First game for the iPad is Finger Twister. The iPad selects the user to put whatever finger on whatever color on the iPad but the user must keep his fingers on the iPad or else he looses the game. One twist would be to do a timed session, where the user is given only a couple seconds to react.

Next is Monopoly. With the iPhone/iPod Touch support where you can sync the iPhone/iPod Touch to the iPad through WiFi or Bluetooth wherein you can keep track of your expenses, cards and owned land. The iPad takes care of the “banker” role and does the transactions that way and sends it to the appropriate user whoever you’re “renting” to to pass by.

Apples to Apples is next with the same iPhone/iPod Touch support. The “it” person would simply tap the green car in the middle to reveal the word and the rest of the users would simply flick their best cards from their iPhones/iPod Touches. The “it” person would then reveal the cards one at a time and maybe a button to choose which card fits best. One feature could be to have the “it”‘s word card’s definitions float across the screen while everyone’s deciding on which card to use.

Risk would be an awesome iPad game… think about it, shake the iPad to roll the dice, and tap and drag to move your soldiers.

A simple game show game: Deal Or No Deal, Wheel Of Fortune, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, 1 VS 100, Jeopardy, ETC. (with iPhone/iPod Touch support to submit their answers), would also look awesome on the iPad.

You’d think they’ve started making these, huh? I wish to see more games like these that integrate the iDevices features in the future.

So… Is there a game that you would like to see on the iPad?

The Little Tablet That Could

The iPad is truly a revolutionary device. Not that it can replace your desktop computer but that it has completely opened up a new category in portable computing. It’s a companion that could do so much! but depending on the apps that the third party companies make, it could technically replace your computer. Give some of the big companies some time and the iPad might as well be your only computer.

Not that I’m saying that this SHOULD be your computer; it all depends on what you do. There’s a computer for everyone. But this could be your middle-ground from desktop to phone. But for the rest of the people who are simple persons. This is the perfect device for you.

The apps themselves are separate from this review since they are what truly sets this tablet computer apart from other computers. They are why we enjoy this device so much in the first place! They open the window to what it can do; what the iPad is for. The apps themselves are also made to the highest standard – beautiful and functional and all utilizing most of the functions of the iPad.

The iPad gets everything done: with the help of third party apps.

Here are a few of the selling points of the iPad:

1. So, what sets the iPad apart from the iPod Touch/ iPhone? A bigger touch screen.
What’s the biggest selling point of the iPad? A bigger touch screen.
Why should you buy the iPad? It’s a bigger touch screen!

Simply put: the bigger the real estate, the more you can do with a touch screen.

It’s what sets it apart from phones, yet it’s small enough to be carried around compared to a bulky computer/netbook.

2. Why is it better than a netbook? Not only is a netbook not powerful enough or feels like it, it just feels too slow for one to be satisfied to use it as an everyday device. Often programs crash and it loads a lot slower whenever you have multiple softwares running at the same time.

3. Which brings me to this next point. IT IS to the iPad’s advantage that it can only run one app at a time. Too often does the netbook have so many softwares running at the same time that hardly any of the softwares work.
Another thing that the iPad has an advantage over the netbook is of that it’s third party apps are specifically created for its optimal use. Not only is the netbook trying to run a software that it was clearly not designed to run, it most often ends up trying it’s best trying to run that software that the whole system suffers.

4. So, why iPad? It’s more personal. It is a tool that can be exploited in so many ways with the help of, again, third party apps! Third party apps for us all.

With it’s upsides, there’s definitely some downsides. Yeah it doesn’t have flash (the proprietary web plugin that most users use to play games, videos, and some online applications), it doesn’t have a camera – most users rarely use this though it would be nice to have one, it isn’t necessary. We can live without those two.

Although recent reports about the iPad having problems with it’s WiFi and some apps crashing, it is due to it’s just recent release. There’s still some kinks that need to be ironed out.

Some problems that vie had recently were nothing serious just nothing an update couldn’t fix. There is a lot that i haven’t yet covered here but I do feel that the iPad is a revolutionary device.

5. It’s the little tablet that could.

Most, if not many of you have already heard of the magnificent iPad. Steve’s baby – as some may recall.

