iOS Devices

This is kinda awesome and a big temptation to Jailbreak the iPad. 

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via iEvolution.ca.    More below

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We’ve seen that the new 15 and 17-inch MacBook Pros are a bit strange about when they decide to turn on their heavy-duty, power-sapping discrete video chips.

For those who don’t think they need discrete graphics for Tweetie, or want to be in full control of what graphics card their MacBook is using, gfxCardStatus by Cody Krieger might be something to consider.  It has a simple menu bar toggle (‘N’ and ‘I’ below) that overides the OSX’s choice of chip.  Engadget says it is a “little bit buggy” so proceed with a “little bit” of caution.

Why can’t we all just get along?

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Gizmodo points us to the artist himself:

I decided to create the same mobile app – a small piano/drum sequencer thing – on 3 mobile platforms: Android, Windows Mobile and iPhone OS. As a developer I didn’t quite succeed: audio latency is a b*tch and building the app from the same source proved to be possible but unusable, so I ended up writing it three times: in java for android, in C# for windows mobile and in Objective-C for iPhone… To play them all at once I just taped them on a piece of wood together with a battery powered speaker. Add lots of audio cables and TADAAA: a very playable guitar shaped instrument that makes a hell of a noise… I added Pocket Stompbox, a virtual amp with lots of great real time effects and of course the FANTASTIC iShred app from Frontierdesign.

Some fact, some speculation, but as Apple delivers its million-selling iPad to international audiences (at a premium price), we’re seeing broadcasters embracing HTML5 as that Apple TV ‘hobby’ looks ever more like a secret fourth weapon in Apple’s future business strategy.

Interesting chart of the day from SAI today.  With all of those iPhone and iPad ads everywhere, you’d think Apple would be outspending  everyone in the tech space.  However, it appears that Microsoft has spent more than double Apple’s budget in 2009 ” across print, online, radio, tv, and outdoor.”

It is also interesting to note that Google is spending almost nothing ($11 mil?!) in advertising. Perhaps it gives itself good rates on Adsense.

Anthony Soohoo, senior vice president and general manager of CBS Interactive tells us that by the start of the fall season the network will have all the same video available for iPad that is available on CBS.com.

The company is making its video available as a website and intends making video available as HTML5. There

Orange claims the prize for being the first UK operator to confirm its iPad 3G data access prices this afternoon, with similar deals from O2 and Vodafone expected.

Orange today announced that it is extending its partnership with Apple to offer new iPad plans for customers in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Switzerland. The partnership between Orange and Apple, which has already seen iPhone launch with Orange in 30 countries across Europe, Middle East and Africa, will extend later in 2010 with the launch of iPad in additional Orange markets.

The company will offer 3G data plans for iPad Wi-Fi + 3G, from 10 May, and will launch a pre-registration site for SIM

iPads are selling out all across the USA as Apple promises to introduce the product to more countries at the end of the month.

But in the US, with over a million sales so far, Apple is running short of the popular device.

Apple retail stores in 13 cities have sold out of all three versions of the iPad 3G, and they don

The next iPhone will not carry an AMOLED display, with Apple opting for an LCD touchscreen as used in current generation iPhones, albeit at a higher resolution than we have right now – at least, that

As much as coolness can be graphed, Fortune says that Apple’s moves over the past few months have cost it some of its cool.  At the moment, 18-34 year olds have a more favorable opinion of Google and Facebook than Apple.  ABC and Nick Bilton discuss the issue on Youtube here.

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From the far more money than sense department: iPad used as a mood light.

Via: Giz

With a little jailbreaking and some SSH’ing, you can get an external USB hard drive to mount on an iPad through the USB camera kit.  While it is a little unwieldy, it shows that Terabytes of external storage is possible, should Apple deem it worthy.  via Engadget

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The US Stock market today had a bit of a wild ride and AAPL certainly didn’t escape its effects. AAPL briefly traded as low as 199.25 before rocketing back up to 246, still nearly 10 points off the opening. 

According to CNBC, the selloff was triggered when a Citigroup trader entered a ‘b’ instead of an ‘m’ in selling off Proctor & Gamble shares (see video below).  Can this really happen?

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We can’t decide whether to be surprised or not at the fact that 10% of iPad traffic (and therefore around 10% of iPads) comes from outside the US.  Sure some travelers probably picked one up when they visited the US, and surely a few Canadians traveled a few miles south to the nearest Apple Store, but 10% is a pretty high number.  Then there are the Americans who travel with their iPads.  But still…

One surprising data point is the non-U.S. IP traffic on the iPad that