The Kindle itself may have gotten a $139 update that makes it an affordable competitor to the iPad, though we image you may not have an interest in the new e-reader. iPad converts can find the Kindle app on their device with the same material available as its plastic counterpart, and it’s gotten a nice update that can make your reading experience even more pleasurable.
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Kindle for iPad Gets Dictionary Update, Wikipedia & Google
Steve Ballmer Disappointed at iPad Sales
After a decade of selling tablets, Microsoft and supporting PC manufacturers never had a runaway hit as Apple did with the iPad. It must sting a little, and Ballmer is disappointed at the results. His competitor has caught up.
Terminology’s First Two Weeks Sales Figures
Terminology is one of the best reference apps currently avaialable on the iPad: it’s great looking dictionary for the English language, which Cody reviewed a few weeks ago. Since then the app has been doing pretty great in the App Store, but what about actual sales figures?
The developer of Terminology helps us understand the situation.
Cooliris Previews Discover for iPad: Wikipedia In A Magazine
There’s no shortage of applications to access Wikipedia on our iPads, Articles and Wikipanion being those that I can think of right now. Still, the Cooliris team thought that they could make things better, different: pretty much like Flipboard turns your social stream in a magazine, they decided to turn Wikipedia into a magazine.
How Safari on iPad Should Have Been [Concept]
I browse a lot of websites with my iPad. At the end of each day, I sit down, relax and open my favorite websites using Safari. Could Safari on the tablet be better though? Yes. If you look closer, Safari on iPad is pretty similar to the desktop version: you have buttons, a chrome, a standard way of interacting with webpages.
So the Arc90 guys thought about this and came up with a genius concept of how Safari on the iPad should have been like.
Apple Rejecting iPad Subscription Models on the App Store?
If the iPad is supposed to be the future of publishing, you’d expect a subscription based model here or there right? Well apparently not. If you’re curious as to why publications like Wired and Men’s Health sell individual issues at higher than average prices, it’s because they’re unable to adopt a subscription model.
iPad Owners Are “Selfish Elites”
According to a new study the psychological profile of iPad owners can be summed up as “selfish elites” while have-not critics are “independent geeks.”
Consumer research firm MyType conducted the study, in which opinions of 20,000 people were analyzed between March and May. The firm’s conclusion was that iPad owners tend to be wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated and disproportionately interested in business and finance, while they scored terribly in the areas of altruism and kindness. In other words, “selfish elites.”
“As a mainstream, closed-platform device whose major claim to fame is ease of use and sex appeal, the iPad is everything that they are not.”
I’m dying to know how these studies actually work. The more I think about it, the more I picture “experts” trying to extort information from scared iPad users inside Apple’s anechoic chambers.
Apple Sued Because iPad Overheats
You probably shouldn’t be using any electronics if you live in an oven.
DIY Project: Build your own iPad Case
So Amazon is full of leather iPad cases that fail to impress, and you haven’t been able to find anything personal enough to call “yours.” But if you have some bamboo lying around (because everybody has that), an old coat you’re about to throw away, and some carpenter tools and supplies, you can roll your own.