Apple’s latest iOS tablet isn’t just for fun or the home and office as the Apple iPad 2 can also be used as a good educational tool, and as such Kindergartners in Auburn, Maine are to get given an Apple iPad 2 to use in the classroom.
According to an article on The Sun Journal, reporter Bonnie Washuk says, “The $200,000 cost for the iPad 2 tablets will be less than hiring more teachers. It probably would take four teachers to do what the computers can do with one teacher.”

Apparently some …

Update to our previous iOS 4.3 post: iOS 4.3′s new Personal Hotspot works on iPhone 3GS – albeit only with cable and Bluetooth pairing!
Long-time friend Enrico has just tested iOS 4.3 on an iPhone 3GS and checked that Personal Hotspot, the internet connection sharing feature of 4.3, runs happily although only via the iPhone cable or a Bluetooth-paired connection.
So, as far as we know, Wi-Fi sharing is available only for iPhone 4.
As a result, iPhone 3GS users can still enjoy their beloved toy and share connectivity to iPad (non-3G) or …

Apple iOS 4.3 is now available for download from Apple for all iPad, iPhone 4 and 3GS, iPod touch (3gen and 4gen)!
We’re now testing and trying out all new features and will report soon.
A brief feature list include:

improved Safari Javascript engine and overall speed
Airplay: now greatly enhanced and available to most multimedia devices in your home!
iTunes sharing (at last!)
Personal hotspot (iPhone 4 only): the perfect solution to turn your iPhone 4 into a wireless gateway for all devices (and get over tethering).

Ikea did it again!
Meet Klamby, the “photo-frame-tripod” that almost every iPad has been waiting for!
It fits so perfectly the iPad (shape, size and look) we may well call it iKlamby!
I just got it from the local Ikea and I’m amazed how simple stuff gets the job done: it’s just 3,95 euros (around 5 US $) and outperforms a lot of more expensive solutions.
Tilted at around 26 degrees, it’s great for viewing movies, browsing and … well, everything!

Unboxing the iKlamby

Installing…

Perfect for landscape browsing…

… great for portrait viewing as well!

Tilting angle? 26°!
Oh, …

You cannot have a multiuser iPad, but can definitely have a multiuser browser inside it.
Its name is Switch. Its multiuser capabilities are thought with security in mind, for the user and for the other users too!
There’s a guest account for extra privacy and the occasional friend that asks to have a look at the Internet.
Recurring users can use the same Switch and have each one their logins and passwords for every account on every site they visit, without other user being able to tamper with that (they are supposed to …

iPad has become important enough to deserve attention from Altec Lansing, that on November, 16th released Octive Stage (MP540), its first iPad-oriented audio system.
At US$149.95, Octiv Stage features a cradle that holds the iPad in either horizontal and vertical position, or a iPhone or iPod touch as well.
The cradle recharges the device while docked.
In the box you will find also an infrared remote; on the cradle You’ll see a 1/8-inch stereo input jack for connecting other audio sources.
According to Altec Lansing, audio from movies has been optimized as well as …

Our search for the dream workplace has landed in Britain, precisely at that curious newspaper for finance moguls and hat-wearing gentlemen from Lombard Street, the Financial Times.
Their CEO, John Ridding, announced that every staff member (hey, 1,800 people) will get a £ 300 (US$ 480) rebate against the purchase of an iPad before June 30th, 2011.
Ridding said the the rebate is either a reward for the good job done on the iPad and an encouragement to get skilled and experienced about tablets.
The free Financial Times app made one million English …

It’s our pleasure to make a little publicity for Logic Consulting’s BaDaBing 1.0, a touch drum kit for the iPad.
BaDaBing includes more more crashes and toms than any other similar app and the response time from touch to sound is unsurpassed. The animations of the drum kit provide the user instant visual feedback in addition to sound. The drum surfaces depress and the crashes rock back and forth giving the user a complete experience.
Even with such a bonanza, the app is free, with some ad inside, or US$ 0.99, …

Did you read all that bullshit about the iPad being a consumption device, neither good for work nor content production?
Well, Damon Albarn told NME to have recorded his new Gorillaz album on an iPad.
I’ve made it on an iPad – I hope I’ll be making the first record on an iPad, Damon said. I fell in love with my iPad as soon as I got it, so I’ve made a completely different kind of record.
Now it’s clear that whatever you read in the past about iPad not being able to …

Game instructions are pretty straightforward.
What you do is simply tap the falling dudes so their parachutes open. You then tap the coins that pop up for extra scores as well as the aliens, birds and balloons that fly by.
Dudes are falling from the sky! They may look smart, but they don’t know how to open their parachutes! Rescue them by tapping on the dudes. As thanks for saving their lives they can reward you with coins. You will see other (unidentified) objects flying trough the sky, tap them for extra …

