If you’re an iPad user and sick of waiting for something like the Mac’s Dashboard to appear on your tablet, you’ll love to know about iDashboard, a new iPad offering that consolidates many individual apps into one screen.
Are you getting a bit dizzy from flipping between multiple apps on your iPad? Check out Facebook and your Twitter feed all at once. Also, learn about the weather and the news. Check your calendar and then see if it’ll rain on your parade — all without flipping from app to app.
The $1.99 iDashboard app is now available at Apple’s App Store. The app, from BolderImage, “brings together all of the best parts of the iPad into a single interface,” said David Gruen, Senior Vice President at the company. The new app appears to be getting rave reviews from users, so why not give it a shot?
Here’s a video of iDashboard in action:
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11 responses to “Turn Your iPad Into An Info Center With iDashboard App”
Design wise it looks absolutely horrible.
I agree, that really is ugly. Neat idea, terrible execution. Flipboard should put together something like this.
The app looks promising – however it is SLOOOOOOOOOW in updating anything but the Time and Facebook.
not really the nicest looking app
The ipad is really made for magazines. That’s where it really shines.
The ipad is really made for magazines. That’s where it really shines.
Bad looks, interesting concept seems to be the consensus so far.
This app is choosing to work against the design paradigm of iOS by effectively making a windowed, if uniform environment, rather than a single app for a single thing. I think this can work where the information is consistent enough – i.e. graphs or charts, and can see something like this being amazing for monitoring business PI from a dashboard, or a whole set of network performance data. For my twitter and the weather and RSS it feels cluttered, and reminds me of the Back to the Future II wall of TVs – great idea, but too much information to process.
I like the idea but the execution is poor.
Dashboard smashboard… I wonder if there will ever truly be a dashboard that works for our lives. For me, the ideal dash board would be more like a “My life board”… Where it organizes your life into all the core areas:
-Health/Wellness – Showing when your next exercise is due (i.e. go to gym today at 5pm), today’s calorie count (keeping track of everything you eat), medication/vitamin reminders, showing upcoming dr/dentist/chiropractor/etc appointments, fitness goals, etc.
-Work – Showing what’s going on at work… Upcoming appointments, projects, to-dos, etc
-Home – Bills, Finances, maintenance reminders for house & car, grocery list, projects around the house, etc
-Friends/Family – Well organized social interaction center – showing last time you interacted with each of your contacts and WHAT that interaction was, reminders for birthday/anniversary/etc, gift lists, upcoming social calendar, photo stream, etc (think Windows 7 phone here)
-Roles – I.e. if you are a leader of a social group – your reminders, responsibilities, etc around that role would be part of the dash board – you could add as many roles as you needed.
The whole idea here is a central place that helps us remember all the little things in life. It’s far too easy to become centric in one area and forget about some of the other areas of our lives, so having a central place to see all our roles and responsibilities in the world would be lightyears ahead of anything I’ve seen today.
Maybe Covey should invent something to go with his 7 habits? ;)
There’s nothing called iDashboard for iPads on the app store at the moment. There’s iDashboards (plural), which I downloaded and couldn’t get to work. It looks like it’s for users of an enterprise or cloud system. (see http://itunes.apple.com/us/app… So, I just wasted $1.99 on an app I won’t use.
Has it been pulled already? Or is it only available in the US?