djay will transform your iPad into a full-fledged DJ system. With it, you can mix your iTunes music library on a turntable, perform live, and record mixes. Or if you want to sit back, relax, and listen to the music, let djay mix your favorite playlist automatically with Automix mode. Here’s a list of the main features djay has to offer:

• Direct access to iTunes music library
• Realistic low-latency turntable interface
• Automix mode with automatic transition control (Fade, Backspin, Reverse, Brake, Random)
• Live Recording (with built–in organizer for recorded performances)
• Seamless AirPlay integration (wirelessly transmit your mix to Apple TV or AirPort Express station)
• Pre–Cueing (with optional headphones adapter)
• BPM analysis with automatic beat and tempo matching
• Full visual waveform with beat–synchronized scrubbing
• High–quality scratching
• Mixer, Tempo and EQ controls
• Pitch–Bend
• Cue Point Trigger
• Fully optimized for iOS 4.2 multitasking and background operation

djay for iPad brings DJ’ing to a whole new level. Bjango’s @marcedwards summed it up best:

djay + AppleTV + AirPlay = Party?

Anyone planning to pick this up? If so, let us know what you think!

Check out the video after the break!

[$19.99 - iTunes link]

[YouTube link]

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If you’re looking for a sleeve case for your iPad, the Incipio underGround Case may be for you. It’s envelope design gives it an urban feel while offering protection for your precious iPad.

The outside is made from a wool/felt textured material and feels great in your hands. The micro-suede inside gives your iPad a scratch-free environment. The sleeve provides a snug fit, so pairing it with another case is likely impossible.

There isn’t much else to say about Incipio underGround case because of it’s simple design – which in this case (no pun intended), is a good thing. If you’re an iPad user who prefers to use the device in it’s naked state, I recommend heading over the TiPb iPad accessory store and checking the Incipio underGround Case out.

Pros

• Nice outer material with good stitching
• Soft, suede inner
• Stylish, urban design

Cons

• Cannot be used with another case

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Last week Apple finally brought iOS 4 — technically iOS 4.2.1 — to the iPad along with multitasking, folders, unified inbox, threaded email, AirPlay, AirPrint, and a slew of other long-demanded features. Apple considered the 4.2.1 update enough to make you feel like you got a whole new iPad.

Well, following up on our original iPad review, we asked a bunch of Smartphone Experts and TiPb editors and writers what they thought of iOS 4.2.1.

Chad Garrett, TiPb.com

iOS 4.2 is a big deal. If you have been using 3.2 for iPad, then the new version updates your iPad with a bunch of new features that make it seem “new”. For starters, the multitasking we have gotten used to on iPhone is now available on iPad as part of the update. Multitasking has really improved my workflow. I do a lot of app switching from email to web, Evernote to Pages and more. Being able to almost instantaneously switch apps is a great productivity enhancer and goes along way towards making the iPad a producing device rather than a consuming one.

The other features such as Folders, AirPlay and AirPrint are very nice bonus items (especially folders), but for me, multitasking makes all the difference in the world on iPad.

There are some snafus like the 256MB sometimes hindering performance with apps, but I take it in stride as overall this is the best mobile OS to date.

Georgia, TiPb.com

I have an issue with the way Apple markets their products. It seems too overdrawn sometimes. Whether it’s the Beatles coming to iTunes being called a day we’ll never forget or iOS 4.2.1 being called a whole new magical iPad, it just sets expectations far too high and leads to disappointment when reality never quite matches up with the distortion field.

I do think iOS 4.2.1 for iPad is great. It increases functionality a lot. Since I already had iOS 4 on my iPhone I was happy to get it on my iPad but also frustrated it took so long to get it. I love multitasking, folders, the integrated inbox, but some of it still feels unfinished. I wish I could delete folders without having to take all the apps out first. I like that I can find in Safari pages but it’s annoying that only one instance of the search term is highlighted at a time, unlike desktop Safari which gets it right.

But overall they did a pretty good job with it.

Ally Kazmucha, TiPb.com

iOS 4.2.1 has brought my iPad to a whole new level of awesomeness. After 4.0 dropped for the iPhone and iPod Touch, I found myself readily using those devices a lot more than my iPad. I’m now back to using my iPad a lot more under iOS 4.2.1. The biggest addition to me would be folders and multitasking. It was much needed and makes the user experience much more enjoyable. I got so used to folders on my iPhone 4 that scrolling through pages and pages of apps on the iPad became daunting. I also found myself double tapping my home button on the iPad expecting a multitasking tray to pop up. Every time it didn’t, I died a little inside. Now that it actually does, my iPad is becoming something I use on a daily basis again instead of something I was only picking up to browse the web casually and play full screen games.

I’m also extremely excited to try out AirPlay and AirPrint. An AppleTV is on my Christmas list and I’m currently looking at purchasing a new wireless printer as our printer died a month or so ago. I hadn’t gotten around to replacing it just yet but AirPrint has made me decide to jump to a wireless model. I’m sure AirPlay will be a feature we will implement quite often in our house. Overall, iOS 4.2.1 was just what the iPad needed to bridge the gap between people calling in a large iPod and it actually being a capable tablet. Hopefully we will see improvements to take the functionality even further on the 2nd iteration of the iPad.

