iPad Controlled Blimp!
The iPad has been touted as your ultimate portable-entertainment device. A lot has been said about the iPad’s potential as a replacement for your laptop. We have seen many people use it in many work situations. It has also been described as your road trip best companion and possibly the one device (other than your mobile phone) that you will interact with on a daily basis.
Your iPad plays multiple roles in your daily life. But, I have never seen it as a blimp controller. All it takes is to simply place the device in the hands of creative people, and new scenarios will quickly come up.
The folks at BreakfastNY.com have created a modified BlimpDuino, which is a low cost open source autonomous blimp. The blimp is controlled by the iPad through custom software that connects to a built-in computer. The iPad is the real controller, and it receives a live video-feed from the blimp’s cockpit via an attached front camera.
I guess this is a nice way to get the party scene started. Check out the following video.
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Twitterrific App Update – Picture And Video Uploading
The Iconfactory is known for the elegance and functionality it brings to its applications. Twitterrific has been one of those iPad apps that brings easy functionality to you. The app provides a simple user interface that helps you create tweets, place your replies, retweet and do direct messages on a single list. You can even filter all tweets. The app brings the simple functionality that you would expect. There are some key features that were missed in earlier releases. Based on what we have heard from several readers, and even from some of us at PadGadget HQ, the upload of images and videos has been in everyone’s hot list. Well, good news for everyone! Twitterrific for iPad (v1.1) allows you to upload pictures and videos. Every time you tweet, you will able to upload pictures and videos via a variety of services: yFrog, TwitPic, TwitVid, Posterous, img.ly, and many more. Version 1.1 Update Summary New Features Support for picture and video uploading. Support for custom image upload services. Image URLs from Img.ly and Tweetphoto now appear in popovers. Twitterrific now uses OAuth. Reply all (by default). Improvements Number of API calls per hour increased due to OAuth switch. Supports internationalized domain names in URLs. Improved parsing of Twitter status URLs. Better handling of links containing special characters. Compose view is now better able to handle undo. Improved handling of your own tweets and replies. Bug Fixes Used full screen mode to avoid video playing behind mini-browser. Saving images to the photo album now works correctly. Registered users are no longer reminded to register again. Users can no longer use email addresses to log in. The number of new tweets is reported correctly. Multiple popovers are handled correctly. Twitterrific for iPad can be downloaded from the App Store for free . Tags : Twitterrific , Twitterrific for iPad , Twitterrific Update Category : iPad News , iPad for Fun , iPad for Gamers , iPad for Geeks , iPad for Moms , iPad for Students , iPad for Work Powered by WizardRSS | Full Text RSS Feeds
Financial Times iPad App
If you’re a titan of industry, chances are you’ve read the Financial Times. The Financial Times has long been a must-have newspaper for the global business crowd and it is now available to iPad owners as a free app in the App Store. The Financial Times has won several awards for its unique and in-depth reporting and their iPad app includes the same great news and analysis. The Financial Times has gone a step further to make the news really come alive with the addition of video and interactive market data where you can track stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities. One of the best new features is the ability to search for news or stock quotes directly within the app. This is a huge time saver if you need to find an article you’ve read before or quickly see if there is any news on a particular company you’re following. The iPad edition stays true to the printed version right down to pink pages. The Financial Times newspaper pages have been “salmon-pink” since 1893 as a way to distinguish itself from other daily news publications.You can even select from a number of their print editions including the United Kingdom, United States, Europe, Asia Pacific and Middle East editions. Over the past eight weeks we’ve looked at several news apps (Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today) and the Financial Times app is certainley one of the best. The rich content along with an intuitive and interactive interface makes this a great addition to your iPad. Watch maker “Hubolt” is sponsoring the Financial Times app through July 31, so you can pick up a copy of the app for free and try it out. After the free access period, you’ll need an FT.com subscription to continue having unlimited access to the content. Tags : Business , Finance , Financial Times , FT.com , Newspaper , Wall Street Category : iPad News , iPad for Readers , iPad for Work Powered by WizardRSS | Full Text RSS Feeds
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