iPad

Loom for iOS: The Better, Cloud-Based Mobile Camera Roll

Cloud storage services are a dime a dozen these days, and just the thought of sifting through the mass to find the one that works best for you can be overwhelming. But when it comes to not just mobile-specific but also photo-specific storage, your options are pretty much cut entirely. That’s what makes Loom (which…

Best Buy Will Give You $200 to Trade in Your Old iPad

If that ageing iPad 2 is proving too slow for you, or your iPad 3 is ounces too heavy, good news: Best Buy isre-launching its $200 iPad trade-in program. From July 23rd, Best Buy will take your iPad 2 or 3—as long as it’s not water damaged or sporting a cracked display—when you buy a…

Glasses.com for iPad: Test Glasses on Your Virtual Head Before You Buy

We’ve become a lazy, lazy people. If there’s two things that really bring us together, it’s an irrational demand for instant gratification and a desire to have as little face-to-face interaction as is humanly possible. Now on the one hand, this is probably the beginning of society’s grand demise. But on the other, doing things…

WSJ: Apple Is Testing Bigger Screens for iPhone and iPad

The Wall Street Journal is adding weight to rumors of growing iPhone screens sizes, publishing a report which suggests that Apple is testing larger displays for both the iPhone and iPad. Citing sources at suppliers in Asia,the newspaper claims that Apple is testing a 12.9-inch iPad design, alongside a range of prototype iPhones with larger…

iPad Apps of the Week: VLC, Origami, and More

You’re a musician, a media junkie, and an all-around family man/lady—in other words, you’ve got a lot to juggle. So here are some apps to easily squeeze into your life and take some of the pressure off. Go on, champ, you deserve it. VLC: Hey now! VLC, the bestest fastest sweetest codec-iest easiest to usiest…

Apple May Have Finally Figured Out How to Make a Liquidmetal iPhone

The incredibly promising metal alloy from Liquidmetal has been around for a while, but no one’s really been able to figure out how to put the difficult-to-manufacture material to good use–until now. According to a new patent uncovered by Electronista, Apple seems to think it’s figured out the key. One day soon, you may very…

iPad Apps of the Week: Guide, WunderMap, and More

The iPad offerings were all over the place, jumping from intensive weather details to a news-reading puppy to enough emoji to ensure that you never have to use words for feelings ever again. But then again, that’s what life is all about, after all—anthropomorphized dogs and avoiding face-to-face human interactions at all costs. Or something…

Best Buy Will Give You At Least $200 for Your Old iPad 2 or iPad 3

That old iPad 2 of yours too blurry for your precious eyes? That fantastically beautiful screen on the iPad 3 too heavy to lift for your puny muscles? Best Buy is willing to take those old tablets off your hands for at least 200 bucks. This Friday June 12th and Saturday June 13th, Best Buy…

The Key To Never Forgetting Your iPhone’s Charging Cable

Key-shaped USB flash drives have guaranteed we never forget to bring our important files ever again. And taking the same approach, Bluelounge’s Kii guarantees you always have an emergency iPhone or iPad charger on hand—as long as you remembered to lock your home and bring your keys. A 30-pin dock connector version of the Kii,…

iPad Apps of the Week: NoteSuite, Morning, and More

For whatever reason, this week saw more awesome iPad apps coming to our attention than we’ve seen in a while. And what’s more, a lot of them are only for iPad—iPhone needs be damned. So if you’re someone who’s Pad is king, you’re going to like what we’ve got in store this week. Foresee: If…

NoteSuite for iPad: Meet Evernote’s New, Subscription-Free Competition

After finding success with note-taking/to-do app Projectbook last year, Theory.io has decided to overhaul their signature productivity app and take it a step further. Now, hoping to go head-to-head with big dogs like Evernote, the developers are officially re-releasing the app as NoteSuite—the potential answer to all your disorganized digital life woes. What does it…

This Is How Your iPad Will Feel Like This Fall

Whether you already have one or you’re buying a new model, this fall your iPad will look and feel completely different thanks to iOS 7. Gizmodo’s Kyle Wagner got an early version of Apple’s new operating system in his tablet. These are his first impressions.

iOS 7 for iPad First Impressions: Messing With the Best

Since its inception, the iPad has been the gold standard for tablets. Nothing else has come close, really. A lot of credit goes to iOS, which has ceded plenty of ground to Android on phones but remains easily the friendliest tablet software. So changing up iOS 7 means changing up the very best tablet OS…

Digg has updated its iOS app to incorporate its experimental new Reader—and it’ll directly import your feeds from Google Reader, too. Go get it.

Morning for iPad: A Simple Dashboard to Start Your Day Off Right

Mornings are rough. And depending how many special adult beverages you imbibed the night before, mornings can be very, very rough. Which is exactly why we love Morning for iPad. It gives you a bright, friendly look at all the info you need to start your day, so you can be prepared even when you…

Bike Doctor: Repair Your Bike As Well As the Pros Without the Price

For the beginning (or even experienced) cyclist, making your own bike repairs can seem like a daunting task. Most bike repair guides you’ll find around the ol’ internet can be complicated labyrinths of instruction that end up doing more harm than good. But taking your wheels to a pro can come with a major price…

BTTF’s Grays Sports Almanac iPad Case Only Makes You Rich in Spirit

Trumped only by the time-traveling Delorean itself as the greatest movie plot device of all time, the copy of Grays Sport Almanac that put the events of Back to the Future II into motion can now be yours—as an iPad case. Gone are the pages and pages of sports scores and statistics, not that they’d…

An iPad You’re Actually Supposed to Cover in Crumbs

If you’re discrete enough, this iPad cutting board will convince your friends and dinner guests that you’re absolutely flush with cash. Because instead of slicing cheeses, vegetables, and fruits on a traditional cutting board, you can afford to use an iPad for the task. In reality, this $30 glass cutting board is just styled to…

How to Use Your iPad to Make a Better Computer

If you have an iPad for fun you can easily use it to make your work computer better and more productive. The iPad can work as a secondary display, a keyboard shortcut machine to quickly access your computer’s programs and functions, a trackpad, a remote control, or even to access it through the internet. Here’s…

What iOS 7 Looks Like on Your iPad

There’s no tablet flavor of the iOS 7 beta, but using a simulator feature on Apple’s XCode developer platform, German site Apfelpage has given us a look at what the next-gen operating system will look like on the iPad. Aside from a few changes, it’s pretty consistent with what we’ve already seen from iOS 7.…