iPad 2 Launch Video
I shot this video at 5pm on 25th March 2011. I was about 50th in the queue outside the Apple Store in Liverpool. I’d queued up for 7 hours and about 30 minutes later I was the owner of a brand new 64GB iPad 2.
I shot this video at 5pm on 25th March 2011. I was about 50th in the queue outside the Apple Store in Liverpool. I’d queued up for 7 hours and about 30 minutes later I was the owner of a brand new 64GB iPad 2.
One of the new features of the iPad 2 is “mirroring”. This provides the ability for the iPad to mirror (i.e duplicate) it’s output to an external display device such as a monitor, a projector or TV. The image below shows my iPad 2 connected to a 23″ monitor. The iPad’s Home Screen is displayed [...]
“Slimmer, faster and better-looking” is how I’d describe the iPad 2. Fundamentally it’s not that different to the first generation iPad which was released only 10 months ago.
I have over 100 apps on my iPhone. Some of them are used regularly, some rarely and some hardly ever or not at all (time for a cull?). So what’s the best way to organise them?
When iOS version 4.2 for the iPad was released, Apple changed the functionality of what was, until then, the “orientation lock button”. Much to the annoyance of many users (including myself), it became a “mute switch”.
Saturday morning came and we left the house in plenty of time but a combination of heavy rain, road closures and a closed car park entrance meant that I had to dump the car and run to the Apple Store. Poor Elaine spent the next 45 minutes sitting in traffic and driving round parts of [...]
So the big day arrived. I’d planned to work from home on Friday 28th (as this was the expected delivery date) and now they were being delivered a day early and I had to go into work. At just after 9:00, I got a phone call from Elaine. “Mine’s arrived but now I’ll have to [...]
When the iPad was first announced back in January I decided there and then that I wanted one (even though the UK price hadn’t been set at that point). Did I need one? Maybe, maybe not? I have an iPhone and a MacBook Pro (which I had purchased only 6 weeks previously) so from a [...]
My iPad arrived on Thursday afternoon (I bought the 64GB WiFi model). On Friday night I found a dead pixel so Saturday was spent at The Apple Store in Manchester, sorting out a new one. Sunday and Monday (a Bank Holiday in the UK) were spent setting it up and “playing” so today it got [...]
Although I started using a Mac in 2006, I still work in a Windows world so in order to keep my hand in, I decided I’d install Windows 7 – as a virtual machine inside VMWare Fusion, although the fact that I’d agreed to deliver a presentation on running Windows 7 in a virtualised environment [...]