Gogo InFlight's Ultimate Fashion Travel Gear Giveaway

On Saturday, November 24, 2012 0 comments


Here is a close-up of our ultimate fashion travel gear kit - an Apple Macbook Air, Apple TV and an unlocked iPhone 5 could all be yours! 
The giveaway has over $400 in the best travel friendly items you can imagine - from Fresh lip balm to L'occitane hand creme, Evian facial toner and even an emergency amenity kit. 
Sure, gadgets may be very important in the ultimate travel kit, but what good are they without something amazing to carry them in? 

Their ultimate Travel Fashion Kit includes two of the best pieces of luggage you can get - the Tumi Arrivé De Gaulle International rolling carry-on and the Tumi Lucca City Tote. Worth $1700, they are just part of this great package.

An awesome haul and you could win it by registering here...http://ptab.it/hUNC

Wireless Smart Pen Writes to the Cloud!

On Monday, November 12, 2012 0 comments

What about a pen and pad that remembers everything you write. What if while you are writing these notes it is also recording what is said and you can go back to what was say moments before you wrote the note?

That would be really nice huh?

Well in this era of tablets and smartphones, I still find that writing and accessing my notes in a written form is still quite productive and easy to find. So for a few years now I have extolled the benefits of the Livescribe smart pen.

One issue with the Livescribe is that I had to dock it with my computer (only one computer) and transfer the information. I could then sync it to an internet cloud note-taking solution like Evernote. I could go weeks between syncs and sometimes be in need of what I had jotted down but it hadn't made it to the cloud yet!

Answer solved: Livescribe Sky is a new version that has wi-fi built into the pen itself. And now I can send my notes directly to Evernote. This is exactly what I needed.

Now if you already have the Livescribe and a good routine of syncing with your computer...this might not be that worthwhile of an upgrade. But for the organizationally challenged like myself, this makes my life that much more better. Well worth the $170 for the 2 gigabyte version or $190'ish for the 4 gigabyte edition. The 2 gigabyte affords you about 200 hours of recording time and when combined with regular syncing...is probably good for most people.

Note: Livescribe requires you to write on special paper. You can order special pads to write on or print your own micro-dot paper.

I really like this solution and use it even though I also will carry an iPad or Macbook Air to a meeting.

 


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PogoConnect for iPad (3rd Gen) Launch Details Announced

On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 0 comments


PogoConnect is planned to ship next month with pre-orders beginning on October 1st. This high-tech pressure sensitive pen will run you $79. I have been looking for a viable solution for taking handwritten notes and create sketches on an iPad and this looks like the most viable stylus-type of solution to come to market.

I will provide more details when we take delivery of one in the coming weeks. In the meantime, check out Ten One Designs PogoConnect product page.

Below is a list of compatible apps that work well with this new type of stylus...


Artistic
SketchBook Pro (coming soon)
Autodesk SketchBook® Pro for iPad is a professional-grade paint and drawing application. Using the same paint engine as its desktop counterpart, SketchBook Pro delivers a complete set of sketching & painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface designed exclusively for the iPad experience.
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FlipBook
FlipBook HD is the most powerful animation app available for iOS. Bring your doodles to life using either frame-to-frame animation or powerful keyframe animation with a set of tools designed from the ground up for the iPad. When you're done, email your movie to your friends or share them on flipbook.tv for the world to see.
more | app store
Procreate
Procreate is the only studio-grade sketchbook for iPad®. Packed with over 45 professional brushes, an incredible OpenGL painting engine and desktop quality features, Procreate is the smart choice for professional illustrators.
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Paper by FiftyThree (coming soon)
Paper is where ideas begin. It’s the easiest and most beautiful way to create on the new iPad. Capture your ideas as sketches, diagrams, illustrations, notes or drawings and instantly share them across the web.
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Brushes
Brushes is a painting application designed from scratch for the iPhone and iPod touch. Featuring an advanced color picker, several realistic brushes, layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device.
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Colors! (coming soon)
Colors! is a simple yet robust painting application combining ease of use and powerful painting tools. Based on modern painting techniques originally developed for professional drawing tablets, Colors! is tailored for touch screen devices, and caters to everyone from serious artists to aimless doodlers. Whether you are looking for doing doodles, sketching or painting, Colors! is the perfect mobile sketchbook.
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Zen Brush
Zen Brush is an app that allows you to easily enjoy the feeling of using an ink brush to write or to paint. It allows anyone to easily perform fluent strokes while not compromising on the fascinating texture of a real ink brush.
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SketchClub
Sketch Club provides not just great tools to create but also some of the motivation and inspiration through it’s integrated online community. You can upload your sketches to let others rate and comment as well as enter daily challenges and weekly competitions for fabulous prizes! You can see what people are creating at http://SketchClub.com
more | app store
Productivity
Noteshelf (coming soon)
Noteshelf is the handwriting note taker for the iPad that features super natural digital ink, a stunning UI and a comprehensive toolset that will increase the benefits of owning an iPad by leaps and bounds.
more | app store
NotePad Pro (coming soon)
NotePad Pro is the most powerful tool to take notes on the go!! Use NotePad Pro to take notes everywhere, excellent for students, professionals, businessman, or anyone! You can take notes, draw sketches and record audio. The most complete note app available on the iPad
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PDFpen for iPad
With PDFpen, use your iPad to sign a contract, make corrections, fill out an application, make comments on a presentation and much more. It’s the mobile app that doesn’t feel like you left the important features back at the office. Use Pogo Connect to give your PDF mark-up that special hand-written look
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GoodNotes (coming soon)
GoodNotes is a simple iPad note-taking application for creating and sharing handwritten notes and PDF mark-up.
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Apple will have two big introductions this fall - 2012

