App of the Week

Strip Designer for iPad is fun and easy to use, and it provides numerous creative options for turning your photos into comic strips or graphic novels.

This app is all about choices. Its myriad of page templates, filters, visual effects, cartoon balloons, stickers, and customs provide almost infinite creative options.

To get started being your strip you need to first select a template category which controls the style and the number/position of the pictures. 

Once your layout has been selected you can then start adding graphics that not only include pictures from your photo album, camera but also maps and drawings the latter of which lets you get very artistic with a range of brushes, effects, layers and filters.

With your pictures added this is where the fun begins as you begin to add your text and graphics to bring your comic strip to life. When you are all done you can easily print, email and share your comic strips. Strip Designer also takes advantage of the iCloud which means that you can start work on one of your devices and carry on your work on your other device.

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OnLive Desktop


Turn your tablet into a powerful cloud-based PC with ultra-fast web browsing with Flash (yes, it works on your iPad). OnLive Desktop gives you the freedom to work from anywhere.


“OnLive Desktop App” for the iPad, app uses virtualization technology to create a remotely hosted, fully functional version of Windows 7 desktop on your tablet. The basic OnLive Desktop service is free with a “Plus” version available for $4.99 per month, which features gigabit-speed accelerated web browsing and access to other cloud storage services such as Dropbox.