iPad TIPS: How To Embed an iPad in your Car Dash? [video]

The iPad seems to be a perfect device for in cars. It is thin and the screen is bright enough to watch whatever you want and whenever you want. The 3G versions will make realtime information available while driving. But how can I drive and operate the iPad? The following video tutorial explains how you can embed an iPad in the dash of a small Toyota model named Yaris with sound control! This car has a center console in the dash which perfectly fits an brand new Apple iPad. The iPad touchscreen looks HUGE ! in this tiny Toyota. Watch how the guys uses a dremel  to make things fit perfectly.




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iPad TIPS: iNapa Leather Case /w Multi-View Stand for iPad

Now the iPad product is landed, many manufacturers of iPad bags, iPad covers, iPad cases are busy to bring their designs to the market. One of the products we see our readers already pre-ordering is an iNapa Leather case cover with multi-view angle stand. I think it is a nice design. I can imagine people put it  in a stand to watch movies in a good stand angle and if you bring an extra bluetooth Apple Wireless Keyboard, it could be a very comfortable way to type your long emails or blogposts in your car or hotel room.

Technical Details -
Elegant case handmade in high grade Genuine napa leather leather. Unique patented Integrated multi-view angle stand feature - 5 settings. Secure flap to ensure ipad is safe when loaded into the pouch. Available in a range of colors. Viewing angle 20 degrees - 70 degrees. Pre-order by Amazon, available 24th April 2010 for $70.

Product Link Tuff-Luv multi-view Napa Leather case cover for Apple iPad - Black

iPhone TIPS: How To MultiTask With iPhone OS 4 [video]

I found this video on youtube you might interested in. Probably a developer, shows the iPhone OS 4 Beta software , released 3 hours ago, demonstrating the Multitasking feature on a iPhone 3GS. With this new feature you finally can run more than one app at a single time. The jailbreakers among us are already used to this possibility. From this summer, it is supported by Apple. Q: How can I switch between active apps? A Simply press the Home button twice - A sort of extra dock appears, with all active apps in a row. Tap on one to get focus on that app. Q: Which apps are allowed to run in background A: I looks like only Audio-streaming and GPS apps are going to be supported. Like Pandora, Skype and TomTom navigation apps.



video via YouTube user EthanIn1970


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iPhone News: Summary iPhone OS 4 New Features

April 8th 2010 IT&T - With iPhone OS 4, iPhone owners will enjoy over 100 new features that make it easier to interact with apps, manage email, read books, and more. 

iPhone OS 4 Compatibility
iPhone OS 4 will work with iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and the second- and third-generation iPod touch this summer, and with iPad in the fall. Not all features are compatible with all devices. For example, multitasking is available only with iPhone 3GS and the third-generation iPod touch (32GB and 64GB models from late 2009). New features include the following:


Multitasking
Developers will have access to seven multitasking services, which will allow tasks to be performed in the background while preserving performance and battery life. So you’ll be able to make a Voice over IP call while playing a game or checking email, find a restaurant on Urbanspoon while listening to Pandora, and more.


Folders
Organize apps into folders with drag-and-drop simplicity. Get faster access to your favorites and browse and manage up to 2160 apps at once — many more than the current limit of 180 apps.


Even Better Mail
See messages from all your email accounts displayed together in a unified inbox, switch between inboxes more quickly, organize messages by threads, and even open attachments in third-party apps.


iBooks
The best way to browse, buy, and read books on a mobile device. Easily flip through the pages of a book you've downloaded from the iBookstore while listening to your music collection. Browse tens of thousands of books — many of them free — by title, author, or genre. You can even check out reviews and read sample pages before you buy.