On Saturday, August 25, 2012 0 comments


Walt Mossberg's AllThingsD.com confirms there will be two separate Apple product introductions this fall. The iPhone 5 in September and the iPad Mini in October.

I had previously mentioned in my Exciting Products Yet To Launch This Fall 2012 piece a couple weeks ago that they would both be at the September 12 media event.

Instead Apple will focus consumers on the smartphone at the September 12th event before rolling out the smaller (7") iTablet during the iPod refresh event. And while nothing is certain until the events, even the iPad Mini name is sounding more and more like it is a keeper.

Personally, I am due for an upgrade and am looking forward to the iPhone 5 introduction as I am still toting around a iPhone 4...never justifying the 4s upgrade. I'm certain the 5 will be a solid improvement over my current iPhone. As for the new, smaller iPad...I'm on the fence. Truth be told, like I have mentioned in past articles, I am almost preferring my Macbook Air on many occasions...where the iPad is really just my surfing, media consumption and games platform. Any content generation is largely left to my laptop.

But you never know what Apple might have up their sleeve with these introductions??? More as information comes available.


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Exciting Pressure Sensitive Stylus for iPad and iPhone...

On Friday, August 24, 2012 0 comments

I am pretty excited about the forthcoming Pogo Connect stylus for iPad and iPhone. While there has been a slew of stylus'...none have really excited me. After using each of them, I was largely disappointed. Granted I am not an artist but I just felt like I was squishing a rubber or felt nub around to get some dimensionality into whatever I tried to sketch.


The good news is that there is a new set of solutions on the horizon that offer a path to provide greater control over the sensitivity and tactile nature of using a stylus on a tablet. Ten One Design (the makers of the basic but popular Pogo Sketch) is about to launch a Bluetooth 4.0, pressure sensitive stylus that communicates the pressure of the pen to the application wirelessly on the iOS device.

Artists have enjoyed this capability with some high-end graphics tablets and will surely enjoy this advancement but for me the best benefit of this type of solution is that the application can ignore all touch inputs except for the pen. If you have used a stylus to take notes on a multi-touch tablet, you probably have had the experience of your wrist touching the display and drawing something on the screen. This stylus can address this and turn note-taking into a joy.

I am really looking forward to this and some other intelligent stylus solutions to see how my tablet experience evolves. I will let you know when the price and availability is announced shortly.

Below is a video quickly highlighting the Pogo Connect's sensitivity at play...




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E3 Report: Nintendo to broadcast more Wii U information

On Sunday, June 3, 2012 0 comments


Nintendo will have a web broadcast to disclose more exciting information around their Nintendo Wii successor the Nintendo Wii U. This system is expected to include a "second screen" tablet-like controller that allows games and applications to display additional information on your portable display.

We've seen this device in action across an assortment of electronic and entertainment tradeshows for the past year and are very interested to see the system at this week's E3 show with content nearly ready for the commercial launch.

Check it out today...Sunday, June 3rd @ 3pm PDT.


You will be able to find more editorial and detailed commentary on the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) at WouldntMind.com.


LarryLarry Pacey, award-winning designer tracks the latest news on consumer products, electronics, appliances, smart devices, networking and the gadget lifestyle.For the latest news follow me on:

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All about Quizlets

On Sunday, April 29, 2012 0 comments

There is a great website for kids and adults studying certain topics called QUIZLET.com. My son uses it regular to make flash-card sets to help him study. Here is an example game focusing on the U.S State Capitals...