Are you a developer interested in how to enable iPad multitasking gestures in iOS 4.3 so you can test them with your apps? They’re not there by default but if you have the iOS 4.3 GM seed and Xcode, you can turn them on. We’ll show you how after the break!

When you first install iOS 4.3 GM there are no multitasking gestures enabled and if you go to Settings there’s no place to turn them on.

In order to get the Gestures Settings to show up, you have to do a little work. But only a little:

1. Connect your iPad to your Mac via the Dock cable
2. Launch Xcode
3. From the device manager, select your iPad
4. Click on “Use this device for development”
5. Login with your Apple Developer ID and password
6. Once it’s done processing, go back to your iPad and tap Settings
7. In Settings go to General and you’ll see the toggle for multitasking Gestures. Turn them on!

That’s it, you’re done! You can now 4-finger pinch your way back to the home screen and swipe between apps!

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When Steve Jobs announced iPad 2 on Wednesday he listed a lot of great features and numbers but perhaps none as impressive as the release date — March 11, 2011 in the US. That’s less than 2 weeks between announcement and release.

Last year it took longer. The Original iPad was announced in January and released in early and late April (Wi-Fi and 3G respectively). As a new product and category Apple needed to give developers time to create apps, and they responded with roughly 5000 ready at launch. This year Apple doesn’t need that runway. There are already 65000 iPad-optimized apps in the iTunes App Store. This year Apple just ships.

That might not sound impressive until you consider Apple is poised to deliver iPad 2 — their second tablet — before almost all of their competitors have shipped even a single one.

There have been 10 years of tablet PCs, championed by none other than the equally iconic Bill Gates of Microsoft but they’ve been almost meaningless in the consumer market. Their desktop Windows UI was simply never optimized for tablets. Samsung shipped the 7-inch Android-based Galaxy Tab with fairly good results but even Google stressed the OS was not tablet-ready yet. Same goes for the myriad of small Archos tablets over the years. It took until 2011 for Google to release the first tablet version of Android, Honeycomb, and only Motorola has shipped a Honeycomb-based tablet, the Xoomt. Even that — according to my friends at Android Central — is unfinished, still waiting on a USB fix, Adobe to deliver Flash, and will require a mail-in hardware update to enable LTE. (To be fair, iPad 2 won’t ever have USB, Flash, or LTE.)

HTC is bringing out a tablet that will use Sense on an earlier version of Android while LG, Samsung, and Toshiba have announced Honeycomb tablets but no firm release dates or price points. (Samsung is reportedly now re-considering the Galaxy Tab 10 post iPad 2 announcement.) Palm has shown off their TouchPad but it won’t ship until Summer and likewise has no pricing yet. RIM’s 7-inch BlackBerry Playbook is also coming at some point, perhaps as early as spring, but also still absent pricing.

Every single one of these was announced before iPad 2 and almost none of them will ship before iPad 2. Almost all of them have some or many specs, power, and flexibility that outclass iPad 2 but none of them have the number of apps, the level of design, the supporting ecosystem, or the overall experience of iPad 2.

I’m not a huge fan of Apple’s heavy “post-PC” push — was the Apple II a post-mainframe? — but like we discussed on the Android Central podcast last night, Apple has reframed the discussion from one of technology, one of processors and checkboxes, to one of experience, one of interactivity and imagination. (Feel free to substitute magic and miracles if you simply must.) My mom doesn’t care about processors or megapixels, she cares about swiping smoothly through her photos and seeing her family over FaceTime. My 2 year old godson knows nothing about frame-buffers to RAM but delights in paging through his story books and crashing cars in his racing game. Me, a blogger and geek, I do care about those things but when I’m streaming video or sword fighting or using remote desktop, you know what? I utterly and completely forget I care.

Not to get all Jony Ive but the experience is really that immersive. The device vanishes. The OS vanishes. It simply becomes what you’re using. It is a TV. It is a gaming console. It’s an uncluttered window into the Web. It’s physical manipulation of productivity and creativity. It’s digital clay.

