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True Professionals do need someone to help them transition to the internet. Why? As they are so entrenched in their profession that they don't have time to learn how to arrive on internet. One such professionals are the Visual Artists -- Painters, Cartoonists and anyone who works on a paper or canvas. A new iPad app called Galleries HQ -- helps visual artists and galleries showcase their creations to the world through mobile devices.

Right now the GalleriesHQ is on iOS only, but soon it will be rolled out for other platforms -- Google and Microsoft -- as well.

Galleries HQ for iPad:

Seattle-based entrepreneur Wayne Bishop, an art enthusiast and traveler, created Galleries HQ. The idea was to make for the absence of a high tech app for the arts; and take the art work to the mobile audience. Bishop hopes that the app will help artists market their Art better; quoting the data that 79 million U.S consumers using a mobile device for an online purchase in 2013 and 1 billion consumers expected to own smartphones by 2016.

What the Galleries HQ app for iPad offers:

1) Help with pricing and contact information.

2) Use of Maps to find new artists, galleries and museums in a certain location.

For more info visit: www.gallerieshq.com. ---------

iPad Apps

iPad App to Help Artists to showcase their Work

Anil Singh Monday, July 1, 2013

PressReader, the largest digital newspaper kiosk app for iOS (including The New iPad), Android, WP7, BlackBerry and Win7 Slate PCs...Have you tired it yet?

If no, then you can well... Try it.

PressReader conveniently allows technology and mobile device enthusiasts to read and share their favourite newspapers and magazines on the go. With over 2,200 newspapers from 96 countries in 54 languages directly on your favorite mobile device, PressReader fits the profile of a perfect app for essentially all technology and mobile device enthusiasts.

Availability:

PressReader iTune Page: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/pressreader/id313904711?mt=8.

What else the app offers:

PressReader app also helps enhance a user’s reading experience with features such as:

• Its innovative horizontal reading stream
• Flipping pages like they’re reading real publications
• Setting up automated subscriptions to their favorite titles
• Sorting publications by country, language, favorites or recently ordered
• Panning and zooming articles and photos and view in stunning clarity
• Listening to publications using on-demand audio
• Sharing articles by email, Twitter and Facebook

It would cost $29.95/month for users to have full access to the account. The monthly subscription provides users with limitless access to our entire catalogue.

Review:

There are two issues which I faced while using the PressReader App on iPad3. First one is the Speed of download. Daily newspapers first need to be downloaded. The App notifies you when the newspaper is available and you download it. I used the App on my WiFi only iPad3, on 100 Mbps connection. And it takes 10-12 minutes to download a 20 page newspaper.

On download, I can give benefit of doubt to the App, as my internet connection may be slow by broadband standards.

Second one is the clarity of Text. When you flick pages, the page takes one or two seconds to provide crystal clear text.

Rest the App is Great -- Crystal Clear Text, Well layout Pages, responding flawlessly to touch; and is a great utility for a person who wants to get up-to-date on his chosen News Category. The variety in the catalogue is quite impressive as well. ---------

Android Apps , Blackberry Apps , iOS Apps , iPad Apps , Windows 7 Slate Apps , Windows Phone Apps

PressReader Newspaper Kiosk App now Available for iPad

Anil Singh Friday, September 21, 2012

A new iPad app, Nordstrom for iPad, released on the Labor Day holiday, to assist its holiday weekend sales; combines an online-like shopping experience with an archive of the catalogs. The app works in both portrait and landscape, though the catalogs continue to be designed from the print editions and so can put tantrums in landscape, when the text becomes totally unreadable.

The new app is the second app from the Retailer. A previous app, Nordstrom The Catalogs from Synapse Group (makers of apps like SkyMall, the in-flight shopping catalog), was released just in time for the Christmas shopping season last year.

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iPad Apps , Nordstrom for iPad

New iPad app combines online-like retail experience with archive of interactive catalogs

Anil Singh Friday, September 7, 2012

A child when diagnosed with Autism, devastates the parents. But if the parents think of timely early intervention for Autism, then the child can cope with Autism fast i.e. pace up the gap between his/her mental and Physiological Age fast.

A new iPad app, TOBY Playpad, aids parents in Early Intervention for Autism.

The App can provide early intervention therapy to kids diagnosed with autism.

The App is developed by Deakin University scientist Professor Svetha Venkatesh, along with Autism West (Australia) and others.

How the Autism iPad App Helps:

The App can be used to help children gain life skills even before their therapy starts. The App includes over 50 skills, such as matching socks. Currently the app is targeted for ages 2 through 6. more age groups will be included once, philanthropic and app sales money comes in.

