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The iPad: Amazon’s Secret Weapon

The iPad may seem like Apple’s move to cockblock Amazon in the Ebook Wars, but Amazon’s Kindle app makes it part of Amazon’s larger ebook ecosystem. In many ways, the iPad is the best Kindle yet. This argument suddenly (but not surprisingly) stopped being about e-ink readers, and Amazon is the only one of the…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Apr 6

Apple’s iPad Apps Wouldn’t Have Been Approved By the App Store

Apple’s new iPad apps—iBooks, Pages, Keynotes and Numbers—wouldn’t be accepted into the App Store if they were submitted by an outside developer. That’s because they use private APIs that other devs don’t have access to. Yet. Some features that these first party apps have, such as access to the system dictionary or true brightness control,…

Tech News Adam Frucci Apr 6

iPad App Review Marathon Live (Part 3)

We’re STILL reviewing as many iPad apps as possible LIVE and updating all day. If you have a specific app you want reviewed, let us know in the comments. So many apps that we had to start a third post! For Part 1 of our iPad Review Marathon go here. For Part 2 of our…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 6

Well, That’s One Use For The iPad…

Shame you’d have to fork out $39.99 for the iBookend to give the iPad purpose (if it were a real product, obviously). [Dominic Wilcox]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 6

SuperNES on iPad Is So Nice

The SuperNES emulator for iPad is extremely fast and, according to Snes4iphone developer ZodTTD, “it looks, sounds, and plays great.” The best thing: It’s just a quick port of the iPhone version. The worst thing: It’s not an official app. I just got my iPad and the first thing I did was install a build…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Apr 6

Keep Your Precious iPad Warm In The First iPad-Compatible Vest

If there’s one thing that turns me off more than a man in a vest, it’s a man in a vest with an iPad. Of course, just a man with an iPad is too much for me. Not saying I’d rather have a man with a HP Slate in a jacket—but at least that shows…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 6

$10,000 Will Buy You A Hand-Delivered iPad From eBay Anywhere In The World

Someone should pull eBay seller “thejamesg” aside and explain that a flight to the US plus an iPad can be had for well under ten grand. Oh, but “THESE WILL SELL OUT ON LAUNCH DATE,” he cries! [eBay]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 6

Deconstructing the iPad’s A4 Chip: It’s Still a Giant iPhone

Tear down the iPad, and you see that the internals are quite similar to the iPhone’s, albeit nested behind a giant battery.Tear down Apple’s new A4 processor, though, and you see just how deep the similarities run. iFixit partnered with semiconductor reverse engineering firm Chipworks to crack into Apple’s semi-mysterious A4 chip, which is the…

Tech News John Herrman Apr 5

A Widescreen iPad Would Be F*cking Stupid

I already pointed it out in the analysis of Apple iPad’s industrial design, but I wanted to show you how stupid a widescreen iPad looks. From the original article: The iPad has the proportions of a paper page. It’s a familiar format, which feels natural to humans, especially in portrait mode. A widescreen display in…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Apr 5

Plenty of Apple Stores Still Have iPads in Stock

For all that Saturday line-sitting, you’d think that every iPad in the world would’ve been snatched up by lunchtime. Nope! Many Best Buys are sold out, but most Apple stores have iPads in stock with more on the way tomorrow. This afternoon we called around to stores across the country to see where iPads could…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Apr 5

HP Slate Specs Leaked, Compared to iPad in HP Internal Presentation

This leaked HP internal memo at Engadget shows the HP Slate’s got a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor and five-plus hours of battery life. That’s in-line with what we’d heard already, but the memo’s also a great tale-of-the-tape iPad comparison. The other details: looks like we were also right with the $549 price tag for…

Tech News Brian Barrett Apr 5

iPad Test Notes: Stumping the iPad’s Safari Browser

There’s been a lot made of the fact that the iPad doesn’t support Flash. But how much of an effect does it have on day-to-day browsing? I snagged screenshots of 20 top websites so you can see for yourself. There are really only a few sites that are noticeably broken by Safari’s lack of Flash.…

Tech News Adam Frucci Apr 5

iPad Test Notes: Battery Life

The iPad has everyone thinking about the future of computing, but one of its greatest achievements is what it lets you forget about: battery. We pushed the iPad as hard as we could and got nearly 6 hours of use. Early reports had the iPad’s battery lasting even longer than Apple’s 10 hour estimate—up to…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Apr 5

Understanding the iPad’s Industrial Design

Apple’s iPad embodies Dieter Rams’ famous Ten Principles for Good Design, the ten commandments that every company should follow before manufacturing any product. It feels like the future in your hands. But it could be better. The iPad is the culmination of Jon Ive’s quest for the ultimate industrial design, a search for the minimal…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Apr 5

iPad App Review Marathon Live (Part 2)

We’re reviewing as many iPad apps as possible LIVE and updating throughout the day. If you have a specific app you want reviewed, let us know in the comments. So many apps that we had to start a second post! For Part 1 of our iPad Review Marathon go here. Note: For all apps, we’ll…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 5

iPad, After Some Thought

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Tech News Joel Johnson Apr 5

iPad Chatroulette Is the Way to Go

Chatroulette by itself is fine if you’re a pianist or a guy who pushes birds into snakes’ mouths, but what if you’re just a dude with an iPad. Turns out that’s MUCH better. Join us as we take you on an incredibly NSFW adventure, filled with iPads, boobs, penises and laughter. Remember, NSFW. NSFW!

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 5

Download 700+ Free Scifi Books Onto Your iPhone

Need to catch up on your reading? Like, a whole damn lot of reading? A new iPhone app offers 746 free public domain scifi books from authors such as Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and H.G. Wells. App designers Spreadsong have aggregated hundreds of classic and pulp works from the architects of modern science fiction,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Apr 5

Nintendo Pretends Apple Doesn’t Concern Them, Part XXIV

Interesting comment, Nintendo. Aside from its questionable validity, last we heard, most third party games weren’t doing so hot on your own platforms. [Kotaku]

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 5

Watch iPad Meet Blender

What happens when you put an iPad in a blender? For all those who’ve been griping for the past few weeks: catharsis. Catharsis, and dust. [Will It Blend?]

Tech News Brian Barrett Apr 5

The iPad: Amazon’s Secret Weapon

Apple’s iPad Apps Wouldn’t Have Been Approved By the App Store

iPad App Review Marathon Live (Part 3)

Well, That’s One Use For The iPad…

SuperNES on iPad Is So Nice

Keep Your Precious iPad Warm In The First iPad-Compatible Vest

$10,000 Will Buy You A Hand-Delivered iPad From eBay Anywhere In The World

Deconstructing the iPad’s A4 Chip: It’s Still a Giant iPhone

A Widescreen iPad Would Be F*cking Stupid

Plenty of Apple Stores Still Have iPads in Stock

HP Slate Specs Leaked, Compared to iPad in HP Internal Presentation

iPad Test Notes: Stumping the iPad’s Safari Browser

iPad Test Notes: Battery Life

Understanding the iPad’s Industrial Design

iPad App Review Marathon Live (Part 2)

iPad, After Some Thought

iPad Chatroulette Is the Way to Go

Download 700+ Free Scifi Books Onto Your iPhone

Nintendo Pretends Apple Doesn’t Concern Them, Part XXIV

Watch iPad Meet Blender

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