Although the iPad in my eyes was a huge disappointment, i have to say its very cool. More than all the hype and the glamor the future in the iPad lies in the future. The iPhone was not a mere smart phone but rather it was a new creation something that changed the industry and the way world views phones. The iPod did the same thing: many mP3 players came around before the iPod as were smart phones before the iPhone but the iPod changed the way the world associated with them and created a market people could only image about. The iPad is changing the tablet industry and created the future. Newspapers, TV Guides, Comics, Magazines & Books are all being changed. Newspapers are becoming more intelligent more interactive but not losing the taste of the old newspaper. The TV guide is not just an on screen guide but 1 with more information on the show and characters then ever imaged possible. Comics; how in the world can comics get better with a computer? for 1 you can get your comics delivered straight to your tablet no matter where you are, 2 the feel and the zoom are astonishing, but it still has some way to grow. Magazines in till now if you liked something in a magazine you had to call to order it or go on the web now with a simple click you can see more info and order it. Extra features like video and links will change magazines. Saving Articles and photos also much easier then snipping it from the magazine. It’s amazing how the world that we know will change in the next 20 years… reading a book will never be the same watch the video for more ideas.

ThinkGeek is showing the new iCade, an iPad arcade cabinet that gives realistic arcade controls to class games running on the iPad.

In their own words, “Knowing that many of our loyal geeky customers would eventually get their retractable claws on an iPad at some point, we knew we needed to take it to the next level. What cool things could we do with the iPad that you, our lovely geek customers, would squee over? A few brainstorming sessions later, the idea of a MAME cabinet came up and we knew we’d struck gold. How cool would it be to slide your iPad into a desktop-sized arcade cabinet and rock it old school with some Pac-Man or Space Invaders?”

The cabinet is designed to allow an iPad to slide in firmly and dock into a standard 30-pin connector at the bottom. It includes a power adapter for uninterrupted gaming, but can also be used without one. The iCade software, which allows the use of the joystick and game buttons, is free and should be available in the iTunes app store soon.

WordPress 2.9 arrives, with an image editor and a trash folder

Good news for users of the popular WordPress blogging platform: WordPress 2.9 has arrived, and it includes some major new features that make blogging easier, as well as hundreds of under-the-hood improvements to important stuff like databases and SEO. The most visible new features are a built-in image editor, a much easier way to embed video, a better plug-in updater, and a trash for your deleted posts and files.

The image editor allows you to resize, crop, flip or rotate your images from within WordPress, which makes fitting your image into a post a whole lot easier. Sometimes it’s just not worth opening Photoshop for those quick adjustments. On the video front, you can now paste a URL from any of several major video sites (including YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr and Google Video) and WordPress will recognize and embed the video automatically.

The new plug-in updater does batch updates, so you can install the latest version of up to 10 plug-ins at once. Previously, you had to click each one individually, which was tedious for people with lots of gadgets installed. The new updater also automatically checks to make sure a plug-in is compatible with your WordPress install, so you don’t have to fear something mysteriously breaking when you do an update.

Trash seems like something WordPress should have included a long time ago. Now instead of asking whether you really want to delete that post or file, WordPress will just move it to the new trash, where it can be recovered if you change your mind. It’s a simple feature, but I think it will avert a lot of data loss catastrophes and save a lot of hassle.

All in all, WordPress 2.9 looks like a major improvement, and it should make your blogging life easier and more productive.

[Thanks Jay ]

Vestax has introduced the Spin, a DJ music mixer for the Mac. It measures in at 14 inches x 9.5 inches x 1.5 inches and weighs just 3.2 lbs, so you won’t throw your back out lugging it from gig to gig. It’s a combination of a DJ control surface, an audio interface and DJ software.

The device connects to your MacBook or MacBook Pro via the USB port and lets you select songs from your iTunes library. The Spin will be available in Japan this December for 30,000 Yen or about $330.

In 1995 Web was set to Web browsers, Windows 95 & Aol changed the world. 15 years later Fluid took it to to the Dock – Any Site Becomes its OWN APP!

Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or Pandora fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times? Are you tired of some random site or Flash ad crashing your browser and causing you to lose your (say) Google Docs data in another tab?

If so, Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) provide a great solution for your WebApp woes. Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite WebApps as a separate Cocoa desktop application. Fluid gives any WebApp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, logical separation from your other web browsing activity, and many, many other goodies.

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