Here are a couple of tips and tricks I’ve learned while playing with it for a couple hours.

Tip #1: The dock can support up to six (6) apps!

Tip #2: You can mute your iPad by holding down the down volume control button.

Tip #3: Double tapping the space bar will insert a period followed by a space.

Tip #4: You can get rid of the keyboard by tapping the keyboard button on the bottom right corner of the on-screen keyboard.

Tip #5: The iPad can support up to 11 app pages (i.e. the dots at the bottom of the app page.)

Tip #6: Tap the groups ribbon on the Contacs app to filter your contacts by group.

Tip #7: In the Maps app, tap and hold anywhere on the map to drop a pin.

Tip #8: In the iBooks app, you can tap and hold to select a word and when you “Bookmark” it, it actually highlights the words you’ve just selected.

Tip #9: Double-tapping a word selects it.

Tip #10: Let’s say you’ve reordered every app on your iPad and decided that you want to go back to its original state? You can now reset specific parts of your iPad from your Home Screen – resets the built-in apps of your iPad to its original first-page location, reset your network settings – in case you want your iPad to forget every network it was previously connected to including the one you’re in, reset the location warnings, reset your keyboard dictionary and last and finally, to reset all.

Tip #11: If you’ve paired your bluetooth keyboard with your iPad, chances are, you’ll have noticed the on-screen keyboard disappear. Whenever you’re not using your keyboard anymore, and wants to regain the on-screen keyboard, you can always turn the bluetooth keyboard off by holding down the power button for a couple seconds.

If you’ve got new tips and tricks you want to share, by all means post them on the comment section below! Thanks and enjoy your iPad!

To sum it all up, it simply isn’t a simple simplistic router. It has the standard specs – 802.11 b/g/n… a simple router that could and did it.

What sets it apart from everyone is that it’s a powerhouse in one tiny device that even the Apple AirPort Express is a mere fart.

Boasting not one, but FOUR USB ports for easy hard drive, printer and media sharing (yea, you heard me right, MEDIA SHARING! PS3 and XBox fans rejoice!), you get a network hard drive router, print server, media center and more:

• Wireless backup (including Time Machine compatability)
• Hard drive mirroring (with a touch of a button)
• iTunes compatability (so you won’t need to put all your humongous songs in your computer hard drive, you just simply tuck it away inside a portable hard drive. Leaving you with more space for important stuff.)
• Free software – TrendMicro Internet Security, EMC Retrospect Express Backup software, Iomega QuickProtect and MozyHome Online Backup  Service.

• 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
• 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
• Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
• Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

To models:

Wi-Fi model

• Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n)
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology

Wi-Fi + 3G model

• UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
• GSM/EDGE (850, 900,1800, 1900 MHz)
• Data only²
• Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n)
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology

Capacity:

16GB, 32GB, or 64GB flash drive

Sensors:

• Accelerometer
• Ambient light sensor

Battery and Power:

• Built-in 25Whr rechargeable lithium-polymer battery
• Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music
• Charging via power adapter or USB to computer system

Input and Output Ports:

• Dock connector
• 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack
• Built-in speakers
• Microphone
• SIM card tray (Wi-Fi + 3G model only)

iPad Accesories available:

Apple iPad Keyboard Dock

Apple iPad Case

Apple iPad Cord

There you go! Links to come soon!

]]> http://youareageek.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-is-out/feed/ 0 kuruvata Apple iPad Apple iPad Keyboard Dock Apple iPad Case Apple iPad USB Power http://youareageek.com/2010/01/21/apple-earphones-with-remote-and-mic/ http://youareageek.com/2010/01/21/apple-earphones-with-remote-and-mic/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:36:09 +0000 kuruvata http://youareageek.com/?p=460 ]]> Did you know?:

That your Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic not only works with your iPods (recent ones that is…) it also works on your Mac!

With the included headphone auxiliary input on your MacBook/Pro/Air, simply plug in your Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic, and it should recognize the headphones.

The buttons work, and it’s fully functional!!!

The mic works, great sound too!

If figured these out when I couldn’t find my headphones so I plugged in the headphones that came with my 32GB iPod Touch and tried the buttons… surprisingly, they worked! But with no one talking about it, I figured I’d blog about it.

