Early reviews of the iPad have been extremely positive and there is no doubt that Apple's new tablet device shall exceed our expectations when it launches in a few more hours.
As it has been oft-quoted, book lovers are among the most targeted customers for the iPad and it will be interesting to see how Apple's iBookstore fares in this regard considering Amazon already holds a significant market share with its Kindle eReader and is also launching a Kindle app for the iPad.
Winterboard, the jailbreak iPhone app that allows users to change the look and feel of their iPhone has recently been updated.
WinterBoard 0.9.3156-1 is now available in Settings. It also fixes the issues observed in iPhone OS 3.1 or later, and can "iPhone-optimize" PNG's using pincrush thanks to help from dhowett.
FCC has posted number of photos of Apple’s iPad, which shows its internals.
The photos have revealed some interesting details after folks at iFixit removed the PDF layer obscuring the part manufacturer information.
According to folks at iFixit, Apple had requested FCC to keep the information confidential until August 17.
Google has announced that it has optimized applications for the iPad to take advantage of its large display.
Google has released an experimental user interface for Gmail for the iPad, which is built on the Gmail for mobile HTML 5 web app that they had launched for the iPhone.
We are just a few hours away from the launch of the iPad.
We are already seeing iPad Apps on the App Store as Apple gets ready to bring the much awaited device to its users.
Apple has also released the iBooks application for iPad, which it had showcased during the special event to unveil its latest creation on January 27.
Electronic Arts, the developer of many popular gaming applications for the iPhone as well as other platforms has announced a Spring Sale on close to 24 of their iPhone games.
The sale that has been announced for the Easter weekend and lasts till April 5.
Apple’s iPad will be only available on Saturday, but thousands of iPad apps are already available on the US App Store.
Users can purchase and download the iPad apps, but obviously they will need to wait to get their iPad to use them.
If you download the iPad apps then in iTunes they'll appear in a separate section of the "Apps" pane just below iPhone and iPod Touch apps.
In October last year, Wolfram Alpha, the much publicized computational knowledge engine released their iPhone application. One of the significant aspects about the app was its price – an astounding $50. Back then, the company had explained that the application was an appropriate substitute for a $100 graphing calculator and thus was attractively priced.
Apple's embargo on publications seeded with pre-release units of the iPad ended yesterday and we are now getting to hear early reviews from these publications.
Most of the reviews have been positive about the iPad experience though many have also noted the absence of features such as multi-tasking and Adobe Flash.
The iPad launches in the US this weekend amidst a lot of hype and expectation.
Though the exact launch date for other countries has not yet been announced, there are speculations that it could be around April 24th. In a recently published report, iPadInCanada claims that Apple Store staff in the country have been informed that the 24th of this month has been marked as a "black out period", which means employees cannot book the day off.
