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iPad Live, tonight at 9pm EDT. Be there!

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 03:36 PM PDT

iPad Live PodcastKick your destiny prognostication engine into high gear, Draconians, and get ready for full on fate alteration — iPad Live comes your way tonight! Be there to chat or we’ll sick a Guymelef on you!

Time: 9pm ET, 6pm PT, 2am BST.

Place: http://www.tipb.com/live

If you have any questions or topics you’d like us to discuss, just leave them in the comments then come be part of the show!

(And yes, you can watch from iPhone via Ustream Viewer app (here’s how) and iPad (we recommend Duet Browser.)


Week in iPad for September 18, 2011

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 03:20 PM PDT

Week in iPad for August 28, 2011

Missed a compelling piece of iPad news, a great app review, or a killer how-to? We’re not collecting absolutely everything in iPad here — you can hit up TiPb.com/iPad for that! — but we’re carefully picking what we think is the best of the last 7 days and presenting it here. For you.

And hey! — these double as show notes for our iPad Live! podcast tonight at 9pm Eastern. So join us and follow along!

Meta

News

The Competition

Apps

Accessories

Tips


App for That: How to sync calendars across multiple iPads

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 01:21 PM PDT

There are hundreds of thousands of iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps for just about everything — so how come the one you need, the one you know just has to be there, is so hard to find? Enter TiPb’s new weekly feature where staff and readers alike sort through the App Store and help you find just the right App for That. This week, Kevin asks:

We are looking for an app that can be updated by several different users at the same time and display that updated schedule to everyone on their iPad. Let me give you the specifics to better explain what I am looking for.

The setting is a cold storage facility with 10 different buildings. Throughout those 10 buildings are 5-6 workers loading or unloading trucks and 2 employees in the office checking in drivers. The office employees make the appointments for the drivers but appointments can be made on the same day.

So we would like the warehouse workers to be able to see the updated schedule as it changes as well as be able to note the arrival and departure times of the drivers from the delivery docks. It doesn’t need a lot of bells and whistles but it just needs to be current and easily updatable by different parties at the same time.

CalenGoo [$6.99 - App Store link] is an iPhone and iPad app designed to keep your Google calendars synced across all devices. Additionally, it integrates Google Tasks which may be helpful in a work environment.

Obviously, Kevin will need to create a Google account in order to use this app, but that will only take a few moments and then he’d be good to go.

Another option is to still use a Google calendar account, but to set it up in the iPad’s built in Calendar as an exchange account.

Anyone else have any App for That suggestions for Kevin? Let him — and all of us — know.

Having trouble finding what you need in the app store? Head on over to our App and Game Feature Forum and let us know what you’re looking for. The TiPb community will do our best to find you just the right App for That!


Contest Winners: Naztech Boom Speaker, MadPad

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 10:22 AM PDT

Win a FREE Naztech N15 3.5mm Mini Boom Speaker!

Here are the winners from our last few contests, including our Jabra DRIVE giveaway to keep you connected in the car, BookBook to keep your wallet and iPhone in one place, iWork to help you get back to school (or work), and MoneyWiz to help you keep track of all the cash you saved due to awesome TiPb giveaways! If you didn’t win, don’t worry, we also have a bunch of great new contests under way, so check them out and enter now!

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These contests are still open, so hurry up and enter!

If you won you will be receiving an email either from us or directly from the retailer/developer in the next few days. (If for some reason you don’t receive an email within 7-14 days — be sure to check your spam/junk folder just in case — you can email us at news@tipb.com and we’ll be sure to get you taken care of! Please be patient as some prizes may take longer than others to arrive. Congrats to all the winners, and if you didn’t win this time, we have lots of contests you can enter now, and more on their way!


iOS 5 Features: Mark email as flagged or unread

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 06:20 PM PDT

iOS 5 adds lots of big new features, but also many more small tweaks like the ability to mark email messages as flagged or unread.

When reading an email, the word Mark appears in small blue text to the right of the date and time. Tap on it and options come up to flag a message or mark it as unread. Flag literally puts a tiny red flag icon on the message to help you find it later. Mark as Unread puts the little blue dot back so you can easily find and re-read it again.

Once a message is marked with a Flag or marked as Unread, tapping the Mark text brings up alternate options — Unflag and Mark as Read.

You can also mass mark or unmark messages using the Edit button in the mail box messages list view.

iOS 5 should be released to the public in early October.

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