Category Archives: iPad

Filed under: Internet Tools, iPhone Quickr is a $0.99US iPhone app to take pictures and quickly post them to your Tumblr account. Here’s the simplest explanation I can give for how Quickr lives up to its name:
Steps necessary to take a picture and post…

Filed under: App Store, iPadiNet is incredibly handy. I needed a list of the MAC addresses of all of the devices on my network. It’s a fairly tedious process that requires a lot of copy and pasting and a lot of poking around in network settings. Then, …

Filed under: iPadIf today’s news about Rogers’ rate plans for the iPhone left you feeling a bit cold about your 3G options for an iPad in Canada, perhaps this BoyGeniusReport story will warm you up.

BGR walks you through the steps necessary to make y…

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David Frampton has an interesting idea for how to display non-universal iPhone apps on the iPad: put a black border around them, much like how iPhone apps will display if they are not scaled-up.

I think it’s a brilliant idea. It make…

Filed under: iPad IM+ Lite is now available for iPhone and iPad as a free, ad-supported universal application.

Our full review of IM+ for iPad is in the works and should be appearing shortly, so I’ll just hit some highlights here: With the exception o…

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The Apple Store for Canada is currently showing the above rates for iPad data plans, but before you get too excited, note a few things. First, Rogers’ official iPad page does not yet show any rate plan information. Second, BoyGenius…

Filed under: App StoreWhen I saw Mac developer Fraser Speirs’ Twitter post linking to a blog entry titled “Back In” I knew what it was about: the App Store.

Back in September 2008, Fraser announced he was ceasing new iPhone OS development in a widely…

Filed under: iPadCory Doctorow doesn’t like the iPad because it is laden with DRM. In other news today: water is still wet.

Joel Johnson and John Gruber already took apart one aspect of Cory’s argument, the kid tinkering/creating with his new computer…

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Lots of TUAW readers have written in today, worried about their iPad deliveries. Since they received shipment notices, many folks have been tracking their progress, and are now seeing messages like:

• UPS INTERNAL ACTIVITY.
• SHIPMENT IS HELD TO VERIFY COMMODITY DESCRIPTION WITH THE CUSTOMER FOR CORRECT CLASSIFICATION
• “Your package has experienced an exception”

If you received one of these notices, you are not alone. Apple has taken similar measures in the past to make sure that deliveries do not arrive before the official release date. In fact, Boy Genius Report suggests that Apple is purposefully withholding clearance papers for the iPads to make sure that they are not delivered early.

As anxious as these next few days of waiting will be, and as nerve-racking as it is when this is your iPad, I fully expect that 99.99% of the iPads scheduled for delivery on Saturday will be delivered on Saturday.

We’ve also heard directly from someone who works “for a certain shipping company” who reports that they will have double the number of drivers out in their particular delivery area on Saturday, due to the increased traffic. I would expect that other areas would see similar increases. Nobody who works for a shipping company wants to have to go back to Apple and explain why they couldn’t meet delivery needs.

That being said, the same source does not expect exceptions to be made for areas without Saturday delivery, so you may have to wait until Monday for your iPad to be delivered. Don’t panic — we’re sure UPS will do everything it can to get your iPad to you on time. If you’re not sure about the delivery policy in your area, you may want to contact UPS to verify.

Image via UPS.com. Please note, this man is not actually delivering an iPad. If you see him, do not try to wrest it from his hand.

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Filed under: HumorThere have been no shortage of jokes and sniggers about the “iPad” since it was announced, and it’s getting more and more difficult to tell reality from a Saturday Night Live skit. Just the other day my non-technical wife asked me, in…