This Week in iPad Episode 27

Cold Open
This week, hosts Jacob Burch and new host Andrea Rene interview creator of Instapaper Marco Arment. Plus the latest iPad news including a video of a ChromeOS hack, sales forecasts, and Andrea reviews the iPad game of the week Fiona’s Flowers. In the Planet of the Apps this week the co-hosts talk about Health and Fitness apps!


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Game of the week!
For this weeks game of the week, Andrea reviews Fiona’s Flowers. It's a time management game similar to Farmville but much more in depth. The features include filling customer orders for custom flowers, the ability to earn badges for accomplishment, and nearly infinite game expansion. Jacobs take: It's a little "girly" though that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Tricaster!!!
The wonderful programming you watch every week on the This Week In network wouldn't be possible without a wonderful device known as the Tricaster so to show our appreciation for this wonderful little studio in a box, we made the following little video. Enjoy.



Newsbreak
The plan was to interview Marco at this point but we lost him on Skype so rather than having awkward silence, let's go to the news for a moment.

Everybody is suing everybody!
Recently Motorola sued Apple for patent infringement but it turns out, they're not the only ones. According to IntoMobile there are 17 mobile devices companies all suing one another at the same time.

Interview
Jacob and Andrea interview Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper

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News

Chrome running on iPad



A well known Chrome developer called Hexxeh has successfully ported Google Chrome to an iPad.

Apple could sell 11 million iPads this year
According to Fox, analysts are predicting that Apple will sell 11 million iPads this year on strong holiday season demand.

7 Inch iPad will have 128GB of memory?
Reports from suppliers indicate that the next generation of the iPad will have a 7 inch retina display, 128GB of storage, and will feature USB compatibility. Jacob's take: Show me.

Planet of the Apps
Today, Jacob and Andrea review Health and wellness apps.

Fitness Yoga HD
Jacob's first app this week is continuing the tradition that Lon started of finding an app that is very popular with a bad rating. Fitness Yoga HD is a perfect example of this. The app is supposed to show how to do various positions in yoga, but they didn't seem to check that the positions they show are the same as those they name. Huge waste of time, and possibly dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.

Diet and Fitness Tracker
Andrea reviews the Diet and Fitness Tracker app from SparkPeople. It allows you to track your calories and the number burned while you exercise. Also it's free.

Is That Gluten Free?
Jacob's last app this week allows users to track if their foods contain gluten or other processed foods. Is That Gluten Free also is a great app for people with Celiac Disease to help them avoid gluten. Jacob's take: If you have an allergy, or if you need a lot of info, this can be a good resource but if you're just out and about, Google is probably decent enough for you.

WebMD
Andrea reviews the WebMD app for iPad. It's a great touch interface for the website and it offers great info. Also, it's free. Unfortunately the search functionality didn't seem to work. Strangely missing from the app: The "Does this look infected?" picure reader. Oh well. Maybe when iPad 2 comes out next year.

Thank you to
Marco Arment
Gazelle.com
and Hover.com
See you next week!