This is the email we sent to the publisher’s Contact Us address:
Dear Sirs,
I bought Editor for iPad and I’m really, deeply unsatisfied of the result.
The app is excessively slow in accepting text input and characters appear on screen with an unacceptable delay on the actual typing having place.
The text cursor goes wildly offset and doesn’t match the actual writing position on screen, so that – to place the cursor in line X – I must tap the screen two or three lines down.
The app requires every file to be manually …

Bob Evans for InformationWeek:
Out here at the InformationWeek 500 Conference, I was talking last night with a few CIOs about the iPad and what it is that makes it so special: why lots of big companies in various industries are turning to Apple’s latest bit of wizardry.
And as I listened to the wisdom of our audience, I think the answer finally penetrated even my thick skull: the iPad allows individuals and companies to do what they could not do before. […]
The iPad engages its users to move beyond mere productivity—applying …

IMDb, the Internet Movie Database, is an online movie central that offers largest collection of movie, TV shows and celebrity information. Now you can access this information right on your iPhone device via latest IMDb app.
The app provides you with every detail of movies and TV shows: lose yourself in Hollywood!
The IMDb iPhone & iPad app brings the whole mobile viewing IMDb experience at your fingertips. The app provides you information on a widest range of movie and TV titles, celebrities, movie showtimes, TV listings, trailers, photos, box office results, …

We feel it’s our duty to inform about the Crux360 clamshell-keyboard Bluetooth case for the iPad.
The case sports four modes: Laptop Mode, that turns the iPad in a sort of netbook; Movie Mode turns the screen to face the opposite way to the keyboard to watch movies; Tablet Mode flips the screen to lie flat against the back of the keyboard, and Carry Mode, where the screen stays protected inside the case.
The Crux360 feels solid and well engineered. Anyway, we would never consider a device that wants to put a …

Interactive Alphabet from Pi’ikea was awarded as Best Kids’ iPad app of the year from iLounge, as part of their annual Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards.
Among many learn-the-alphabet-and-pretend-to-have-fun apps, Interactive Alphabet is actually funny to use for toddlers, pre-schoolers and parents thanks to massive interactivity and lots of graphic and sound effects.
The app is universal and runs on iPhone and iPod touch too, for US$ 2.99 or € 2.39.
When every letter is an authentic toy, every touch is lots of fun.
Rate this app!

Stop analyst bullshit and rejoice from bullshit from iPad competitors indeed!
ViewSonic thinks 45 million tablet computers will be sold in 2011 and that half of these will be iPads, according to DigiTimes.
ViewSonic itself wishes to grab 10 percent of the other, non-iPad half, getting 5 percent of the global pie. [My head is about to jam, please stop with numbers.—Ed.]
The difference between analysts and ViewSonic is that the latter wants to make a living out of their sales and analysts make a living of whatever bullshit they write. So they …

Are you looking at your screen rotation lock hardware button on the iPad? Well, remember that with iOS 4.2, due in about a month from now or even less, it’ll become a Mute hardware button.
The same happened to iPhones when their iOS 4.1 rolled out.
There’s no hope that things could do differently. Steve Jobs allegedly replied to question In IOS 4.2 for iPad is the switch on the side going to be the mute and not screen orientation lock from now on? and answered Yep, while answering Nope to question …

Moonchaser Software is announcing the release and immediate availability of Cartouche HD 1.0.1 for iPad.
Your mind will be challenged to arrange columns of hieroglyphs (glyphs) into lines of three or more.
Once completed, the lines of glyphs will disappear and the remaining glyphs will fall under gravity, and may create new lines. [If a three falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?—Ed.]
As the game progresses, the speed of descent for new columns increases.
Nothing new, many will think. Hieroglyphs are quite old, …

OpenTable has finally brought its restaurant reservation services to the iPad, taking advantage of the screen’s additional real estate to improve upon its app for the iPhone and iPod touch.
The OpenTable app offers the same search functionality as the iPhone version, including the ability to to search by restaurant name, cuisine type, neighborhood and current location. Users can search for open tables for their party within a specified geographic and time range, pull up a restaurant’s location on a map, and peruse the menu and diner reviews before making a …

Since Apple’s iPad hit the market in April, doctors at Chicago area hospitals are increasingly using the hot-selling tablet as a clinical tool, writes Monifa Thomas on the Chicago Sun-Times.
Within the next month, the University of Chicago Medical Center plans to provide iPads to all of its internal medicine residents, expanding on a pilot program launched earlier this year. Similarly, Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood has given iPads to all of its orthopedic residents as part of a pilot program.
At U. of C., for instance, plastic surgeon Dr. Julie …