We’ve tried many different wireless speakers for our iPad and the Android phone, but the first one we really liked is “Edge Sound” from CubEdge. It’s a black box shorter than a human hand and weighing just 9 ounces.
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October set a record for iPad trade-ins, according to SellCell.com, a site where you can trade in yours. People are trading in the third generation iPad to get the iPad Mini or fourth-generation iPad. They typically get about $350 for the iPad 3, which sold for $699. The iPad 2, which brought in $371 before the Mini was announced, now typically goes for less than $200. Android tablet
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We gave our 89 year-old aunt an iPad recently, her first ever computer of any kind. It not only baffles her, what’s worse is none of her senior friends and neighbors can figure it out either. They all live in Palm Desert, where last week it was 114 in the shade – and there is no shade. The sun kind of bakes your brain.
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We’ve read many times that iPad owners tend to be affluent, but a recent survey nailed down the numbers: According to ComScore.com, forty-six percent of iPad owners make more than $100,00 a year, compared with 32 percent of Android owners. So there!
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RetinaMacApps.com lists the apps that work best with the Retina Display Macbook Pro. You wouldn’t want to have a fantastic screen and not get the most out of it, would you?
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Some readers have asked our opinion about whether to buy a Kindle, a Nook, an iPad or the new Google Nexus 7 for some home reading and viewing. So here’s our take.
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The “BooqPad” is the first iPad case we’ve seen that lets you store a small paper notebook off to the side. Who doesn’t want to take hand-written notes once in a while? Actually, we still write things down every day.
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“My New iPad,” by Wallace Wang, is the third edition of a popular user guide on how to do just about anything and everything on the iPad. It’s $25 from nostarch.com.
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Drums! is a 99-cent drum-playing app for the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch. Unlike GarageBand, there’s no learning curve here, just pound away. A similar app called Drums HD is free for Android phones and tablets.
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GarageBand for the iPad is out in an updated version and is just $5 from the App store. It fixes a bug that previously caused people to lose songs they uploaded to the cloud, Apple’s online storage area. GarageBand comes with so many instruments and options, we wonder if anyone creates music, or do they get lost in fiddling with the dials. So we went to YouTube and looked them up. You can see and hear some pretty good performances. In any event, this is a lot fun for $5.
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