iOS

When Siri works it's great, but what if you have a Scottish accent?

Available free on the Mac App store, iBooks Author is an amazing new app that allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book — for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, and more, these books bring content to life in ways the printed page never could.

Most people don't realise how many of Google's services are available as apps for the iPhone and iPad. Using these apps you can get a snappier interface and usually more features compared to the browser based services. Here is a collection of the currently available apps in the iTunes App Store.

Siri on iPhone 4S lets you use your voice to send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls, and more. Ask Siri to do things just by talking the way you talk. Siri understands what you say, knows what you mean, and even talks back. Siri is so easy to use and does so much, you’ll keep finding more and more ways to use it.

Check out this convincing live demo.

The iPad and other tablets opened the opportunity for publishers to create brand new book reading experiences. A handful of them took advantage of what the touch interface, gyroscope, GPS, internet connectivity and other technologies offer. Stories can now be told in a more engaging and original way on the iPad.

Magician and performance artist Simon Pierro isn't really showing us iOS 5, but it's still fun to watch.

Adobe released three cool new iPad apps that work together with Adobe Photoshop CS5.

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PS for iPad was revealed at Photoshop World 2011 Keynote. It's not something to replace your desktop solution, but certainly very interesting.

Watch the video here.

Jobs Today announced the new iPad 2, which on the surface seems like a boring speed bump aside from the two cameras and 3 axis gyroscope. But I think the 2x faster CPU and the 9x faster graphics chips are a very important.

The extra processing power opens up the possibility for more serious, complex, full featured and resource hungry applications, such as the newly announced iMovie and Garageband for iPad. This new tablet is is not just a mobile and media device anymore. It may soon make make the laptop redundant for more and more people.

Here are some great examples of iPhone apps that are used for advertising various brands in an engaging way.

A Glass of Water

Toyota's A Glass of Water app to promote eco-driving from Saatchi Sweden. Download here