APP OF THE DAY: Remarks review (iPad)
Readdle is back with yet another note-taking app, this time in the form of Remarks which it describes as a new way to “write down your thoughts, capture ideas and information, annotate documents and outline notes anywhere from university class to sofa at home”.
But instead of capturing ideas and generally making our time on planet earth a little bit more meaningful, we decided to take Remarks for a spin by chucking in pictures of animals and writing incomprehensible notes. As you’ll see in today’s App of The Day.
Remarks
- Format
- iPad
- Price
- £2.99
- Where
- iTunes
The first thing that you’ll probably want to know is how Remarks differs from Readdle’s PDF Expert App. Well, not a great deal to be honest except that it’s aimed a bit more at the casual user and things are a bit more streamlined.
Apple overturns German online sales ban on iPhone, iPad
Germany appears to be a hotbed for patent war activity at the moment with Apple now overturning an on the web sales ban on several of its 3G gadgets.
Just this morning we reported on an injunction won by Motorola stopping Apple promoting the iPad 2, iPhone 3GS and iPhone four on it is official on the internet shop due to its alleged infringement on a 3G patent.
Nonetheless, the wheels of justice move swiftly in these matters and Apple has been able to strike down the injunction with haste.
Moto becoming unreasonable?
The Cupertino-based business says that the legal see-saw was in a position to occur due to Motorola Mobility’s refusal (no doubt backed by its new pals at Google) to "reasonably" license the patent to Apple.
An Apple spokeswoman told AllThingsD: "All iPad and iPhone models will be back on sale by way of Apple’s online store in Germany shortly.
Readdle’s new Remarks app offers PDF annotating, accurate handwriting
February 2, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Readdle released a new application for the iPad named “Remarks“ that gives incredibly accurate handwriting recognition, PDF annotating, and more. At the heart of Remarks is PDF annotating, and PDFs can be imported by way of the iPad’s iTunes File Sharing function or through opening the PDF with an e mail to the iPad. All of your PDFs are stored in an iWork for iOS-like file program, and a folder technique is readily available.
The interface, although, is effective and function-packed, and it is basic for PDF annotating. A user just taps to open a PDF and then they can do actions such as handwriting, highlighting, panning, and producing shapes like circles and squares related to what 1 does in OS X’s built-in PDF annotating application Preview. Remarks also enables you to import photos directly from inside the application to location in a PDF, and it also makes it possible for users to e-mail, print, and open the produced or annotated PDFs in other iOS applications.
While Remarks have been a amazing PDF annotator in our testing, the marquee feature—perhaps— is its handwriting integration. In our tests, Remarks’ handwriting software is nicely crafted, quite correct, quick, and attributes no lag. A wonderful bonus is being able to rest your hand on the display of your iPad with no writing something accidentally. Writing with Remarks with a stylus delivers best iPad handwriting, but writing with your finger functions fantastic as nicely. Readdle said it is looking to bring more capabilities soon to Remarks, including Dropbox and other cloud storage program assistance.
Remarks is readily available for the iPad on the App Store for $ 4.99.
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Floppy Disk iPad Case Has Massive Capacity
February 2nd, 2012
If you’re looking for a enjoyable way to dress up your iPad although protecting it, appear no further than this slipper case created to look like a giant three.five-inch floppy disk.
If it wasn’t painfully obvious from the giant, obnoxious watermarks, this floppy-disk iPad case was produced by none other than RabbitRampage – who has in the past brought us such goodies as the game console iPhone situations and some tiny felt game controllers.
While this felt case is modeled following the old three.five inch floppy disk, it really measures in at 8.five inches by 10.25 inches in order to accommodate your tablet. That makes it even larger than 1 of those gigantic, antiquated 8 inch floppies, but rectangular instead of square. That gets me thinking – how would the disc turn inside of a rectangular enclosure anyhow?
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Avid Audio releases iPad version of FCPX competitor ‘Avid Studio’
February two, 2012 at 6:29 am
Avid Audio– formerly recognized as Digidesign, makers of the music industry’s top DAW called Pro Tools– has just dropped an iPad version of its pro-sumer Final Cut Pro competitor known as Avid Studio. Even though the newest Final Cut Pro X update brought multicam editing, broadcast monitoring, and several of the attributes pro users demanded be re-implemented, the Avid Studio iPad app shows why Apple ought to and most likely will drop FCPX for iPad.
