iPad surges past Android, iPod Touch

According to NetApplications, browser usage share on the iPad has already surpassed usage share on both the Android platform and the iPod touch.

Since the number of Android and iPod Touch units sold vastly outnumber iPad units sold, Net Applications concludes that this is an indication that the iPad is used much more frequently per user for browsing.

What’s interesting is that whilst the iPod Touch share has remained static, the Android’s has doubled.  It’s just that the iPad has seen phenomenal growth from zero to the current share of 0.17%, 0.3% higher than Android.

Obviously these are very small numbers but one needs to remember that this is the browser share of all Internet traffic, not just mobile platforms.  And the iPad’s emergence comes after only three months on the market.  Things can only get even better from here.

Add PDFs to your iPad via iBooks

Regardlesss of the merits of the iPad HD display versus the e-ink screens favoured by Amazon, Sony et al, Apple’s Book store is growing in popularity and already shaping up to be as comprehensive and ubiquitous as the iTunes Store has become for music.

But one feature that I really like about the iBooks app is the ability to store PDF files. For professionals, this makes iBooks the perfect library for sales brochures, marketing material, training guides, manuals, catalogues and price lists – any kind of document, in fact, that can be saved and viewed in the universal PDF format. Although with iOS4, iBooks is now available on the iPhone, this method of document storage really comes into its own on the iPad. So here’s a quick overview of how you achieve this. … Continue Reading

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“Granimator – The Wallpaper Creator” is a free and unconventional drawing app that is one of the most satisfying and creative ways to spend 30 minutes that I have yet discovered for my iPad. … Continue Reading

itsmyiPad review: Bento for iPad

Bento is Filemaker’s popular consumer database program and one that has recently undergone the inevitable iPad face lift. The program is aimed at casual users who want to structure personal information relating to home, hobbies and home office activity. For more advanced users who want to create sophisticated databases using SQL or web-based functionality, Bento is not really suitable. So how does the app measure up? … Continue Reading

Pages turning over mighty iPad sales

According to a new report from analyst, @Distimo – http://www.distimo.com, in April 2010, the highest ranked paid iPad application in the Apple App Store was Pages, followed by GoodReader for iPad, and Pinball HD. The highest ranked free iPad application in the Apple App Store was iBooks, followed by The Solitaire and Break HD Free.

The majority of the 10 highest ranked paid applications were published in the following categories in April 2010: Productivity (Apple App Store for iPad), Games (Apple App Store for iPhone), Themes (BlackBerry App World), News & Weather (Google Android Market), Games (Nokia Ovi Store), Productivity & Utilities (Palm App Catalog) and in Games (Windows Marketplace for Mobile).

In the Apple App Store, paid applications in the Top Overall, Games, Business and Entertainment categories stay in these categories for 27, 39, 59 and 38 days on average, respectively. Free applications stay in the Top 100 for a significantly shorter time in the Top Overall, Games and Business categories, with 19, 21 and 39 days on average, respectively.

In the Apple App Store, the majority of paid applications that have been in the Top 100 Overall during the entire period of November 2009 – April 2010 fall into the Games and Entertainment categories.

The full report is available to download here.