Tag: APPLE IPAD

For those of you that haven't been paying attention to the iPad 2 hype-fest that has consumed the Internet for the past month, we can almost understand how you could've unknowingly purchased a first-generation iPad in the last 14 days. For those new tablet owners feeling burnt by Wednesday's unveiling of the iPad 2, Apple is offering a $100 reimbursement under its retail purchase policy. ...

It's rare that a gadget feels as transformative as the iPad. With its recent iOS 4.2 update, which essentially brings the device up to speed with the iPhone/iPod interface, the iPad finally feels like the tablet we wanted from the beginning. The addition of the multi-tasking and folders functions is huge, and, if you've got an AppleTV, AirPlay should prove to be a nice way to seamlessly ...

Apple turned a lot of heads this morning when it unexpectedly opened the App Store to apps created with third-party development programs -- including, apparently, those using Adobe Flash. In a news release posted on its site, Apple declared that it would be "relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code." The ...

Despite a great level of ingenuity on some companies' parts, finding a useful accessory for your iPad these days is akin to sifting through junk at a garage sale. Syte Shirt, a recent startup, has just entered the peripheral field with an accessory it feels will finally provide a useful casing for the iPad. By placing the tablet inside a T-shirt, with the screen turned outward, the Pad becomes ...

In the visually illustrious world of Hayao Miyazaki, anything goes. Children fly, parents turn into pigs, and shadows cook udon. One thing that doesn't exist in his fantasy land, though, is the iPad. It's a well known fact that Miyazaki is a staunch anti-techie. He owns no computer, DVD player or cell phone, and proudly communicates via handwritten letters whenever he feels the need to express ...

Share Few teams in professional sports history are as universally loathed as the New York Yankees. And with 27 World Series titles and a payroll that makes any mid-market franchise look like a farm team, it's easy to understand why. No matter what the Bronx Bombers do, they'll always face a healthy contingent of fans who despise them simply because of the pinstripes on their uniforms. Now, ...

The popular "On Your Side" segments which permeate local news broadcasts typically focus on small-time shenanigans and relatively local scams. San Francisco, California's ABC 7 affiliate actually managed to transcend that trend, and garner national recognition by recently exposing Apple's "No Cash" iPad purchasing policy. Although, most of the credit for this exposé should probably be ...

Share If you don't have a debit or credit card, you won't be the owner of an iPad. Or so one Palo Alto, California, woman learned when she was turned away for trying to purchase Apple's new tablet with cash. According to an ABC 7 News report (video after the break), Diane Campbell, who is on a fixed income, saved for months to get the $600 she needed to buy an iPad. When she entered the ...

Move over, Paula Deen; the iPad is coming to the kitchen. According to The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), reader Alan Daly recently installed an iPad in the door of his kitchen cabinet. In case something went wrong, Daly bought a spare door for this experiment. He used a jigsaw to cut out a square hole, smoothed the edges with a Dremel and cut two pieces of wood to secure the iPad in place. ...

Share Apple's newest wundergadget is many things: e-reader, photo viewer and supreme opportunity for retail catharsis. But the iPad is, in fact, still a computer: a hard slab of metal and glass that doesn't exactly warm the cockles of one's heart (and palms). It's a bit heavy, a little delicate and because of its slick surface, not terribly comfortable when you're trying to hold it with one ...

Share The iPad, Apple's new "magical" tablet device whose months of hype claim that it will save print media, kill laptops and redefine the computing experience, is finally here. As expected, many camped out at Apple Stores nationwide, but, aside from Saturday's launch day theatrics at 9 a.m., crowds were subdued compared to those attending the frenzied iPhone launch of 2007. Steve Jobs ...

According to a report in Wired, Steve Jobs recently took some time, post iPad announcement, to take some questions from Apple employees in a town-hall-style event. According to Wired's anonymous source, the topics: Google and Adobe. The message: screw those guys. As per usual, Jobs didn't mince words when speaking about his fellow technology companies, saying, "We see no signs of the ...