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This iPad App Gets You Ready for Christmas

2011-12-05T11:09:00.000-08:00

This iPad App Gets You Ready for Christmas - Here in Atlanta, we are already seeing the first signs of malls and shopping centers converted Christmas decorations for the holiday season. In accordance with the biggest party of the year USA, we found an iPad application you in the Christmas spirit of the German developers put GR.IT. They are a small team of developers who recently published an exclusive Christmas-only app for the iPad. The app is called X-mas calendar 2011.

This application iPad creatively celebrates the holiday calendar of traditional Christmas, but also includes the traditional Advent calendar. This season, the creative application of design features perfectly painted pictures in which small stories, they say. X-mas 2011 Calendar app uses modern animation, the benefits of visual and tactile interface of the iPad.

This iPad App Gets You Ready for Christmas - One aspect of this application to iPad, we really like is the use of humor. We all need to love and laugh, and especially during the holiday season. The timing of this application contains 24 iPad jokes to give you joy and laughter and put you in the mood for Christmas. You get a laugh every day from December 1-December 24
With a tap and a swipe gesture of soft holiday, you can use the backgrounds interesting that add magic to explore the history of Advent. This app is also designed with the user in mind, because it will change your experience with the ability to customize the interface and settings, where even small children can enjoy this wonderful season iPad can use to customize.

The timing of the X-mas 2011 is the App Store for $ 0.99.
Download : http://itunes.apple.com/app/adventskalender-2011/id465961672?mt=8

iPad Flash Player App

2011-11-28T20:06:00.000-08:00

iPad Flash Player App - Both iPad and iPad 2 are amazing tablets and offer stunning web browsing experience. However, it would not take you a lot of time to find out that it is not compatible with Flash. It amazes me why Apple did not ask Adobe for a flash plugin for iPad. Fortunately, there are some solution, but let me warn you, they are still no match for the standard flash support in case for desktop computers. Here are few ways to get flash on your iPad.

1) Frash – This is the most popular way of getting flash on your iPad. How do you install Frash on your iPad or iPad 2? The simplest way is to get the Frash.deb file from the link below directly on your Mobile Safari browser of iPad. Download it to your documents and install it with iFile.

2) Second most popular way is by installing an app called Skyfire from AppStore. This app costs 5 dollars.

So, Frash or Skyfire? Well, Frash is ARM flash plugin ported from other platforms. As a result, this option allows you to even interact with Flash content. On the other hand, Skyfire is good only for watching flash videos.

Also, did I mention that Frash is free? Yes, Frash is free of cost. On the other hand, Skyfire costs you some dollars and is limited implementation of Flash.

Last difference but certainly not the least is the privacy. In case of Skyfire, all the web data is processed on the Skyfire’s servers before they are sent to your iPad. While in case of Frash, everything is downloaded and processed directly on your iPad.

[Download Frash for iPad]

Update – We now recommend you to use iSwifter app. Compared to Skyfire, you can enjoy interactive flash content. Read the full iSwifter review to find more about it.

ISwifter Review - iPad Apps

2011-11-28T19:48:00.000-08:00

So while Apple still has not allowed Adobe’s Flash Plugin, it does not mean that you cannot run Flash on the iPad. The ability to flash content is one of the features that Android users often brag about but now, you can tell them that your iPad can run Flash too, thanks to the iSwifter app. This app allows you to run just about anything that is based on Flash.

It is not restricted to mere flash movies like in case of Frash, which was discussed in our popular iPad Flash plugin article. So, how does it work? Well, it executes the Flash content on its servers and then sends the video / content to the iPad. As I mentioned just few lines back, users can enjoy interactive flash content with iSwifter, not just clips. This means you will be able to play all those nice card games on it.

What about Hulu? Well, earlier back when it was launched it was able to play Hulu videos but now iSwifter’s servers are actively being blocked as it broke Hulu’s encryption to convert videos for iPad. Yeah, this sucks. So, if you were planning to watch your favorite episodes on Hulu, don’t get this app.

Nevertheless, the app is free to download and is pretty good if you aren’t planning to use it for Hulu. If you like the way it delivers, you can purchase it for three dollars.

iPad vs Skyfire

Skyfire is a proxy web browser which only allows you to view flash based movies and clips. It is not designed to handle interactive Flash content. As I said before, iSwifter will handle just about anything which makes perfect sense as there is so much interactive and exiting Flash content out there, not just those crazy Flash ads (no pun intended). Also, Skyfire costs 5 dollars and thus is an expensive and less capable than iSwifter. [download iswifter here]