Gadgets

eBook iPhone Apps Could Make The iPad The Cheapest eReader Out There

Gizmodo AU

Despite the fact that Australia’s iPad launch next month won’t actually involve the launch of an Australian iBooks bookstore, that doesn’t necessarily mean you won’t be able to read books on your iPad. In fact, if you look at the current crop of eBook applications on the iPhone, the iPad has the potential to let you get the best possible price for every book you want to buy.


February 3, 2010
Computing

Apple Patents Touch Sensitive Bezel

I hate to say I told you, but I told you: The Apple iPad is exactly what I said it was going to be except for two things: Multitasking and the touch-sensitive bezel for hot corners. Guess what Apple did.


Computing

77 iPad Updates That May Or May Not Please The Critics

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to make some improvements to Apple’s iPad. Some of these entries are definite improvements. Others? Uh, not so much.


Computing

“Proof” Of Apple iPad Webcam Is Dubious

While I’m the first person who wants a webcam on the Apple iPad, this is just ridiculous: A Kansas-based repair website is claiming that they just got the iPad’s frame part, which shows a hole for the camera. Really?


February 2, 2010
Software

Windows 7 Running On The Apple iPad Via Citrix

Trumpets playing, bloody moons, seas of fire, cats cohabiting with dogs, and Windows 7 running on the Apple iPad right on the day it launches. That’s how the Universe ends, my dearly beloved, and you can blame Citrix for it:


Computing

iPad Snivellers: Put Up Or Shut Up

It’s taken me a couple of days for me to understand the wet sickness I felt in response to all the post-iPad whining, until it finally came up in a sputtering lump: disgust.


Computing

The Apple iPad Keynote In 3 Minutes Of Adjectives

Magnificent. Super. Amazing. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. Exciting. Gorgeous. Nice. Great. Awesome. Remarkable. Phenomenal. Simple. Magical.


February 1, 2010

The Lego Apple iPad

Since I can’t wait to get the Apple iPad, I will build one for myself with Lego bricks, using this one as the guideline. And then use it like I will use the real iPad: By licking it.


January 30, 2010
Computing

The Tablets Of Our Dreams Merge With Reality

These were the tablets of our dreams. The devices we thought we’d use one day. But what do we get in reality? The iPad. The showmanship level definitely isn’t as high (Tom Cruise wasn’t available), but the usability is proven.


Computing

iPad Aftershocks: Apple’s Netbook Is Screwing Netbook Makers

The iPad is Apple’s netbook. It’s small, built for the web, and cheap. Which is a problem for the people who make actual netbooks, since they wanted to undercut Apple. And it’s hard to get cheaper than glorified smartphone guts.