Instapaper is a popular “read later” service that lets you save web pages for offline reading. It has just been optimized for the new iPad‘s Retina display and six new beautiful fonts.

For those who enjoy distraction-free reading, not only does Instapaper strip away distracting sidebars, but now you can tap on the article you’re reading to hide the toolbars at the top of the screen, allowing you to fully immerse yourself in the article.

Another interesting addition to Instapaper is what they call “Twilight Sepia”. I’m sorry Twilight fans, this does not mean you can flip a switch that shows sepia-toned images of Edward and Jacob. Rather, Twilight Sepia is the sunset-based Automatic Dark Mode that can now slightly tint the screen with a sepia tone during twilight hours before going to Dark Mode.

There is also some new gestures included in Instapaper to exit an article. If pagination is inactive, just swipe to the right. If you’re using pagination, swiping right when on the first page or swipe left when on the last page to exit the article.

Instapaper support and being able to send an article to Instapaper is a feature included in many apps including most Twitter apps. You can also added a bookmarklet to both the web browser on your computer and Mobile Safari. Instapaper walks you through the process of adding the bookmarklet to your iPhone and iPad, making it very easy to start sending articles to Instapaper.

If you’re unfamiliar with bookmarklets, they’re simply bookmarks that, instead of opening a webpage, work like tiny programs. When tapping Instapaper’s bookmarklet, it adds the current webpage to your Instapaper account and flashes “Saving…” and “Saved” across your screen.

Instapaper is the most popular “read later” service for a reason. It’s super easy to use and stunningly beautiful. All your articles stay in sync between your iPad, iPhone, and computer making it pleasurable experience.

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The new iPad includes a tethering feature called Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot which lets you share your iPad’s 4G LTE or HSPA+ Internet connection with your laptop or any other device that can connect to a Wi-Fi network. Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot depends on your carrier, however, so while some carriers like Verizon and Rogers offer it, AT&T currently does not. (Insert pitchforks and torches here.) Even when it’s offered, however, Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot may not be enabled by default and it’s not obvious how to turn it on.

How to tell if Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot is enabled

If you’re not sure whether or not Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot is enabled, it’s easy to tell.

1. Launch the Settings app
2. Look at the top left.
3. If you see Personal Hotpot right at the top (between Wi-Fi and Notifications), you’re good to go
4. If you don’t see **Personal Hotspot, you’ll need to enable it first.

How to enable Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot

If Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot isn’t enabled, you’ll have to go digging for it.

1. Launch the Settings app
2. Tap General
3. Tap Network
4. Tap Personal Hotspot
5. Toggle Personal Hotspot to on

Once you’ve turned it on for the first time, you’ll get Personal Hotspot in the top level Settings list and won’t have to dig for it again.

How to change your Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot password

Apple provides a default password for your Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot but you can easily change it if you like.

1. Launch Settings
2. Tap Personal Hotspot
3. Tap Wi-Fi Password
4. Enter your new password (it needs to be more than 8 characters and should be something that’s not easily guessed)
5. Tap the blue Done button at the top right.

How to use Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot for tethering

You can use your Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot to share your iPad LTE or HSPA+/EVDO connection with any device that has Wi-Fi, including Mac, Windows, and Linux laptop and desktop PCs, handheld and console gaming machines, smartphones on slower networks, and more.

Just keep a close eye on your data usage because it can go fast!

First, start up Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot on your iPad

1. Launch Settings
2. Tap on Personal Hotspot
3. Toggle Personal Hotspot to On

Next, go to the device you want to connect.

1. Check for available Wi-Fi connections.
2. Your Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot will have the same name as your iPad (iPad by default). Click on it.
3. Enter the password as it appears on your iPad.
4. A blue bar will appear across the top of your iPad so you know Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot in connected, and the number of connections will be shown on the right.

Different carriers allow different numbers of connections, typically from 5 to 8 total.

Additional resources:

• All new iPad tips and how-tos
• New iPad help and discussion forums

While the new iPad doesn’t include full on Siri support, probably for a number of reasons, it does include the speech-to-text Dictation. However, Dictation may not be enabled by default, and if it’s not, it’s not at all obvious where to go looking for it.

