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      It was noted from the beginning by the skeptics that the iPad was merely a big iPhone which didn’t really bring anything new to the table. What with the iPad tablet series coming with 3Gtechnology (if you can afford it), it was surely only a matter of time before the creative minds tried to

This is pretty neat, but a tad to pricie. $$$         Oscium’s iMSO-104 hardware offers to turn your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch into a 12MSPS digital oscilloscope with an analog bandwidth of 5MHz. For folks like me with limited desk space & shifting work environments, that’s an interesting offer indeed. Oscium

    Apple’s iOS 5 is absolutely packed with new features. In the Keynote, they covered a dozen major new features, but mention that there are over 200 in all, including 1500 New APIs for developers. Before getting to them, Apple was sure to mention some impressive stats about the success of iOS, including stats

Although there have been products designed to expand the memory capabilities of iOS devices before, none may do it quite as elegantly as the new i-FlashDrive from PhotoFast. This new product, about the size of a typical USB flash drive, comes equipped with the standard USB connector on one side, and a 30-pin connector on

    What if you could turn your iPad 2 into a laptop by simply placing it in a case? That is the promise of Crux Loaded by CruxCase, a $249 clamshell enclosure that gives users a keyboard like that Logitech Keyboard Case we reviewed, but goes a step further by also offering a trackpad. Both

  This should be nice for all of you ios programmers out there Kev– Managing iOS projects Whether you’re an indie developer, an established company or an amateur, App Cooker is the perfect tool to bring your iOS application ideas to life. Start with an idea, a sketch or an icon, then utilize the App

    Your iPad can do lots of things, but live TV generally isn’t one of them. With a few exceptions, the TV networks don’t want their programming going out live anywhere but your big screen, under their supervision.     Here’s a start-up that wants to change that: Bamboom says it will let you watch

  There’s nothing better than getting something for free, so long as it’s not stolen of course! Movies for example. We love movies at CMOS Labs, but we love free movies even more. Thanks to our friends over at iPhoneInCanada, we can now watch some free movies on our iPhones too.     To join

Hmm, I replaced the News Paper years ago with my iPod Touch. Then my Tilt 2 with windows mobile. Now of cource its the iPhone and the iPad. Was even doing alot of news updates with my dusty old laptop.  Save the trees, get a Tablet (grin) Kevin From Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily to the

Check some of these out. Bing for iPad Now Available for Download By Oliver Haslam | April 8th, 2011 Microsoft might be working on creating a rival tablet operating system but that hasn’t stopped the boys from Redmond bringing its Bing app to Apple’s iPad. This is the fifth app which has come out of

Apple could ship more than 10 million iPads a quarter for the first time in the spring, part suppliers claimed late Thursday. The company is still on track to ship 6.5 million iPads before April, two to three million of which would be the iPad 2, but would nearly double that in the spring to

Now my iPads resale value just dropped by 150.00. If you check ebay.com They are going for around 350.00     The most important numbers by far at Apple’s special event in San Francisco today were 2 (as in iPad 2) and 4.3 (as in iOS 4.3). But there plenty of others as well, each

I spoke with someone from Anywise Enterprises at CES this past year, and they told me about The Matrix, an iPad app (that’s now out on the App Store) that will network a bunch of iPads together to create a video wall of whatever size you want. We’ve seen this idea custom implemented in art

Amazon.com Widgets Apple is indeed building new iPad 2 models, confirms a report by the Wall Street Journal, noting a list of features previously reported. The report cites “people familiar with the matter” as saying “The new device will be thinner, lighter and will come with a faster processor, more memory and a more powerful

Manufacturing of the second-generation of Apple’s iPad will begin in February according to China’s Commercial Times, says Apple Insider. The same source also claims the iPhone 5 will begin production around May. Commercial Times says February’s iPad production run will be a ‘small pilot’ with production expected to ramp up towards the second half of