The app is obtainable from the App Shop now for $ four.99, substantially less than the desktop version that retails for $ 169.99, but the app will boost to $ 8 following an initial 30 day introductory period. The Avid Studio app is the company’s very first video editing suite for iPad and aims to provide most of the capabilities presented by way of the desktop version.
You will get the familiar timeline and storyboard, but new gestures will allow you to pinch and squeeze to scale images and videos, and arrange edits on the timeline for image-in-image effects. Users of the desktop software package will appreciate the Precision Trimmer, Razor Blade tool for on the fly cuts, and the potential to export projects effortlessly to Avid Studio on the desktop. Projects can be uploaded to iCloud, and finished projects can be shared to YouTube, Facebook, and by e mail from inside the app. Unlike the desktop version, there is no Flash export option.
Other capabilities contain multi-layer 3D animations, titles, and transisitions, high-high quality fades and dissolves, and “professional-looking motion titles and graphics with complete manage more than text, font, color, size, position, and rotation.” You can also import your own audio or pick from included sound effects with full manage over trimming, setting levels, and fading audio in and out.
Although admitting that the business is attempting to do the exact same thing with Avid Studio as Apple has accomplished with Final Cut Pro X, he noted some pro users have opted for Avid instead, which the firm started providing discounts for to FCPX users thinking about switching. AllThingsD pointed out Hollywood production business Bunim/Murray is one particular significant pro user that has currently made the switch. VP of consumer and mobile technology technique at Avid Tanguy Leborgne had this to say about Apple’s strategy to AllThingsD:
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iPad 3 to be announced in March following ‘unusual’ Apple event this month
Apple is planning to unveil its subsequent-generation iPad 3 at a media occasion in early March and it will launch the new tablet later that month, Japanese weblog Macotakara reported on Thursday. Prior to that press conference, nevertheless, Apple is mentioned to be arranging a separate “unusual” media occasion in early February. The subject of Apple’s supposed February event is unknown, even so Macotakara states that it will not be product-focused. The iPad three is widely expected to function a slightly thicker case than its predecessor to accommodate an upgraded high-definition display and a bigger battery pack that will reportedly double the battery life of the iPad 2. BGR published evidence on Wednesday that Apple’s next-generation iPad will also function a quad-core A6 processor and embedded 4G LTE connectivity.
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iPad 3 Event in March, An ‘Unusual’ Apple Event in February?
Japanese blog Macotakara has posted a follow-up to their earlier claim of a February iPad three media event.
The original report had claimed that Apple would hold an iPad 3 media event in February with item launch in March. We had expressed some doubts about the lengthy lead time in between occasion and launch. Macotakara has had a mixed track record in the past, but has had enough hits that they continue to warrant attention.
The site is now reporting that although there will be an event in February, that it would be a “strange” event rather than the usual product announcement occasion:
I reported that Apple was going to hold Unique Occasion in early February according to Asian supplier and source from united states, but this report told a half-side of truth. Apple will hold “Strange” event at February instead of Particular Event.
Meanwhile, they now report that the iPad three announcement and launch will both take places in March.
Appleinsider contacted the author for clarification but was only told that the February occasion would not be a product event.
iPad 3 specs leaked ahead of launch
The iPad 3 will rock an A6 quad-core processor and LTE options according to some dubious looking screenshots which have found their way onto the web.
The details were leaked to BGR from a source who claimed to have a prototype iPad 3 and used a debugging tool called iBoot to extract the details.
If the A6 processor is going to be used by Apple then it will make the iPad 3 the fastest iOS device to date and this is not the first rumour we have seen which suggests the super quick chip will be used.
Don’t start counting those chickens
There are no reports on the rumoured high-res display or thicker/thinner dimensions in this latest leak, which are two of the hot topics doing the iPad 3 rounds at the moment.
The iPad 3 could well see a February launch according to sources in Japan, which would put it up against Samsung’s rumoured new tablets set to be announced at MWC 2012.
