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App Brings Centuries of Great Art to the iPad
The iPad makes a perfect coffee table book and photo browser but a new application called Art Authority sends the touchscreen interface back through centuries of humanity's finest imagery. Built by 1980's Apple engineer Alan Oppenheimer, Art Authority is a beautiful way to get some art education and ponder the human condition while flipping through more ...
13 Glaring iPad Shortcomings
While the iPad is fun to play with, it's hard to figure out what role it fills The iPad shows great promise. It's thin and sleek and not like any other gadget out there. It was also more hyped than any new device in recent memory. But is it worth buying? Given the cost, and a ...
Colleges Dream of Paperless, iPad-Centric Education
Three universities are getting pumped to hand out free iPads to students and faculty with hopes that Apple's tablet will revolutionize education. Seton Hill University, George Fox University and Abilene Christian University each pre- ordered bundles of iPads -- sight unseen -- with plans to experiment with how the tablet could change classroom learning. In interviews ...
Sketchbook Pro Sells 10,000 Copies in iPad's First Days
Autodesk Inc. is one of the first app makers to release sales numbers for its iPad product. The $7.99 SketchBook Pro app, currently No. 6 on the list of paid iPad apps, has sold 10,000 copies so far, according to the company. SketchBook Pro is a sophisticated painting and drawing application that, in its iPad ...
Google Buzz Will Ask All Users to Review Privacy Settings
Perhaps tidying up the last of the privacy kerfuffle that marred Google Buzz's launch, Google will highlight changes to its social networking product's privacy settings Monday. When users click on the Buzz tab in Gmail, a screen asks them to confirm their current privacy settings. The page displays the sites that are connected to your profile ...
Five iPad Apps to Consider on Your First Day of Ownership
Now that the iPad has hit stores, new owners and prospective buyers are probably wondering which applications to download as soon as they break the tablet out of its box. That's where we come in. Below you will find five applications available in Apple's App Store that are ideal for new iPad owners. Some are free ...
5 Secrets of Youtube's Success
As the video giant celebrates its fifth anniversary, Wired goes behind the scenes of the site that launched a million memes. The Content It elevated the absurd. These early YouTube hits turned unknowns into Internet sensations. We tracked down five surprise superstars to see how they've capitalized on their fame. “Evolution of ...
Hands-on with Apple's iPad
Wired.com takes a look at Apple's latest creation, the iPad. Sporting a beautiful, responsive 9.7 inch touchnscreen and a store chock-full of useful apps, the iPad presents a new, intuitive way to consume media. Watch the video while Wired Magazine's editors take the new Apple iPad for spin.
First Batch of Twitter Apps for iPad Ready to Fly
Not surprisingly, Twitter Inc. isn't making an official application for the iPad. You can always pull up Twitter.com in the tablet computer's Safari browser. Instead, the company is relying on its army of third-party developers to dream up the next wave of touchable software, and they're taking the call. Two days before the iPad even hits ...
Doctors Diagnose iPad's Usefulness
The scenario sounds straight out of a sci-fi movie -- the doctor pulls out her touch- screen tablet computer from the drawer of instruments. She calls up the patient's chart with a few taps and proceeds to add a note to the page with her latest diagnosis. A visualization pops up, and she flips the screen ...
