One of the neat things about a tablet device like the iPad is the ability to interact with media like never before. The app I’ll be discussing today is Skitch for the iPad, an app created by the folks from Evernote, that allows you to annotate your images with ease.
There are multiple reasons why you would want to draw on your pictures. If you’re just being goofy you can add a mustache to someone or scribble someone out of a picture. You can also start with a blank canvas and draw to your hearts content. If this sounds like a silly app, think again. There are professional reasons why you would want to sketch on a picture too.
Apple is approaching another milestone. Soon Apple users will have downloaded a total of 25 billion apps. The App store debuted in July of 2008 and has seen exponential growth ever since.
To celebrate the occasion Apple will be awarding lucky number 25,000,000,000 a $10,000 App Store gift card. There was some initial confusion as to whether the gift card would be for the Apple store or the App store, but I can confirm it is just for the app store. The prize essentially awards the winner unlimited app downloads for life. If you were to buy one $0.99 app every single day it would take you nearly 28 years to use up your gift card.
Have you always wanted a full operating system like OS X or Windows 7 on the iPad? Well now you can do that using the Desktop Connect app. Here’s what this iPad app does: it streams a live view of your computer right to your iPad. So in other words, you can use your main system on the iPad. One the main reasons to get this app is to view sites with Flash. Another one is to teach and guide someone as you watch the desktop remotely on your iPad.
When you own an iPad sooner than later you’ll get the itch to start drawing on it. There’s no better app for that than Adobe Ideas. This app turns your iPad into your own digital sketchbook. Sketches created can be emailed as a pdf via email to view or for further editing in Photoshop.
People always ask me if the iPad is a laptop replacement, and I always say, it depends what you do online. Well if you book flights online the Kayak app makes your life easier. With this iPad application it’s actually easier to search for flights on your iPad than on your laptop. In a jiffy you can choose your departing location, arrival location and your dates of travel and get a list of flights and prices. It also saves your search history, so you can check back at a future time to see how prices have changed since your last search.
Omni Sketch is a “procedural drawing” application for the iPad that’s pretty neat. It has brushes that do effects as you draw, so the results look much more complicated than if you were just doodling and had a straight line. Its procedural brush uses a mathematical algorithm to draw patterns as your finger moves across the screen. Because of this the final result will look a bit abstract, but some people enjoy that. There is also a mirrored drawing mode, which means that you can draw one half of your artwork and the other half will just duplicate itself, so no more lopsided drawings.
