iPad Crack - News and Reviews

Well...the day has nearly arrived when the Apple iPad is about to go on general availability in the US.  The tech forums and feeds abound with stories not only about the iPad itself (generally the reviews are good to excellent) but also about the myriad of iPad apps that are either about to be released or due to arrive very soon.

My favourite story was the interview of Steve Jobs by Stephen Fry in Time magazine but I also enjoyed the iPad video analysis by Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun Times.

On the app front, the landscape is changing so fast it's hard to keep up but Gizmodo has published a good list of essential iPad apps.

For myself, I will be vicariously watching the adventures or Paul Colligan and Ed Dale as they undertake Operation iPad. It is a very exciting time rioght now in Tech and I can't wait to get my hands on an iPad and begin to intergrate it into my daily life.

It is as it is.

GuruBob

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iPhone App of the Week: NetNewsWire

I have been a Mac user and fanboy ever since Ed Dale started to sing Apple's praises (to me) back in 2003.

The Apple iPhone is now irreplaceable for me so I though I would begin to share some of the iPhone apps that I couldn't do without.  I have begun to realise that over 75% of my time using the iPhone has nothing to do with Telecommunications but with the apps.  They are the killer differential between the iPhone and all other similar devices.

This weeks app is NetNewsWire.  There is also a Mac desktop version but I really love the iPhone app.  In essence, NetNewsWire is a front end to Google Reader.  Those of you that have completed the 30DC will know how important newsreaders are to the 30DC process.  Without Google Reader it would be impossible for us to follow and stay up to date with the volume of news sources that we do.

For some time though, I had been dissatisfied with the Google Reader interface both in the browser and on the iPhone and I had begun to not check the news every day out of frustration with the time it took.  NetNewsWire has made it so much easier and it is a breeze to share useful news items with my Twitter account directly from within the app.  There is a free and paid version of the app but the only difference seems to be that the Paid version lacks the ads that are displayed within the free version.

If you use Google Reader you are going to love NetNewswire.  For me, it has quickly become one of the apps I use every day!

GuruBob

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