How to enable iPad Dictation

The settings to turn on Dictation are a little hard to find. Here’s what to do:

1. Launch the Settings app
2. Tap on General
3. Scroll down to the bottom and tap on Keyboard
4. Toggle Dictation to On
5. Tap Enable to agree to Apple’s privacy notification
6. If you’re worried about the privacy notification, tap About and read the details
7. Tap Done when you’re satisfied.

Like Siri, Dictation is a server-side service that transmits your voice to Apple’s datacenter where it’s processed and the text is returned. Properly figuring out human speech isn’t easy, and it takes the power and access to millions of voice samples that, currently, only a data center can provide.

How to use Siri-style Dictation

Once you’ve enabled Dictation, a microphone key will appear on your iPad keyboard. (Note: it won’t always appear on specialized keyboards, for example, it won’t appear if you’re entering in a website address URL, but it will appear on any keyboards meant of standard text entry.)

1. Tap the Dictation key to start
2. Say what you want to type
3. Tap the Dictation key again to finish

Try to speak at a steady pace, and enunciate as clearly as you can. If Dictation gets confused about any of the words you speak, it will underline them in blue on the screen. If the word is incorrect, tap it to get a popup menu with alternatives. Tap an alternative to switch to it. You can also simply edit voice dictation text like any other text.

Additional resources:

• All new iPad tips and how-tos
• New iPad help and discussion forums

My original iPad and iPad 2 have always been remarkably cool, even when playing graphically intensive games or high definition video, but my new iPad is getting a little warm to the touch. It’s by no means as hot as my iPhone 4s gets, which can be really hot if there’s bad reception or I’m tethering. It’s also nothing like how hot a MacBook gets when playing Adobe Flash. But hotter than my old iPads which were absolutely cool all the time. Since other devices routinely get warm or hot without issue, it doesn’t seem to be anything to worry about — if anything it might just be a sign we’re finally pushing iPads as hard as we’ve been pushing our other gear for years.

The heat seems to be along the left hand side (if you’re holding it in portrait mode with the home button at the bottom. I don’t think it’s the LTE radio because it feels the same on Wi-Fi. According to the pictures iFixit posted during their teardown, the iPad’s board, including its A5X system-on-a-chip appear to be along the left hand side. (The gigantic battery is on the right.) The A5X includes a quad-core GPU, but I’m not doing anything particularly intense when the iPad is warm (just downloading apps right now).

We’re talking about this now in our [iPad 3 forums] and have a couple of great threads going:

• New iPad running HOT!
• Is your new iPad getting unusually hot?

If you haven’t already, jump in there and let us know your experience with heat on your new iPad.

The new iPad has a much improved camera — so much improved you might even find it convenient to take quick, fun videos to share with family and friends on YouTube and Facebook.

Luckily, iOS and iPad apps make this really easy to do.

How to share an iPad video on YouTube

iOS for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch has YouTube integration built right in, which makes sharing videos you take on your new iPad easier than ever.

1. Tap on your Photos app and select the video you’d like to share.

1. In the upper right hand corner, click the arrow icon and tap Send to YouTube.

1. If you aren’t already signed into YouTube, you’ll be asked to sign in.

1. Next, fill in all the information about your video from the title to description, tags, and category. You can also choose whether you want to upload the standard definition or high definition version. Most will probably want to tap HD. It will take longer to upload though, so if you’re in a hurry, standard definition will do.

Your video will begin uploading to your YouTube account automatically. You can close out your Photos app and continue doing other things on your iPad and it will upload quietly in the background. Once it’s done you’ll get a pop up notification letting you know the upload was completed successfully.

How to share a video on Facebook

To share a video to Facebook you’ll need to have the Facebook for iPad app installed first.

Free – Facebook for iPad

Once you’ve got the free Facebook app installed, you’re ready to upload a video (or photo, the process is the same for both).

1. Launch the Facebook app from your iPad homescreen.
2. Sign in to your Facebook account if you haven’t already done so.

