN Live and Firstpost to have released an iPad app. The app is a free download and was developed by Mediology, not Robosoft (thank god). Indian Express app opens up to the home page with a 2-pane view. The […] Read more
![Stream movies from your PC to iPad with VLC Streamer [HOW-TO]](https://thegadgetfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ipad-movies.jpg)
Playing movies or videos in a format other than mp4 is always a chore on an iOS device. While there are many ways to get around the limitation by converting the videos to iOS consumable format and then loading it, we might have a much easier option to get the movies onto iPad directly. Enter […] Read more
In the age of curation and aggregation, getting news from one source is passé. But there is still a good feeling when you pick up your favorite newspaper. You feel like you have completed a task. With the aggregators and the digital consumption you are never complete and you can never tick off the news […] Read more
Dinamalar, a popular Tamil publication, has released an iPad app. Dinamalar has already released an iPhone app in June, 2011. As per an earlier news report, Dinamalar is one of the leading online Tamil news property with 89% market share in traffic. It attracts 20 million visitors every month. Dinamalar’s iPad app is a free […] Read more
Khan Academy has only one single agenda : make education free. In a way to make education free, Salman Khan, Khan Academy’s founder has accidentally made it cool too. He has uploaded more than 2400 educational videos on to his website covering subjects like math, science and economics. Immediate accessibility and the quality of the […] Read more
Facetime the default video chat app on iPad is great. You can switch back and forth between the front camera and rear camera and get a near real time video experience. But it is a one to one chat and works only with iDevices. Fring an independent messaging app is bringing 4-way group video chat […] Read more
More than newspapers it is comics which should adapt to the tablet and smartphone paradigm. Comics are also best suited for consumption on tablets. Disney has realized this and has launched Disney Comics for iPad and iPhone. The app is free with in-app purchases enabled for individual comics. Individual comics are priced from $0.99 to […] Read more
How about having the whole of wikipedia on your iPhone/iPad? Then get ready to clear some space on your iPhone and spend some money on the app. All of Wikipedia is a offline wikipedia reading which doesn’t skimp on anything – content, user experience and money. The app costs $8.99, needs 3.86 GB space (english […] Read more
M.F. Hussain has loved his iPhone. Being a painter he might have loved his iPad too. Because iPad has one more use case, this time it isn’t a music video or an educational app but it has become a nifty tool for a painter. iPad is the new favorite gadget of painters who don’t want […] Read more
![1000 British Library books on your iPad for free! [app]](https://thegadgetfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/BL.jpg)
You just got one more reason to buy that iPad. A thousand books from British library just went free on iPad. These books are from 19th century ranging from novels and poetry to scientific books. This offer is valid for iPad only, and there are plans for releasing this for iPad’s poorer cousins – Kindle […] Read more
iPad will be replacing pilot’s flight manual on Alaska airlines. Flight manuals typically weigh 25 pounds and they are being replaced by 1.5 pound iPad. As per the airlines, that is a significant cost saving in fuel saved to carry lesser load. Of course, they failed to mention the iPad paraphernalia like the charger or […] Read more
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