It’s not a secret that Google has been slow in seizing the surge in the tablet market. We’re nearly midway through the year, and the only real Android iPad competitor is still the Motorola Xoom (though there are still some high hopes for Q3!). With Google’s IO developer conference starting yesterday in San Francisco, they’ve essentially laid down their tablet strategy for the next year, and it almost appears that … Read More

The iPad 2 comes equipped with a pretty weak camera. It can take 720 HD videos, but pictures are limited to VGA stills. When people use the iPad as a camera, it just looks…weird.

Case in point, check out the following picture taken by @axyprang, a screenshot from his TV. It’s a fan at a Canucks game armed with an iPad 2. I think I now know why Apple didn’t include … Read More

Adobe has released three new iPad apps that are all in some respect companions to Adobe’s latest CS suite 5.5. The three new apps are Adobe Color Lava, Adobe Eazel, and Adobe Nav.

Adobe Eazel

Eazel, unlike the other two apps, can be its own fully featured painting app and not completely require CS 5.5. The app features a unique tool interface with both “wet” and “dry” paint properties that may be … Read More

Just a minor makeover to our logo, folks. Thanks to Devon from Epik Creative for helping us out. If you’re looking for the complete solution for web design, print design, and branding–check it out here.

Also, special thanks to RoryPiper for designing our original logo.

Gameloft, one of my favourite iOS developers has just announced a nice 99 cent sale! Check out the following list of games on sale:

On iPad:

Let’s Golf! HD
Let’s Golf! 2 HD
Real Football 2011 HD
Eternal Legacy HD
Splinter Cell Conviction HD
James Cameron’s Avatar

On iPhone:

The Settlers

On Mac:

Let’s Golf! 2

The Let’s Golf! series is a tonne of fun … Read More

YouTube announced today they now support a movie rental service–but it’s only available in the USA. They have partnered with Universal, Sony Pictures and Warner Brothers to offer rentals for $2.99/$3.99 that will last 30 days.

Canada and the rest of the world has been left out, but you can bet this will change in the future. Part of this announcement also made www.YouTube.com/movies go live, and for Canadians you … Read More

A report by The Sun states that Queen Elizabeth wants an iPad, and has ordered her staff to acquire one after being dazzled by the device. Her grandsons Prince William and Harry showed her how easy it was to use an iPad at Buckingham Palace–now she wants her own.

According to a royal insider:

“The Queen hadn’t seen anything like the iPad before. She was very impressed…She was particularly taken with how … Read More

If you’ve been waiting to update your jailbroken iPad to iOS 4.3.3, you can do so as PwnageTool and redsn0w recently were updated for the latest firmware. If you’re familiar with jailbreaking iOS, doing so on your iPad should be no different.

The steps to jailbreak with redsn0w would be as follows (in a nutshell; also check out this post for step by step):

1. Download iOS 4.3.3 for iPad. … Read More

This morning, the Dev Team released updates for PwnageTool and redsn0w.

The new updates enable users to jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 on the following devices: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 (GSM), iPod touch 3G, iPod touch 4G, iPad1 and AppleTV 2G (v4.3;8F202).

Missing from the list, again, is the iPad 2.

The Dev Team posted the following iPad 2 update this morning:

The iPad2 jailbreak remains under development. As you may know, the original … Read More

After a small delay in March, it seems that the Playboy app for iPad will now be available on May 18 2011. The news comes via Twitter where Hugh Hefner has posted the release information:

“Playboy wil be available on iPad, complete & uncensored, on May 18.”

Based on the tweet, the Playboy iPad app will be released without any censorship, but that does not matter since we read Playboy for the … Read More