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How to use Retina mode on your iPad with RetinaPad

As was explained in the FullForce tutorial, there may be times when you still want to use an iPhone app – because the developer never got round to launching an all-in-one version, for instance. In these cases you want to run the app, but tapping on the standard 2x gadget to fill the screen simply gives a soft display with overly large icons and cramped screen space. Full force can do some kind of job at making apps use the full screen, but it isn’t consistent, can’t do graphics, is basically useless for games and has stopped being supported by the developer. Instead, Ryan Petrich focused his attention on new iPhone apps that had support for the Retina display.

The iPhone Retina resolution doubled the original resolution to 640×960 and added a vertical size of 1136 for the iPhone 5. The purpose of RetinaPad, then, is to force iPhone apps into thinking that they are working on a Retina-display iPhone and so use the higher-resolution skins and graphics.

          1. Paid-for tweak

Search Cydia for RetinaPad. It costs 2.99$, so go through the authentication and purchase processes, then tap on Install and Confirm.

2. Check an app

So the first thing to do is run an iPhone app to see what it looks like at 2x resolution. Then you can compare it to the RetinaPad version.

3. See the apps

Go into Settings and scroll down to RetinaPad. Tap on Enabled Applications. This is the list of all the iPhone apps on your iPad.

4. Toggle it on

Move the slider to On for the app you’ve just checked. While here, you may as well toggle all the others to On so they can be checked.

5. Examine the app

Now exit Settings and ensure that the app is closed. Then run it again and compare what it looks like when running at 2x now.

6. Toggle other apps

Check the other apps. If there are performance or graphical issues, toggle them off, but the worst that should happen is they look the same.

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How to make iPhone apps run full-screen on iPad with FullForce

There aren’t many iPhone apps you’d want to run on an iPad, but there may be some old favourites you’d like to keep. The problem is that old iPhone apps ( pre Retina Screens) are only 320×480, improving to 640×960 on iPhone 4 Retina and 640×1136 on iPhone 5 screens. Those apps look fairly rough when shown on an iPad 1 or 2 screen with 768×1024 resolution, and in soft focus on an iPad 3 or 4 screen with 1536×2048 resolution. If the app is being supported, then the developer may introduce a new version supporting the newer display resolutions which will at least look better.

However, for anything discontinued and no longer supported, you need to head to the world of jilbreaking to try to make those apps a little easier on the eye. The purpose of the FullForce jailbreak tweak used here is to try to automatically resize the iPhone app so that it works at a higher resolution. What won’t work are custom graphics and most games, but text and general app layout can see real benefits.

  Install the tweak

The FullForce tweak used here is available for free. Go to Cydia, tap on Search and look for it. Then tap on Install and Confirm.

  2. Double an app

It is entirely hit and miss as how well this will work, so the first thing to do is switch an app to 2x mode so you can compare them.

  3. Try it out

Exit the app and go into Settings. Scroll down to FullForce and you will see a list of all the iPhone apps on the system.

4. Toggle an app

Use the slider to toggle one of the applications to on. You could try turning them all on and check them out one at a time.

5. Check it out

Now go back to the original app, making sure you closed it first. When it starts now, it will attempt to run full-screen.

6. Check everything

Go through the apps and for the ones that clearly don’t work, turn them off in the Settings. Some will simply look better using standard 2x.

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5 Essential Medical Apps for iPad

The Medical category of the App Store contains apps that complement the ones in the Health & Fitness section, so you’re spoilt for choice when it comes to finding apps to help you stay fit and well. Some of the best apps in this category are detailed and insightful reference guides that will prove invaluable for medical students and anyone working in the field of medicine. There is also a very wide selection of self-help aids to monitor blood pressure, units of alcohol, sugar levels and so on – so if you suffer from a particular affliction, then you’re sure to find an app that will help you monitor and cope with your condition. You’ll also find that there are some very good eye-testing apps available. These let you assess the capacity of your peepers in the comfort of your own home to determine if you should get yourself down to the opticians for a proper test.

