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  Why I Returned My iPad A little more than a week after buying the iPad, I returned it to Apple. The problem wasn't the iPad exactly, though it has some flaws. The problem was me.

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  Luxo iMac makes killer iPad stand Flickr user Rusty saw his busted G4 iMac, his iPad and had a chocolate-and-peanut butter moment. He removed the iMac's innards and display. Next he cut and molded some acrylic to accommodate the iPad and attached it to the arm. Finally, a speaker pair was placed inside the iMac case with a cable running to the iPad's headphone jack. From there, all that was left was to pair a Bluetooth keyboard and plug the iPad into a wall!

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  Amazon Vs. Apple Be Damned: Publishers Pine For A Universal E-Book Format Both want their devices — the iPad and the Kindle — to be the one consumers use to read e-books, and each wants to be the biggest virtual store were such content is sold.
  
  For Michael Serbinis, chief executive of Kobo, a company that allows users to buy e-books and read them on most devices, that battle is a distraction to the real changes coming.

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  Overseas Sales Lift iPad Past 2 Million Apple Inc. announced Monday that iPad sales have topped two million units since its launch in early April, boosted by Friday's debut in international markets.
  
  Apple iPad debuted overseas on Friday, drawing long lines of eager consumers who were hoping to get their hands on the hot-selling tablet-style computer that is still in short supply in the U.S. Bruce Orwall has details from London.
  
  The iPad went on sale in nine countries Friday -- Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the U.K. -- nearly two months after it launched in the U.S on April 3. Since going on sale, Apple has had trouble keeping up with demand, forcing the company to push back the international launch by a month. Apple reiterated Monday that the iPad will be available in nine more countries in July.

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  Tired of waiting for a real Chinese iPad? Meet the iPed What's funny is that the device is on sale in Shenzhen, China. Shenzhen is the location of the largest Foxconn plant, where the iPad (and iPhone) is manufactured (and where a number of suicides have happened lately). The iPed comes packaged in a box that looks a lot like the iPad.

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  Kindle for iPad - Amazon Kindle App for iPad official worldwide "Worldwide" here means all geographical locations that currently offer the iPad, which means you can now select from hundreds of thousands of books available in the Kindle Store on iPad. The inclusion of Amazon Whispersync technology will help save and synchronize customers’ last page read, bookmarks, notes and highlights across their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, iPad and other compatible devices.

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  Barnes & Noble Launches iPad eReader App Barnes & Noble has released an electronic-reader application for the iPad, making it possible for users of Apple's slate computer to buy, download and read digital books from B&N's catalog of more than 1 million e-books, newspapers and magazines.
  
  In launching eReader for iPad Thursday, B&N is catching up with rival Amazon, which launched its Kindle app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch last month. Amazon and Apple launched their respective e-book reader applications the day the iPad was released.

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  Biz: Apple iPad: Tablet market worth more than $2bn by 2012, says Deloitte Apple's iPad will kick-start a computing revolution that will see the tablet market worth more than $2bn by the end of next year, a leading analyst has predicted.
  
  Paul Lee, director of technology research at Deloitte, said that tablet computers would "thrive" this year, despite enjoy only modest success over the last decade.
  
  "Tablets offer a more appealing balance of form and function," said Lee. "The integration of wireless connectivity in to every tablet shipped is transformative; it redefines the uses that tablets can be put to. Improvements in touch-screen technology, power management and storage all combine to make the net tablet a compelling device."

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  ReBirth for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch ReBirth, which simulates two Roland TB-303 bass synthesizers, as well as the TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines, changed all that. Now producing quality electronica didn't depend on a studio filled with professional recording gear and vintage instruments.
  
  Finally, after over 10 years, Rebirth goes mobile with an iPhone version of the venerable program. The sound quality and functionality are exactly like the original. In fact, the user interface is too much like the original, as the ReBirth for the iPhone fails to leverage some of the innovations of Apple's multi-touch interface.
  Rebirth for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch Features
  
  * Two Simulated TB-303 Bassline Synthesizers
  * One Simulated TR-808 Drum Machine
  * One Simulated TR-909 Drum Machine
  * Time-based Effects
  * Five Mods from Original Desktop Software

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  Edmonton gets second Apple store tomorrow 8am tomorrow (Friday) the new Apple Store, Southgate Centre, in Edmonton opens. Expect to see all the amazing things iPad can do, learn about the Mac, get set up on iPhone, check out an iPod, and more. When you get to the store, find a Specialist in a blue shirt. The Specialists are your guides to everything from checking in for an appointment to instant checkout. If you're one of the first 1000 visitors, you'll get a free Apple T-shirt.*

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  The Mongoliad App: Neal Stephenson's Novel of the Future? This may, possibly, be one future of the novel: as an app. And who better to push the limits of writing than Neal Stephenson, an author whose novels have already explored weird and unusual corners of sci-fi, including intelligent books.
  
  Late yesterday in San Francisco, at the SF App Showcase, a sneaky little startup company called Subutai demonstrated some of the tech that'll be going into the Mongoliad app. This oddly-named creature is actually what we're interested in--a reinvention of the novel as a serialized publication through a dedicated app. Stephenson isn't the only one taking part, as both Greg Bear and Nicole Galland will be writing too, but Stephenson is really the core of the project.

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