Links About the iPad Collection

Links Collection

• 1.13.20118 great ipad games
  Alas, these great games will cost you. But buyers of iPad are supposed to be rich.:)
  
  
• undated PCWorld, all the best tablets
  
  
  
• 2.04.2011Washington Post Great iPad Apps for kids!
  
  
• 1.05.2011 TCGeeks
  
  Basically the article mentions basic applications to install which should helpyou be productive with the ipad.
  
  

  calendaring tools	CalenGoo,iCal
  todo lists	ToodleDo
  office docs	Documents to go

  
  
• 6.2010 PCMag Best 50 iPad Applications
  
  
• 9.07.2010 Honeytech: 30 Best iPad Applications
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 7.28.2010 Apple sued over overheating iPads.
  Tablet doesn't function 'under common weather conditions,' lawsuit says.
  
  
  
• 4.15.2010 The Best 20 iPad Apps
  From Extreme Tech.
  
  
• 4.02.2010 engadget: photos of ipad internals
  For FCC compliance, manufacturers required to submit prototytypes for testing.
  
  
  
• 4.02.2010 FAQ about the iPad
  From Macworld. General questions about the iPad from its design to applications.
  
  
  
• 1.29.2010
  Apple's $499 - $829 iPad: GPS, Map, Navigation Features
  GPS and navigation software for the iPAD.
  
  
  
• 1.28.2010
  iPad Vs. iPhone: 9 Things The iPad Has The iPhone DOESN'T (PHOTOS)
  From more memory, to bigger higher resolution screen, to bigger keyboard, to larger number of applications on day one!
  
  
• General undated links:
  
  Broadcom BCM4750 product
  The aGPS chip used in the iPad.
  
  
  

GPS not working?!

I tapped on the Maps application and it does not tell me my current location. The iPad was only on wifi and I went to the WWW and was informed that it will take 15 minutes to determine location. However, a popup message informed me "Cannot Determine Location"!

I was puzzled why there were those who wrote that 3G must be turned on. Since I had no prepaid load on my SIM, I have turned the Settings>Carrier off. Turning it on, the iPad Maps application rapidly zeroed on my location! I think the ipad is not really using a GPS, but rather computes location using cell towers signald based on strength and applying a simple triangulation.


And wonder of wonders, after turning off my 3G Carrier, the iPad Map program was now able to show my location!


A simple geolocation service has expropriated the GPS(Global Positioning System) moniker!

Free Earthquake software gives me alarming news of current earthquakes.

The free earthquake software gives a nice synthesis of maps and client-push-on alerts of earthquakes happening somewhere on the Earth's crust.


It is informative but the frequent alarms (popup news of the most recent earthquakes) cannot give me peace of mind. I will remove it some of these days unless I get used to it and accept the fact that yes! the Earth is "alive" and is a geologically active body in the Universe.

Ipad saves me from buying a portable electronic piano.

Last December I passsed by an appliance store in Trinoma, and I was impressed by the low prices (less than 10,000 pesos of a Casio portable piano. When you dont even know how to play the piano, carrying a portale piano (or music keyboards) does not have appeal, unless you want to show off silly that you have it!

Browsing the iPAD store , I was lucky to find free piano software name appropriately "Piano Free". When I presented it to my niece, she immediately liked it so much.

I will have to spend more time with this eMusic software for iPAD before I give a more critical review. Buying an IPAD may be the best decision one can make, and it can be helped by people or organizations offering free software or by Apple opening up the SDK to developers, especially Python programmers, and offering IDEs.

There are other free piano softwares, and I suggest to try out the free ones first so to get the feel. But most softwares for the iPad are cheap!

Simple stat appliction provides basic statistical tests.

Simple stat for the IPAD provides basic statistical tests. These are

1. Z-test for mean
2. Z-test for proportion
3. t-test for mean (sigma unknown)
4. two sample t-test
5. paired T-test

YOu cant complain about the price (it is free). These are quite easy to implement as a web service. See for example our very own Extreme adorio-research.org


All statistical tests are double-sided tests.
We expect this software to grow in features.

Nearly paid 15,000 pesos for a KIndle.

What's a piece about the Kindle doing here? Actually my iPAD has a Kindle application and I would like to warn my readers not to rush out buying the actual Kindle reader.

When I was serious about buying one last December, the price offered was 15,500 with black leather case for a Kindle with wifi. Now the advertised price is only US 139 dollars! That converts to 6,255 pesos only. Of course buying directly might set you back even more by paying for shipping, but it should not end up worth more than 10,000 pesos.

So Amazon should be commended for making their e-reader more affordable, but you should not pay too much for it in the Philippines.

For the specifications, visit Kindle 3 specs.

If you wait a few months out, we believe it will go down in price more.

Cheapest Screen Protector for the iPAD? - 93 pesos only!

I visited SM Clark today and I was pleasantly surprised that NBS (National Book Store) sells a screen protector for only 93 pesos! Compare that with 150 pesos from CDRKing but theirs were never on stock at its SM Clark branch even today!





However the packaging leaves a lot to be desired, the cleaning cloth is even exposed to the air! Duh.

A friend actually wanted to give me one last December, but in my haste to apply it, the plastic protector ended up full of air bubbles.