OnLive app adds Microsoft’s Windows 7 on your iPad

OnLine is a service mostly known in the gaming community, but it has now launched a really interesting app and service which offers Windows 7 for iPad owners. With OnLive Desktop app you can try out Microsoft’s best Windows OS nowadays, directly on your iOS tablet device. This app works only within the cloud without any intermediary Vnc apps necessary.

Roku media player gets iOS app for remote control

Roku is a popular media player similar but not as popular as Apple’s own Apple TV media box device. This time Roku gets upgraded with an iOS app for remote control of your Roku device. You can now control your Roku player and choose your movies or shows while resting in your favorite couch potato position.

Here are some of the features of this iOS app:

Choose the chanel you want to watch.
Use superb iOS interface for remote controlling of your Roku media box.
Start, stop, replay and rewind your movie with your iPhone or iPod.
Add or remove content from your device.
Control multiple Roku devices at once.

Gmail app for iOS upgraded, new features available

Gmail app for iOS had its up and downs during the last month. After it was released for the first time it was quickly removed from the app store because of some serious bugs, but not before it was heavily criticized by users which have already downloaded the app. But Google is obviously determined to improve Gmail for iOS. So the app has just been upgraded and new features were introduced for the first time. Now you can enjoy Scribbles and make your emails fancy with some nice handmade drawings.

Ford Fusion app for iOS

We have seen a growing trend where major brands go into iOS to provide app’s related to their offers. In line with this trend Ford has just released an iOS only app. With this app you can take controls of a Ford Fusion even before it becomes really available in January of 2012. After you download this app on your iOS device you will see a Ford logo, which when tapped opens into a world where you can test some of the three offered versions of the upcoming Ford Fusion.

iBooks reading app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad upgraded to version 1.5

Best reading app for iOS, Apple’s own iBooks app, has just being upgraded to version 1.5. This new upgrade offers some really useful features and options for more pleasant and efficient book reading.

Here are some of the most important new features of iBooks 1.5:

You can now choose the annotation colors so you can customize the color of highlighted text.
Nighttime reading feature, which enables you to read books without too much eye strain.
Full screen layout which helps you to focus on the text without unnecessary distractions.
A set of new covers for books which are freely available (public domain books).
And more.

Tethering app appears in Apple’s App Store

Today we heard a quite interesting bit of news from the Apple Store. It appears that Apple had somehow allowed a genuine tethering app into their App Store. This app will allow you to tether your devices through your iPhone without needing to jailbreak and use some Cydia app or using the usual way of getting a tethering package from your local network carrier. We are still not sure how did this happen actually. Is this simply a mistake by Apple’s censors, or is Apple sending a message to network carriers?

Facebook releases their official iPad app!

After many rumors, preparations and lot of tweaking Facebook has finally released their official iPad app. It looks to us that this it will retain the look and feel of the iPhone app. But what is most interesting is that the app is highly customized for tablets large touchscreen and that it offers chat and Facebook games on the iPad for the first time. It took Mark Zuckerberg and his team of engineers and designers almost a year to release their iPad app. So why did they need a full year to develop an app? Is there something more to this story, something which Facebook doesn’t want to reveal right now?

iOS controlled ‘Spy Tank’

Here is another cool gadget which is among the very interesting ones, yet slightly useless at least in our opinion. This time it is a gadget made by Brookstone and named more or less appropriately: ‘Spy Tank’.

‘Spy Tank’ is controlled through an iOS app so you can drive the device with your iPhone or iPad. ‘Spy Tank’ will send you back a feed of audio and visual stream. One of the interesting things about this gadget is that it has even night vision capability which makes it even more useful for your potential “spy missions”. Your iPhone or iPad will connect to ‘Spy Tank’ through a Wi-fi connection which gives it a range of 60 meters (200 feets) in a open area or 30 meters (100 feets) if it moves behind obstacles or indoors. The rover is powered by a pack of 6 batteries, which probably won’t last too long.

Skydiver uses his iPhone to book a hotel room during his freefall

There are different things a person can achieve with his iPhone or iPad, You could learn, talk, write, draw, listen, type, buy and sell things and apps and much more, but some people really have unique ideas. As unique as jumping from an airplane and then using an iPhone for booking a room in a hotel. Now that is an interesting idea, don’t you think? And after he has parachuted from the sky he has checked whether the reservation was really done, and as you will see in the Youtube video bellow the operation was successful. Please do not try this at home unless you are a professional skydiver!

iPhone helps locating crashed airplane in Chile

After a military airplane has crashed in Chile couple of days ago it was finally located, believe it or not with a help of an iPhone and the Find My iPhone app. Chilean military airplane CASA212 has being considered missing after it disappeared from military radars during the last weekend.

The location of the crash has been found after a relative of one of the crew members has tried to locate his relatives iPhone with Find my iPhone app. Find my iPhone is an iOS only app which helps you to locate your iPhone in case you have lost it or if it’s stolen. After the app was started it has pointed to the exact location of the crash, said the officer of Chilean air forces responsible for the search and rescue mission.