Well, there you go! Try ‘em today!

Among its new features include a “Full HD” 1080p Hi-Def resolution, a Bluray and DVD player (all the things we clamored for before) but now we have it, here I present to you: the NEW Apple TV***:

Featuring Apps from the brand new AppleTV App Store.

(*** DISCLAIMER: This is not an actual product, simply a concept rendering of my idea of a conceptualized Apple TV. Comments and Suggestions welcome. Thank You.)

Sorry to burst your bubbles but these are, unfortunately, MY CONCEPT iPod Touches.

I had the idea on what a colored iPod Touch would look like. These seem to work best. I took a shot and shot for the stars.

Hope you’re drooling on them already… I’m planning on buying another one… even though I have two of them already. But I’ll wait till the one comes out in color AND has a camera.

Here’s a silent commercial I made out of the picture:

Recent reports (which by the way have been proven true already) say that the NEW SD XC will outperform its older generation far better and mightier than the HCs. Simply put, more speed, more capacities. How big, you say? Well, it starts at 32GB (the highest its been in todays market) to a whopping, ground-breaking, breath-taking 2TB !!! YEEESSSHHHH… 2TB!!! You may never have to empty your SD cards EVER AGAIN! Well this might not be much of interest to Photographers, it is most definitely pointing towards the Movie business… simply put, more memory = more movie.

At today’s rate, a 4GB card can record a 720p video for 2 hours… now think what a 2TB card can hold! Only problem they need to solve now is the battery!

SD might be big News enough but you do know it has a sibling, right? The mini SD? Well… heh heh… its getting an upgrade too. Brothers unite! The mini SD Card will as well have the capacities of 32GB – 2TB. Think how many music lovers and cellphone enthusiasts there’ll be when this unravels… I’m guessing that when it’s released, it’ll be of a higher but reasonable price but as the market goes on… i’m pretty sure a terabyte of memory will be a common thing to know.

Today, Apple has, in its hay day, released, yet another, update…

Today, it has revolutionized yet again, its MacBooks. In the process altogether, the Apple has completely wiped out the MacBooks and replaced them with the MacBook Pro line: The 13-inch, the 15.4-inch and the 17-inch. Standardizing its Firewire-800, the SD Card Slot (sacrificing the slot-drive-thing) and also standardizing the “new” batteries on all the macs ones that go up to 8-hours a charge.

The “NEW” iPhone, dubbed, the “iPhone 3G S,” is pretty much the same, only with new features such as: Video Recording; complete with a video editor and capture (all on your iPhone,) a voice-control (which we’ve seen on some apps but not on the native apps themselves), CUT, COPY, AND PASTE! Tethering – a process where you use your iPhone as a modem to connect to the 3G internet using your phone on your MacBook, the keyboard – where you now are able to go to landscape on Notes, Calendar, Safari, Phonebook and Messages! MMS (Multi-Media Messages) – Messages that contain pictures, audio and files, Maps, complete with a compass, and last but not the least, Search, sort of the Spotlight for your iPhone and iPod Touch.

As a new Mac user, I am, therefore irritated with these updates coming in so soon!!! I just bought my 15.4-inch MacBook Pro, 2.66 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 320GB HD; exactly ONE MONTH AGO, today! I WANT THE NEW MACBOOK PROS!!! and the worst thing is that I paid more money to have this rigged up to speed with what I wanted only to find out that the new ones will be $300 less than what I paid for. UGH! Many of the Mac users have been used to this feeling and I for one, have not yet been.

I do have an interesting discovery. While visiting the Apple website in hopes of new updates for my MacBook Pro and my two iPod Touches, I stumbled upon the very word that I have been hoping for was on the iPod Touch… BLUETOOTH. Yes. You heard me. Bluetooth! As it turns out, the NEW iPod Touches already have them… Apple just hasn’t written the code to be able to use it yet. I’m glad I didn’t buy that Apple Headphone with mic and remote! HA!

To wrap things up, Apple, as we all know, is, and always will be, a guessing game. No one knows when things come out, how it will change us all and how agonizingly painful it is to see the prices. Well, that’s it folks! Tune in for more info on more Electronics and entertainments, only from, the one and only, youareageek!