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- Just get a new iPad 2? Here’s what you need next!
- US online iPad orders now shipping in 3-4 weeks, in-store supplies low
- iPad 2 online orders starting to ship
- So did you get your iPad 2?
- Why does iMovie need location permission to see your Camera Roll?
- Ninja Tip: How to install iMovie on the original iPad 1
- iPad vs iPad 2: RAM performance in Mobile Safari
- Photo Booth on iPad 2 hands-on
- iMovie for iPad 2 hands-on
- Infinity Blade and Angry Birds on 50″ HDTV via iPad 2 HDMI video mirroring
| Just get a new iPad 2? Here’s what you need next! Posted: 12 Mar 2011 04:46 PM PST
Did you just get a sweet new iPad 2? Whether you added it to your collection of iOS devices or you’re brand new to the platform, once you’re powered up and ready to go… you might just be wondering what you need to know and do next? Don’t worry, TiPb has your back!
And don’t forget our awesome iPad Forum for extra help and expert advice! We’ve got contests and give-aways, polls and guides, bug fixes and forums, and much, much more. Bookmark TiPb now and come back often, we want to hear from you! Just get a new iPad 2? Here’s what you need next! is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
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| US online iPad orders now shipping in 3-4 weeks, in-store supplies low Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:18 AM PST
After shipping almost immediately, then in a matter of days, then a week, Apple has again update their iPad 2 ordering page — this time to 3-4 weeks. Many of you have told us that iPad 2 was selling out at Apple stores and other retailers yesterday as well. Sounds like supplies really might have been constrained again this year. With international rollout set to begin on March 25 — unless Apple delays it like last year — does that mean American’s who want their iPad 2s sooner rather than later might drive to Canada or fly out to the UK or Australia? Oh, the irony… Are you still trying to get an iPad 2? Let us know where you are and if they have stock! US online iPad orders now shipping in 3-4 weeks, in-store supplies low is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
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| iPad 2 online orders starting to ship Posted: 12 Mar 2011 09:23 AM PST
Early risers who managed to get their Apple Online Store iPad 2 orders in on Friday are letting us know that they’re either preparing to ship or are shipping. We’ve been tracking orders in the iPad Forum so if you’re waiting on that magical UPS or Fedex truck, jump on in and let us know when Apple says your iPad 2 is arriving. [Thanks rustyjar79, beastcmg, and everyone in the iPad Forum!] iPad 2 online orders starting to ship is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
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| Posted: 12 Mar 2011 07:45 AM PST
Whether you woke up early yesterday morning to order online, waited forever in an Apple Store line, or risked low stocks at a big box or carrier store we want to know if you survived and more importantly — did you get your iPad 2?! Let us know your story in the comments below. Where did you go, what iPad 2 model did you get and what accessories did you get with it? And if not — why not? Tons of pictures from the lines, including our now traditional TiPb T-Shirt give aways after the break!
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| Why does iMovie need location permission to see your Camera Roll? Posted: 12 Mar 2011 07:32 AM PST
Don’t want to give iMovie for iPad the ability to know your location? Well then iMovie for iPad won’t let you see your Camera Roll. No, it’s not being petulant it’s probably just an odd result of the way iOS handles permissions. Camera Roll may contain geo-location data in the pictures and videos you’ve taken. If iMovie accesses Camera Roll, it gets access to that location data. My guess is that Apple feels it then needs permission to “see” the location data. Personally I regard location data as highly private and see no reason why Camera or iMovie should have it unless I specifically turn it on while traveling to geotag something for future reference. So it’s a little annoying that I can’t access my non-geo tagged pictures and video in my location-denied iMovie, but hopefully Apple fixes the granularity on this in an update so tin-foil hat wearing privacy throwbacks by myself can scratch one more conspiracy off our walls… er… list. (If you have any other theories, technical or conspiratorial alike, drop them in comments!) Why does iMovie need location permission to see your Camera Roll? is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
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| Ninja Tip: How to install iMovie on the original iPad 1 Posted: 12 Mar 2011 07:05 AM PST
Consternated that Apple won’t let you install the new iMovie app on your original iPad 1 and wondering how to get around that restriction? Sure it doesn’t have cameras, a fancy Apple A5 chip or 512MB of RAM but iPad 1 can still handle some light video editing so if that’s what you’ve got and iMovie is what you want, stay with us after the break and we reckon to show you how to get it! WARNING: It may not work on Windows, it may disappear the minute you sync again with iTunes, it could cause conflicts in syncing with iTunes requiring a restore, and could otherwise aim to misbehave. Unless you really need iMovie on your original iPad, you may want to avoid this an just get ReelDirector off the App Store [iTunes link].
