iPad

Apple Theft Is So Bad That the NYPD Has a Dedicated iTheft Division

It should come as no surprise that iPhones and iPads are prime targets for theft, but it’s gotten really bad in New York City. It’s so bad that, according to the New York Post, the NYPD is setting up a unit specifically to handle iDevice theft and work with Apple to track down the thieves.…

Apple’s Upgrade Dilemma

Apple has been taking a beating on Wall Street, in part due to skepticism over future growth of iPhone and iPad sales. With the market becoming saturated with iPhone and, to some extent, iPad users, Apple will soon need to rely upon upgrades rather than new customers to fuel sales. Apple’s problem is that their…

Square’s Business in a Box Is a One-Stop Startup Kit

Square’s quest for small business domination continues in the form of Business in a Box, a convenient, all-in-one package that intends to get small businesses up, running, and using as many Square products as possible. One box comes with two Square Readers, an iPad stand, a cash drawer, and an (optional because who uses paper…

The Burden of Apple iOS

When Apple released the iPhone in 2007, they released iPhone OS (later known as iOS) with it. The device and the operating system necessitated each other. The two were birthed into the world together on the same stage. The industrial design of Apple’s new phone was a drastic departure from other mobile devices at that…

Thirst: The Abridged Version of the Day’s News

You read the internet from cover to cover, but rather selectively. Thirst learns the parts you want to read and leaves out the ones you’d rather just skim. What does it do? It combs the web to find the best, most current stories and delivers them to you in an easy to read format. You…

Adobe’s Developing a Brilliant Photo Editing App You Can Just Talk To

Photography is getting easier thanks to cameras that are able to better evaluate and automatically choose the best settings for a given scene. But photo editing, that’s still a bit of a mystery to most amateur photographers. So Adobe—the makers of Photoshop—are working with the University of Michigan to develop an extremely intelligent photo editing…

I Am the Prettiest Princess

I am the prettiest princess, and you(r child of either gender) can be too. With an endless supply of cyber-makeup afforded by the Barbie™ Digital Makeover Mirror, an iPad, and the associated app, your (child’s) dreams of effervescent, MSPaint magnificence can—will come true. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then resplendent, face-melting…

Every Apple Product Supposedly in the Works

Did you hear the latest rumor about Apple’s “explorations” into a Dick Tracy-like smartwatch that’ll soon be attaching itself to everybody’s wrists? It’s coming soon. Or never. But it’s just another one of an avalanche of products Apple is rumored to have in the works. We’ve rounded up everything Apple’s supposed to have in the…

A Security Company Is Neutering Hundreds of iPads So The Government Can Use Them

Traditionally, Blackberry has been the choice of the majorly security conscious, but the times are changing. iOS has been shaping up to be pretty secure, and has even coaxed some US government agencies to jump ship. Now a security firm in Virgina is “neutering” iPads so G men can use those too. The report comes…

Secretly We All Want This Toilet-Paper-Holding iPad Stand

We all use our smartphones and tablets in the bathroom, but there’s an unwritten rule that you do it discreetly, and don’t really brag about touching your device while touching your… well, you get the idea. So while on one hand it’s easy to be disgusted by CTA Digital’s toilet paper/iPad stand, on the other…

The 128GB iPad has now hit the online Apple Store. Go get it (if you really need that storage).

Report: FreedomPop’s LTE Clip Will Give Wi-Fi-Only Tablets Free Mobile Internet

According to a leak obtained by Forbes, FreedomPop, a company that’s looking to provide free, mobile Internet access, is now looking to tablets as its next broadband market-disrupting frontier. Dubbed the LTE Clip, the relatively unobtrusive device will attach to Wi-Fi-only tablets, granting them LTE Internet from Sprint Nextel in the process. Wi-Fi-only tablets already…

19 Adorable Animals Using Technology Adorably

Some say that pets start to take after their owners, but to what extent? Will Socks start bogarting the remote? Are you going to have to pry the iPad out of Buster’s paws? Actually, uhm, yeah; looks that way. It also looks adorable. Iggy hones his hunting skills with a tablet Source: rautiocination Parrot on…

What the Next iPad Might Look Like (If It Looks Like the iPad Mini)

Unsurprising reports about what the next iPad will look like have been coming out, parts showing off an iPad Mini-esque casing for the bigger iPad have been leaked and well, I’m no math expert but one plus one usually equals two. If you want to get an idea of what the next iPad might, maybe,…

Nine People Who Actually Need a 128GB iPad

The monster 128GB iPad is here, but you almost definitely don’t need it. For a solid grand, you might as well buy a MacBook Air or three years’ worth of toilet paper. Unless, of course, you are one of the following. https://gizmodo.com/the-128gb-ipad-is-real-its-here-and-its-almost-defini-5979812 Doctors. You have tons of charts and reference materials that you’ll need at…

The 128GB iPad Is Real, It’s Here, and It’s Almost Definitely Not For You

As expected, Apple let a 128GB iPad out of the bag today. And there’s almost zero chance you should buy it. https://gizmodo.com/does-apple-have-a-fancier-ipad-4-up-its-sleeve-update-5979453 The new iPad has the same retina display as its brothers, and the same design, and the same guts, with one notable exception: a metric crap-ton of storage. More storage than any decent…

Is This What the Next iPad Will Look Like?

9to5Mac has an image that shows a prototype design for the next iPad and guess what, it looks a lot like the iPad Mini. These pictures are only unconfirmed images, but if proven to be real, it looks like the big iPad might follow in the iPad Mini’s footstep of lovely chamfered edges. Taking a…

This Is the Single Worst Way to Begin Your Kickstarter Pitch

Want to know how I know your Kickstarter project isn’t going to get funded? You started with “oh hey, I didn’t see you there” which, in the minds of consumers, means you’re either an unobservant stooge who can’t be trusted with money or we’re really bad at hiding. And, as we all know, rule number…

Does Apple Have a Fancier iPad 4 Up Its Sleeve? (Updated)

Scraps of evidence are appearing across the internet, so 9to5mac claims, that point towards Apple maybe, possibly, perhaps readying an update for the iPad. 9to5mac has reported that devs are finding code in the soon-to-be-released iOS 6.1 that point towards a new device, featuring 128GB of storage. Adding some fuel to that fire is a…

Is an iPad on a Pedestal Art?

At the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, there’s a strange exhibit on show: a single iPad stands on a white pedestal. It’s not for visitors to play with; instead, it’s a piece of art by Li Liao. The New Yorker explains the concept behind the piece: While Americans hash out the moral ups…