If you plan on developing or designing for the iPad this could be very valuable to you, the folks over at teehan+lax have created a fantastic PSD file of the iPad’s GUI elements, all arranged quite well.

The elements are created using vectors so they’re completely scalable, and the files resolution and design is set to the iPad’s screen resolution of 768×1024. It doesn’t get much more convenient than this! Developers efforts for the iPad are already underway but it is really set to take off as the device is going to ship to consumers soon, and I for one can’t wait.

Get the iPad GUI PSD file here

[ screenshot and link via The Graphic Mac ]

While everyone continues to wait for an official Hulu app for the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad/whatever, you can beat them to the punch and get Hulu content on your iPhone now for free, using Snow Leopard!

This is a pretty crafty approach and it requires several things:
* Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard installed
* Latest version of QuickTime Player (with Screen Recording support)
* Hulu Desktop client for Mac (for easy full-screen mode)
* The audio recording utility called SoundFlower (so you can record system audio while a screencast is going on)

In case you hadn’t guessed it yet, after you’ve met the above installation requirements, you basically just set your audio output device to SoundFlower, launch the Hulu app and get your show queued up, then from within QuickTime Player you start a new screen recording and start playing the Hulu show… afterwards simply go through the saved screencast and trim out the desktop stuff you don’t want, and then save the file as iPhone format… crafty huh?

You can see the full walkthrough at SampleTheWeb: How to use Snow Leopard to Record Hulu Content on your iPhone [ screenshot borrowed from SampleTheWeb ]

The iPad sure is getting a lot of attention. If you’re pondering developing for the device, or you’re just curious in general, here are some specs on the iPad’s display:

* the 9.7″ iPad display has a screen resolution of 1024×768 pixels
* the display’s pixel density is 132 pixels per inch (ppi), slightly less than the iPhone’s 163ppi screen.

[ via Apple.com ]

If you’re anything like me you’re curious about the beautiful background picture featured on the iPad displays in all the press photos, so I dug around a bit and got some answers. The now famous image is titled “Pyramid Lake (at Night)” and is a 2004 photo by photographer Richard Misrach, taken at Pyramid Lake in Nevada.

ArtInfo.com has a pretty good story on the nice picture and Apple’s decision to use it, apparently at the last minute without the artist even knowing himself:

“I was in bed watching Inglorious Bastards when I got a call from Jeffrey FraenkeL, my dealer in San Francisco, and he said, ‘Do you know what’s going on live here?’”
…”The funny thing is that I don’t even have a contract with them yet, so they must have decided on it at the eleventh hour,” Misrach says. “I’m sure they’ll send me one quickly now. But I’m very happy, I’m sure it’s fine, and the terms are good.”

That sounds like Apple’s legendary secrecy at it’s finest, even down to it’s licensing of images. I’m sure Richard Misrach is going to have many more fans and licensing deals in the near future, as Apple has catapulted his work onto the world stage.

According to the photographer, this is the first time he has licensed an image for commercial use in his 40-year career–a deal he agreed to because he’s a fan of the company. ‘What’s funny is that for years I actually used the photo as my own screensaver,” Misrach says. “So I guess they know what they’re doing.”

Apple certainly does have an eye for pleasing imagery, but I haven’t been able to dig up a high resolution image of the picture to use as a desktop. I’m sure in time one will appear with at least the resolution of the iPad at 1024×768.

Update: OS X Daily reader Deadmilkman posted this picture in the comments, it comes pretty close to being a high res version of the iPad background picture. If you look carefully it’s actually the smaller picture just repeated, reflected against each other, and smoothed together with Photoshop, but it looks pretty nice nonetheless.

[ via ArtInfo.com ]