  -          Vision Test – Free

Reportedly around 40 per cent of people haven’t had their eyes tested in the last two years, with plenty of us guilty of throwing optician reminders away. This app ensure that you can test your eyes without leaving the house, and with a range of tests and impressive accuracy, you might get the peace of mind or the urgent reminder that you needed.

  -          Skeleton System Pro III – 14.99$

If you’re interested in anatomy then this is for you. Skeleton System is amazingly intuitive, using gestures to zoom and “slice” open bones and parts of the skeleton. You can view each bone by its full Latin name and watch videos showing the mechanics of joints.

  -          Prognosis : Your Diagnosis – Free

Aimed at medical professionals, this app is designed to help medical staff remember the key clinical points with a range of ailments. The app presents users with “cases” and background information before providing the key points of the prognosis to show how it was reached. It’s a clever learning tool.

  -          Pregnancy – Sprout – Lite – Free

The complete pregnancy experience on your iPad comes from a leading women’s hospital and its staff. You can track the stages of your baby’s development. With stunning images of foetal development, the app combines medical content with lighter touches like a hospital bag checklist and a baby king log.

  -          Dog Anatomy: Canine 3D – 4.99$

A good example of how the iPad can be used for professional work purposes in addition to entertainment, this app is useful for trainee vets to help get to know the anatomy of a dog, quite literally, inside out. A useful and affordable research tool.

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5 Essential Lifestyle Apps for iPad

The Lifestyle category of the App Store contains apps covering a diverse range of subjects. We have apps to get you all nostalgic, showing you this day in your personal history through photos and other digital mementos. You can compare stylish household items with others and window shop, as well as do some actual shopping! Then there are apps to help you create photo albums dedicated to your kids as they grow.

If you want to plan a wedding for yourself or perhaps for someone else, then we have a must-have app that will enable you to prepare for the big event and cover all bases. Whatever your lifestyle, you are sure to find apps that will make a difference to how you live your life.

  -          Day One ( Journal / Diary ) – 4.99$

If you are the nostalgic type then this app is ideal. Journal is a creative space where you can upload memories and various journal-like logs complete with images, videos, maps and other scraps of the day before syncing with a DropBox account and saving to the cloud. This means that your memories are always stored safely and can be accessed from any device.

  -          iPoll – Free

Through this app you can get free rewards, such as gift cards, airline credits and more just for sharing you opinion about the products that you buy and the places that you visit. After providing basic information you are given missions that can include visiting a particular store, taking pictures and testing products. A fun way to get things for less!

  -          eBay for iPad – Free

eBay has completely remodelled its iPad app interface and it is now a fantastically intuitive and responsive app. Your home screen is a great, image-driven place where you can quickly see what you’re buying, selling and watching. The animations between screens and pop-ups are excellent. The whole app is just a great place to do some serious shopping.

  -          Wedding Planner for iPad – 9.99$

Anyone who has planned a wedding will know of the many bases to cover and stress levels to overcome. This app eradicates most of that by keeping all of the planning in one place and making it relatively straightforward. Although it’s not cheap, it’s worth paying the price for a stress-free day.

  -          23snaps – Free

A wonderful app for any new parent, 23snaps is your digital journal to chronicle your child’s life, saving to the app as you go. Upload various media to mark every precious moment and securely share with loved ones so they never miss a thing.

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5 Essential Health & Fitness Apps for iPad

We all make plans to stay fitter and thinner at various times ( especially in the New Year with resolutions to be made), though our motivation often runs out of stream. However, with the right apps on your iPad you should be able to see a real change in your fitness level each day. For starters, there are apps designed to help you to record and reduce your calorie intake, enabling you to lose weight at a pace that suits you, as well as highlighting flaws in your current diet. We’ll even show you how to turn your iPad into a hi-tech barcode scanner that reads the amount of calories in the food you intend to buy. In case of accidents you can turn to app for advice, and perform life-saving first aid if necessary.