Developers
With a rich set of over 1500 new APIs, the iPhone SDK 4 provides developers with a broad range of technologies to enhance the functionality of their iPhone and iPod touch applications. Developers can use these new APIs to make their apps more powerful, more feature rich, and more amazing than before. They can even use new GameKit APIs to develop for Game Center, the social gaming network Apple will launch later this year.


iAd (For Free App Developers)
iAd is a breakthrough mobile advertising platform from Apple. With it, apps can feature rich media ads that combine the emotion of TV with the interactivity of the web. For developers, it means a new, easy-to-implement source of revenue. For advertisers, it creates a new media outlet that offers consumers highly targeted information.


via Apple

iPad News: Secret Part Found After iPad Teardown [funstuff]

Yesterday we reported about iFixit and their iPad tear down action. A lot of the mysteries around the secret part were unveiled. Today some guys did the tear down again with this very unconventional method. We closely analyzed this video and we did discovered a unknown secret compartment in the device. What does it looks like? ;)
video via THISisCaSpEr

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iPad Review: Roundup of Available iPad Reviews

The iPad is available since yesterday morning. Beside our IT&T review there were already reviews published by other blogs. Here’s a roundup of the review verdicts, with links to the originals:

PC Magazine

"Is the iPad a perfect product? No. And the omissions will give the anti-Apple crowd plenty of ammo. Why do I need this extra device that's not a full-fledged laptop? Where's the camera? What about Flash? Um, how about multitasking? These are all valid complaints, but one thing I can say about most Apple products, and certainly the iPad: There may be things it doesn't do, but what it does do, it does remarkably well. Aside from the aforementioned limitations, there isn't a lot else to gripe about.
And to my great surprise, you can actually get real work done with the iPad. There aren't a lot of directly comparable products in this nascent category. We haven't had enough quality time with the competing Fusion Garage JooJoo, but it will be a huge coup if it can match the utility and grace of Apple's first tablet. I'm curious to see who actually buys the iPad, apart from Apple enthusiasts. But I can tell you that when my laptop eventually dies, I'll be getting one."

BoingBoing

"Maybe the most exciting thing about iPad is the apps that aren't here yet. The book-film-game hybrid someone will bust out in a year, redefining the experience of each, and suggesting some new nouns and verbs in the process. Or an augmented reality lens from NASA that lets you hold the thing up to the sky and pinpoint where the ISS is, next to what constellation, read the names and see the faces of the crew members, check how those fuel cells are holding up.
I like it a lot. But it's the things I never knew it made possible — to be revealed or not in the coming months — that will determine whether I love it."

New York Times

"The iPad is so fast and light, the multitouch screen so bright and responsive, the software so easy to navigate, that it really does qualify as a new category of gadget. Some have suggested that it might make a good goof-proof computer for technophobes, the aged and the young; they’re absolutely right.
And the techies are right about another thing: the iPad is not a laptop. It’s not nearly as good for creating stuff. On the other hand, it’s infinitely more convenient for consuming it — books, music, video, photos, Web, e-mail and so on. For most people, manipulating these digital materials directly by touching them is a completely new experience — and a deeply satisfying one. The bottom line is that the iPad has been designed and built by a bunch of perfectionists. If you like the concept, you’ll love the machine. The only question is: Do you like the concept?"

Wall Street Journal

"I did run into some other annoying limitations. For instance, the email program lacks the ability to create local folders or rules for auto-sorting messages, and it doesn’t allow group addressing. The browser lacks tabs. And the Wi-Fi-only version lacks GPS. Also, videophiles may dislike the fact that the iPad’s screen lacks wide-screen dimensions, so you either get black bars above or below wide-screen videos, or, if you choose an option to fill the screen, some of the picture may get cut off.
All in all, however, the iPad is an advance in making more-sophisticated computing possible via a simple touch interface on a slender, light device. Only time will tell if it’s a real challenger to the laptop and netbook."

USA Today

"Apple has pretty much nailed it with this first iPad, though there's certainly room for improvement. Nearly three years after making a splash with the iPhone, Apple has delivered another impressive product that largely lives up to the hype."
Finally, if that all looks like a lot of reading for a product that still has no on-sale date for the UK, PC Magazine has also posted a video review that gives an excellent overview of the iPad in five minutes — well worth a watch.

via mobilecomputermag.co.uk

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iPad Review: First Review And Is the iPad Usable?

by iPhone-tips-tricks.com April 4, 2010 - Life is good. I have a fresh cup of coffee and in front of me, the iPad, a beautiful sealed box. I was lucky to convince my friend to borrow me his brand new iPad so I could play with it the whole night. Can you imagine that he hasn't opened the box just for me? Yep I haven't slept yet! The good thing is that I can write this review and share it. Please keep reading and at the end you may get to know, like me, if you should or should not buy one too.


