Need to use your iPad while on the go but don’t want to look awkward whipping out a near-10-inch slate? In moments where a 3- or 4-inch smartphone touchscreen won’t suffice and you really need the display real estate of an iPad, Alphyn Industries hope to have you covered with its PADX-1 LEDGE Wearcom iPad [...]
I’m heading to MacWorld Expo 2011 tomorrow and one app I’m looking forward to seeing first hand is Jammit App. The app allows aspiring musicians to play along with the famous artists and dissect the original recordings. As users play along, they can strip out vocals, drums, guitar, keyboard and bass parts if they want to stand [...]
Webb School of Knoxville, a private school that spans from elementary to high school, has chosen the iPad as their computing device of choice, above eReaders and notebooks. It is now a mandatory tool for their 4-12 grade students and teachers, acting as both a reading device and mobile computer. They present some compelling points [...]
Are you ready for some foo… Oh wait, I was thinking of the National Football Conference. In this case, NFC refers to Near-Field Communication, a wireless technology already used on some countries to turn phones into digital wallets. Google’s pushing it in Android with the Nexus S. Now word from Bloomberg is Apple is doing [...]
Mary Jo Foley is linking to some slide assets from Microsoft that are intended to show Microsoft partners how to stem the tide of the iPad and other Tablets coming down the pike. Yeah, I know this might all be too little too late, but even more troubling, as well as more predictable, Microsoft proves [...]
Microsoft is fighting an uphill battle against the iPad and has outlined how it hopes partners will fight that battle in the near future. There’s a PowerPoint floating around that encourages Windows 7 slate resellers to sell directly against the iPad with some pretty stale arguments. Keep in mind, these PowerPoint slides are intended to [...]
The earlier news that the Motorola Xoom will be priced at $799 may be premature. Engadget has uncovered both a launch date and a tip that it will be priced at a lower $699.99. But will it be enough to quell the critics?
As the story goes we’re about to see all sorts of Tablets at various points this year beginning this spring. Am I excited about that? Yes, but probably not as much as some. Oh, the geek and gadget blogger in me is very excited to see what is new, what works, what differentiates one from [...]
The new iOS 4.3 beta that was released to developers this week reveals hints that Apple may employ a proximity sensor in the next iPad to automate the process of locking and unlocking the tablet display. In the past, Apple has used–and popularized–proximity sensors on the iPhone to automatically turn off the device’s display while [...]
Developers had discovered new multitouch gestures on the iOS 4.3 Developer Preview of Apple’s mobile operating system targeted for the iPad, however, the company is saying that those features are for testing at this time and will not make it to the consumer release of iOS 4.3. Those new multi-touch gestures provides the same functions [...]
Oh, Tim Cook. Here I was thinking you’d be a pale stand-in for your ailing boss Steve Jobs, keeping the ship steady but avoiding rough seas. Well, glad to see you taking the wheel Jobs-style and making waves against the competition, if only to keep things interesting.
We’re in playwriting mode, or rather play creation mode here again at Wayside Theatre. While we do plays all year long, it is only once, maybe twice, a year that we create one essentially from scratch. The one we’re working on now will be just such a world premiere. It’s called Southern Crossroads: The New [...]
Recent leaks about the display of Apple’s forthcoming second generation iPad state that the consumer tablet will increase its resolution four-folds when compared to the original tablet that was launched last year. Mac Rumors is reporting that while the current iPads sport a resolution of 1024 X 768, the new iPad 2 is said to [...]
Whether it’s digging through new software releases or drilling component makers for info, you can always count on the Apple rumor mill to keep on milling. Whether anything accurate drops out of it is a whole other issue, but there’s always something. Today’s rumor drop focuses on hardware upgrades for iPhone and iPad.
We all know that Steve Jobs doesn’t like buttons. Well, those multi-touch gestures that Chuong blogged about last night may not be just an add on. According to Boy Genius Report, Apple is looking at dropping the Home button on the iPad and perhaps the iPhone and controlling what we control now through touch gestures. [...]
The developer beta of iOS 4.3 will bring a number of new features to the iPad, iPhone, and Apple TV. On the Apple iPad tablet, the new version of iOS will allow users to swipe with four or five fingers to access important commands that were previously limited to the multi-function press of the home [...]
Thank goodness the Verizon iPhone is finally here. Now the rumors about it can end. The cries to free the iPhone from AT&T can cease. And we can go back to not talking about any Verizon-Apple products until… Oh, you have to be kidding me.