Need a symptom diagnosed ? There is an app for that too. Of course, our essential apps will provide you with guidance and advice, but they’re no substitute for seeking a professional in a medical emergency. Here we recommend a great selection of apps for staying in shape and learning more about your body.

  -          Runtastic SitUps Pro – 1.99$

One of a series of apps that’s focuses on a specific type of exercise, in this instance sit-ups, and your ability to build up your strength. The app uses your iPad’s accelerometer to count your sit-ups, with a daily program to help you build up stomach muscles. The app logs your progress as well as having a stats window.

  -          Runmeter GPS Track Running Cycling Walking – Free

This app transforms your iPad into an advanced fitness computer complete with maps, graphs, splits, intervals, laps and training plans. This free version lets you explore the core features but you’ll have to pay out to get everything.

  -          Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker – Free

With a food database of more that 2 million products, you can accurately record your calorie intake, as well as check up and research various food types. Track specific nutrient groups, as well as view graphs showing your progress in terms of reducing or better managing your calorie intake.

  -          iMuscle – ( NOVA Series ) iPad ED. – 1.99$

One of the sleekest apps around, iMuscle is a comprehensive guide to the human muscle system built around an impressive 3D model. Explore the muscles in detail, read up on the different aspects of the system and enjoy the exercises and stretches.

  -          Daily Workouts – 3.99$

By giving up just a few minutes of your day you can strengthen and tone up your body thanks to the wide range of simple and effective workout routines that this app provides. All are deliverated in easy-to-follow video guides by expert instructors.

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5 Essential Games Apps for iPad

The iPad is a gamer’s dream come true. It’s high quality screen displays pixels perfectly so you can enjoy a game’s colours and graphics to the full. It’s more than capable of pushing pixels around at a decent frame rate so the action never falters. Unlike traditional handheld consoles, iPad games are relatively cheap ( or even free for many apps with lite ‘ try before you buy’versions), so you’ll never be hort of gamers to enjoy. Gameplay varies dramatically, from first-pierson shooters to exhilarations sports platform games.

The iPad’s touch screen makes it possible to play games without a joypad and many apps make good use of this feature. Some games also put the iPad’s accelerometer to good use so that you can steer characters by simply tilting device. Whatever style of game you facour and enjoy, there’s sure to be something to take your fancy in our rounup.

  -          Bad Piggies HD – Free

It’s the Angry Birds franchise, but not as we know it, as you take control of the green pigs for the first time. Rather than following the setup of Angry Birds, Bad Piggies sees players build unusual contraptions to transfer the pigs safely to the end of the level. It’s a new take on this universe and the building aspect is a great addition.

  -          Temple Run 2 – Free

The original was enthralling enought but this compelling free sequel ups the ante and delivers ever more perils to overcome and bonuses to collect as you aspire for the high score. Like the first, this one’s addictive, so beware we have warned you.

  -          Plague Inc – 0.99$

With Plague Inc you have to wipe out the human race. Over time and casualties you can develop your pandemic by making it immune to cures, upgrading it to an airborne virus and beyond. You can decide which areas of the body your plague attacks and it’s symptoms and abilities.

  -          LIMBO Game – 4.99$

Imagine if Super Mario went to stay with Tim Burton for a month. Thi summarises LIMBO in a nutshell – a dark and disturbing platform game. As a boy, you have to track down your sister in a bleak and hostile environment littered with savage traps and hellish creatures. Not a game you’ll forget easy.

  -          Tiny Wings – 2.99$

Combing the endless platform concept with a healthy dose of physics, Tiny Wings sees players using momentum and the hilly terrain to try and outrun the night. You must use the leaps provided by the hills to flap your wings and soar away from the approaching darkness.

