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Toy Story iPad App

Stephen Keable — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:21:19 +0000

So work have paid for me to have an iPad to use for research and development. I’ve been playing with it for a couple of evenings now, in fact this post was written on the wordpress app. The standard media apps have been downloaded (except the times one out of principal) and they have all been very impressive.

However the most impressive of all so far has to be Disney’s Toy Story digital book app, which is like one of the old books with the sound board that you used to have as a kid. It allows you to either read it to you, read it yourself or even record your own version for playback. Some pages allow you to colour the pages in, allowing for multiple touch so more than one set of little hands can play at once. Click read more to see some screen grabs.

iPad and the final knife in Flash Player?

Stephen Keable — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:33:38 +0000

So the iPad is now available in the UK, I did the habitual trip to the Chapelfield Apple Store to smear my greasy little fingers over one in my lunch break. I’m very impressed by the product, it seemed larger than I expected and makes websites into something tactile at last, they really do sing on that backlit glossy display.

After a return visit and working through a series of websites that I work on, it made me realise how lazy I’ve been when it comes to keeping up with HTML5 and non-flash content (lets face it Flash Player is pretty much dead in the water now). So I’ve now been working back through my sites and making sure alternative content is available, even spent the time re-developing some applications in jQuery.