Posts Tagged ‘iPad’
Mobile Payment System for iPhone, iPad and Android
Kevin Rose did a video showing the Square iPhone Payment System, so watch this video before I go into more detail about the system.
Alright, thanks Kevin. Awesome review and awesome product. So, being released to the public very soon is the Square Payment System. It allows you to scan credit cards with your iPhone, iPad or Android phone to accept payments from customers.
Engadget reports:
The software is said to be hitting App Stores and Markets this week, working with a sugar cube-sized card reader that pops into the 3.5mm headphone jack, a device that the company is giving away for free to those who sign up. Using it will not be free, with retailers paying fees starting at 2.75 percent plus a 15 cent surcharge, but that’s considerably cheaper than many other options out there (which often require costly hardware to boot).
So, cool little new payment system. Cannot wait to see where it ends up when it’s released.
Jailbroken iPad Comes with Bluetooth?
Are you one of the million people that bought an iPad? If so, I know some of you tried and succeeded at jailbreaking said device. Well, if you have gone that far, you might as well take it a bit further and add some bluetooth mouse support to the thing. Yeah! You can do that! No more touch screen for Mr. Jailbreak, instead use a new shiny Apple mouse to control your iPad. This video explains all. Happy watching:
iPad Hits One Million
Credit: Apple
Apple released a report today officially stating that they have sold one million iPads to date.
In the press release, Apple claimed:
Apple® today announced that it sold its one millionth iPad™ on Friday, just 28 days after its introduction on April 3. iPad users have already downloaded over 12 million apps from the App Store and over 1.5 million ebooks from the new iBookstore.
CEO Steve Jobs even had a few words to say about the companies achievement:
“One million iPads in 28 days—that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Demand continues to exceed supply and we’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.”
That’s swell, over one million iPads sold to date. Congrats Apple, on making more money than ever, and keeping products coming out to the public.
Been living in a cave? Don’t know what the iPad is? Apple included a statement in the release telling you what it is exactly.
iPad allows users to connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. Users can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, all using iPad’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ user interface. iPad is 0.5 inches thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds—thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook—and delivers up to 10 hours of battery life.
Apple is also touting their developers and applications:
Developers have created over 5,000 exciting new apps for iPad that take advantage of its Multi-Touch user interface, large screen and high-quality graphics. iPad will run almost all of the more than 200,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®.
Again, congrats to Apple for reaching this achievement, and they will most likely see more success in the future. Do you have one of those one million iPad’s yet?!
XP on an iPad
So, I posted earlier about Windows 95 running virtually on an iPad. There is now a way to get XP to run on an iPad. Albeit, it is also very virtual, it is still cool to see the computing power of an iPad. Check it out.
iPad Printing
So, you need to print from your iPad, hmmm?
Try this out for size.
I think if you have a high enough quality printer, this could potentially work. I’d hate to be the one to have to trim all the black edges off of the pages printed. Then, in the end you would not have a normal 8.5 by 11 printed paper, so would you re-copy the copy and make it a full page? In the words of those Tootsie Pop commercials: the world may never know.
Credit: Engadget
New Digg Content
As stated in other blog posts on tylersmiller.com and elsewhere on the Internet, previous CEO of Digg.com, Jay Adelson, has moved on to newer and better things. Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, has taken the acting role of CEO for the time being. He had the following to say in a a recent episode of Diggnation:
TechCrunch reports:
He didn’t talk much about the new version of Digg, now massively behind schedule and getting more so every day. Please, Kevin, accept my invitation to sit down with us on video to talk about the future of Digg. It was just about a year ago that we talked about Digg’s serious plans to get back in the game. iPad apps are great, but there has to be more to the plan than that.
I cannot wait to see what the new Digg v4 looks and acts like, and I cannot wait to see if Rose will stay on as full-time CEO or who will be brought to the table to take over the news media company.
iPad Runs Windows 95
The iPad now comes with a dual boot option! The iPad OS and Windows 95!
Check it out!
Oh, forgot to say its emulated!
iPad Vest
If you’ve been following my blog posts, you should have figured out that I don’t like the iPad for numerous reasons. But I still plan on passing along news related to the iPad. And this goes under iPad news. Scottevest has come out with an iPad vest.
Mashable reports:
Enter Scottevest, the company known for gadget-friendly clothing, and their SeV Travel Vest, which is now compatible with the iPad. When we say “compatible”, we really mean “it has one humongous inside pocket for the iPad”, but that’s what you’re really looking for, right?
Credit: Mashable / Scottevest
Want a vest for you iPad…have 100 bucks to send down the hole? What other iPad accessories or components are coming out? Think any of them are cool or worth it?
Original Post: Mashable
Facebook Connect comes to iTunes
It has been rumored that Facebook Connect, the global tool Facebook created to connect your websites and services to the biggest social network in the world. It allows you to share information and recent activity from other services onto Facebook to alert all friends what you are doing. Putting this in iTunes would allow you to share recent purchases, reviews and other things you do with your iTunes account and program. This rumor can almost be confirmed because in recent months, Apple has begun moving their services to Facebook Fan Pages. iTunes and the company have pages and offer a built in iTunes store to browse recommendations and featured items. So, this only seems like the right move for Apple to combine their popular iPod and iPhone program with the largest social network. Facebook now has over 400,000 million users worldwide.
TechCrunch reports:
To be clear, you can already share songs on iTunes using both Facebook and Twitter (the feature was introduced last September). It sounds like this integration would make this easier, and there’s obviously the possibly for Apple to leverage Facebook’s social graph in much more interesting ways in the future.
Facebook Connect is coming to iTunes if you like it or not. The world is now revolving around Facebook and it’s popular Connect feature. You will continue to see Facebook Connect being integrated into more websites across the Internet and you can expect Facebook to keep getting a bad rap for keeping and analyzing user information and data like other powerhouse Google.
iPad Internals Released
Ars Technica writes:
The Federal Communications Commission beat iFixit to the punch in publishing the first iPad take-apart photos, although the Commission did have an unfair advantage since it got pre-launch access to the device for its usual RF testing. The photos do give a first look at the iPad’s laser sculpted aluminum casing as well as a little detail about how the hardware is put together.
What’s not surprising is that most of the internal volume us taken up by two large Li-Ion batteries. The logic board is tiny and appears to be not much bigger than an iPhone. All of the internal components are jammed in there good and tight, as one might imagine. But what’s most surprising is that there is actually a good amount of empty space inside.
FCC Images:
Credit: FCC
Credit: FCC and iFixit
Did you get an iPad? Do you like it? Think it’s all hype?
Who Got an iPad?
Short blog post:
I think the iPad is not worth the money. I think the iPad is an over-sized iPod Touch and iPhone and not something I should invest in. Can anyone change my mind?
Did you get an iPad? If so, what are going to be your main uses for it? Any bad experiences thus far? How long did you wait in line? Did you catch Steve Jobs at an Apple store?
So, post your reactions to the iPad…do you like the concept or think it is just hype? I look forward to your comments.
-Tyler