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5 Essential Food & Drink Apps for iPad

Mobile devices have found their way into most areas of our lives, and they are now even halping us out in the kitchen. This explains the addition of a Food & Drink category within the App Store, with all manner of apps for food choices, recipe ideas and video tutorials. There are apps aplenty to provide inspiration and encourage you to bring your iPad into the kitchen. It’s not all eating in though; this section is home to recommendation apps to find places to eat out, restaurants and bars based on your location, and apps that aggregate reviews so you can find exactly what you’re looking for.

  -          Evernote Food – Free

Designed to help you document all of your cooking and dining experiences, Evernote food allows you to save recipes, photos and notes and share your most delicious meals with the world. If you are planning an event then this app is especially useful for keeping all of your culinary plans and ideas in one place.

  -          Great British Chefs – 4.99$

It’s not often that you can say you’ve cooked a Michelin-Star recipe, but with Great British Chefs you certainly can. This app focuses on some of the top chefs in the UK and their food. Some of their best dishes are broken down in the app for you to try yourself, if you want to be adventurous. The tile wall of disches might even have you gnawing at your iPad.

  -          The photo Cookbook – Q & E – 3.99$

In terms of cookbooks, this is one of the best-looking around. Following the example of Foospotting on iPhone in a sense, this app deems photos rather than text as the best way forward. Although there’s plenty of text to guide you through the stages of each recipe, you’ll find yourself comparising your end products with those in the images within the app.

  -          James Martin’s Food – Simplicity – 0.99$

A cheap and very insightful cooking app that features a wide range of dishes that can be created by anyone thanks to easy-to-follow instructions and video guides. The tone is friendly and Martin’s charm and culinary swagger holds your attention.

  -          Gojee – Fashion and Food – Free

Gojee has combinated its popular food app with fashion, but the food element is still great. It allows users to find dishes from the app;s database based on ingredients that they like and dislike. Gojee takes you straight to the good stuff. Add recipes to your favourites to create your own little cookbook.

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5 Essential Finance Apps for iPad

In these tigh times it pays to watch your pennies – and you can do that with help from these essential apps from iTunes’ Finance category. They will help you to get a better grasp of the stock market should you decide to invest or enable you to work out how expensive a read trip will be when filling up your car. We’ll also feature apps designed to help you keep track of your daily expenses, so that you can enjoy spending money while keeping your account safely in the black. There are also app that allow you to keep up to date with all the latest share prices and read up on financial news. There is definitely something to suit everyone in the Finance category of the App Store and, buy way of a bonus, many of the apps are totally free, wich is always helpful.

  -          MarketDash – Free

This app provides you with quick and easy access to all of your investment portfolios and watch lists, wherever you are. Through an intuitive interface you can tap to create a customisable list of stocks that you’d like to follow, swipe to navigate interactive comparison charts and view stock prices over different lengths of time.

  -          Bloomberg for iPad – Free

The official app of the financial TV station, the app has 35 news categories to do with the financial markets, as well as graphs showing the latest global movements. There is a live stream so you can watch Bloomberg’s latest TV headlines and Bloomberg radio is also accessible from within the app.

  -          MoneyWiz – Personal Finance – 4.99$

This personal finance app gives users the ability to stay on top of all their finances. MoneyWiz allows you to set monthly budgets, sync activity across devices so the whole family can see what’s going on, and even upload your bank statements. This app is the cover-all money-management app, with multiple account support and the ability to make split payments.

  -          PowerOne Finance Calculator – 4.99$

This is a great all-round finance app that incorporates an algebraic calculator with fully-customisable spreadsheet templates so that you can calculate and record all through one intuitive interface. You can also create your own sheets from scratch and plot your own graphs.

  -          Car Manager – 4.99$

Something that a lot of us are guilty of is losing track of when our car needs a service. Car Manager is designed to make all this easier by giving users a place to log all the key details of their vehicle. You can log mileage, as well as various service or tax dates – these can be synced with your calendar and reminders set to alert you when the dates are approaching.