Bla1ze, CrackBerry.com

While many folks are in love with the new Airplay features, it’s never been a concern for me. That said, I’m pleased as punch to finally have real folders on my iPad, as well as multitasking. Overall, some great additions to iOS can be found in 4.2.1 for iPad users but for me it’s still pretty much the same device as before. (nothing wrong with that) Just now, I can keep things better organized.

Kevin Michaluk, Founder of CrackBerry.com

Haven’t updated yet so can’t really comment yet.

[He's waiting on the BlackBerry Playbook - Ed]

Matt Miller, Editor of NokiaExperts.com

When I purchased my iPad on launch day several months ago I thought I was just buying it as a device to test out and use occasionally since it didn’t seem to really fit any need. My iPad is now my constant travel companion and serves in the role of hotel room surfing machine, portable television, airplane seat movie player, gaming machine, and universal ebook reader. I was looking forward to the advantages gained in the iOS 4.2 update and my iPad has turned into an even more useful device with the update.

I find the multitasking/task switching functionality to be a major bonus as I can now jump between Twitter, Safari, Mail, Angry Birds, and more effortlessly. I also had 5 pages of application shortcuts and LOVE having folders that have allowed me to reduce my main home screen to a single page with customized folders.

Many family members are considering the iPad as a Christmas present and some are even thinking of using it as their home computer with basic needs for email, web surfing, and photo viewing. I think the iOS 4.2 update makes this an even easier recommendation.

Rene Ritchie, TiPb.com

iOS 4.2.1 is the grand unification update, the software that brings iPhone, iPod touch, and for the first time, iPad all onto the same version number and at the same time. Yes, it's the one firmware to rule them all.

While it wasn’t critical for Apple to get all devices on the same iOS build, it was increasingly critical to get iPad onto the 4.x branch with multitasking. And the other features. After iPhone 4 with iOS 4 came out iPad went from being magical to being strangely obsolete. It just couldn’t do what we expected it to do, what we’d learned from our iPhone or iPod touch to expect it to do.

My usage of iPad post-iPhone 4 actually went down considerably for that reason. When the first iOS 4.2 beta came out, however, it shot right back up. I’ll never know what would have happened if iOS 4 had come to iPad in June, whether iPhone 4 hardware alone would have wooed me away for a while but I doubt it. You just get used to double clicking the Home Button and looking at a unified inbox and it’s hard to go back.

Now I don’t have to. Now iOS doesn’t have to. Now we’re all moving forward again, in the same direction, hopefully in lock step for a long time to come.

Like I said in the walkthrough:

iOS 4.2 on iPad is a revelation. It's the way iPad is meant to be. That's not to say it's perfect or has every feature on every geek's wish list — it certainly doesn't — but it has enough new functionality to make iPad much more valuable.

Like with iOS 4 on iPhone, multitasking and folders extend the existing UI in a way that gives power users what they need, but keeps casual users either grounded in familiar metaphor, and feature-phone types blissfully unaware it's even there.

AirPrint addresses an important bit of functionality for home and business alike, and AirPlay has the potential to turn the TV video scene upside down.

Sure, non-obtrusive notifications, and glanceable, lock-screen widgets — and hey, AirEasyFileTransfer — would be grand, but iOS 5 beta is only [3] months or so away…

Adam Zeis, CrackBerry.com

I’m not as “seasoned” as other users, but from my perspective I’d say same old same old. While folders definitely add to the organization of things, there not much there in my opinion that keeping apps on separate pages can’t accomplish. I suppose you could say I’m a “low level” iPad user, so I VERY rarely use multitasking and Airplay/print not at all. Multitasking is great for killing apps, but honestly doesn’t offer that much more for me in terms of how I use the device. I’m a simple guy so really just having things work is fine by me. I do like the folders and think they definitely help keep things more organized and where I need them, but I can totally live without them.

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A new song from the late Michael Jackson has hit the net, but the only place you can currently grab the track is on Apple’s Ping social network. The track will be exclusive to Ping for the next week, followed by the subsequent release of his full record on December 14th.

It’s interesting to see the track being made available on Ping before MJ fans can grab it anywhere else. Hopefully this will give Ping a boost, as the social service hasn’t picked up too much traction since its debut in early September.

Any Michael Jackson fans planning on downloading this new tune? Let us know in the comments!

[Mashable]

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Yahoo! has crowned iPhone 4 the number 1 obsession of 2010, and its big brother the iPad number 3. Facebook came in at number 6 and everyones favorite TV show.. .Jersey Shore came in at number 5.

We can’t say that either of these rankings are a huge surprise given the sales numbers. What is a sort of shock is iPhone 4 hitting the top of the list given the early controversy of the lost/stolen prototype, “Antennagate” and occasional blips like “Glassgate”.