If you want to load iMovie on your original iPad 1, here’s what you have to do:
Can’t stop the signal. If you have any questions or any other iMovie tips, let us know in comments. 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…) Ninja Tip: How to install iMovie on the original iPad 1 is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
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| iPad vs iPad 2: RAM performance in Mobile Safari Posted: 12 Mar 2011 05:41 AM PST As you can see from the video above, the iPad 2 using the Apple A5 chip combined with more RAM performs much better than the original iPad when browsing in Mobile Safari. If you load up all nine tabs, you’ll see that the original iPad starts to choke up pretty badly when compared to the iPad 2. This is due to the original iPad only coming with 256MB of RAM while iPad 2 comes packed with 512MB. (We hoped for as much as 1GB in the video before getting more test results back. Maybe next year!.) The original iPad tends to “kill” background tabs whenever it runs out of available memory, which can get pretty annoying if you use the iPad primarily for web browsing. The iPad 2 performed flawlessly and had no hiccups when browsing. Also the dreaded “checkerboard effect” — where significant lag would occur before Safari could render the web page content — is nowhere to be found. Scrolling in Safari is smooth as butter, and gone are the days when switching between tabs meant loading the entire page from scratch. The difference in performance is quite clear, and browsing on the iPad 2 is definitely a step up from the original iPad in every way. If you were able to pick up an iPad 2 then let us know your thoughts on RAM performance and how it compares to the first iPad in the comments below! iPad vs iPad 2: RAM performance in Mobile Safari is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
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| Photo Booth on iPad 2 hands-on Posted: 12 Mar 2011 05:09 AM PST Photo Booth on the iPad 2 is a fun application that applies silly effects to your camera when taking photos. It is similar to Photo Booth on the Mac and is entertaining for kids and adults alike. Photo Booth is equipped with 8 different effects: Thermal Camera, Mirror, X-Ray, Kaleidoscope, Light Tunnel, Squeeze, Twirl, and Stretch. You can edit the effect before snapping the picture by pinching and dragging on the screen. As you take photos (from either front or rear camera) with Photo Booth, they are saved to your Camera Roll and you can see thumbnails of the images at the bottom of the screen. From here, you can easily email, copy, and delete multiple photos. Be careful though, deleting a photo from Photo Booth also deletes it from your Camera Roll. The quality of the photos taken with the VGA front-facing camera are not by any means outstanding, but given the nature of these shots – fun, quirky, and silly – it isn’t too big of a deal. Check out some images taken with Photo Booth after the break!
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| Posted: 12 Mar 2011 04:59 AM PST One of the new apps for iPad 2 is iMovie. It was originally released for the iPhone 4 this past June, but Apple recently updated it as a universal app for iPhone 4, iPad 2, and iPod touch 4. On the iPad 2, iMovie is fantastic. The editing screen is set up similar to iMovie on the Mac and split into 3 different screens. On the bottom of the screen, you find the timeline for your movie, on the top left, you find available media, and video preview is located in the top right. The “My Projects” screen is beautifully designed to look like a vintage movie theater. Editing movies is very easy on the iPad 2. You can preview clips by dragging your finger across them and trim the edges before adding them to your project. To move clips around in your timeline, simply drag it to where you want. If you want to split a clip, position the curser, select the clip, and swipe down along the curser. You can also easily record audio and video directly into the timeline. iMovie is stocked with 8 different themes, each of which comes with its own title screen format, transitions, and theme music. It also comes with a plethora of sound effects to add to your movies. Sadly the new Trailer templates from iMovie ‘11 on Mac didn’t make it into the iPad version but hopefully we’ll see those in an update. Sharing your movies is a breeze and iMovie is equipped the the ability to send directly to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and CNN iReport. Just tap the familiar sharing arrow from the projects screen and make your selection. I am very impressed with how well iMovie runs on the iPad 2. It responds well and performs tasks quickly. iMovie on the iPad may well become my primary video editing software – yes, I will chose it over iMovie ‘11 on my Mac. To check out the movie I created in the video above, follow along after the break!
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| Infinity Blade and Angry Birds on 50″ HDTV via iPad 2 HDMI video mirroring Posted: 11 Mar 2011 10:25 PM PST Take an iPad 2 and HDMI adapter-enabled video mirroring and what do you get? Well in this quick test you get Infinity Blade and Angry Birds Seasons on a 50″ HDTV screen. Sure on a 1080p display apps are letter- and pillar-boxed (black bars on all four sides) to maintain pixels (no blurry/aliased extrapolations that we could see) but video outputs full screen as always so it wasn’t a huge deal. Playing iOS games at that size was. No using iPad 2 as a big, tethered game controller probably isn’t ideal and yes, business and educational institutions will likely be far more productive with video mirroring, but boy was this fun. Anyone else trying out their apps and games on the big screen?
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