The flipside of the iPad’s seemingly inexhaustible battery life is that the length of time it takes to recharge it is best measured in epochs. Turns out, some methods work better than others. There’s a lot of ways to recharge an iPad—thank you, USB—but the iPad is finicky. For a portable, it has high power [...]
Mount External Hard Drive on iPad [jailbreak]
by Karthik on May 11, 2010 in iPad jailbreak, iPad Tips, Jailbreak, Jailbreak tips, Tips & Tricks
Do you want to add an external gard drive to your iPad? Maxwell C. Shay has found a way to get his jailbroken iPad to recognize an external hard drive to it. The process is a bit unweildy complicated but if you are into such things, you’ll sure dig it. The basics behind this process [...]
iPad International Rollout & Pricing Information
by Karthik on May 10, 2010 in Apple News
Apple enthusiasts from Australia, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, Spain and Japan can pre-order the Apple iPad from their Apple Stores. We got some information on iPad International rollout last week and announced a launch date of May 28. Now, the pricing information in various countries have hit the wire and here they [...]
iPad 3G vs iPad WiFi – An Extensive Comparison Including Battery Life
by Karthik on May 7, 2010 in Apple News, Featured
iLounge has posted an extensive comparison between the Apple iPad 3G + WiFi versus the Apple iPad WiFi models. Many of you are probably debating which model would work better for you. Is the extra money for the 3G model worth it? What about the battery life hit that comes with 3G. We all know [...]
Apple iPad Available Internationally on May 28
by Karthik on May 7, 2010 in Apple News
Apple just announced their Apple iPad rollout plans for 8 countries – Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Apple will start taking pre-orders on May 10 and the iPad will become available on May 28. Local pricing will be disclosed at a later date! UK Pricing announced (Update) £429 (inc. [...]
Tip: How to Run iPhone Apps in iPad Without Pixel Doubling?
by Karthik on May 4, 2010 in Featured, iPad Tips, Jailbreak tips, Tips & Tricks
When Apple said you can run all the iPhone apps on my iPad, I was so excited. Until, I actually looked at the way iPad displays iPhone apps – pixel doubled. What if you could run all iPhone apps in the native iPad resolution instead of pizel doubling? MacStories has put together a nice tutorial [...]
List of iPad Compatible Jailbreak Apps [updated]
by Karthik on May 4, 2010 in Cydia tweaks, iPad jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak apps
So, the easiest jailbreak of all – Spirit jailbreak for iPad was just released. You have successfully jailbroken your iPad and have Cydia and probably Rock installed. There are a ton of apps, winterboard themes, utilities, etc. in the various repositories. You might have seen that some apps work fine and some don’t. Worst case, [...]
Funny Flowchart: Should I buy an iPad?
by Karthik on May 3, 2010 in Apple News, Featured
If you are reading our blog, you probably already own one of these shiny toys. If you are on the fence about getting one, this funny flowchart from BBspot could help you out. Here is a PDF version if you would like to print it. Seriously, if you are really asking us if you should [...]
Spirit Jailbreak for Apple iPad 3.2
by Karthik on May 3, 2010 in Featured
Traditionally the iPhone & iPod Touch jailbreak involved a tethered boot. You would need a computer with your iDevice connected via USB during boot time for the jailbreak to work. In the firmware 1.x days, there was a vulnerability which let people do untethered jailbreak. @Comex has found an exploit to run an untethered jailbreak [...]
1 Million Apple iPads Sold in 28 days
by Karthik on May 3, 2010 in Apple News, Featured
Apple has just released a press release saying they just sold 1 Million Apple iPads in just 28 days! We knew that they had sold 300,000 iPads on the day of it’s launch but to sell 1 Million in 28 days is just amazing! Here is the copy of Apple’s Press release CUPERTINO, California—May 3, [...]
Welcome to Top iPad Resource!
by Karthik on May 3, 2010 in Featured, Site News
Welcome to our new blog Top iPad Resource! Many of you might know us, Shriya & Karthik from our sister blogs elsewhere – Top iPhone Resource, ShanKrila, Spicy Tasty, Camerani, etc. We had registered TopiPadResource.com with the intention of launching this blog along with the Apple iPad launch date. But, we decided to hold off [...]
Apple Tablet aka iPad Revealed At Apple Event
by karthik on January 27, 2010 in Apple iPad
Steve Jobs just announced the Apple iPad at the Apple Event! Here is what I gathered from listening to live stream of audio from the event and following the live blogs. Apple iPad Features Glossy black surface around the high resolution (?) screen Mac OS X like dock Huge virtual keypad just like the iPhone [...]
Apple tablet aka iSlate in Full Production – Says Analyst
by karthik on January 15, 2010 in iPhone News
We might be the last iPhone blog on earth to report on the rumored Apple Tablet that is exciting the tech world! As the purported Apple event date – Jan 27th approaches the rumor noise level is going up as expected. In fact an analyst at AVI Securities said today that the Apple tablet is [...]
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