Despite all the bumps in the road for Apple and their iPhone 4 launch it has still been the most popular smartphone of the year in terms of sales and reviews and now apparently obsessions.

Are you surprised?

[ Yahoo! News ]

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Interested in Jailbreak or having trouble updating to the latest iOS release and need to put your iPhone or iPad into DFU (Device Firmware Update) mode? Some Jailbreaks don’t do this automatically, you’re often required to do it to downgrade your iOS, and sometimes iTunes gives your errors when trying to update from beta or GM firmware to final release. While DFU mode is straight forward it can also be a little tricky. We’ll go over the steps after the break.

(And yes, we really should have made this for Georgia before last week’s iPhone Live! podcast. Our bad…!)

DFU mode as opposed to Recovery Mode, requires a bit of timing and can take practice so if at first you don’t succeed, don’t be afraid to keep trying.

• Plug your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad into your Mac or Windows PC and make sure iTunes is running.
• Hold down both the Sleep Button (on top of your device) and the Home Button (on the front underneath the screen).
• Keep them both held down from about 10 seconds. (If you see the Apple logo, you’ve held them too long and will need to start again.)
• Let go of the Sleep Button but keep holding the Home Button for about 5 seconds. (If you see the “Plus into iTunes” screen than you held it too long and will need to start again.)
• If the screen stays black, that’s it! Your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad should now be in DFU mode.

At this point your Jailbreak should take over, or iTunes should be showing you an alert saying it’s detected your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and it needs to be restored.

If you’re curious as to the difference between DFU mode and and Recovery Mode, our own Ally Kazmucha explains:

Recovery mode will implement iBoot (basically a portion of the bootloader than runs an integrity check) which will not allow you to downgrade your device. DFU mode will still talk to iTunes but it bypasses iBoot which will then allow you to downgrade firmware.

If you’re having trouble and need any extra help, check out our Jailbreak Forum.

Tips of the day will range from beginner-level 101 to advanced-level ninjary. If you already know this tip, keep the link handy as a quick way to help a friend. If you have a tip of your own you’d like to suggest, add them to the comments or send them in to news@tipb.com. (If it’s especially awesome and previously unknown to us, we’ll even give ya a reward…)

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Zero Punctuation takes a break from lambasting the latest console games for a brief look at Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Fruit Ninja and a few other popular iPhone titles. If you’re familiar with Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s style, then you know you’re in for incredibly not-safe-for-work (NSFW) language and graphic cartoon subject matter. Be warned.

(Interestingly, almost 2 years to the day since TiPb did our Zero Punctuation homage for the Treo Pro…)

Video after the break. Note, it isn’t iPhone/iPad friendly, send your constructive feedback to The Escapist

[The Escapist]

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You can imagine the scenario, you are out in the freezing winter weather, your iPhone rings and you can't answer it; you can if you remove your gloves or use your nose but that is not a great solution. Well GloveTips may have the answer.

GloveTips are small dime sized flexible disks that you mount on your gloves. Each disk has special thread stitched in the center that will interact with capacitive touchscreen devices when you wear your glove.

Yes you can already buy purpose made gloves that you can use with your iPhone. The main difference is that you can use these with your own gloves. The videos after the break show how well GloveTips appear to work and also how they are fitted to your gloves. Not sure how well GloveTips will hold up if your gloves get wet or need washing.

GloveTips are available now at a price $19.99 for a pack of 3. Can you see yourself using this solution? Let us know in the comments.

[GloveTips via Pocket-lint]

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BBC Worldwide has gone on record stating they’ll release a subscription-based iPlayer app for Apple’s iPad tablet next year, according to The Financial Times.

The BBC is to launch a commercial version of its iPlayer video on demand technology, using a subscription model on Apple iPads and with the US probably the first to receive the service. It will be available only outside the UK, where the BBC is not allowed to charge for its content, and marks a new stage in the broadcaster's move to exploit its content around the world.

iPlayer content has been strictly tied down to UK viewers only, so with this expansion to other countries (UK doesn’t allow BBC to offer subscription-based services such as this under public funding) we’re hoping it comes to the US as an initial select market. Don’t start counting down the days, however, as BBC stated the service won’t become available until sometime in mid-2011.

Any readers out there excited about this prospective new subscription service? Sound off in the comments below!

[MacStories via Financial Times]

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Angry Birds Seasons, the Christmas-themed update to Angry Birds Halloween we heard about last week has just now arrived in the iTunes App Store. And from the sounds of things they’re just getting started.

From now on, every season is an Angry Birds season. After the special treats of Halloween, Angry Birds Seasons returns with another gift that keeps on giving: Season's Greetings for the Holidays!

• Count down the 25 days of Christmas with Angry Birds!
• Frolic in the fun new levels in a snow-filled winter wonderland!
• A very merry Golden Egg full of holiday spirit!

Can’t wait for the Easter chocolate egg update, can you?

It’s free if you previously bought Angry Birds Halloween, otherwise it’s $0.99 for iPhone [iTunes link] or $1.99 for the iPad [iTunes link].

Did you get it? If so, what do you think?

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