Are you tired of the scribbly marker looking font in the Notes app on the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch? Want to have a different font in Notes app for iOS? No problem, you can select a variety of font options to be the default on the Notes app.
Feeling nostalgic for a horrible crash-prone user experience and ugly GUI? How about putting the Windows 95 boot screen as your iPad background? It won’t make your iPad run Windows 95 (thankfully), but it sure looks dreadful enough.
Branching out a bit from the Mac Setups, here is a great iPad setup! The iPad rests comfortably in a dock and is connected wirelessly to a bluetooth keyboard, surrounded by a glass of red wine and an iPhone.
Did you know that Apple offers free video tutorials for using the iPad? They’re incredibly easy to follow and well worth watching if you’re new to the iPad or just know someone who is.
The iPad looks like it might be getting the black keyboard as a default setting in iOS 4.2, the change was noted first on the iPad Business Integration section of Apple.com but has since made the rounds of the web as more and more people notice the change. I think it looks great, hopefully it’ll … Read More
VLC is finally out for the iPad (iPhone and iPod touch too), this is great news for iOS devices because using the app you’ll be able to watch most video file types directly on the iPad without converting it first. In the past you’ve had to convert video to iPad and iPhone compatible formats which … Read More
Solitaire is one of those great card games that has passed countless hours over the course of it’s existence. Eventually it involved from just a card game to a computer card game, and it became a staple of the Windows gaming environment. But now you’re on a Mac, what do you do for your solitaire … Read More
This is a rather strange error message which you may see in Mac OS X, you’ll get the notification “Another device on the network is using your computer’s IP address” and then you’ll lose internet access with the dialog box telling you to try connecting again later. No thanks, we need internet access now! So … Read More
People are doing all sorts of cool things with iPads, but this must be one of the more interesting projects I’ve seen. Using videos playing on an iPad and stop-frame photography, Dentsu London moved the device around in dark environments to create 3-dimensional words and animations. Instead of trying to explain it any further, you … Read More
Analysts at Morgan Stanley have concluded that the iPad is now consuming 25% of PC laptop sales, and that sales of PC laptops have been steadily declining since the release of the iPad. The iPad is also slightly eating into Apple’s own laptop and iPod touch marketshare, as buyers are satisfied enough with the iPad … Read More
Ready for some goofy FaceTime humor? Of course you are! Who doesn’t like to be silly sometimes? A reader sent in this hilarious picture which pokes fun at FaceTime, the video chat feature included with the iPhone and iPod touch (and soon the iPad). The tagline on the image is “FaceTime – phone calls like … Read More
If you’re wondering how the iPod touch 4G competes against the rest of Apple’s iOS lineup, this video shows the boot time of the currently relevant devices; the newest iPod touch 4G, iPhone 4, iPad, and iPhone 3GS (sorry iPhone 3G, you’re slow with iOS 4 anyway). Here’s the breakdown of the iOS boot times: … Read More
If you’re a registered iOS developer you can now download the iOS 4.2 beta. This is pretty exciting news because iOS 4.2 runs on the iPad which has been waiting patiently for iOS 4 and it’s multitasking and folder support to arrive for much of the year. Of course the update is not limited to … Read More
Have you ever wondered what the top 100 apps on the App Store have in common? Surely there are some similarities, something these successful apps share that made them so popular, but what is it? How about just asking the users what they liked or disliked?
For whatever reason since updating to iOS 4.0 Pandora has been misbehaving on both my iPhone and iPod touch. If you haven’t run into this basically what happens is a few songs will play normally before they start to skip and stutter, for some songs it almost sounds like it’s part of the song, but … Read More
This is another hilarious commercial for an iPad app, and points out why the iPad won’t be completely replacing a newspaper anytime soon, at least for some tasks. Dubbing itself as ‘better than a newspaper in all kinds of ways’ the commercial pokes fun at another traditional usage of rolled up trees: fly swatting. If … Read More
Apple may be readying the release of a new iPad in time for the holiday shopping season, according to a report. The refreshed iPad is expected to be equipped with a FaceTime compatible camera and the new iPad iOS 4.2. The report from AppleInsider also suggests that Apple is looking to get FaceTime compatibility on … Read More
What a great setup: a 32GB iPad, Unibody MacBook Pro 17″, an iPhone, and a 20″ external display attached to an ergonomic desk stand. [ via Flickr ]
