In Case You Missed It: Mar. 28 - April 3
Posted 04/04/2010 at 11:48am
| by J Keirn-Swanson
There's a great scene in Being John Malkovich where John Malkovich himself goes through the portal that lets people temporarily inhabit John Malkovich. What he sees is a world made up of John Malkovich's, and all anyone says is "Malkovich malkovich malkovich malkovich."
That's kind of how iPad release week has been. There's no news this week almost that isn't iPad iPad iPad iPad. So in that vein, get a gander of our nothing but iPad articles from the week that changed everything, the best of Mac|Life's iPadarama.
It's All News:
- iPad Review Round-Up - First, it's the reviews. Early impressions from the big name reviewers were brilliant and positive, and we collected the best.
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iPad Walkthrough - Here's a nice little article that will take you through everything you need to do to get your iPad up and uploaded with all the things you want, all the things you've had on your iPhones forever, but with all the iPad sweetness you are loving right this second.
- 24 Hours of iPad -Join the lucky duckie Mac|Life staffers who spent all day Saturday indoors in states of high anticipation, then lovingly fondling their newest Apple babies.
- Gamers Get Ready, Get Set, Get iPadding - Of course, once you get past all the standard stuff, it's time to get your game on. Developers have been pulling triple shifts to bring these beauties to your hot little hands and we have some highlights.
- Microsoft Not Planning on Releasing Office for the iPad - Yeah, right. Bing is on the iPhone as an app and you're telling us Redmond's gonna pass up this easy revenue stream? Guys, just do what you always do: look at how Apple did iWork for the iPad and copy that.
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iPad Sales Expected to Triple by 2012 -Should have bought Apple stock years ago. If these figures are on target then Apple's going to dominate the tablet market just like they do the mp3 player market.
- FCC iPad Teardown -The iFixit guy thought he had the scoop but it turns out that the bureaucracy of the FCC is leaner, faster, and media savvy themselves. Here's your technically first iPad teardown. Hold us while we sob.
- Load Up Your New iPad with E-Books -- Without Going to the iBookstore - Books isn't the only game in town, a fact nicely handled by Apple choosing the open source EPUB format. That means whoever's got EPUB is open for sweet iPad business. Hope they prepped their servers for this day.
- Apple Details MobileMe on iPad Set Up - Apple hooked you up with details about accessing your MobileMe mail, contacts, calendars, and bookmarks on iPad and, most importantly, using Find My iPad, because you know we're gonna see some light finger stories sooner or later.
- Content Providers Scramble to Produce HTML5 Video - You figure Steve Jobs is like a lot of Apple users, happy to kill Flash if he could get better computer performance. Well content providers are hustling to deliver Flash-free video in favour of HTML5. And not a moment too soon.
Apple Store in downtown San Francisco. The mood was excited, the staff were friendly, and history was again made.
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Wormhole Remote Lets iPad Users Control Their Mac - Nate True, creator of Tap Tap Revenge, is bringing special VPN style access from iPad to home computer. Talk about interactivity. We've got to get ourselves this iPad thing everyone's talking about, no? An can we just say we love the name immensely?
