Today the Google Catalogs app was released for Android tablets. The free Catalogs app makes 125 different catalogs available for browsing on an iPad and Android tablet, and in some instances links are available to order the product online and find the product in a local store.
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What could possibly more social than the the relationship between humans and their dogs? If you missed the National Dog Show that took place on November 19 and 20, you can still check out the highlights and learn about the dog breeds involved using the free The National Dog Show 2011 app for Android and iOS.
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Thirty-nine of the apps for my iPad &/or iPhone were updated in the past week. Apps that do not have comments in the list below indicates that the update is simply a bug fix release or an Apple iOS 4.x compatibility update with, perhaps, some bug fixes.
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Here’s an tip for iPhone and iPad owners good for Black Friday and, in fact, every day of the year. If you follow iOS app tracking sites like AppShopper and 148apps, you know that there are a lot of apps that have their prices reduced or even become free for a period of time. Then, of course, there are apps that are free all the time. Here’s three that are free on this Black Friday.
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Flipboard, the popular and useful social news curation app for the iPad, inspired a number of competitors in that app space. Back in April of this year, I took a look at one of these news aggregation apps and wrote… Hitpad for iPad: Lickable Graphical News Interface – Needs Social News Feed Curation. I went to note that: While Hitpad looks better than and is more readable than Taptu, its news curation is fixed. Linking to your Twitter and/or Facebook account is just for sharing information. It does not use your own sources for news curation..
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Google released a new version of its iOS search app that includes significant enhancements for iPad users. Enhancements includes the Google Instant feature that displays results as you type. Google web apps are also easy to find and use from the updated search app. You can see what the first of two app pages looks like in the first screenshot here.
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Sixty-five of the apps for my iPad &/or iPhone were updated in the past week. Apps that do not have comments in the list below indicates that the update is simply a bug fix release or an Apple iOS 4.x compatibility update with, perhaps, some bug fixes.
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The Flipboard (for iPad) 1.6 update introduces three new features that lets an iPad be shared and to bring in content from Tumblr and 500px.
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Image courtesy of the TouchFire Kickstarter project
Four years after Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone’s on-screen keyboard and encouraged us to trust it, we have grown used to them despite the fact that they don’t provide a good touch typing experience. We all learned to touch type on physical keyboards that provide feedback that enables us to feel our way around the keyboard. TouchFire is a Kickstarter project that plans to produce a product that adds a physical layer to the iPad’s on-screen keyboard.
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Google is a believer in the saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try try again.” Google released the first Gmail for iOS app a little over two weeks ago. It was pulled within hours of its release because of a major bug. As Frank McPherson noted here: Google Rushes Gmail App For iOS And Botches The Release
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