iPad Basics

Closer Looks at iPad’s Interface and Gestures

by Patrick Jordan February 5, 2010

The image above shows the Pages word processing app on the iPad, part of the iWork suite for iPad.  The tool shown in the image is apparently called the Document Navigator, and looks extremely useful. It’s one of many iPad UI (user interface) elements that are highlighted and discussed at an excellent Flickr set created [...]

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How Easy or Hard Will Typing on the iPad Be?

by Patrick Jordan February 3, 2010

Image Source: gdgt.com A blog site with the splendid name of ‘The Russians Used a Pencil’ has a post up with some thoughts on typing on the iPad.  The author feels that typing in landscape mode should be fairly ‘adequate’ even for longer text entry, but that portrait mode may be a very different, and [...]

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iPad to Allow for Easier File Sharing, but Still Very Limited File System Access

by Patrick Jordan February 1, 2010

Apple is dramatically rethinking how applications organize their documents on iPad, leaving behind the jumbled file system and making file access between the iPad and desktop computers seamless. That’s an excerpt from a report at Apple Insider on how Apple is ‘re-inventing’ file access and wireless sharing on the iPad. The article talks about how [...]

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iPad Dock Will Hold 6 Icons? [iPad Interface]

by Patrick Jordan January 31, 2010

As developers continue to dissect the iPad SDK we’re gradually learning more and more about what it contains, and what’s different on the iPad to what we’re used to on the iPhone OS. Here’s an interesting one – it appears that six icons can fit on the iPad dock.  A whopping 50% improvement over the [...]

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