iPad Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

New iPad to be released in Philippines, Guam on May 29th

by Steven Sande (May 25th, 2012)

While it seems like the new iPad is available everywhere on the planet, there are still locations where it's impossible to find one. Apple has announced that the newest member of the iPad family will find its way to two new locations in the ...

Microsoft Office for iPad reportedly on track for November release

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 25th, 2012)

A recent report from BGR reiterates the earlier claim from The Daily that Microsoft is working on a version of Office for the iPad. According to BGR, Microsoft is bringing the complete Office suite to both the iPad and Android tablets by ...

iPhone, iPad optics add night vision for covert missions

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 25th, 2012)

The iPhone and iPad are consumer devices, but they're powerful enough to be used in a variety of industries, including the military and law enforcement. One such military tool is a new hardware and software system from Special Operations Apps ...

HAND Stylus jumps from Kickstarter to your iOS device

by Steven Sande (May 24th, 2012)

While the bloggers here at TUAW are of varied opinions about whether or not one should use a stylus with a touchscreen, we love to see the products that innovative manufacturers come up with. A recent Kickstarter project that is now 514 percent ...

Jetpack Joyride goes to the dogs

by Mike Schramm (May 24th, 2012)

Man, Halfbrick's just not giving up on Jetpack Joyride. We just recently had a huge gadgets update for the game that added all sorts of tweaks to the jetpack action, and now here's another big update, out today, that gives Barry Steakfries a ...

Introducing a better mobile web experience for TUAW

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 24th, 2012)

Remember when the iPhone debuted and tuaw.com crashed mobile Safari? Good times. We quickly rolled out i.tuaw.com as an interim solution, but it was very stripped down and not ideal. We eventually added the ability to visit the full site, and ...

Tweetbot update adds location-based searching

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 24th, 2012)

The 2.4 update to Tweetbot for iPhone and iPad adds a number of new features, but the biggest one is an updated search feature that gives users the chance to view tweets made nearby. You can change location to do searches in different ...

Apple pulls Airfoil Speakers Touch from the App Store (Updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 24th, 2012)

Update: CoM says a tipster tells them this is because Airfoil Speakers Touch may be duplicating functionality we're going to see in iOS 6. That was our guess as well. Apple has pulled Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil Speakers Touch from the App Store. ...

Satechi Bluetooth Multi-Media Remote for iPhone, iPad

by Steven Sande (May 24th, 2012)

For those exasperating situations when you just can't be bothered to get up out of your seat and reach for the iPhone or iPad you're using to watch video or listen to music, accessory manufacturer Satechi has just the answer. It's the Bluetooth ...

Credit card-sized stylus in the works at Quirky

by Steven Sande (May 24th, 2012)

Quirky is a design shop that uses ideas from a crowd of contributors and influencers to create new products. In the past, it's come up with some incredibly useful Apple-related accessories like the US$12.99 Power Curl, which has made its ...

The TechCrunch iPad app is slick and simple

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 24th, 2012)

If you're looking for an app-based TechCrunch experience on your iPad, here it is. The iPad app is a streamlined experience over the site in Safari, presenting a simple list of categories to choose from, and 3 basic feeds: the main river (which ...

Yahoo! Axis delivers synchronized browsing for iPad and desktop

by Michael Rose (May 23rd, 2012)

Want your desktop browser pages to show up on your iPhone or iPad, so you can keep on browsing where you left off? There are a few products already offering this feature, including the capable Firefox Home, but Yahoo's mobile product team didn't ...

Meet Heckerty, well-known British children's story, makes its way to the iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 23rd, 2012)

Meet Heckerty is a delightful British children's story starring Heckerty, a "zany, 409-year-old, upside-down-on-her-broomstick, green-faced witch," and her sidekick cat Zanzibar. The traditional story has made its way to the iPad with a ...

Google search app for iPhone, iPad re-designed

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 23rd, 2012)

For some reason I hadn't quite relegated the Google Search app on my iPhone to a folder, where most apps go to die. But it should have. The old Google Search app was atrocious -- a seemingly willful expenditure of effort on something so terrible ...

Hands on with the iKlip Studio stand for iPad

by Matt Tinsley (May 23rd, 2012)

It's difficult to get excited about a stand for the iPad, unless it's something exceptional. But most of the time, a stand is to serve a very practical need. And with IK Multimedia producing a vast array of accessories and applications for ...

What happens in a toddler's brain when they use an iPad

by Mike Schramm (May 23rd, 2012)

Those of us who have used traditional computers for a while think the iPad is pretty magical. t's super fast, super portable, and the direct interactivity is a very different experience from what we're used to with a mouse and keyboard. But ...