So I have a quick confession. I haven’t synced my iPad since the beginning of the year. In fact, I’ve synced neither my iPad nor my iPhone to iTunes in nearly two months. This should come as a shock to most veteran iOS users who, even a year ago, found it crucial to sync daily for any number of reasons – device backup, music and photo transfer, app updates or … Read More

Yup. The holiday shipping deadline has passed and you’ve found yourself still without gifts for your favourite iPad owner. Or, if you’re like me, you just abhor standing in long lines in crowded malls. Whatever your reason for neglecting holiday shopping this year (again), let me come to the rescue and give you a few last minute iPad gift ideas that won’t force you standing in line, nor would it … Read More

Cloud services aren’t really that new to the iPad. In fact, many of what we call cloud services have been on the iPad from its launch date including Evernote and DropBox, not to mention web-based mail services like GMail, MobileMe and MS Exchange. Even productivity suites such as Office, Google Docs and iWorks have an online and iPad presence (albeit on a crippled and much less used basis).

So why is … Read More

This afternoon, Apple released a minor update to iTunes 10. The new iTunes is now version 10.2.2 and is available on a PC/Mac via Apple Software Update or from Apple’s website.

iTunes 10.2.2

The new iTunes 10.2.2 update brings some bug fixes focused on iPad but no other major feature updates or enhancements.

The update lists the following bug fixes:

• Addresses an issue where iTunes may become unresponsive when syncing an iPad.
• Resolves … Read More

Well, Canadian Thanksgiving is this week-end and I decided to have a quick look at what applications are available in the iTunes App Store for this holiday.

Please note that I have not tried any of the applications below and some of them are designed for the iPhone although they should run on the iPad as well.

Thanksgiving (0.99$)

For creating electronic Greeting Cards with among others some Thanksgiving themed ones.

Thanksgiving Crafts (2.99$)

An … Read More

In the last couple of days, an iTunes survey has been going around that references the ability to instantly watch iTunes Store video content on the iPad. At this time, such a feature is not available.

Since the ability to instantly watch iTunes video content on iPad is not an available feature, it showing up in a survey has raised some interest.

When asked about satisfaction pertaining to iTunes video content … Read More