Do you use a stylus for your iPad?

In the video embedded above, you can see how a stylus can help you in different aspects of your reading and writing life. I recently tested a review copy of TruGlide Pro Precision Stylus and found the super-small point worked best for scribbling on the iPad.

Last year, Evernote acquired Penultimate, the note-taking and handwriting app for the iPad–pointing towards a future where more people scribble notes on tablets. To help iPad writers adapt, we’ve rounded up stylus recommendations from different review publications…

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We all know that we won’t be using Facebook forever (look at Friendster and MySpace). For those of you that want to save your Facebook page for posterity, there are a number of companies that will let you create print books out of your Facebook pages. We’ve put together a list of five of these companies that will print out your favorite photos, status updates and comments, so that you can save them as a book. Below find our list of companies with descriptions about what their services do and a link back to their sites.

5 Tools That Will Turn Your Facebook Page Into A Book

1. Likebook: “You liked it, share it, exchange it on Facebook, but do you do with those moments once published ? Do you remember what you were doing on summer 2009 or who were your friends at the time? What if it was possible to print Facebook to keep, archive and share his live ?All this information remains on Facebook’s servers and will eventually escape your memory. With Likebook you preserve your story in a unique object in your personality. The great moments of your life, like the small ones, no longer fall into oblivion and regain their rightful place … In your hands!” Read more

Looking to promote your eBook to new audiences? Check out Ganxy, a startup that launched last fall that lets you create digital showcases for your books in order to market them online.

Here is more about how it works from Ganxy’s site:

Each Showcase gets a web address that you can link to, but more importantly Showcases can be embedded anywhere: on an author’s website, on a publisher’s website, in a blog post, or somewhere else. It can appear on a Facebook page, or be linked to from Twitter. Ganxy Showcases even live in the non-digital world, through Showcase access codes that you can put in printed materials. We can even print cards for you.

The company’s latest feature is a tool that will let you send promo codes for your titles. So if you’d like to send a free copy to a member of the press or a buyer for a book store, you can use the tool to send a promo code to a specific person.

Taking photos and videos and loading lots of apps onto your phone or tablet can slow down the performance of your device. To help you manage your media and keep your iOS device give its best performance, we’ve created a lists of apps that specialize in cleaning the memory from your device. These apps will help you free up space on your device so that they will work better. Got an Android device? Check out our list of 5 Memory Cleaning Apps for Android Devices.

5 Memory Cleaning Apps for iOS Devices

1. Memory Status: “Memory Status provides the following functions: 1. Memory Status (“Memory”) screen 2. Running User Processes (“Processes”) screen 3. Cleaning Memory (“Cleaning”) screen.”

2. iFullStat: “The best program that shows the most important data on your device! Performed in the usual style of turning pages SpringBoard! Supports all the devices on iOS and Retina Display! Available in 7 languages, such as English, Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese!”

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Want to turn your blog into an app? Check out Uppsite, a tool that lets you do just that. The platform will help you transform your WordPress blog into a native mobile app for iOS, Android and Windows and you don’t have to know anything about writing code.

All you have to do is install the UppSite tool as a plugin in WordPress and then you can access the tool through your WordPress admin page under the mobile tab on the settings page. The UppSite tool will instantly transform your blog into an app. Once you’ve created it, you can customize the design of your app if you like and add things like push notifications and social feeds.

UppSite will submit your apps to the different app stores for you, though you’ve got to create a developer account to do this. Pretty soon UppSite will offer analytics tools, so that you’ll be able to measure your app’s traffic and engagement metrics. UppSite offers a tiered pricing service that ranges from free to $29.99 a month, depending on what services you’d like to use.

Taking photos and videos and loading lots of apps onto your phone or tablet can slow down the performance of your device. To help you manage your media and keep your Android device give its best performance, we’ve created a lists of apps that specialize in cleaning the memory from your device. These apps will help you free up space on your device so that they will work better.

1. Memory Cleaner: “Simplest memory cleaner. Free memory to Speed Up your system by one tap. Very easy to use. And Include a simple widget which can be put on your home screen (see screenshots).”

2. FMR Memory Cleaner: “This is different from task killer, frees up memory space using the feature that system kills running apps by low memory killer when available memory is low. This will improve the ease of use. Allocates very large memory during cleaning, and releases allocated memory. The system will kill most of running apps and services at a time. So the memory fragmentation can expect to improve.”  Read more

Registering for a wedding can be a lot of work, but there are plenty of apps available to help you organize the process.

We’ve put together a list of five apps that can help you organize your wish list. We’ve included a description of each app and a link back to its site so that you can learn more about these apps.

5 Apps For Creating a Wedding Registry

1. WeddingScan: “WeddingScan is an intuitive wedding registry application that allows you to register for ANY item, at ANY store simply by scanning a product’s barcode with the WeddingScan iPhone app. If a product doesn’t have a barcode, WeddingScan allows you to take a picture of it and add a brief description.”

2. Wedding Registry: “Wedding Registry helps take the stress out of planning your wedding. Instead of creating a separate bridal registry at every store in town, this app lets you quickly create just one registry and share it with your friends and family. Your registry even updates with every item purchased, so there are no more duplicate gifts to return!” Read more

Want to turn your print publication into a digital magazine and distribute it through Google Play, iTunes or the Apple Newsstand? Check out MediaWire. The mobile app design company just introduced a new tool call MediaWire Mobile that will help you transform your print magazine into an iOS or Android app and submit it directly to the store for you.

Using the service, you can upload a PDF and it will automatically be formatted into a digital edition. Any hyperlinks within the file for affiliate marketing purposes will automatically work in the online edition. The platform is also integrated with YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, so you can connect your social profiles with  your app pretty easily. The platform is also loaded with analytics, so you can check out how many downloads your magazine gets, as well as engagement metrics.

Once you make your digital magazine, remember you’ll have to come up with some good ways to get discovered. It’ll help to promote your app magazine on your social networks, as well as to email and print subscribers.

Spring is here and it’s time to get to work on your garden.  We’ve put together a lists of apps that can help you manage your planting schedule by region and give you tips on how to plant successfully. We’ve included links to the app, as well as a description to the app so that you can create a gardening plan and stick to it.

5 Apps To Help You Build Your Garden

1. Garden Plan Pro: “From the makers of the award-winning garden planner used by over 100,000 gardeners, Garden Plan Pro is the fastest way to plan a productive vegetable, herb or fruit garden and achieve your best ever harvest!”

2. iVeggieGarden: “iVeggieGarden was developed by people who have a passion for growing vegetables. We’ve relied on years of first-hand experience to identify the most relevant information about vegetable gardening, and organize it into an effective, flexible, and easy-to-use product. We’ve also provided helpful tools that allow you to track the progress of each item in your garden, manage multiple gardens, build a shopping list, track purchases, and more.”  Read more

Website analytics company Quantcast has created a tool called Quantcast Measure for Apps that allows publishers to track engagement with their apps.

The tool tracks app visits, which devices customers are using to visit their apps, return usage and the amount of time a consumer is spending with an app. The tool also lets publishers track app engagement alongside website engagement, so that a publisher can see if a consumer is visiting their site online, on a mobile device or the app, or all of the above. Topix, Goodreads, and Big Oven are already using the platform.

Here is more from the Quantcast site: “Quantcast aims to be the leader in understanding audiences across all platforms and delivering the most effective advertising experience on all screens. As publishers have extended their reach to mobile apps and mobile devices, they need a way to effectively understand their audiences.”