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Maybe you have kids, or maybe you’re a kid at heart… There’s no denying the plethora of fun games to be played on the iPad. Here are a few favourites from the young UMers!   Toca Doctor – for the budding physicians out there Plants vs. Zombies – epic battles can rage for hours Angry Birds Space – boldly goes where no birds have gone before Robbery Bob – let’s keep home invasion fun and digital, kiddos Wher

After spending a whole month with the iPad, I think I’ve decided that I can live without one. Don’t get me wrong – it was useful as a kid-distractor/babysitter – and as a means to check email and access the Internet occasionally while on the go. But in general, I don’t think the iPad is for me. I don’t like typing on it, it is awkward to hold, and the glare on the screen is frustrating. I think my kids used it more t

So, it’s my turn to take the company iPad for a spin for a few weeks, and fortunately, it happens to be during the same time I’m going on holiday with my little family. I’ll be taking a 4.5hr flight across the country alone, with my two young kids (4 yrs & 2 yrs) and I’m TERRIFIED! Not so worried about my eldest, but the 2 year old is going to be a handful. So you can imagine how excited I was when I found out th

Lately, we’ve been talking a lot about the iPad and how it might fit in with our practice. We have also been exploring ways we might invigorate the activities and deliverables in the planning and discovery phases of our projects. And then something like this comes along and hits these two themes smack in the middle. See the full post on Rachael Smith’s blog, Ninmah Meets the World. Check it out and let us

UM is the proud owner of an iPad, so we’ve been taking turns getting to know it. Last weekend was my turn. We had a dilapidated and rather encrusted ‘kitchen laptop’ that in actuality was the most used of the numerous computers in the house. Kitchen Laptop had been declining steadily, so we thought maybe an iPad could fill the inevitable void. Thinking “nothing better than a test drive!” I carefully packaged up the i

We’ve never really been all-out gadget geeks here at UM but here I am smitten by the possibilities of the iPad. All predictions suggest this will be the year of the slate computer with a number of devices already announced and no doubt more in the works. The iPad is of course the one getting most of the attention but the HP slate and a few other demo’d at CES also have lots of people talking. Great side-b