Bridging Book app Blends Physical and Digital into Single Reading Experience

Digital? Print? Book lovers don’t really care; we just want more books. A digital-print combo, however, is certain to capture our attention. Portugal-based engageLab unites the two modes of reading with Bridging Book, and app that allows the reader to turn the pages of a printed book while, through the magic of magnets, the app follows along, extending the book into the iPad’s screen.

When used with Bridging Book, the ipad acts as a book-extender, bringing interactive elements, sound, and animation to the story told on the printed page. File this great idea under “must purchase” and “ridiculously cool.”

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Flag - the app that prints and mails your photos for free.

Sharing photos online is great, but you can’t hang an iPad on a wall, you can’t look at two photos at once on a phone, and sometimes it’s nice to turn your screens off.

Unfortunately printing photos is expensive, quality is hard to guarantee, and styling options tend to be limited to rectangles with or without white borders.

Flag is an app for iPhone and iPad designed to change that.

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Pinterest Brings Place Pins to iPad, GIFs to Mobile

Pinterest updated both its mobile and iPad apps on Friday, offering some of its most recent product updates to mobile users.

Updates to the iOS and Android apps now support GIFs, a feature that Pinterest unveiled in late January. Pinterest said at the time that there are "tens of millions" of GIFs on the platform, and those will now be playable on mobile devices.

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FiftyThree Files for Trademark on 'Paper' After Facebook App Release

FiftyThree, the company behind popular iPad sketching app Paper, has filed for a trademark on the term "Paper" following the announcement of Facebook’s magazine-style news curation tool, also named Paper. 

First discovered by TechCrunch, the trademark was filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on January 30, the same day Facebook initially unveiled its new app. As noted by FiftyThree co-founder Georg Petschnigg in an open letter, FiftyThree was not given advanced notice of Facebook’s plans and was taken by surprise by the app release. 

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The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: Why Paper Still Beats Screens

E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such technologies improve, but reading on paper still has its advantages.

One of the most provocative viral YouTube videos in the past two years begins mundanely enough: a one-year-old girl plays with an iPad, sweeping her fingers across its touch screen and shuffling groups of icons. In following scenes, she appears to pinch, swipe and prod the pages of paper magazines as though they, too, are screens. Melodramatically, the video replays these gestures in close-up.

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Paper, the iPad’s Best Drawing App, Now Serves Up Custom Moleskine Sketchbooks

When the iPad app Paper first launched in 2011, it was easy to figure out what it was all about. The notebooks on-screen were lovingly rendered, each complete with a little elastic band. Yes, these were digital Moleskines–elegant repositories for your notes, sketches, mock-ups, and musings.

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Is the iPad Era Already Drawing to a Close?

When it comes to Apple, hope and pessimism spring eternal. Just ask the accidentally dueling billionaires Carl Icahn and Larry Ellison.

Oracle co-founder and CEO Ellison, in a interview with Charlie Rose that aired on "CBS This Morning" last Tuesday, predicted that, as the Los Angeles Times summed up in a headline, "Apple is doomed without Steve Jobs." He conveyed his feelings in a sort of real-time infographic: "We saw Apple with Steve Jobs," Ellison said while raising his finger. "Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs," he added while dropping his finger.

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