Last year I went to an Apple Store the day before iPhone 4 launched and people were in there, oblivious, buying iPhone 3GS. Yesterday I went to an Apple Store and people were coming in and asking to buy iPad 2 — which is still a week away from going on sale in the US.

The message was made for mainstream and mainstream has gotten the message. 15 million of them in just 9 months for the original iPad and who knows how many for iPad 2?

For the most part the competition aren’t even on the market yet, and it’s unclear how they’ll differentiate themselves from iPad 2 — and from each other. The Optimus pad will try 3D. HP will try webOS and their enterprise power. RIM will try the BlackBerry card. But in order to counter-program Apple they’ll need at least one killer advantage and an incredibly compelling story. They need to convince mainstream consumers to buy them instead of iPad — first not to buy iPad, then to buy them rather than another not-iPad. Fringe use cases and loyal enthusiasts aside, that’s a tough sale, especially when Apple will have iPad 2 in Apple Stores and dedicated Apple areas in many big box retailers. Motorola, HP, HTC, Samsung, RIM, etc. have no stores. Sony does, and they have content as well, but they have no Tablet (gone is the Trinitron and Walkman Sony powerhouse of old.) Competing tablets have a huge, uphill battle to wage and win.

That’s when and if they ship.

Apple is shipping on March 11.

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Last night, Conan O’Brian had a fun, life-sized game of Angry Birds on stage and teased Apple for getting cocky about the iPad 2 with a mock promo video that is based off the following slogan:

iPad 2. You’ll buy it no matter what we say.

To make the Angry Birds game more exciting, Conan had the pigs hiding under IKEA furniture because Finland’s arch rival is Sweden (Angry Birds was developed in Finland, and IKEA is based out of Swedan).

For some good laughs, check out the videos after the break! [Requires Flash -- blame Coco, not us!]

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The minute Apple announced the super sweet new iPad 2 you just had to know TiPb would be giving one away, right? So let’s get right to it shall we:

Just leave a reply to the contest thread in our iPad Forum telling us what you love most about TiPb (besides the contests, of course!). What’s your absolute favorite thing, what brings you back to the site over and over again every day?

It’s that simple, so get to it and good luck!

Contest Details

• Grand prize consists of one (1) Apple Store or equivalent gift certificate in the amount of $500 towards the purchase of an iPad 2.
• Contest starts now. Winner will be announced on TiPb.com on March 9, 2011.

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TiPb is hearing that Apple might just be set to take on government and enterprise a little bit more aggressively by adding FIPS 140-2 Cryptographic Modules to iPhone, iPad, and the Mac.

The Federal Information Processing Standard, publication 140-2 is a US government security standard for certifying both hardware and software security modules. According to our source, Mac OS X Lion is already in the 2nd to last stage of testing via the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with an estimated 1-2 months before completion. iPhone and iPad aren’t as far along yet, with several months to go before certification.

While Apple has made huge inroads into enterprise there are organizations that simply won’t consider iPhone or iPad without strong cryptographic support. Looks like that might just be on the way now.

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I don’t know about you but I watched Wednesday’s iPad 2 keynote pretty closely and didn’t see the video below among the promos Steve Jobs chose to play. Might it have been pulled at the last second?

[Thanks John!]

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When iOS 4.3 launches, you will also be able to utilize Home Sharing from any iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Home Sharing is a service that has been available between Macs for quite some time now. The Apple TV also supports it.

Now you can play your entire iTunes library from anywhere in the house. If it's on your Mac or PC, you can play it on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch over a shared Wi-Fi network. And not just music. Watch a movie or TV show. Play a podcast. Or listen to an audiobook. On whichever device you want — without having to download or sync.

Home Sharing is almost the opposite of services like AirPlay. Instead of pushing content from your iOS device to a television or other device, it will allow you to pull content from your computer to your device. Anyone who has an Apple TV should already be familiar with how this works. You simply pair your iTunes library with your Home Sharing compatible device and whenever iTunes is running, the device will be able to access your iTunes library.

