Adobe Lightroom iPad App

Adobe Lightroom has hit the iTunes app store in an iPad app version and we couldn’t be more excited. An important tool in a photographers editing process, Lightroom mobile serves up most of the same features you’ll find on the computer version. Features like the usual exposure, color temperature, highlights, shadows and saturation are all part of the new mobile version of the software. However, true mobile capability reveals itself with by using an Adobe Creative Cloud account to sync collections back and forth from your desktop to you iPad. It also allows users to edit pictures on the go and automatically updating to the latest version of each photo – for example if you begin editing a photo on your iPad, you can continue exactly where you left off on your desktop. Subscribe to Adobe’s Creative Cloud service for $10 per month to get Lightroom for free along with Photoshop CC and the desktop version of Lightroom.

Available HERE.

GrooveMaker 2

If you’re a producer and you already own an iPad, there is almost no reason to go out and buy expensive equipment anymore. Thanks to apps like GrooveMaker 2, the possibilities of making a hit single reach far beyond any level we’ve seen before. The new app from IK Multimedia was made to allow anyone create quality non-stop grooves, beats and songs in real time. A slew of features like intuitive controls, loop import, automatic mixing controls, loop effects, mastering effects, groove sequencing and export controls make this app standout from the rest and make it so you shouldn’t have to download any other sequencing app.

Available HERE.

Killspencer Bridle Leather iPad Pouch

If your iPad Mini has been lacking a safe place to call home, the Killspencer Bridle Leather iPad Pouch is probably the perfect place for it. This luxurious case is made from Wickett + Craig English bridle leather in their Los Angeles studio by a team of passionate master craftsmen and women. It features a puch for your iPad mini along with business card pockets and one horizontal pocket for cables or other smaller items. Since it’s made to last a lifetime, get a three letter monogram stamped on it to make it truly yours.

Available HERE.

Makr App

Many DIY business’ have been popping up due to the world wide web, but many of them aren’t savvy enough in the art department to dish out a clean logo and crisp coinciding marketing material. Several programs are out there to improve your design skills, but the Makr app for iPad has set out to give the creative entrepreneur full control over its marketing. Choose business, parties, wedding, baby, holiday and home categories to start creating everything from invitations to stickers and business cards to postcards, or create something from scratch to make it your very own one-of-a-kind design. After you’ve created your masterpiece, purchase the hi-res PDF file for unlimited DIY printing or order professional prints directly within the app and get them shipped straight to your home or office.

Available HERE.

iPad Air

With Apple holding an event, it always means that anticipation is at its fullest. They just announced the all new iPad Air that weighs just one pound (0.4 lighter), and is about 20% thinner than the previous iPad. It boasts a 9.7 inch retina display, contains an A7 chip with 64-bit architecture, M7 coprocessor, ultra fast wireless, a FaceTime HD camera, and everything else you need to call it an iPad. Look for the new Apple iPad Air at local retail stores and online November 1.

Available HERE.

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Parallels Access

Accessing a personal computer through your iPad  has just become possible with Parallels Access app for iPad. You might already have an app in which this is already possible, but Access optimizes desktop apps to run on the iPad, making it a smooth transition from one device to the other. It even supports tapping, swiping, pinching and scrolling for both PC and Mac apps, allowing interaction with the desktop apps just as you would with the iPad apps. Just download a client on your PC or MAC, retain Parallels credentials, log in to the iPad app with the same credentials and you’ll be able to access your CPU anywhere you go.

Available HERE.

iPad Telephoto Lens

The day tablets and smartphones replace DSLR’s, I’ll most likely be at my computer writing about the latest gadget that has hit the interweb for them. Wait, I’m already doing that right? This iPad Telephoto Lens can damn near replace your DSLR by adding up to 10-12x more telephoto power to your iPad’s pre-existing lens. Sure, you might not have those pixels a DSLR has (yet), but who needs em’ anyway? It allows you to get up close and personal with your subject without compromising the quality of your picture, something we know digital zoom is a culprit of.  If you are feelin’ that inner photographer, a manual focus ring allows more control of your photo, letting you dish out the best quality your Instagram feed has ever seen.

Available HERE.

XFLEX Tablet Stand

This XFLEX Tablet Stand offers a stylish way to mount your tablet, ridding you of those neck sores you seem to be suffering from after receiving the tablet you wanted for Christmas. Actually, if that happens you might be using your tablet a little too much but we won’t be the judge of that.

Made to fit your iPad or Galaxy tablet this unique piece fits anywhere you’d like. From the kitchen counter to your car, sofa to your golf bag, multitasking can be achieved pretty much anywhere you see fit.

Available HERE.

ORA: Ultimate Sound System for iPad

You would think finding that perfect speaker for your iPad wouldn’t be much of a task at all. But if you are as picky as we are that perfect speaker doesn’t exist. Coming damn near close though is ORA – the ultimate sound system for your iPad. Snapping easily onto your iPad 2 or 3, this device packs eight speakers internally, making it five times louder than the stock speaker. The battery that powers the ORA has up to 10 hours of life and acts as a pass through for your iPad itself so you only have to plug-in one cable to charge both. No need for extra cables, Bluetooth or WiFi – bet you didn’t think that was possible!

Available HERE.

Casetagram

Instagram is one big ol’ hit now. Everyday a little message pops up on our “smart” phones, telling us one of our Facebook friends has finally joined. Which we have to admit, scrolling through your feed until we can’t scroll anymore is something that we all dread. So we say, hey! The more the merrier. Giving your Instagram “life”, as we put it, has become very popular as of late and a concept that brings your Instagram’s from the inside-out is a nifty company called Casetagram. If you are feeling your pictures are up to par, show them off by customizing your case with the perfect shots from your social network libraries like Facebook and IG. Several template presets are available along with filter effects and a case color option. Another, “Damn, why didn’t we think of this” concept.

Available HERE.