Aug 29
Angry Birds, App Store, Apple, iPad, iPhone/iPod touch No Comments
The latest Theme 10 is among us for the insanely popular iPhone and iPad game Angry Birds (although, just for the iPad, for now…)
The newest theme is a continuation of the previous theme 9, and there is one more Golden Egg to find. Here it is…
Jul 25
Angry Birds, App Store, Apple, Software, iPad No Comments
I love this app, and in many ways the best I have. However there are a couple of niggles that stop me from rating this 5 stars, and with any luck these will be addressed in forthcoming updates.
- when importing a photo for a new layer, there is no way to rotate, resize or adjust the imported photo on the canvas, which is very restricting
- a crop tool would be nice, rather than the standard 4:3 canvas
- a text tool, so we can type into images
The great thing is that I apart from these things, I can’t find anything to complain about, as such. 
Tracking my finger is very good, the zoom is fantastic and best of all, I brought it when it was half price!! Horrahh!
My rating: 4 out of 5
Don’t get me wrong, I like the Pages app, and recommend it, but here are a few annoyances that I would like to see addressed in future updates:
- being able to save and upload to MobileMe iDisk. Currently you to sync via iTunes, or use the buggy iWork.com service.. Or email.
- being able to print wirelessly… Just make it work!
- ability to import/add more fonts to the iPad library.
- a way to draw directly (ie. Diagrams, pictures, etc) into the app. This would be really helpful for lecture note taking.
Other than that, it’s very polished and good to use.
My rating: 3 out of 5
The HD version couldn’t have been executed better, it really is brilliant. I was effected by the previous version that kept on crashing on opening when connected to the internet, but it was fixed quickly which shows great feedback response. However, I have two digs with the HD version…
1. Is it really worth £2.99? The original app is 59p, which is five times less, but I wouldn’t call this game five times better.
2. Thanks, your making my iPhone feel really annoyingly small!
My rating: 4 out of 5
Right, the good…
- free, very intuitive and easy to use
- really takes advantage of the iPad’s large screen
- not very buggy, simple and effective.
The bad…
…the Metro can’t report news for ****. The articles seem to be written completely by blind, brainless idiots who I’m surprised can only just string together a sentence, most of which are about whatever new errand Cheryl Cole or Russell Brand are up to.
If you are looking for quality journalism for free, just head over to the newly designed BBC news website, and add the icon to the home screen. Simple.
My rating: 3 out of 5
May 29
App Store, Apple, Technology, iPad, iPhone/iPod touch No Comments
Given that Apple announced the iPad in January, and it is now late May, and the shiny device has only just reached the UK, I am pretty irritated with Apple’s incompetence there. Despite this, I am very happy to finally see the iPad, and delighted that people can actually go use one, rather than just talk about them.
I have been rather quiet about my opinions on the iPad. Since it was announced, I have always said that the iPad has huge potential when the developers get their hands on the SDK, and will only do significantly well with the public at the right price. Now we can finally review those two things. Horrah!
I’ll start with addressing the many things people dislike about the iPad.
Talking of apps, I am very pleased to see some great names out there. My favourite iPhone game, Angry Birds, now has an Angry Birds HD for iPad. Newspapers such as the Guardian (free) and Murdoch’s Times (a tenner a month) are making their content available on the iPad. And this free IMDb app, sums up the whole 9″ touchscreen format, and I think if developers go down this route, the iPad has a very promising future.
But there are flaws, and annoyances. I am annoyed about the lack of camera, I would have liked to hear of better sound quality, and I am irritated by Apple’s constant going on about “HD movies on the iPad”. The iPad has a terrible 4:3 screen resolution of 1024×768, when the minimum for a HD quality video is 1280×720. Not good enough, Apple! Only say that when you give the iPad 1280×960 screen, please.
But my biggest gripe of all, the one that really matters – the price. Thanks to the clueless American mortgage lenders who initially started this whole mess, the dollar to the pound is terrible, and while many thought my price predictions were too high, they were for the most part, pretty accurate (give or take a few tenner’s). The cheapest iPad will set you back £429 (which is roughly the same as an iPhone 3GS on pay as you go) – and If you don’t already have an iPhone, I know for sure which I’d get first.
So would I get one? Put it this way – If I was given one, I would be delighted, use it to it’s potential and love it. If I had to buy one at my own expense from hard earned cash? Not at that price I wouldn’t…
And after all, this summer I intend to buy myself a new iMac. Money needs to be saved for that!
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