Despite the iPhone 4 features a gorgeous Retina Display and all new industrial design, people keep on wanting to buy iPads. They don’t care for a major refresh of the device coming next year, they want one - and they want it now.
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iPad Orders: 2 Million Units in July
Beyonce Portrait Painted with Brushes for iPad [Video]
Remember the most impressive Brushes speed painting you’ve ever seen? Well, this one is pretty good too. Kyle Lambert, the author, says:
“My artwork combines traditional painting techniques with cutting edge technology to produce rich, realistic portraits and character based concepts and designs. The iPad expands the possibilities for artists like myself to take digital artwork creation away from the computer and out into the world.”
[via iPadevice]
My Newspaper: Your Own Google Reader Newsstand
So, reading on the iPad. The iPad is the perfect device to read, and we said it many times before. You’ve probably grown tired of hearing this story. The thing is, the device is so young and the opportunities in the App Store so big we can’t help but telling this story every time a new app comes out. And if the app is about catching up with news posted on your favorite blogs, I think you can understand us.
My Newspaper offers a new, fresh take on Google Reader, tailored to users who don’t need to refresh G. Reader every 2 minutes but want to sit down and enjoy some good content instead.
PadSync: Your Central Hub for iPad & iPhone Sync
The iPad introduced support for document sync across your computer and apps on the device using iTunes as a platform to communicate between databases (Pages, Numbers, GoodReader etc.) and the files on your computer. The process is slow and very un-Apple in my opinion, considering that you have to plug in the device, fire up iTunes (which is slow), wait for an initial sync, move to the Apps tab, choose the app, drag & drop and then sync again.
Also, there’s no sync between documents: iTunes doesn’t automatically replace files on your Mac with the you edited on your iPad, it just copies them. You can’t carry along the same document and hope for some kind of sync, though that would be great and it’s certainly coming to MobileMe or iWork.com sometimes in the future.
So, we’re stuck with drag & drop in iTunes. Fortunately for us, there are some 3rd party applications that are coming out and promise to change the way you move documents between your desktop and tablet (and iPhone, too) and today I’m taking a look at one of them, PadSync.
Reading Speeds - Is the iPad Really Faster than Printed Books?
Answer: no, but the result is interesting. Basically, the guys over at UseIt wanted to see if tablets really come with faster reading speeds than printed books.
Is the iBooks or Kindle experience really more engaging than old paper?
Retro Apple Logo Decal for iPad
Flash Is Coming to the iPad - As “Frash”, Jailbreak Only
Apple doesn’t want Flash on its devices, and I believe them when they say that it kills performances on mobile devices. And as much as Adobe likes to complain, they didn’t ship an official mobile version of Flash until a few weeks ago, when Android devices got their first version of Adobe’s platform. Still, some developers are working on a port of the Android version for the iPad.
Solace - Composed on iPad, Shot on iPhone 4
Rana Sobhany has been experimenting with custom iPad DJ setups for quite a while now. But with the iPhone 4, she decided to take this a step further, and composed a song on the iPad using AKAI’s Synthstation and SoundTrend’s Looptastic. The music video was shot on an iPhone 4, the same day it came out.
The result is quite impressive in my opinion, and I look forward to the next video.
Movies Now HD: Beautiful, Useful - I Wish It Worked In Italy
I’m no cinema expert, but I enjoy watching a good movie every once in a while. You know, when you have those 2 hours you don’t what to do with. I also find myself interested in knowing what’s the next big movie coming out, maybe because I’m a sucker for news. I followed the whole Toy Story 3 thing with so much interest I can’t wait for the movie to come out here.
Should someone make an app for that? Box office movies, new trailers - perhaps with the possibility to buy tickets from inside the app? It turns out someone made Movies Now HD.