Sometimes it's the simplest ideas that are the most useful, like adapting Apple's iPad Smart Cover so that it can be used to prop up your tablet in a more flexible range of positions. Smarter Stand for iPad, currently $2,000 shy of its $10k Kickstarter goal, consists of a pair of sliding clips that together brace the flexible ribs of Apple's own iPad Smart Cover, meaning it can support the tablet at an angle midway between the existing two extremes.
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Brookstone iConvert Scanner for iPad Review
When it comes to scanners, there certainly are some much higher quality solutions than Brookstone’s iCovert Scanner – but none of them are as nearly as entertaining. This device works with the iPad, iPad 2, and iPad 3, and is able to scan documents in what’s certainly a small package compared to the bulk of the stay-at-home scanners on the market today. You’ll bust this Brookstone device out, plug it in to the wall, dock your iPad, and start scanning with the free iConvert app – all of your images go directly to your iPad Camera roll at 300 dpi.
iOS 6 signals Apple legacy device drop-off
For those of you that did not know, iOS 6 was revealed this week at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference 2012, and with it came news that several older model mobile devices, including the original iPad, would no longer be getting updates past version 5. Included in the update to Apple's latest mobile operating system are the iPhone 3GS, 4, and 4S, iPod touch models older than the 4th generation, and the iPad 2 and 3. Everything older than this will more than likely have service updates if bugs arise in the future with iOS 5, but they will not be traveling up unto the 6th iteration of Apple's mobile environment.
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Apple details iOS 6 limits: no FaceTime 3G for iPhone 3GS/4
Apple couldn't resist a brief jibe at Android over how many users have Ice Cream Sandwich, but the company has quietly admitted that while iPhone 3GS and 4 owners will get iOS 6, they won't get all the features. In the freshly posted small-print on the iOS 6 preview page, Apple confirmed that much-anticipated functionality like FaceTime over cellular would be limited to the iPhone 4S and new iPad, while 3GS owners would also miss out on Shared Photo Streams.
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Apple WWDC 2012 Keynote Round-Up
Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference 2012 has started off with a bang with no less than a brand new MacBook Pro 2012 line with Retina display, iOS 6, and several secret updates to hardware now live in the Apple Store online. This event has released a whole wave of updates in the Apple universe and to help you keep them all straight, we’ve got a guide which lies here below. This guide will show you what you’ll be getting on your current-wave hardware for software upgrades and will also inform you on what it will mean to upgrade to the newest hardware this summer!
iPad Smart Case revealed by Apple
An upgrade to the current Apple-made protection for the iPad has been revealed alongside the rest of the much bigger-ticket announcements at WWDC 2012. This case fits around the entire back of your iPad 3 or iPad 2 and will provide the smart cover fold-over you've grown to love as well. This case is made of polyurethane and will at first come in six different colors for $49.99.
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Passbook app revealed at WWDC 2012
The iPhone will soon be getting a much easier way to keep track of all of your mobile-based passes, be then movie passes, airplane tickets, or Apple store receipts, with an app called Passbook. This application will work with brands such as Target, Major League Baseball, United Airlines, Amtrak, Starbucks, and Fandango for movie tickets right out of the box. Apple made the application seem very possibly game-changing (or not?) with the following: "Is Apple answering a question no one asked with this one? Possibly. Or this will change you life."
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Siri coming to iPad 3 this summer
Amongst the many wild and rapid-fire announcements made by Apple today at WWDC 2012 came not only news that iOS 6 was coming to most legacy mobile devices, but that Siri was coming to The New iPad as well. This is the iPad 3rd generation aka the iPad 3 and the iPad with Retina display, and with the upgrade to iOS 6 we'll see Siri as well. This upgrade will come to both 4G LTE models of the tablet as well as wi-fi models.
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Apple Free App of the Week explodes with Monsters Ate My Condo
If you've never played the Cartoon Network / Adult Swim app for iPhone and iPad called Monsters Ate My Condo, you probably either haven't heard of it - or your prone to seizures. Apple this week has decided to grand this application the honor of being the iTunes free app of the week, and without a doubt this is a deal you should partake in - if only to test the limits of your device's display. We've also reviewed this application in full for your pleasure several weeks ago, so let's have another peek at it today!
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Apple agrees to $2.2m iPad 4G fine
Apple has agreed to a AU$2.25m ($2.2m) fine in Australia over allegedly misleading new iPad buyers over the tablet's 4G compatibility, though the judge presiding the case could still increase that amount. Both Apple and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission asked Justice Bromberg to approve the fine, the Sydney Morning Herald reports, but the judge is demanding confidential iPad sales information and details of Apple's finances before he agrees.
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Google Maps preempts Apple Maps with 3D Tour Guide
This week at Google Maps' Next Dimension special event we got to see how powerful Google's world of mapping has really become with a full 3D vision of the world in a much more visually pleasing way than we've ever seen before. This talk started with a brief history of the 3D world, starting all the way back in 2003 when the 3D vision was nothing more than a whisper, while 2008 started with a bang with some "3D" images with flat, nearly-real images for arial views. This new version of Google Maps has airplanes capturing Oblique Images as captured from several sides as the plans overhead - this is just the first step.
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ChangeWave shows iPad dominating steady tablet market
This month the analysts at ChangeWave are reporting that the tablet market as a whole is growing steadily as of this May, with the iPad continuing to show undeniable dominance over its competitors. The only two tablets shown to be grabbing a market share worth mentioning in this study were the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Samsung Galaxy Tab, with ChangeWave noting that Samsung is growing while Amazon falls. This study shows that tablet demand as of May of this year continues to grow steadily, with 7% of respondents saying they were planning on purchasing a tablet in the next 90 days.
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