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Learn how to use your new iPad

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Found an excellent resource that’s intended to be for school teachers, but it’s written more like a user guide wiki for all new iPad owners.

Nyscate Workshop

Inspiring musical performance using iPads and iPhones

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The Northpoint Community Church’s all-iPad band plays Christmas carols using only iPads and iPhones! Here is the video:

In case you are wondering how you and your friends can start your own iBand, here are the apps used by the musicians in the above video along with their download links:

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Top ten iPhone GPS apps to search and discover places around you

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I love GPS apps! I love always being aware of what is around me at all times. The feeling is pretty similar to the one that I had along with over 80% of the Internet users of the world, somewhere in the 1990s when we started wondering how on earth were we surviving without Google or web search.

There are a variety of unique ways apps use the GPS capabilities of the iPhone. I’ve decided to cover the most basic and common need: Search. I have probably tried most apps in the AppStore that provide local search, and its time I listed the best of the lot.

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Back again to talk about our favorite devices and their apps

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Hello again, World, we are back after a huge break. It’s been 9 years since we first started deplugged.com as a community around mobile devices. Much has changed in the mobile landscape since then. One of our favorite changes is the fundamental shift of focus from features in phones, to apps. Apps today define everything the phone can do. ‘The Apps maketh the Phone’ is how i’d like to define the current scheme of things.

So we have decided to come back and explore the world of mobile apps on deplugged.com and we are starting off with focusing on our favorite mobile platform – iOS. Since Apple has nearly single handedly caused the recent mobile app revolution, and since it currently has the most mature app market by far, we have decided to concentrate our efforts first into the iPhone, iPad and the iPod.

Stay tuned, we are gonna do a lot of cool stuff on this site!