Please, Apple, Make the iPad Keyboard Work Like This

Typing on the iPad can be a pain when you're trying to get things written out in a flash. A guy named Daniel Hooper came up with an alternative way to make the typing process faster on the iPad. Help him out by following the simple steps given below and send his idea to Apple. The likelihood of you being impressed after watching this video is high.

Follow the directions below to let Apple know you want this feature. You can also share this with your friends so more people are involved! Follow @danielchooper on Twitter to stay up to date on this and other cool projects.

1. Go to bugreport.apple.com, sign in and click "New Problem"
2. Set the Title to "Editing Text on iPad (duplicate of rdar://11365152)"
3. Set the Product to "iPad", Version Number to "N/A", Classification to "Feature (New)" and Is It Reproducible to "Not Applicable"
4. Copy the letter below and paste it in the Problem Details section then click submit

I just saw Daniel Hooper's iPad keyboard demo and I want that for my iPad! (Check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGQTaHGQ04Q) Apple says the iPad is the future of the Post-PC world; if it's going to be my primary keyboard, I want a better way to edit text! 

Tapping directly on text to move the cursor works well for small portions of text, but we don't just write short portions of text anymore! When performing lots of edits in larger documents the direct interaction metaphor falls apart for cursor control. Even short portions of text can be painful to edit when you need to move the cursor to a precise location. Would you ever want to write a document on your computer without using the arrow keys? This is the reality iPad users face because they do not have the equivalent of arrow keys. There is a better way.

Take advantage of gestures by making a drag over the keyboard UI move the cursor. Move the cursor in word increments when dragging with two fingers. And finally, let the user select text while dragging when they hold down shift.


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Can A ZipLock Bag Protect An iPad From Water?

Interesting idea...I'm sure this would make bath time much more fun! Although, I wouldn't recommend trying this unless you have excess amounts of iPads at home or you don't mind possibly ruining a perfectly good device. This one seems to keep working after the man holds it under the water for a while, but I'm gonna take a big guess and say it probably started acting funny short after the iPad wash.

Prepare yourself for the video, since most likely you won't know what they're saying. Unless, of course, you speak japanese. If you do, props!

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3 Million New iPads Sold in 3 Days

Apple announced Monday it had sold over 3 million New iPads since the new March 16th launch. This is the most successful launch yet, with CEO Tim Cook calling it a "record" weekend. Congrats, Apple! Congrats to all the lucky new users as well!

Here is a video discussing what the New iPad brings to the table:

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iPad Shipping Time Now 2 to 3 Weeks

(GTK: Good to know)

The latest generation of Apple’s iPad is slated to hit U.S. stores on March 16, but that date is no longer mentioned on Apple’s site — at least for online pre-orders.

Soon after the device’s launch, the date shifted from March 16 to March 19. Weirdly enough, now even that date is gone from Apple’s site.

Regardless of which iPad model you choose, the estimated shipping time is now “2-3 weeks.”

Updated with Apple YouTube video describing the new iPad:

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Apple Announces New iPad

Today, Apple unveiled a new iPad, the third edition of the majorly successful multitouch tablet. The new tablet includes a Retina display, a better camera, a new A5X quad-core processor, a high-speed mobile broadband technology LTE, and voice dictation support. Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, declared that this iPad, "redefines the category that Apple created with the original iPad." Here are descriptions from PCWorld explaining what each of the new features will include:

Retina Display 

Although the iPad’s display measures the same 9.7-inches (diagonal) as the first two iPads, it doubles the number of pixels in play; that means the screen now contains a whopping 2048-by-1536 pixels—264 pixels per inch—for a total of over 3.1 million pixels, which Schiller called “the most ever in a mobile device.” Apple coined the term Retina display when it unveiled the iPhone 4. It describes a screen with pixel density so high that, at normal viewing distances, the average human eye can’t discern the individual pixels.

