You’re running out of battery while watching a movie at the park and you need to go home and finish it there. It’s a beautiful day though, why should you go home? You have the right to stay outside. On the other hand, it’s not that parks usually come with wall chargers, so I guess you’d need a different solution, something like…a portable solar panel. Yes, a solar panel to charge your iPad.
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Earlier today we’ve talked about Infinidock, a tweak available in Cydia that lets you put how many icons you want in your iPhone and iPad dock. You can scroll, create pages for dock apps and set a number of apps to have in each page. The developer of this tweak, @chpwn, has developer another cool utility called Infiniboard that allows you to create vertical pages on your home screen.
Great post over at MediaStorm, outlining the best practices for compressing video for the iPad.
I knew all along that the iPad would turn out to be an amazing device, but a blimp controller with integrated cockpit view? No, I didn’t think of that.
The guys over at BreakfastNY.com have created a modified BlimpDuino which is controlled by the iPad’s accelerometer through a custom software which connects to a built in computer. The iPad thus becomes the real controller which also displays what the blimp sees via an attached front camera.
It’s awesome, check out the video after the break.
With all those extra pixels, I think Apple could have done something more with the iPad dock. You can add more icons than the iPhone, but that’s pretty much it. Fortunately ther are some tweaks in Cydia you can download to enhance the functionality of the iPad dock, and today we’re taking a look at Infinidock from @chpwn.
Tokyonian Doug Lerner was incredibly concerned about the state of the Japanese iPad 3G Micro SIMs being locked down in the land of the rising sun. So what better way to vent and express one’s frustration than emailing Steve Jobs himself. Doug wrote,
“But in Japan we won’t have the option to buy an internationally usable iPad 3G. SoftBank has been given exclusive rights to sell the iPhone 3G, and the unlimited data option at about $35/month requires committing to a 2-year contract. There aren’t any no-commitment unlimited contracts like the $30 AT&T plan.”
And Steve Replied.
We’ve seen plenty of articles on how to take your iPhone’s SIM card and cut it down to size for use by the iPad, but what about going the other way around? Fear not people, Hijinks INC has found a hacky (uber geeky) way to make it all work. If you have the guts, click the link below for more information.
It turns out that it’s pretty simple to add media to your .epub iBooks, and by “pretty simple” I mean the HTML5 <video> tag.
