Beta News’ Joe Wilcox is eating his words today, saying “I was wrong about Apple iPad”.
He was a vocal critic of the iPad when it was announced, like most tech analysts, arguing that the world doesn’t need the iPad or any other tablet.
After using it though, he’s come to a different conclusion:
The iPad is a [...]
As if Adobe needed another nail in the Flash is dead tombstone – a zero-day Flash vulnerability has been identified and announced by Adobe:
A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x [...]
Apple today proved the naysayers wrong, announcing that it had sold 2 million iPads in less than 2 months.
In fact, Apple is still struggling to keep up for demand.
“Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do,” says Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. [...]
Apple announced today that you can now self-publish iBooks to the iBookstore.
Here are Apple’s requirements for publishing an Apple iBook:
Technical Requirements:
An Intel-based Mac running OS X 10.5 or later
At least 1 GB RAM
QuickTime 7.0.3 or later. This is so you can encode and deliver content using our dedicated software.
At least 10 GB of available hard [...]
Flash is dead and the iPad is its tombstone – but somebody forgot to tell Pixar.
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber points how the new Toy Story 3 site looks on an Apple iPad. There are lots of similar examples to be found, but this one seems particularly ironic, given Steve Jobs roles at both Apple and [...]
This video presents Popular Science + - the first digital magazine from publisher Bonnier’s ongoing project to rethink the way magazines can be read on devices like the Apple iPad.
With Popular Science +, the publisher is trying to define “the future of digital magazines.”
The demo is slick – but also seems completely misguided. Popular Science [...]
Mashable today highlighted a site called iPad Peek, calling it a “nifty tool that lets you see how any website will be rendered on the iPad.”
It sounds like a good idea, Unfortunately, iPad Peek doesn’t do much more than put a pretty iPad picture frame around the site you want to test.
iPad Peek works great [...]
WordPress.org has released and updated version of WordPress for iPhone – making it compatible with the Apple iPad.
The new version, officially WordPress for iPhone OS, isn’t a leap forward in terms of features – but the extra screen real estate available on the iPad makes a huge difference.
Where editing blog posts on the iPhone is [...]
Entrackment (App Store link) is a $2.99 app for the Apple iPad that turns it into a wireless control surface for GarageBand.
If you create podcasts in GarageBand and you’ve got an iPad, Entrackment is a no-brainer. It’s cheap and it lets you control all the primary recording functions of GarageBand.
The first reviews are coming in for the new Apple iPad and the consensus is that:
It’s not just a big iPod touch after all; and
It’s actually sort of magical and revolutionary.
Here’s a quick roundup of the reviews:
USA Today says “Apple has pretty much nailed it with this first iPad, though there’s certainly room for [...]