In iOS 5, Apple added some slick multitasking gestures to the iPad that allow you to four-finger swipe to pull up the multitasking drawer, swipe left and right between apps, and five-finger pinch to view the homescreen. They also added AirPlay mirroring, which allows you to view your iPad’s screen on an Apple TV. Both of these features are great, but for whatever reason, Apple decided they were best relegated to the iPad 2. Here’s how to enable the new multitouch swipes and mirroring on your first generation iPad, no jailbreaking required.
Floating around the ‘nets today is this video from the site Tinhte, who claim that the White iPhone 4 pictured above is a prototype running an early test version of iOS 4, featuring different/rejected/unused systems for multitasking and folders.
Windows Phone 7! Such a beautiful start that’s, well, taking a bit of time to get better. Microsoft previewed some things that developers will get to dibble dab with in the next Windows Phone at MIX 11 and it includes:
iOS: If you like the elegant flow of flipping through apps as “cards” in WebOS, Multifl0w brings that ability to jailbroken iOS devices.
If you thought the flaming bicycle was a road menace – it gets worse. This amateur vid captures an idiotic driver (though impressive multitasker) somehow reading a paperback, Kindle and phone, all at the same time. On the highway.
