Chatting with my office neighbor, (a programmer, smart guy, and future iPad owner) a light bulb when on for both of us. The iPad is all about sharing! Remember when the Zune introduced sharing (uh, “squirting” right?) of a song to another Zune owner? Steve Jobs was quoted as saying that isn’t sharing, sharing was [...]
To get the maximum out of your iPad around the office, you will want to make sure you have thought out file storage and access – we’ll cover all that soon. Apple has thought about the Business user when they created the iPad. Apple has enhanced the user experience of using the Calendar, Mail, Notes [...]
Here we go, the accessory train has left the station. A week after Steve introduced the iPad, Belkin has announced their ‘bags’ for those iPads. Belkin is offering 3 different sleeve bags. Each with a bit of uniqueness through their features, from poofy ribs, grippy outside or an accessory pocket. Sadly, we are thinking these [...]
Just watching the start of the 2010 Grammy’s. The first award nominees where read from a iPad. That was the last it was seen… but there it was, a camio appearance. The screen rotated as he lifted it up to show, so it wasn’t a painted piece of cardboard.
We have mentioned before that the iPad offers iBooks, a book shelf and eBook reader. There will be people that will buy the iPad as a ebook reader due to it’s color screen and UI of paper like flipping pages. It is on a very short list of readers that offer color, so images in [...]
Remember way back in 2001 when Apple introduced a little bricky thing they called the iPod? There was a lot of folks that jumped right out and said how silly it was. Most memorable quotes came from people had not even had it in their hands. Much like the iPad now… We are admittedly Apple [...]
The folks from AppleInsider where at the iPad introduction event. They where there, and their video camera was there too. We were very lucky, they didn’t use up valuable video time with holding the tablet or tapping buttons. They jumped right in and are showing off the larger, touch calendar app.. It is very similar [...]
Ever since I heard a voice over of the iPad introduction where someone started talking about the size of the iPad vs the Kindle DX, we all saw the opinion war start up. The differences between the two devices is pretty visible, and while they both are able to read eBooks they are look at [...]
Music doesn’t care about screen size but your pictures sure do. iPhoto on a Mac is very easy to use for collecting images and doing light edits. You wont be doing much fine detail adjustments with your mouse like you will be able to do with your finger directly on the image. The photo application [...]
A iPad can not live by it’s self sending emails and browsing Web Sites. You also will want to listen to music, watch movies, receive email attachments wether they are text docs, pdfs or iWork files. Audio Playback Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 [...]
