PadNotes, an upcoming iPad app, offers a very simple, very useful function that the iPad seems to lack: You can type and draw on any PDF. Watch the video and you’ll understand, the possibilities are quite impressive. [9to5Mac]
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It’s not a front-facing camera, but Apple has added something to the iPad since announcing it: A button on the side that locks the screen orientation. Update: Okay, not new, we just figured it was the silent switch in January.
That’s right, you can lie on your side and hold the iPad in any awkward position you want—there is no correct way of holding it, after all, according to Jony Ive—and the screen won’t seizure back and forth between portrait and landscape orientation. I really hope they add this to the next iPhone too. [Apple via Loop Insight]
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You can place your iPad pre-order at the Apple Store now. And if you’re still between a few models, it’s not too late to read our iPad Buyer’s Guide. [Apple]
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Get ready, the iPad craze starts in just two hours. [Apple]
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There are six iPad configurations to choose from and some helpful guides explaining which you should get. We thought we’d keep it simple and explain our feelings in nearly decent haiku.
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There are a lot of iPhone games. Most of them are crap. A significant fraction are good. Few are great. Even fewer are great and original. Like this one might be!
The video you’re seeing above is the opening stage of Sword & Sworcery EP, an iPhone aventure game due out H2 this year. It’s got fantastically atmospheric music, a novel aesthetic, a rare control scheme, and most importantly, some kind of vision. A couple minutes of relatively eventless meandering are enough to hook me, which is rare for iPhone games that, in conceptual terms, tend to aim low.
Like this one! Gameloft’s Zombie Infection looks fine, until you realize that it’s a direct rip-off of Resident Evil 5. The control scheme is the same we’ve seen used in a lot of the company’s other games—some of which are fantastic, by the way—and beyond the promise of a RE5-like gaming experience, and zombies, obviously, I’m seeing the same thing here as I saw with NOVA, or with Gangstar—a commodity game of questionable provenance. It may turn out to be fun, but that’s the most it can really hope for.
Almost invariably, the iPhone games I love are the true originals, like Zen Bound or Noby Noby Boy or Spider. It’s impossible to say if Sword & Sworcery will be one of those games, but it’s clear that the developers’ hearts are in the right place, which counts for a lot. [Touch Arcade]
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If you just can’t wait to buy an iPad, or rather, can’t wait to reserve your slot to buy an iPad, you may be getting up early tomorrow: Pre-orders start at 8:30am EST Friday. That’s 5:30am, Pacific.
Tomorrow’s crack-o-dawn getup will save you a spot for either a Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi+3G-equipped model, on their respective release dates of April 3rd and “Late April.” If you pre-order through your local store over the phone, you can reasonably expect to get your iPad day of launch; of you pre-order through Apple’s website, which may be the only option for West Coasters, they’ll ship it on launch day, but no earlier. (Though I suspect stores will have a set-aside number of units for pre-order anyway, so don’t worry about peeling yourself out bed before your locals are open.)
So, who’s gonna take the dive? [LoopInSight]
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I like my gadgets how I like my twilight swimming: naked. Cases, like bathing suits, usually just get in the way. But the ModulR case is a little different, letting you mount, strap, or kickstand your iPad in different positions.
A lot has been written about how you’re supposed to use the iPad, but the question of where you’re going to use it seems to me just as important. The ModulR case’s answer? Anywhere.
The unique case be attached to different accessories, letting you mount the iPad in the kitchen as a visible, virutal cooking assistant or strap it to a headrest for road trip entertainment.
It’s not the prettiest way to dress up your iPad, sure, but if you’re one of those people who is all about function, form be damned, this case will squeeze every last drop of it out of your new tablet. No price yet but the Modulr will be available this summer. [Modulr] via [Geeky Gadgets]
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