I’m in the middle of writing a new play that we’ll debut at Wayside Theatre at the end of the month. As I’ve been working with my collaborator, composer and arranger Steve Przybylski, we go back and forth sending each other drafts, outlines, sketches, etc… We do some of this via email and some of [...]
ArtRage is showing off its painting applications at CES. While the best I can manage to draw on an iPad is something that resembles a first grader’s finger painting, some artists can create some really good looking stuff. Here’s a photo of ArtRage for iPad in action at CES 2011. As I watched the artist [...]
Bowers & Wilkins introduced the Zeppelin Air at CES 2011 in Las Vegas. This new iPod speaker is compatible with Apple Airplay, which means users will be able to stream and control music wirelessly from the comfort of any iPad, iPhone, Mac or PC. The Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Air has five discrete amplifiers and [...]
Already got an iPad tablet that will suffice for your e-reading pleasure and not aching to shell out money for Barnes & Noble’s customized and curated Android e-reader tablet dubbed the Nook Color? That’s okay, especially if you have kids as the bookseller has just announced that its children’s books are now being made available [...]
CES 2011 has really just officially kicked off but as always quite a bit of the big news has kicked off before the kick off. I may be premature here, but on the Tablet front (which is a big part of our beat after all) it looks like we are seeing a theme emerge that [...]
One thing that has been as regular as rain these last few years is that Apple and what is about to announce hangs over CES like a cloud. This year is no different with folks searching for any tidbit they can find about what is assumed to be the iPad 2 or a Verizon iPhone. [...]
Mophie had a couple of iPad accessories at CES Unveiled here in Las Vegas. As its name suggests, the Mophie PowerStand charges your iPad when docked.The PowerStand adjusts smoothly and you don’t have to deal with a white cord hanging from your iPad while it’s docked. I like the clean look and it’s something I’ll [...]
If you want mobile digital TV while on the go, Valups’s Tivizen receiver aims to deliver with a tiny dock connector dongle and flexible antenna that will be able to pick up live, local broadcast digital TV signals. The Tivizen receiver itself comes with a rechargeable battery that delivers 2.5 hours of mobile digital TV [...]
I only wish I could claim this as a New Year’s Eve hangover. At least there would have been some gain for all of this pain. Problem is I got sick the day of New Year’s Eve and had to cancel all of our plans for the big night. You know the kind of sick [...]
2010 is gone and so is its hyped up characterization as The Year of the Tablet. As I’ve said many times, 2010 could be better described as The Year of the iPad than any generic Year of the Tablet. But now 2011 is here and with it there seems to be a collective memory loss [...]
Images of what appears to be Apple’s second-generation iPad designs have surfaced, suggesting that the iPad 2 will add more ports and sport an altered design than its predecessor. The images obtained by Apple-centric 9 to 5 Mac blog shows a diagram of the iPad 2 mold. Though the molding doesn’t indicate whether the iPad [...]
Admittedly there is nothing scientific about reactions and responses from the Chicago branch(es) of our family. Also admittedly none of them read what I write about here on GBM much, unless it is a post with a video that we put up featuring my lovely wife Thomasin. But boy, howdy have I been getting hammered [...]
Word out of DigiTimes is that Apple is preparing to add a CDMA version iPad to its lineup when the next versions are released in 2011. We’ve already got two versions, a WiFi only version and a UMTS version. Verizon has been selling iPads for a few weeks now bundled with a locked down MiFi [...]
Apple products usually have an Apple icon logo on the backside, and a new patent filed by the Cupertino, California company will see the logo serving a secondary purpose aside from helping to create a visible brand identity. Apple’s patent filing indicates that the company is looking to the logo to place its wireless radios–WiFi, [...]
Yep, it is that time of the year when I begin a three month period of traveling. Visiting family and friends, auditions, and some other work finds my wife and I packing up the Honda Fit and hitting the road. We prefer to drive on these trips because we’re a bit more in control of [...]
So, you got your wish and got a Tablet for Christmas. Perhaps it’s an iPad, or maybe a Samsung Galaxy Tab, or maybe some other Tablet/Slate. No matter, I’m sure you’re already up and running. You’ve pinched and zoomed, you browsed the web, you’ve probably listened to a bit of music and watched some video, [...]
No, this list isn’t about gadgets and things. This wish list is about things I’d like to see happen in the mobile space. I’m an impatient an old and would rather see these things happen sooner rather than later. Here’s a link to last year’s wish list, and to the ones previous (here and here.) [...]
Citing an anonymous Chinese source, Japanese blog Mac Otakara is sharing supposed details of the next iPad along with a rendering based on that info. Among the details is that the large cutout seen in previous case mockups is, as I expected, for a larger speaker. Horses not zebras.
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