Touch User Guide for the Apple iPad

HyperMac Stand is the first and only iPad stand with a built-in 16 hour battery pack. 2 rubberized slots hold the iPad at 18° and 45°, in portrait and landscape positions, with and without a case. Most iPad stands in the market are either bulky or heavy or both. HyperMac Stand makes cleaver use of the natural weight of the lithium-ion battery cells to provide added stability, creating one of the most compact pocket-sized iPad stand available in the market with unsurpassed stability. Whatever little weight (12.7oz / 360g) the user have to carry is actually useful power to extend the iPad battery life by more than 1.5 times.

You can purchase the HyperMac Stand for $129.99. It ships in 2 weeks.

About the Guys from The Wallee: The wallee was developed by a small group of fanatics, all of whom flew to New York City and lined up to be among the first to purchase the ‘magical’ iPad. Yes, we’re that kind of crazy. iPad’s in hand, we jetted back to Australia, and very soon realized that we had uncontrollable urges to hang our iPad’s everywhere; next to our phones for quick message taking and calendar checking, on our kitchen back-splash to follow recipes of epicurious, at the foot of our bath for relaxing movie watching, in our offices as an extension of our work space, on our hallway walls to display pictures of family and friends, and the list goes on and on and on.

The Wallee case enables your iPad to connect to your wall perfectly for use in the kitchen, bathroom or office. We will be doing a video review of this product in the next week or so. Stay tuned.

TouchArcade reports: Across Age is an RPG loaded with puzzles that take advantage of the game’s two main gameplay mechanics: Being able to control two separate characters at once, and heaps of time travel. The game also features massive bosses, which everyone loves, and of course each boss has its own gimmick (usually utilizing an ability you just unlocked) which must be exploited to defeat it. Overall, I had a fun time playing through Across Age as it tickled both my nostalgia for similar games of the Super Nintendo era, while being just fresh enough to not feel blatantly “inspired” by those same games.

FDG Entertainment has been hard at work on an iPad version of the game, and have redrawn all of the graphics in the process. The HD version also has combat and character movement tweaks with customizable on-screen controls. There’s even going to be a bonus dungeon and boss fight, which hopefully will be cool enough to give players a reason go play through the game again if they’ve already beat it on the iPhone or iPod touch.

FDG is planning on releasing Across Age HD sometime next month for $7.99. The screenshots they’ve sent us so far look awesome, and I can’t wait to run through the game again on my iPad.

TUAW reports: A company called Airturn has developed the BT-105, a Bluetooth foot switch for turning pages on the iPad forward and backward using a tap of a foot. As Hugh Sung explains in the video above, it allows instrumentalists who are busy with both hands to use a toe to tap one of the two switches to move through the score easily.

Gameloft has tweeted that Shrek Kart HD is now on sale for $0.99 for a limited time. Vie for the title of Kingdom’s Fastest Kart Racer as you speed through HD environments throughout Far Far Away and beyond in highly-detailed karts! Check out the new iPad features like the redesigned mini-map and new customizable interface!

Flipboard takes your Facebook and Twitter and turns it into a magazine for the iPad.

Flipboard is the world’s first social magazine. Your Flipboard is a fast, beautiful way to flip through news, photos and updates your friends are sharing on Facebook and Twitter. And it’s an incredible place to discover fresh content from around the Twittersphere. Flipboard brings the timeless layout of print media to social media. No more scrolling through long lists of posts and links. No more jumping back and forth between websites. Your Flipboard is everything you care about in one place. It’s your magazine. It’s your Flipboard.

You can download Flipboard from the App Store for free.

Check out this video which shows how Aircord is using the iPad to create 3D images. In this example the iPad is placed on top of a see-through pyramid. It then projects a series of images that reflect off the pyramid to create a 3D illusion.

N-3D DEMO from aircord on Vimeo.

Youssef Francis has released YourTube HD for the iPad, a jailbroken application which lets you save YouTube videos for future viewing.

If you own an iPad, you may have been bothered by your crushing inability to save YouTube movies – whether you want to play back your collection offline, or just show your friends the next big thing without having to say “wait a sec, it’s buffering” – you can now do it all with YourTube HD! Like YourTube for the iPhone, we’re bringing YouTube video saving to everybody’s favourite semi-tablet device!

You can download this app from Cydia for $1.99

Business Insider reports: In the June quarter, the iPad business generated $2.2 billion of revenue for Apple. That’s more than Apple’s iPod business generated last quarter — $1.5 billion. (Though the cheaper iPod obviously had larger unit sales.) And it’s almost half as big as Apple’s 26-year-old Mac business, which put in its best quarter ever at $4.4 billion.

Griffin have just released the gorgeous ‘Loop’ Stand for your iPad. It enables you to prop up your iPad in any orientation quickly and easily. At only $30, it’s a bargain too!

Griffin Website