Verizon’s announcement that it will begin offering the iPhone next month has left a lot of Android users wondering whether they, too, should jump on the Apple bandwagon. If you’re musically inclined, the answer is probably yes, because apps for musicians are in much shorter supply on Android than on Apple devices. Just look at

Substantiated rumors of the next generation iPad using a vastly higher resolution 2048×1536 display are drawing some to question why the iPad would even need such a dense pixel count, which is much higher than even Apple’s 17 inch MacBook Pro. The answer relates to resolution independence. Understanding why Apple is expected to increase the

Apple’s iOS App Store hit the ground sprinting two-and-a-half years ago, and it hasn’t slowed down. In 2010, programmers unleashed a plethora of high-quality apps for the iPhone and its brand-new big sibling, the iPad. For Apple’s tablet, many of the most impressive apps focused on the reading experience. That’s not surprising, because what better

We have already seen a tool named AirPlayer for Mac OS X which allows you to AirPlay videos from iOS devices to Macs. And now, a similar tool named AirMediaPlayer for Windows has been released which will allow you to stream videos wirelessly from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to your Windows PCs. AirMediaPlayer

Broke your shiny iDevice and had all your stuff on it? Synced your phone to the computer before? iPhone Backup Extractor can rip your backup apart for you! You can retrieve your information with a click of a button. Download it here. It’s a great tool to retrieve everything back! Each and every time you

Image via Wikipedia As they celebrate 2 million downloads, Musicsoft Arts, the creators of DJ Mixer, have released an updated version of the top 10 iPad music app. Packed with a host of new features, DJ Mixer is quite possibly the most true-to-life virtual music app on the market. Image via Wikipedia While the current

Update 1-22-11 I have been using this for some of my gigs for the past month, it works great !!! I have my iPad and a laptop with ext 1 Terabyte HD with all the tunes, and of course all going through wi-fi for streaming and remote controls. Just plug them both into a small

I’ve been working on this project for the past 2 months. For a while, everyone asks whats killing their battery. The only real benchmarks available to people were the iOS Battery meter, and the handful of AppStore (and Cydia) Apps that relied too heavily on UIDevice (thats an SDK term for you non-programming folk), which

Yesterday on the Gillmor Gang, Michael Arrington renewed his request to me to do a guest column for Techcrunch. I have resisted that urge for a while. Why? Well, my blog hasn’t been getting enough of my time lately and doing something for some other media outlet would require me to stretch myself even thinner

This is awesome — a group of musical composers and artists connected up 25 iPads in an installation commissioned by the Environmental Ministry of Japan to create a huge display 25 touchscreens big. Not only do the iPads stream one big image, but they’re also interactive — you can speed the image up or down

So far, the most fun I’ve had reviewing a mobile app is the best way I can think to describe the Victoria’s Secret iPad app – Wait, that came out all wrong (that did too!) Moving right along… The Lowdown: Think of the app as all the extra stuff you wish was in the print

How it works When you activate tracking, Hidden will locate your stolen computer anywhere on the planet, collect photos of the thief and screen shots of the computer in use. (We also collect lots of nerdy network information, but we won’t bore you with the details!) The Hidden team will also help you work with

Written by Dave Walters About twice a week I’m involved in some type of conversation about how we all consume content ­– whether it’s my theories on managing Twitter (a topic for another day), how much network television I watch (not much), or why I love my TEDTalks podcast. The reality is there’s more content

Oh, Internet, is there anything you can’t do? iChatr, a new app for the iPhone, is essentially Chatroulette for the iPhone. It’s pretty barren right now – I saw the same people once or twice – but the quality is pretty good and if you have a Sing-a-ma-jig, you can actually make dour iPhone 4

Feeling the Jailbreak Blues? Why not get access to your file system and access files directly from your finder while you wait for that unnamed Jailbreak Tool. Phone Disk, from the creators of iPhone Explorer (Macropant), will allow you to mount an iPad, iPhone (4), and iPod Touch to USB disk mode on a Mac.