iPad

Upon first sight you might not think that the TabGrip™ is an iPad case, but it is, in that it protects your iPad front and back. When inside the TabGrip, you can lay your iPad flat and neither the front or back will touch the surface. The composition is rubberized plastic, making it easy to…

“Heading into the event,” he wrote in a research note to clients obtained by The Mac Observer, “we had no intention of upgrading our [1st generation] iPads, but after testing the new device, we may have changed our minds. The technological improvements the AAPL design team made to the iPad 2 in just approximately 12…

Getting past the baseball metaphors, here’s what I’m saying: The iPad 2 is superior to the iPad 1 in all the most critical statistics. It’s thinner and lighter and promises to be much faster. Plus, it adds front and rear-facing cameras — and a gyroscope. It even comes in white. And it does all this without…

Here’s a comparison chart of the iPads and Motorola Xoom. (My colleague, Bryan Chaffin has posted a bigger, better version.)What’s notable is that the Xoom has a million pixel display while the iPad 2 has 786K pixels. What happened to Apple locking up the majority of the capacitive screens from Samsung? I can’t complain about…

Unlike the launch of the original iPad, Apple isn’t offering a pre-order option, or the ability to reserve units ahead of time for pick up at Apple Stores. Instead, you’ll be able to place orders online starting on March 11 — which also happens to be the same day you can go stand in line…

Second gen iPads may be available this weekAccording to the unnamed sources, the company is ramping up for what appears to be a large scale product launch this week and not just a product announcement. If true, the second generation iPad launch will come about a week after Apple introduced new MacBook Pro models along…

This isn’t going to be a very long review — iKlip, from IK Multimedia, is a one-trick pony that does its one trick quite well. And what, exactly, is that trick, you ask? According to the IK Multimedia propaganda it’s a “universal microphone stand adapter for iPads.” If you’re not sure what that means, a…

Vogue’s iPad debutThere isn’t any word on whether or not readers will be able to subscribe to the digital magazine, or if each issue will be available only as a stand alone app. With Apple’s recent policy change requiring in-app subscription support if a subscription option is available outside of the app, Vogue publisher Conde…

It is quite apparent that US+U set out to design an iPad case that could be all things to all people. In fact, the designer actually involved focus groups in the design process. The end result of all this planning is the Swivel Pro™ 3 panel. A one panel and a two panel version will…

Unfortunately, no writing application can help me with my oft-made technical mistakes, but at least I can get my thoughts down, and that’s the important thing. On my iPad I use to use Pages. I had tried several other writing apps, but none gave me a writing environment as unobtrusive as Bean does on my…

It’s not often that I am forced, forced I say, to lay on the couch and read from my iPad for an hour so that I can adequately review a product for TMO. But I do what I have to do to thoroughly test all products that come my way, and the Rain Design Inc.…

If I were to predict, right now, who the two front runners will be in the tablet wars, I’d start by thinking about what makes a tablet appealing to everyday consumers and how consumers get exposed to the product. For example, Apple’s iPad is incredibly easy to use and you can pick one up at…

The BBC’s new iPlayer for iPad appThe new iPlayer app will support live TV and radio, access to the complete catch-up program catalog, series stacking, personalized favorites, and an improved user interface.“Having stuck our toe in the water last year with the iPad (initially, we quickly repurposed our big screen version), this new native app…

The app supports viewing all of the metadata stored in images such as the photo time stamp, which camera was used to capture the image, ISO settings exposure mode, and more. It also displays maps showing where images were taken.Photo Info Viewer 1.0 is priced at US$0.99 and is available at Apple’s iTunes-based App Store.

3G iPads can get time signals from a cell tower and update their internal clock to compensate for drift. While cell towers can often be off by as much as 30 seconds, it’s usually just a few seconds. Owners of 3G iPads are in generally good shape in that regard. Unfortunately, the Wi-Fi-only iPad (and the iPod…

OmniOutliner for the iPad is in early development stages now, but the company expects it will be able to start its own beta testing soon.Macworld Expo attendees check out Omni Group appsLike OmniOutliner for the Mac, the iPad version will support outline formatting, attaching URLs and files to outlines, parent and child relationships for outline…

That’s exactly what’s happening with the iPad. The tablet competitors that are any good are still not shipping in quantity and and Apple is on the eve of introducing its second generation iPad. Given that Apple shipped over 14 million iPads in 2010, it’s very likely that the cost of parts is now down considerably…

Quark’s App Studio is targeted at larger publications using the Quark Publishing System and includes tools to custom design and test iPad-compatible magazine apps, along with support for adding multimedia and interactive features to magazine issues. The package includes the Quark iPad starter application to use as a template for building custom magazine apps, interactive…

Those same sources also claimed that Apple would be able to make as many as 40 million iPads in calendar 2011. Supply has been one of the key limiting factors in sales of the device since its introduction in April, and on Tuesday Apple executives said they could have sold more than the 7.33 million…

3G iPad headed to ChinaChina’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology finally approved the iPad 3G for use in the country near the end of December. Apple first started selling the Wi-Fi version of the iPad in April 2010 and followed a few weeks later with the 3G version.The company is expected to launch the…

Designed by a champion surfer, the Surf Creatures HD iPad app features 26 unusual underwater creatures to delight and intrigue younger children. The creatures are hand drawn, the words rhyme, and up to four different people can record the book for playback. Surf Creatures HD iTunes store iconThe app was designed by champion surfer Shaun Tomson…

On January 15th LapWorks will introduce the Crystal iPad Folio. It is completely transparent and made from shatterproof polycarbonate plastic, the same material used to make bulletproof glass.   Lapworks Crystal iPad FolioThe iPad is completely covered except for the necessary port openings, and the first thing I noticed is the openings are designed in…

Verizon will offer CDMA-based iPhones and iPadsVerizon currently sells the iPad even though the models that are shipping today only support the GSM technology used by its competitor AT&T. To compensate for the lack of GSM support, Verizon has been selling iPads bundled with its CDMA-based MiFi personal hotspot that shares a 3G connection with…

Cosmic Top for the iOS isn’t a game. Rather, it’s a toy. There’s no goal other than to create visual effects and amuse yourself. And it’s a geek toy with gyroscopic color and Euler’s equations for spinning bodies. The only limit is your own imagination and playfulness. The iOS system is famous for games. But…