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The iPad 2 Smart Cover Kinda, Sorta Works With the Original iPad
If you really like the iPad 2’s Smart Cover, but are sticking with the original iPad, you can rig together a solution to make the two semi-compatible. Unfortunately, it involves gluing magnets to the side of your iPad. The fit and the latch mechanism seem to work well enough, it still won’t make your iPad … Continued
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Can’t Get an iPad 2? Blame It On Asians
We knew people in Asia were paying people in the US to line up for iPad 2s to ship overseas, but we didn’t know it was this bad. The NY Post says more than half of the 400 people in line at 8 a.m. gave their iPads to a guy in a BMW X5 for … Continued
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NFC Coming to iPhone Thanks to a New Qualcomm Chip, Says New Rumor
More to-ing and fro-ing on the subject of an upcoming iPhone having NFC: the NY Times spoke to two people who claim to have knowledge that it’ll support NFC via a new Qualcomm chip. Unfortunately, they couldn’t confirm if it’ll be included in the iPhone 5, or the next one—though one of them did say … Continued
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Jony Ive: High School Drummer, to Apple Superstar
In a sea of Jobs biographies, it’s a nice change to read about the British-born Jonathan Ive. Who would’ve thought that designing a toilet would lead him to Cupertino, and to Apple’s basement where he spent years toiling away unnoticed before Jobs scooped him up and gave him the opportunity he deserved? The Daily Mail … Continued
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Apple Will Not Be Building Their Largest Store in Grand Central
The rumor that Apple was building their largest retail store in New York’s Grand Central Terminal was always a little odd. Where would it all go? Why there? Aren’t there rules against altering landmarks? In any case, a source close to the MTA has confirmed to BetaBeat that Apple has backed out of its preliminary … Continued
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Some MacBook Pro Thunderbolt Ports Are Messing with Cinema Displays
Some 24-inch and 27-inch Apple Cinema Displays owners are experiencing distracting flicker when connected to a MacBook Pro via the new Thunderbolt port. Proof is in the video, but with all new tech issues, how widespread is this? [Engadget]
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This Week’s Best Apps
In this week’s app roundup: Rainbow 6, miniaturized; your photos, comicified; social video sharing, simplified; the license plate game, reinvented; the music mag, digitized; Instapaper, socialized; Time Warner cable TV, brought to your tablet, and much much more. The week’s best iPhone apps Halftone: Its aim is straightfoward: make your photos look like comics. You … Continued
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Man Uses iPhone 4, iPad 2 And iMovie To Get Breaking News On CNN
Robert Stephens captured a gas main explosion on his iPhone 4, edited it with iMovie on his iPad 2 and uploaded it to iReport. CNN and MSNBC picked up the footage after that. Score for citizen journalism. [YouTube via SlashGear]
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The Octavo for iPad 2 from Pad and Quill
Disguising your iPad as a notebook is a pretty smart idea, aesthetically and logically. Pad and Quill’s beautifully crafted Octavo for iPad 2 updates the notebook case to work with the magnetic features of the iPad 2. This week’s Gizmodo Giveaway brings you the chance to win one of these stunning hand sculpted cases. The … Continued
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Baseball Prospectus App: The Only Fantasy Draft Prep You Need
Baseball Prospectus is one of the more revered texts among fans of sabermetrics and fantasy baseball. It’s not just a compendium of every stat—for every player—you can think of. It’s also the home of the essential PECOTA projection system, a generally reliable way to foresee who’s going to have a monster year and who’s due … Continued
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PopCap’s iOS Games On Sale For Japan
Like other publishing houses, PopCap has discounted their will discount their iOS games this weekend in order to raise money for Japan Earthquake relief. Here are the titles: Bejeweled Bookworm Chuzzle Peggle Plants vs. Zombies Escape Rosecliff Island That last one, Escape Rosecliff Island, might not be on sale. The deals start Saturday. [Kotaku]
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AT&T Tells Jailbroken iPhone Tetherers To Pay Up
You think you’re a real smooth criminal, don’t you, using the Cydia app MyWi to tether your jailbroken iPhone free of charge? Well, it looks like your joy ride might be over. AT&T has apparently been sending MyFi users texts telling them to pay up or fall back: AT&T Free Msg: Did you know tethering … Continued
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Store iPhone Photos In the Dropbox Cloud With the QuickShot App
Snap a pic; upload it to Dropbox. All the usual camera settings and functions are included in the app, but as it uploads to your Dropbox account, you won’t clog up your valuable memory. Multiple photos can be queued up for uploading in the background, so you can get on with other things. While QuickShot … Continued
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Instagallery For iPad Puts Your Instagrams In a Virtual Museum
If Instagram photos are the closest we get to instant iPhone art, then they deserve an equally beautified place to hang. That’s the idea behind Instagallery, an iPad app that lets you view, like, and comment on photos (both your own and your friends’), view them in a slideshow, or automatically sort a set by … Continued