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Year of the iPad 2

Very interesting take. The truth is, generally people want something simple and easy to use. Only we who are "geeks" care about the technical stuff. Many people I assist with tech could never understand or care about processing power or RAM. Doses it work? Is it confusing?  Please, manufacturers, make your engineers think like users, not look down their noses at them.  Year of the iPad 2 The late Steve Jobs called 2011 "the year of the iPad 2″ and almost a year after it was introduced, almost 2 years after the original iPad was introduced, it remains a product selling in the tens of millions with absolutely no competition in sight. And that's a shame because, as a consumer, the one thing I want most is strong, meaningful competition for the iPad. It's become a cliche to say "there's no tablet market, there's only an iPad market", but like most cliches there's more than a little truth to it. Very few people want a tablet. Not...
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OS X Lion Tip - Finder back button

Back | Forward Buttons When using Finder to browse through your folders, sometimes you want to go back several folders to where you started.  Clicking the back button several times works but it is more efficient to press and hold the back button and a list of your history will show... Hold down the back button This will save you some time in your daily workflow.
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Skitch Brings its Easy Image Annotation and Sharing to the iPad

Skitch Brings its Easy Image Annotation and Sharing to the iPad : Skitch not only brings its fancy arrows and other drawing powers to the iPad, but with it brings a built-in camera for quick snapshots, the ability to detect recent screenshots, a built-in web browser for marking up web pages, a built-in map for drawing out directions for your friends, and more. And, it all integrates with Evernote, so you can share a note with your friends or send it straight to your notebook for quick reference later. Hit the link to read more.
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Pages for iPad | In-Depth Review | The Mac Observer

Pages for iPad | In-Depth Review | The Mac Observer : Apple’s iPad is a great device for watching movies and TV shows, listening to music and playing games; and thanks to apps like Pages, it works great as a content creation device, too. Pages for the iPad is a slimmed down version of Apple’s word processor and page layout application, and it works surprisingly well for on-the-go document creation and editing. This is a very good article describing the features of Pages for iPad. I use it more than I thought I would. My wife uses it exclusively now that she has moved to the iPad as her only computing device.
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iOS 5 features gesture-based control panel that replaces hardware buttons

iOS 5 features gesture-based control panel that replaces hardware buttons : " Apple has introduced an upgraded version of the “AssistiveTouch” accessibility feature in beta 3 of iOS 5. The feature takes the previously available custom gesture support to the next level and brings a new control panel. This control panel (as you can see in the video above and images after the break) is an accessibility feature – but also has applications as a replacement for the iPad and iPhone’s hardware buttons. This control panel is activated with a swipe from a user-designated corner of the screen (in apps, the home screen, and the lock screen). Once this new panel is activated, an HUD (heads-up-display) type of menu will appear. From this menu a user can rotate the screen orientation, control the device’s volume, “shake” the device (is an API for developers in applications), lock the display and more. We realize that this is an accessibility-feature, but this is something that can come in handy ...
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