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First Lady Doesn't Find iPhone Intuitive: 'How Do You Type On This?'

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This weekend market the White House Correspondents Association, an annual black tie dinner when a large number of political insiders gather to smile politely while a washed-up comic offers up lame impressions of Jimmy Carter. (With the lone exception being that time that Stephen Colbert shot everybody in the face)
During the dreaded run-up [...:]

The iPhone and 'Very Personal Computing'

Jean-Louis Gasseé, gather of the Macintosh II and the BeOS, is a canny thinker and doer in tech. Even though he doesn't quite have the track record of, say, Steve Jobs (by inches), he does know what he's talking about, he guided not one but two great PC platforms, and he's worth listening to when [...:]

Awesome Hack: iPad in an Original Mac

Yes, we have an official replacement for the MacQuarium as the best use for a 25-year-old Mac: Cut a slot into it so it can serve as the ultimate past-meets-future iPad stand. Great work from Flickr user Mapgoblin, though you might want to consider washing the front of your old Mac if you decide to [...:]

ABC's App To Add 3G Streaming Video — Report

An update to ABC's iPad app that adds 3G video streaming has already been submitted to the App Store.
The popular app will likely win Apple's approval and will shortly be available as a free download. Since its launch a month ago, ABC's app has been one of the most popular on the iPad, all owing [...:]

CoPilot Live HD, The First iPad GPS App Arrives At The App Store

One of the coolest roles of the 3G iPad has to be as that of navigator. No more squinting at the iPhone's tiny screen while trying to navigate the spaghetti-bowl of the NYC-area highway system; no more ending up in the wrong Springfield because of accidentally tapping in the wrong place.
The relatively inexpensive [...:]

'Iron Man Central' Touches Down On The iPhone

I've been infatuated with Iron Man ever since I was wee — so give me any reason to mention the red and gold-clad champion and I'm as giddy as a mad scientist in a repulsor-equipped, titanium-alloy exoskeleton.
Iron Man Central, a collection of all-things Iron Man, has just come to the iPhone. There's a lot of [...:]

Outdoor Web Surfing On iPad 3G Rocks, But Eats Data Fast

Web surfing on the iPad 3G using its cell connection is really pretty good, especially if you get away from congested urban areas.
Using the iPad over the weekend, I've been pretty impressed by the speed of the iPad 3G for routine Web surfing. Video, however, is another matter -- it's a disappointment.
3G surfing is even OK [...:]

Daily Deals: 16GB iPhone 3G, App Store Freebies, GPS Tracker

We start off another week with a deal on refubished 16GB iPhone 3Gs for $449. Also on tap is the latest batch of App Store freebies, including "Meatball Madness!" memory game and myTracks 2 for Mac, a GPS track management utility and geotagged photo linker.
We'll also check out other bargains, including external batteries for your [...:]

"World of Warcraft" running (well, streaming) on an iPad

What you see here isn't World of Warcraft running natively on the iPad, but rather WoW streamed through the Gaikai online gaming service, which allows you to play games within your browser using HTML5 and their server streaming technology. In other words, it's a thin client.
I imagine this is pretty maddening to play — WoW [...:]

Analyst: 300K 3G iPads Sold First Weekend

Apple sold 300,000 iPad 3G devices during the first weekend the device was available, one analyst estimates. Nearly all stores surveyed – 49 out of 50 – had run out of stock, according to Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster.
Munster's comments about lack of availability of the 3G models coincides with Monday remarks by Apple CEO Steve [...:]