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

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