1. Along the top under the main navigation bar you’ll see an icon that says Photo. Tap on it.
2. You’ll now have the option to either take a new video or select one from your library.
3. We will choose to select one from our library. You can, of course, choose to take one instead.

1. Navigate through your photos and videos to select the one you’d like to upload and select it.

1. You can now add a description to the photo and change a few settings before posting. You don’t have to include the following information if you don’t want to. If you don’t want to change settings, just tap Post in the upper right hand corner.

1. If you’d like to tag someone in your photo, click the icon with a person on the left and start typing their name. When they pop up, just tap their name.

1. Tap the second icon to add a location to your photo. Tap the location to include it.

1. Tap the little gear in the right bottom corner to adjust what people or lists can view your media.

1. Once you’re done setting everything the way you’d like, just tap Post and you’re done!

How to edit your videos before uploading

If you want to edit, add titles or transitions, or otherwise make your videos even more fantastic before uploading, you can do that right on your iPad with either Apple’s iMovie or Avid Studio.

• iMovie for iPad and iPhone review
• Avid Studio for iPad review

Now you know how to share videos to both Facebook and YouTube so you can get out there and start testing out the new camera in your brand new iPad.

Additional resources:

• All new iPad tips and how-tos
• New iPad help and discussion forums

Looks like the new iPad is already well on its way to getting a new jailbreak. The Dev Team has posted a status update on the new iPad, and have in fact already jailbroken is on iOS 5.1 using a few different methods.

• We can confirm that the method used to jailbreak the iPad2 4 months ago (before corona) still works even in 5.1. That means we'll at least be able to get our foot in the door to get the required kernel dumps on the iPad3. That's an important step, but by no means is it the end of the story.

• Those of you following @i0n1c may have noticed he's already tweeted pictures of his iPad2 jailbroken at 5.1. As far as we know, he's using a method completely unrelated to the one mentioned above. That would be great news!

• We've also seen bits and pieces of an entirely different jailbreak method being investigated by someone close to the Cydia repo scene.

While there is no ETA for a jailbreak tool to be released, this should allay fears that the new iPad jailbreak would take as long as the iPad 2 or iPhone 4S jailbreaks took, which involved months and months of work.

Anyone planning on jailbreaking when the new iPad tool is released?

Source: Dev-Team Blog

So what do you think of your new iPad? Whether you waited by the door for UPS or FedEX, or waited in line like iMore and Mobile Nations, if you scored a new iPad today we want to know what you think of it!

Did it blow you away and make you think you were finally holding the future in your hands? Was it better than you expected your eyes not believing the quality of the Retina display or LTE speeds? Was it just what you expected, no more, no less? Did it disappoint you in some way? Or was it just simply the worst thing Apple ever spat from their cauldron?

We want to hear your take, so vote in the poll up top and then jump into our iPad forum reviews thread and give us your full take.

(Who knows, if you say something just so completely spot on, we might even have to quote you in the official iMore review!)

One of the features of the new iPad that Apple brags about is the new camera. The FaceTime front-facing camera is still a poor quality VGA camera, but the rear camera has been upgraded to a 5 megapixel iSight camera with a f/2.4 lens and 1080p video-recording capabilities. Although it’s not as good as the iPhone 4S’ 8 megapixel camera, it’s still a huge improvement from the poor camera featured on the iPad 2.

The first thing I found interesting is that even though both the new iPad and the iPad 2 have a VGA front facing camera, it was clear that the new iPad has a better sensor because the image looked a lot brighter. What didn’t come as surprise was how much better the rear facing camera was on the new iPad.

I recommend watching the above video in full screen so that you can really see the difference between the two video cameras. One thing I noticed is that when recording video, the new iPad has a tighter (closer) crop than the iPad 2, but when taking still photos, the new iPad has wider crop than the iPad 2.

Speaking of images, the iPad’s new lens blow’s the iPad 2′s VGA lens out of the water. The iPad 2 produces dull, grainy images and the new iPad actually takes some pretty nice photos. No, they aren’t quite as good as the iPhone 4S, but I’d venture to say that they’re better than the iPhone 4 — although, I haven’t officially done any head-to-head tests.

