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Found Footage: Alphasmart Neo doubles as iPad USB keyboard

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When it comes to unexpected functionality on Apple devices, the current leader is the iPad's Camera Connection Kit. The USB adapter dongle has been found to work with plenty of unsupported peripherals, from...

Friday giveaway: Get your calculator back on with Digits for iPad

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If you divvy up the universe of iPad hands-on coverage over the past month, there's a reasonable midline with "Here's all I was able to do with it" on one side, and "Here are the things it doesn't do, isn't that...

Road Tested: Hard Candy’s Bubble Sleeve for iPad

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When we visited with Tim Hickman from Hard Candy at Macworld Expo, he told us how they worked to get their cases ready for production without access to actual iPads for sizing and fit. For the past few weeks, I've...

Amazon shopping app for iPad launches

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If your actual iPad purchase hasn't drained your debit card down to the red-alert level, Amazon has your back: the web retail giant has announced that the Amazon Mobile app is now fully updated for iPad, and...

iPad international availability set for May 28

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In a press release this morning, Apple announced that the iPad will be available in nine additional countries starting on May 28, with preorders beginning on May 10 as previously scheduled. Customers in the new iNations (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy,...

EMC exec sees iPad taking over… his house

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When I wrote last month about the pleasures and perils of sharing an iPad with your spouse, I didn't really grapple with the meta-challenge of a houseful of technophiles, all clamoring for their turn at bat. While there's already some...

iBan lifted in Israel, personal imports of iPads now permitted

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That didn't take long. After complaints from would-be iPad users, and subsequent Wi-Fi testing, Israel's Ministry of Communications has now declared the iPad to be safe and sane for use there. Last week's ban, which resulted in some...

Peace in the home: Sharing an iPad with your spouse

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I'm sure many of you find yourselves in the sometimes-uncomfortable position of alpha geek in your households. It's a lonely perch, with responsibility for every gadget and gizmo under the familial roof; more frustrating, your spouse and children don't share your perfectly...

Smule’s Glee app puts a song in your heart and on your phone

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Enthusiastic fans of Fox's hit teen angst 'n jazz hands show Glee refer to themselves as 'gleeks,' a portmanteau of glee and geek. It's a sure bet that the gleeks will...

Israel blocks iPad imports over Wi-Fi concerns

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Israelis had to wait a long time for the local launch of the iPhone; it was late last year before the country's three cell carriers began selling it, and some estimates indicated more than 80,000 unlocked phones were already in...

TUAW Faceoff: Streaming video on the iPad with Air Video and StreamToMe

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In the few days that I've had an iPad, I've found a favorite way to demo it for friends, family, and people I stop at random in the hallways: fire up the Netflix app and start...

“Wait Wait” goes after the iPad

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We love Peter Sagal and the gang, but they certainly jumped ugly with the iPad on this week's episode of NPR's quiz show Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me. In a segment of fake confessions from public...

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