Saturday 28 July 2012

Cooliris: The Best Google Image Experience

We stumbled upon this app through Freemyapp.com, a site where you can test sponsored iOS apps and collect points for redeeming free gifts, and my first impression towards this app, STUNNING!

If you can still recall, years ago, we have a firefox plugin called Cooliris, which allows users to browse images from the web in 3D walls. But now with tablets, people have soon forgotten about those awesome old days. People will say, what can be better an browsing images on a touch screen device? What can be smoother than flicking and swiping your photo collection with your finger? The fact is, we have found the answer for these questions, a BETTER photo browsing experience than the native iOS photo app. Exactly! its name is still Cooliris, only this time in the form of iOS app.

By using Cooliris for iPad, you can choose to browse through your iPad photo albums, or connect it with your facebook account to browse your facebook photos in a smoother fashion. What's even better, is that you can browse and save images from Google Image, right inside this app! With this app, we would be one of the happy customer who would say good bye to the horrible Safari Google Image search!

Still not convinced with the app? Let's show you some of the amazing screenshot of Cooliris in action!

p.s. We really have no idea what to search for, so we tested on "The Dark Knight", 😂

Friday 20 July 2012

Can Google Drive finally Takedown Dropbox this time?

Google is everywhere, in our map, email, browser, and even in our cloud storage. But this is thing they have been talking about, about Google's Google Drive being able to replace Dropbox, by far the one of the most popular cloud storage, in our iPad and iPhone. But, how true is that?

For one thing I can say as a Dropbox user, the ease of uploading photos and videos onto its database, right from the app itself, really is a pleasure.The upload speed is fast, and I can straightaway access it from the Dropbox folder on my laptop. What about Google Drive? Absolutely not. All I can do is just viewing and downloading the documents from my Google Drive to the iPad, or open my Microsoft documents in iWork apps. No uploading function available in the app? That's not such a good idea if it really wants to be successful.

Honestly I have nothing against the idea of Google Drive, but until it start building in file uploading feature, I am gonna just stick with my Dropbox account.

Saturday 7 July 2012

Scripted: The App for Movie Buffs

Fancy reading some of the best original movie scripts? SCRIPTED is the app for you! Currently featuring over 100 scripts from some of the latest and coolest movies, this app is certainly a must-have for movie buffs who wants to get more out of their favourite titles. You can either view the scripts online, or download it for offline reading. The app is now available for free in the Appstore for limited time, go grab yours before its too late!!!

Note: This app is designed only for iPad.

Wednesday 4 July 2012

The "Touch" Effect

Can iPad replace my laptop? Not likely. Yet this thin and slick slate of art has conquered a big portion of my daily life. It's hard not to notice how iPad has replaced my Asus laptop in many of my daily routine. From checking mail to surfing the web, most of my daily tasks as a lecturer could be done smoothly without my laptop. I can open and edit my slides with the Keynote app, manage my webmail with Safari, view word documents through Pages app, download and view my invigilation timetable through Numbers, I can even kill some free time reading my favourite magazines on iBooks and Flipboard. Occasionally, I keep in touch with friends through Facebook. And by the end of the day, while I finally lie on the bed, I start to realise that I haven't even touch my laptop at all! 

That's what happen to many of us these days, and it's not surprising. If you pay more attention while you walk along the streets, more and more people are holding tablets, and it's not just a trend, it has turned into a habit. I could still recall seeing my mum attempting to scroll her laptop screen with finger gestures last weekend. It also happened to my friend when she was trying to explain to me the content of a PDF file on my laptop. We have changed the way we interact with devices, just like the way we change the way we interact with people, and most importantly, the way we interact with we daily tasks, ALL because of this small and thin piece of aluminium. 

So if you ask me again whether my iPad can replace my laptop? I will still say NO, yet I won't deny that there's a possibility that it might or will really change the way we interact with technology in the near future.