GoSkyWatch Planetarium for iPad

Utilize your iPad to pinpoint stars, planets and constellations, hold your iPad to the sky and scrutinize the night sky. Great gizmo for acquiring information about objects in the deep sky and it’s utterly free.

Swiftly and clearly identify and locate stars, planets, constellations and more with a push or by simply pointing it to the sky. Have fun with family and friends discerning the images in the night sky. Go outside and check out the night sky.

Exposes the sky view at the particular bearing when held at any angle not just landscape or portrait. Easy to use, no buttons to press or modes to select, just point to the sky to start exploring. Incomparable rotation scheme enables touch-less navigation even for devices without a compass.

Features:

• Database of all the stars visible to the naked eye
• Get over 200 pictures of planets and objects in the deep sky
• Real images taken from the Milky Way
• Full sky 180 degree display
• Planet, constellation, DSO and star finder
• Red light mode for night viewing

Adobe Ideas – Digital sketchbook for the iPad 

You would think that since Apple has pretty much eluded Adobe when it comes to Adobe Flash and other Adobe application, Adobe wouldn’t even care about applications for the iPad.  Well, you’re dead wrong!  Adobe has come out with a new application for the iPad called Adobe Ideas. 

So, what is Adobe Ideas?

It is coined as “your digital sketchbook.” Allowing you to engage and investigate ideas anywhere you go. It is an exemplar mate for the professional design applications from Adobe, which includes Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop software. In other words, it’s a new alternative to ink the iPad. Customers are able sketch designs and draw on their iPad then send a copy of their finished product to their main desktop for finessing and editing with Photoshop Illustrator. 

Features:

• Simplistic vector-based drawing tools
• Multitouch control for variety of brushes
• Zoom control
• Vector eraser
• 50-level undo
• Separate drawing and photo layers
• email ideas as PDF files for editing in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

This app can spontaneously create and adjust color hues based on photos or on other portraits, in a similar way to Adobe’s Kuler website, or Pantone’s myPantone webpage.

Adobe conveys that the zoom control allows you to zoom in and out on projects without being tagged or having big pixels. Extra features include a vector eraser and 50 levels of undo.  Completed sketches can be emailed as PDFs for other purposes.

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