Posts tagged Reviews
The iPad Show Episode 30 – “Two Potatoes on a Couch”
Aug 23rd
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The iPad Show – Episode 30 for Monday August 16, 2010
Introductions
- Special guest Somrat Niyogi
- Creator of Miso and Flixup
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Apps – Theme: TV, Movie, Podcast, Music consumption apps
- Steve
- Movies by Flixter Free
- Hulu +
- Myspace Romeo
- Netflix
- Dave
- Break
- Crunchyroll for iPad
- Dailymotion
- Ret and Link
News
- PDF fix in Cydia by Jay Freeman
The iPad Show Episode 25 – Happy Little iPad
Jul 13th
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The iPad Show Episode 25 for Sunday July 11, 2010
Happy Little iPad – The Creativity Episode
Hosts:
- Steve Bostedor @sbostedor
- David Buchanan @audiocollective
Apps
- Steve
- Dave
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Hardware
- Steve – Pogo Sketch pen
News
The iPad Show – Episode 22 – Live With Possibilities
Jun 23rd
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The iPad Show Live at Podcamp Ohio for Saturday, June 19, 2010
Today, we’re going discuss how the iPad can help plan and produce a podcast, tips, news, and more …
Introduction
- Special guest Timothy Chaten, host of The iPad Possibilities Podcast. http://www.thepossibilitiesnetwork.com/
- Explain what Podcamp is and what we’re doing here (for the iTunes audience)
- Explain the special format of today’s show
- Apps and tips for Planning and producing a podcast
- No direct input of the iPad for this episode – overhead projector instead
- Giveaways at the end of the show
- Questions at the end, also
Planning a Podcast (2 apps or tips each)
- Steve
- App: Documents To Go Premium $11.99 link
- They do have a cheaper $7.99 version that doesn’t support cloud services
- Desktop app for syncing between your Mac or PC to the iPad
- Google Docs for collaborative editing
- Show Notes Editor
- Edit your notes, save them to the cloud for collaboration
- Open the notes in Safari during the show to keep on track
- Make sure to put links in the docs to relevant websites
- Tip: Preparing your iPad for the show
- Kill any open Safari tabs
- Move any apps that you showcase to the home screen
- Set the background to a solid color or picture
- Turn off push notifications
- App: Documents To Go Premium $11.99 link
- Dave
- App
- NewsRack
- integrates with Google reader. Star stories to read on the show
- NewsRack
- App
- Tim
- App
- Evernote
- Gather news during the week
- Email important items to your Evernote account
- Create show notes (shared notes coming to iPad this summer)
- Record audio within app for small segments on podcasts
- Jailbreak App
- Infiniboard
- App
Producing (recording) a Podcast (2 apps or tips each)
- Steve
- Dave
- Caster – $5.99
- SoundSlate – $.99
- Tim
- Tip: Getting content into your iPad to edit and publish
- Camera Connection Kit
- Import Video from Cameras
- Use USB Dongle to record directly onto iPad using USB Microphones
- iPhone 4
- Use iPhone 4 to record video podcasts (alternating front and back cameras)
- Use camera connection kit to import those videos onto the iPad
- Camera Connection Kit
- Tip: Recording Skype Interviews on the iPad
- Requires a Google Voice Number
- Have interviewee call your GV number linked to your Skype number
- Hit 4 and Google will record the conversation in good quality for download later
- Use Downloader to download onto iPad then email to account (also works for voicemails)
- Use Open In functionality to edit in apps such as Reforge or other audio editors
- (Also Safari is a great app to finalize publishing of podcasts)
- Tip: Getting content into your iPad to edit and publish
News and Discussion
- Will the Starbucks wifi hotspots change your mind about getting a 3G iPad? link
- Should you worry about the iPad Safari exploit?
- The U.S. Copyright Office and the Librarian of Congress are due to rule any day whether iPhone jailbreaking should be exempted from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Questions From Audience
Use AirVideo To Stream Videos To Your iPad
Apr 13th
When I bought DVD movies for my 3 year old, they would be scratched up and useless within a week. As a result, I decided to make copies of every DVD that we purchased in both ISO and movie formats.
I’ve always wanted an easy way to stream those movies from the media center to the many portable devices in the house. Unfortunately, each device has its own native video format and converting the videos became a redundant nightmare.
AirVideo allows you to stream a multitude of video formats from your PC or MAC to any iDevice, including your iPad! As you can see in the screen capture above to the right, you can convert the videos to the iPad native format on the fly or queue them up for permanent conversion on the remote computer.
To get started, follow these steps:
- Download the server application to either your MAC or your PC
- On the PC, run the server and then choose the folder(s) to share
- Install the application on your iPad
- Once the app is launched, add your PC to the server list
- Start watching movies!
When you add a movie to the conversion queue via the iPad application, the conversion process actually happens on the remote computer, not on your iPad. This frees you up to do other things with your iPad while the conversion is happening.
The awesome thing about this application is that you don’t really need to do a full conversion like that to watch the movie. It has a very impressive on-the-fly conversion process that seamlessly converts video from virtually any format as you’re watching it! Just press “Play with live conversion”, sit back, and enjoy the show.
I’ve tried a lot of applications that stream various media from your computer to your iDevices but nothing even comes close to the feature set and reliability of this application. I consider this a must-have for every iPad.
Air Video is $2.99 for the full version. There is a free version that lets you test out the features on a limited number of videos per server if you’d like to give it a spin before committing your coffee cash to the App Store.
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