Here’s a couple examples that show just how much better the new iPad is at taking taking photos. In each pair, the photo on the right is taken with the new iPad and the photo on the left is with the iPad 2. (Click the images to see larger versions).

The first photo really shows how much more detail the new iPad picks of up in its images. Look at the trees and grass — the iPad 2′s version look blurry and pixelated.

This next one demonstrates that the new iPad produces much better bokeh (out of focus area), and has a shallower depth of field. This is why in the new iPad’s version, the flowers really seem to pop.

No words are needed to describe this next pair. Just look at how dull and boring the iPad 2′s image looks. Gross.

So I think the video and images speak for themselves — the new iPad’s camera is a huge improvement over its predecessor. But the real question is — will the improved camera actually give you the confidence to walk around taking photos with a big ol’ iPad?

The new iPad has a dual core Apple A5X processor with quad core graphics, compared to a dual core Apple A5 processor with only dual core graphics in the older iPad 2. The new iPad also has twice the RAM as the old iPad 2. However, the new iPad also needs to throw around 4 times as many pixels as the old iPad 2 — 2048 x 1536 as opposed to 1024 x 768.

How does that all net out when it comes to launching amazing, Retina-ready apps like Infinity Blade II and Tweetbot, and web sites like iMore, The New York Times and the Sun Spider benchmark?

Do the new iPad’s better specs win out? Does the iPad 2′s leaner screen demand less power to make it fly? Does the A5X increase raw speed, not just graphics speed, against the iPad 2′s Apple A5?

Watch the video above to find out, and then let us know what you’re perception has been. Is the new iPad faster than the old iPad 2? Or does doing more in the same amount of time make it only seem just as fast?

Today, has been all about the new iPad and with a small smattering of Apple TV joy. We’ve got plenty of guides and new forums built just for you guys whether you’re new to the iPad or old hat. If you missed out on anything make sure you get yourself caught up here on the blogs. Once you’re done that, if you’re still looking for more iOS goodness then check out the iMore forums. You can register now to get started today and while you’re at it, check out some of the threads below:

• iPad Gaming Forum
• iPad Communication and Productivity Forum
• iPad Photography and Video Forum
• iPad Music, Movies, and TV Forum
• iPad Cases and Accessories Forum
• iPad Help and Troubleshooting Forum

If you’re not already a member of the iMore Forums, register now!

Creating amazing playlists of your favorite songs, right on yournew iPad ensures you’re always listening to great tunes that sound great together. Whether you synced your music over from your iTunes library, re-downloaded it using iTunes in the Cloud, or gone all in on Apple’s music-locker service, iTunes Match, playlists let you keep it organized and harmonized.

How to create a custom playlist

1. Launch the Music app on your iPad

1. Go to the playlist tab and tap New in the upper right hand corner.

1. You’ll be prompted to enter a name for your playlist. Name it whatever you’d like and then tap Save
2. Now you can tap any of the tabs along the bottom to look for music you want to add to the playlist. Simply tap the plus sign next to an album or song name to add them to your playlist.
3. Once you are done adding music, tap Done in the upper right hand corner.
4. If you need to edit your playlist (delete or add songs), simply go into the playlist and tap edit in the upper right hand corner.

How to delete playlists

If you don’t want a playlist on your iPad anymore, you can easily delete it directly from your device.

1. Find the playlist you don’t want anymore.
2. Hold your finger down on it and a black “X” will appear in the left hand corner of the playlist. Tap it to delete it.

How to create a Genius Mix

iTunes can automatically generate playlists based on your current song selection. These are called Genius Mixes, as they use Apple’s Genius recommendations engine.

You can simply pick a Genius Mix to start listening to it and you’ll automatically hear great music that sounds great together. You can also create your own Genius mix by picking any song in your iTunes library to play. Once the song starts, just touch the Genius icon next to the song tile of the current track. If there are ample songs in your library, iTunes will build a new Genius playlist based on the current song.

Additional resources:

• How to download movies, tv shows, and music to your new iPad
• How to subscribe to magazines to your new iPad
• The new iPad – everything you need to know