The unboxing - Believe it or not, Apple did a great job again! The iPad box is so incredible easy to unbox. The box is little bigger in size than then iPad is and several inches deep box. An iPad photo is printed on the front cover of the box. After opening the the cover, I was thrilled! A giant iPhone! One massive glass windows. With one finger, I lifted the iPad. Oh my what is it lightweight. Really it weights nothing! The finish of the material is nice, just like the iPhone and iPod Touch. After lifting the iPad out of the box, I see clean white surface of the box, except just a fingertip in the middle. It is another cover I can easily open with my fingers. Okay, beneath it are the data cable and the power unit. Just the same one you have seen on your iPhone. Looks like the same connector interfaces are used. [also see post 30 second unboxing video]


The form factor - As I said, the iPad is lightweight. It feels lighter than a mini laptop and gives a mor balanced feel than because it is so thin. I could carry that thing the whole day. It is smaller than a legal pad. Wow my finger automatically presses the "Home" button and there it is - a giant multitouch screen like my iPhone - beautiful colors. And I know already how to operate it. Actually my sons were able to operate my first iPhone in 2007 without any instructions, so the iPad is peanuts for them now. Let's surf the internet start mobile Safari, wow it start fast, faster than my iPhone. Swiping web pages is so easy. I can flip the iPad and the screen follows me to landscape or portrait mode. [see post ifixit photo's for all iPad parts and components]


The onscreen  keyboard - Let's order the Pages App  [App store link $9,99] to test the keyboard.  The first keyboard minutes are not finest. some mishits. But after a while it was getting better, faster and at the end I love it. I think the keyboard needs to learn my mishits (I am far from perfect you know:) Actually it feel comfortable to type in landscape mode. 


The performance - I used the words fast several times now. And it is fast for almost all instructions I give. Apple is using a proprietary CPU named 1.00 GHz A4 processor. That seems to paid off well. The iPad boots fast and it runs fast. Intel has invested in mobile CPU technology with the Atom chipset. But I     think the combination of Mac OS X and the A4 CPU is chosen that well, it may have caught or surpassed Intel in mobile CPU technology. I hope these companies will benchmark the real facts soon. One thing is for sure, Apple has it powerful processing technology in the house and with the massive sales forecast of the iPad, it will impact the mobile industry again. Maybe is using one app at the time the key of keeping the CPU fast? That could be the major downside of the iPad. On the other hand, time will tell what users are really missing (or not missing) if you can only run one program at the time.


Office connectivity - The mail app is much easier to use with this big size multitouch screen and big on screen keyboard. It has native Microsoft exchange support. Incredible nice is the Contacts and the Calendar app. The user interface look and feel is 'clean'. No 'feature creeps' like the thousands of bells and whistles in for example Outlook. 


Battery life - Apple iPad specifications says 10 hours. I am sitting here the whole night (6 hours) and I still got 60 percent battery life. Not new for iPhone jail breakers and Mac users, but new for regular iPhone users is the battery percentage indication. The question is: how accurate is it. 61 or 69 percent, what is the difference in the use time left? Is a remaining time not even a better indicator?


150.000 Apps - With a little adjustment the current app store apps for the iPhone and iPad can be easily made available for iPad users. The Microsoft Windows netbooks also has this potential with the thousands of windows apps, but they don't have iTunes and App Store and the brand new iBook store. With this in mind, Apple iPad has an enormous advantage compared to any, I repeat any competitor. [click here to visit them App Store,  iTunes, iBook  store ] 



At $499 for the iPad Wifi version, it looks like Apple has the potential to completely kill the netbook  market this year or at least take a big bite out of it. Back to the question, should I buy one, the answer is yes! I have to give back my friends iPad but in fact I want to keep it.
Written by iPhone-tips-tricks.com
  

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