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Does WiFi work well for everything but your spanking new iPad? Fret no more, dear fanboys: Apple Support is here! Earlier today, the mighty Apple people posted a knowledge base article addressing the wifi issues that have been plaguing iPad buyers everywhere. While the initial piece only acknowledges limited issues with multi-band routers, look for the Cupertino support staff to update this a bit further as more fixes come in. Source: MacWorld…

Want an iPad but don’t have the $499+ to spend on one? Don’t worry if you don’t because I certainly can’t afford one. For all of us less-than-rich folks, we might be able to enjoy something similar.. at a significantly lower price. The PixelPad is a new product being offered at a much lower price compared to the iPad. People won’t have to break the bank because of their need for shiny, new electronics. Instead, designers and developers can purchase this handy tool in packages starting at $24.00, 49.00 and $99.00. All include at least 1 pad, 1 refill, 1 Sharpie marker and a few other pens ready for sketching….

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a flawed concept, but content publishers are clinging to it as a means of maintaining control. Is it possible to maintain control of digital media in the internet age, and is the recent trend towards Software-as-a-Service just a new kind of DRM? Digital Rights Management and its proponents are fighting a constant battle to combat an obvious truth in digital technology: if you can see it or hear it, you can duplicate it in perfect quality. This simple fact hasn’t prevented companies from experimenting, sometimes with very public and almost farcical results….

The WritePad is an iPad application that identifies a person’s handwriting. The WritePad allows users to write down information in their own handwriting with their finger or using the iPad pen. The handwriting application will learn a person’s handwriting over time. WritePad can do things that a notebook can’t. The WritePad can do simple tasks that you would find in a Microsoft Word program such as select text, copy, cut, paste, insert special characters, spelling and grammar check and auto-corrector. WritePad also comes with a Shorthand feature which allows users to do editing tasks,…

The iPad may be grabbing headlines everywhere today – it’s hard to find anyone talking about something else – but Apple’s made a few enemies on its way here, and now Nokia plans its own iPad killer, set to ship this fall. Rodman Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar says Nokia is working with suppliers and design manufacturers on a touch-screen tablet. “Nokia hasn’t fielded any breakaway products in years,” he said as reported by The Street. “This is a new window, and Nokia had better be at the starting gate if and when the product category takes off,” he said….

As if the iPad and Netflix weren’t cool enough on their own! It was announced on April 2 that Netflix members will now be able to stream unlimited movies and t.v. episodes right to their iPad. Bored in class or at work? Stuck on the bus or train? Traveling for business or pleasure? Browse through everything that Netflix offers and you’ll be sure to find something that fits your mood, the genre you enjoy or just the right show or movie to pass the time.You can chose to watch the movie instantly but there’s also an option to save the title to a Queue for viewing at a later time or date. Netflix is the world’s largest…

The Apple iPad has been jailbroken according to notorious hacker, MuscleNerd, who published this video showing the achievement. A member of the infamous iPhone Dev Team, the developer took just one day to crack Apple security, which he managed through use of a variant of the existing iPhone OS 3.1.3 jailbreak. Most jailbreaks use vulnerabilities either in Safari or the OS itself to grant unrestricted access, this is thought to have been the M.O. for this break-in. What’s it mean? For most of us, not too much, but if you want to install software other than that available from the App Store then…

iTunes keeps cosying-up to Facebook, the world’s largest social network. Now it seems Apple plans to support Facebook Connect, enabling a wave of networking opportunities for music fans. Apple has been promoting iTunes through Facebook for ages. Its UK iTunes Festival last year offered free tickets, music and other promotions to customers via Facebook, and in the US the iTunes team have been developing its own Facebook presence, adding polls, featured items and more. Integration between Facebook and iTunes already lets you share songs on iTunes via Facebook, though this only lets you…

Sure to be making waves this morning here’s a YouTube clip that’s spreading like a wildfire across the Apple blog-o-sphere, generating yelps of pain as it does just that. Pain? Sure, a little, that’s because the man in this clip is the CEO of a blender company called Blendtec, and this clip (the latest in a series of uber-blend-attacks) shows us what happens when you throw an iPad into a blender. Sure so what let’s cut to the chase and the question: does Apple’s hot new tablet computer offering play nice with a Blendtec blender? Does it blend? Yes, yes it does. And somewhere an Apple fanboi…

Hard-working disassembly sleuths at iFixIT spent their Easter weekend tearing an iPad apart to explore the Apple-designed A4 processor which powers the device. iSuppli tore an A4 chip apart (above), revealing it to be an ARM processor featuring package-on-package construction to improve the speed and efficiency of internal processes. Inside they found the RAM modules sit close by the processor, a move which speeds access to memory, cuts power consumption and reduces latency….