information related to the Apple iPad
There are some amazing things going on in the computer industry these days… as a barometer, if you were to look over the vast majority of the technology press, and its coverage of computers, you might surmise that Apple was the preeminent brand…for years. They sure have been making some leaps in technology, especially when [...]
These two articles sound, at first apprehension, amazing… That is, until you start to think through what they really represent. Of the millions of tablets in use in the continental US…what is the proportion of iPads in this mix…? I would make a wild guess and state that the percentage of iPads in the US [...]
The interactive white board (i.e. smartboards, et.al.) are fine technology, but they have the problem in being in almost every classroom I have ever taught in, and I have never seen them used…There are plenty of ways to describe this white elephant of educational technology…as a waste of money (usually they are several thousand dollars [...]
One thing which continues to fascinate me about the iPad is that there are still emerging ways to use, and to see what this tablet is capable of. At the beginning, the iPad was seen (correctly) as a media consumpti0on device (it works quite well at this!), and was considered to be nearly unusable as [...]
For you new iPad users, the thought of taking this tablet to the level of being a valid and complete PC replacement may be one of the many (little) Holy Grails out there. In the time I have used mine, I have discovered a variety of little tricks in using Safari, and far more importantly, [...]
I have finally found what may be a reasonable personal information-safe for iOS devices (i.e. the iPad and iPhone). PrivateInfo uses real encryption (AES256 bit) and allows you to ‘safe’ most kinds of information (i.e. photos, movies, data, documents, personal information, etc.). While this is not the same thing as having the whole OS encrypted [...]
Last week I covered a couple of the iPad ‘breakout boxes’ which allow users to interface with guitars and real amplifiers, recording gear, midi stuff, and general studio audio gear. Today I have more news on this slowly growing topic area. The fact that the iPad is configurable, to essentially become a wide variety of [...]
I have been looking into the use of tablet computers for several years…All of the major PC manufacturers and software companies have been involved in development work on this platform since the mid 2000’s. Since the iPad is over a year old (in the market), and the iPad 2 is even out…I keep wondering why [...]
I have been trying out a wide variety of iPad and iPhone apps to use as a virtual guitar rig for months now… And while the apps sound far better than most guitarists would expect, they had always fallen short in that there was a tenuous way to connect the iOS audio output to something [...]
If you recall that I have already written about the fact that simple eReaders (like the Kindles and Nooks) may have a rather short lifetime, in that the growing use of tablets (with many more functions and abilities subsumed into this form factor) will ultimately erase them from consideration… at least that was the premise [...]