Silvana Gaglia, an Autism expert said this about the App,

“It is a groundbreaking application which empowers parents and carers with children who have been diagnosed with the tools to immediately commence therapy activities during the crucial early intervention period.”

Price and Availability: Costs $100.

Resources on Autism -- Some of the Best Book on Autism:

1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism or Asperger's, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition

Son Rise by Barry Neil Kaufman

Teaching Individuals With Developmental Delays: Basic Intervention Techniques

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Relationship Development Intervention with Young Children: Social and Emotional Development Activities for Asperger Syndrome, Autism, PDD and NLD

Relationship Development Intervention with Children, Adolescents and Adults

Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism (Vintage)

A Work in Progress: Behavior Management Strategies and a Curriculum for Intensive Behavioral Treatment of Autism

Children with Starving Brains: A Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder

Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders

A Parent's Guide to Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism: How to Meet the Challenges and Help Your Child Thrive

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Autism , Early Intervention for Autism , iPad Apps , TOBY Playpad

Researchers create New iPad App: Enables Parents in Early Intervention for Autism

Anil Singh Sunday, September 2, 2012

Can ipad experience have some flaws? Going by the great ads with smooth gliding touches Apple rolls out, it’s hard to believe that iPad users can have issues with iPad experience. But if a new neilsen study is to be believed, some issues ate there, when it comes to usability of iPad apps.

According to new research from Nielsen Norman Group (NNG), the usability of iPad apps and of Web sites displayed on this device have improved substantially in the past year. In particular, apps have become more consistent and standardized, making them easier to use; but there's still plenty of room for improvement.

To come at the verdict, Neilsen brought in 16 people with at least two months' experience using the iPad and systematically tested how they interacted with 26 iPad apps and six Web sites.

Here's what came out, based on users' feedback, preferences and complaints:

1) Touchable areas are often too small and too close; not easy to separate from the adjoining areas:

A) In most cases, text content is big enough to read, but links in the text are too small to tap easily. Sites and apps with too many touchable areas; always pose the risk of touching the wrong link. Such accidental navigations are quite irritating, especially in iPad apps that lack a "back" button.

B) Many touchable areas don't appear as if they are touchable

C) "swipe ambiguity”(when multiple items on the same screen could be swiped) another source of irritation. The problem aggravates in apps that also relies on swiping to move between pages. Many users couldn't turn the page because they swiped in the wrong spot; announcing dejectedly – “The app is broken."

2) iPad users don’t like to use Touchpad
The reasons being: iPad users don’t want to go through a registration process that requires lots of onscreen typing (a common problem with Touch pads; No wonder iPad is being used mainly for media consumption than media generation)

3) The Web browser has limits:

The study found that iPad browser is good for simpler tasks, not so good for complex tasks. The study advises that if a service requires substantial interaction, consider an app instead of a site.

4) Website or app flaws make app fail:

A third of the tasks that involved apps ended in failure. The study attributes the failure to tow reasons: Web site contained more information than the app, or the app design was confusing.

5) Screen space is used inefficiently

The study found that many apps use the iPad screen inefficiently: the screen contains little information, making a user take extra actions to get to the content. One reason for the underutilized screen are the Popovers.

6) People prefer landscape mode when not using an iPad cover:

The study found that slightly more users preferred the landscape (horizontal) orientation for the iPad. The fact that some iPad apps handle navigation differently depending on orientation (like, they use horizontal navigation in landscape and use vertical navigation in portrait) confuses users.

7) Splash Screens are a real problem

Several new iPad apps have long introductory segments that might be entertaining the first time, but not the second and the third time. The study suggests no Splash screens neither on websites nor on apps.

One interesting finding of the study was that, iPad users are more generous about killing time; that’s they take the metric of “killing time” higher than smartphone users.

Notably, the time that is usually available on the smartphone is much shorter and more fragmented than the one available on the iPad. On the smartphone, users may look for a quick article to kill the three minutes of waiting for the train; but once on train, they may take out the iPad to kill the time it takes to reach their destination. ---------

Apple iPad , iPad Apps

iPad apps not very user friendly yet: says Study

Anil Singh Saturday, May 28, 2011

Quickly acknowledging the presence of dual cameras on iPad2, Twitter has updated its iPad app to allow for video and photo capture. Working just like it does on the iPhone; Photos and video can be captured using iPad2’s cameras and uploaded to any service the user wants to. ---------

Apple iPad2 , iPad Apps , Twitter

Twitter acknowledges the presence of dual cameras in iPad 2

Anil Singh Friday, March 25, 2011