A5X quad-core processor 

The iPhone 4S and the iPad 2 both leverage Apple’s custom-designed A5 system-on-a-chip. The iPad is instead powered by the new A5X chip. It offers four times the performance of the Tegra 3 processor that powers many Android tablets, Schiller said.

New Cameras  

The iPad now sports a 5-megapixel iSight camera with a 5-element lens, IR filter, and in-plane switching built into the iPad’s new chip. Schiller said the new iSight camera has automatic exposure and auto-focus, and now records HD video at 1080p resolution. Like the iPhone 4S’s camera, the iPad’s camera features automatic face detection, automatic exposure lock, and automatic focus lock. Also thanks to the new A5X chip, Schiller said, you also get image stabilization.

Voice Dictation 

New to the iPad is a microphone button on the virtual keyboard, one that looks just like the corresponding icon on the iPhone 4S’s keyboard. You can use that microphone for dictation anywhere the keyboard appears.

4G LTE 

LTE is a high-speed wireless broadband technology—which is as much as ten times faster as 3G Internet access. Like its predecessors, the iPad will come in both Wi-Fi-only and in mobile-broadband equipped models; the iPad will be the first iPad to offer support for high-speed LTE networks. In fact, the iPad will support HSPA+ with a maximum downlink of 21 Mbps, dual-carrier HSDPA with a maximum of 42 Mbps, and LTE with a maximum of 73 Mbps download. Schiller described the performance of the upgraded broadband technology as “amazing.” The new iPad will work with Verizon, Rogers, Bell, Telus, and AT&T for LTE support, Schiller said. All iPads will offer 3G support. The iPad can also now serve as a personal hotspot, if your carrier supports it. Because of different technologies at play, there will be different iPads for Verizon and AT&T’s networks.

New Rumors In Regards To Apple's Popular iPad

There are two different stories making it's way around in terms of the iPad. At the iPad-centric event coming up on March 7th, Apple is supposed to introduce they're looking to make a 7.85-inch iPad to compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire and the increasingly popular line of 7-inch tablets. In addition, Apple stated they're looking to introduce a cheaper 8GB version of the iPad 2. Could both of these stories be true? Yes. Is one of them most likely a myth? Yes.

PCWorld gives us the low down about what the likelihood is of these rumors being true:

DigiTimes reports that makers in Apple's supply chain have started delivering samples of 7.85-inch iPads for verification, with volume production likely to begin in the third quarter of 2012 at the earliest. This is apparently to counter the increasing popularity of the Amazon Kindle Fire, but there are several arguments against this idea. 

Apple doesn’t need a Kindle Fire competitor. Apple sold 43.1 million iPads in 2011, according to the company’s financial numbers. Amazon holds the number two tablet spot with 3.9 million Fire sales last year, which is not too bad, considering the likes of Samsung are openly admitting they are not faring well in the market. 

The only problem with that is that Amazon is actually selling the $200 7-inch Fire at a loss, about $10 per unit, hoping to recover money through content sales on the tablet. Apple on the other had, is making hundreds of dollars from each iPad sold, so it’s unlikely Apple will try to sell a smaller iPad in a similar fashion, or at a small profit margin. That’s besides Steve Jobs’ very public outing of his dislike for 7-inch tablets. 

What Apple is likely to do in order to sell a cheaper iPad is perhaps look at its iPhone lineup. Speculation of a small-screen budget iPhone is always a hot topic before each iPhone launch, but instead of making a smaller, cheaper device, Apple always opted to reduce the storage on the previous model and sell it a discount: The iPhone 4 is now $99, replaced by the iPhone 4S at the $199 price point, and the 3GS is free with a two-year contract. 

This is where DigiTimes’ second report rings true: an 8GB iPad 2 to go along with the iPad 3. This would allow Apple to sell a cheaper tablet alongside the brand new iPad 3. Now, you could argue that 8GB on an iPad is not a lot of space; you could quickly find you are out of space, as many apps and games for the tablet are quite sizeable. If the 8GB iPad 2 becomes reality, it’s likely that it won’t have a 4G version either, leaving this for its newer sibling.