iFridge

How long before refrigerators come with either with an iPad or (more likely) a recessed area where an iPad can be mounted on the front door?

It would be handy for ordering groceries online, when they run low.

iMac Touch patents

Patent filings by Apple for a multi-purpose iMac.

Press Pause

I had loaded the iPad with some movies and some of my Dad's favourite TV shows (Rumpole) but he said he didn't have time to watch them all. I said I usually watch about 20 minutes of a show before bed and continue off, the following night.

My dad was surprised to learn that it wasn't necessary to watch a movie all the way through in one sitting. He wasn't aware that you could pause the movie, go off and do something else and then come back and continue watching it at a later time.

Perhaps the movie player controls should appear briefly at the start and then fade away, as a reminder that they're there...

My nephew and the iPad

It goes without saying that my nephew LOVES the iPad. He just loves starting an app, playing with it for a while, then pressing the Home button and picking another app, ad nauseam.

After playing with the FirstWords app for a few weeks, his spelling vocabulary is large enough that we allow him 5 minutes of game-time for each word (three-letters long) he spells correctly.

It has been noted that the photograph looks like an ad for the iPad. It was shot with the Canon 50D and the 24mm/1.4L at f/1.6.

Photoshop Express for the iPad

Adobe as released Photoshop Express for the iPhone and iPad (and Android).

It requires the use of a Photoshop.com photo-storage account, however.

A review of e-readers

"That said, no other e-reader impressed us more—both in terms of convenience and fine hat-making."

John Flowers reviews the advantages and disadvantages of various e-readers.

More Apps (August)

Latest Apps I've installed:

• Virtuoso (piano keyboard)
• GraphBook (interactive plots)
  
• KJV Bible (allows additional translations to be purchased and has the ability to display and scroll two translations side-by-side)
• Holy Bible (deleted; many free Bible translations, but the fonts render poorly)
  
• Planets (has nice animations of rotating planets), GoSkyWatch (has compass) (astronomy)
• Panzer Class (physics puzzles)
• Cat Physics (similar to Angry Birds)
• Oven Break Lite (side-scroller, popular with the young kids)
  
• Chess Free (ads at the bottom, considering deleting), War Chess [deleted; extremely buggy] (animated humanoid chess pieces with placement hints)
  
• Mahjong Lite
• Gravitarium (interactive zen)
• Air Master (spaceship flight simulator, objectives are confusing)
• Cogs HD Lite (puzzle game)