For those of you who prefer watching movies on your iPad or other iOS device when at home, this may be ideal. I know this will be a service I’ll take advantage of when someone else in the house is hogging the television. I can simply stream any of my iTunes content from my iTunes library to my iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

Anyone else think they’ll utilize this feature quite often?

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During Apple’s iPad 2 announcement yesterday Scott Forstall announced that Mobile Safari was getting a 2x performance boost, in part by porting over Mac OX’s Nitro JavaScript engine.

As you surf the web, your fingers will love the responsiveness of the new Nitro JavaScript engine powering Safari. It runs JavaScript up to twice as fast as in iOS 4.2.2 Which means you get more speed behind each page load. And sites with lots of interactive features can appear on your screen even faster.

Users should see noticeable speed improvements under iOS 4.3 when visiting highly-interactive and complex websites across iOS devices, and when paired with the A5 chip and (presumably) more RAM on the iPad 2 it should really scream. Mac OS X Lion has recently been given a WebKit2 boost as well but there’s no word yet on whether that will be carried over to iOS or when.

Are you looking forward to the Safari performance boosts coming in iOS 4.3? Let us know in the comments below!

[Apple]

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Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Invaders World Tour 3: Now a universal app with the option of using your iPhone as a remote controller for your iPad and support for TV OUT! [$1.99 - iTunes link]

• Motivational Poster: Turn your own photos into hilarious de-motivational posters and inspiring motivational posters. [$0.99 - iTunes link]

• Yobongo: Heading to SXSW next week? Use Yobongo to chat with people nearby! Available in Austin, San Francisco, and New York City. [Free- iTunes link]

• Infinity Blade: New content pack #2 – Infinity Blade: The Deathless Kings! [$2.99 - iTunes link]

• Note Taker HD: Update allows you to type in blocks of text, insert any of 40+ highly customizable shapes as well as images, and select, move, and modify existing ink. [$4.99 - iTunes link]

Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think!

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Georgia, Chad, and Rene talk Apple’s iPad 2 event: Steve Jobs, iBooks, iPad 2 hardware, iOS 4.3 new features, iMovie update, GarageBand for iOS and much, much more. This is iPhone… er… iPad Live!

Show notes and all the week’s iPhone news after the break!

iPad 2

• iPad 2 — what we didn’t get
• Apple introduces iPad 2, ships March 11
• TiPb Answers: Apple A5 chip — what we know and what we guess
• Daily Tip: When, where, and how can you get an iPad 2?

Original iPad

• Original iPads now on sale
• Apple offers $100/£100 refund to recent iPad customers
• Daily – Tip: How to sell your old iPad after upgrading to iPad 2

iPad 2 accessories

• Apple announces 1080p HDMI out for mirrored iPad display
• Apple shows off iPad 2 Smart Covers

iPad 2 competition

• Jobs: iPad has competitors flummoxed
• iPad 2 vs. Xoom vs. Optimus Pad vs. Galaxy Tab 10 vs TouchPad vs BlackBerry Playbook — Spec wars!

iOS 4.3

• iOS 4.3 previewed at iPad 2 event, coming March 11
• iOS 4.3 for Verizon iPhone — missing in action?
• Apple releases iTunes 10.2 to support iOS 4.3, iPad 2

Apps

• Apple gives us iMovie for iPad
• GarageBand for iPad: $4.99 on March 11th
• iBooks: 100 million downloads, Random House bringing 17,000 titles
• FaceTime on iPad 2
• Photo Booth on iPad 2

iPad 2 event

• iPad 2 event meta liveblog
• Full iPad 2 Keynote Video online

Hosts

• @reneritchie
• @GeorgiaTiPb
• @iChadman

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Thanks to the TiPb iPhone accessory store for sponsoring the podcast, and to everyone who showed up for the live chat!

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