Touch User Guide for the Apple iPad

MaxiVista turns your iPad into a wireless monitor for your Windows PC.

Don’t let your iPad gather dust while you work on your Laptop or Desktop – MaxiVista gives your iPad a completely new purpose as an extra monitor. MaxiVista increases your desktop real estate by up to 40% allowing you to seamlessly move your program windows from your PC to the iPad screen as if it was one large monitor.

Features:

• Fully automatic configuration. Install & Go!
• Automatic update of the display orientation by simply turning the iPad.
• MaxiVista is the first to support Windows Vista/7 including its latest WDDM video driver technology.
• MaxiVista also works in existing multi monitor configurations.
• The 32 and 64 Bit virtual video drivers are certified for Windows.
• Automatic network parameter detection.
• The iPad’s IP address can, optionally, be configured manually.

Fabulapps, makers of fabulous and addictive iPhone games, have released the highly anticipated CrossRoads HD time-management game for the iPad, quenching the gaming world’s thirst for line-drawing fun and stunning effects on the iPad’s larger touch screen. The game is simple and addictive – guide little cars across the screen to their destinations, without letting them crash. As more time passes, more vehicles come onto the screen. Players try to handle as many cars as they can for as long as they can.

“Since we released the original iPhone version of CrossRoads,” explains Thomas Pagot, co-founder of Fabulapps, “many players have asked us to bring it on the iPad. And frankly, we’re amazed at how the iPad has improved the CrossRoads game-play.”

With the iPhone version of CrossRoads having already garnered many praising reviews and much excitement in the gaming community, Fabulapps made a great game better by offering the new iPad version in high-definition (HD), adding six stunning maps (including Lunar, Traditional Japan and Halloween Night) and unveiling sleek new special effects and game-changing “events.”

Lilliput Labs has announced the release and immediate availabilty of Mailboxes 1.2 for the iPad. Mailboxes is a multi-user Gmail client designed to make accessing your Gmail and Google Apps emails easier on a shared iPad while still keeping them private. Mailboxes 1.2 adds offline support and fast account switching.

Mailboxes 1.2 adds a much-requested feature, offline access to your email. Mailboxes now caches your email for offline reading, leveraging Gmail’s HTML5 based storage. Also included in the new release is fast account switching, significantly decreasing the time Mailboxes takes to switch between different Gmail accounts. Mailboxes is simple to use, all you have to do is enter your Gmail or Google Apps account credentials in once, as well as an optional 4-digit passcode. When you want to access your email, simply select it and you’ll be prompted for your passcode. Once you’ve entered it, Mailboxes will then load up your email in the familiar iPad-optimised Gmail web interface.

Apple has just issued a press release, announcing the availability of the iPad in 9 more countries this Friday. The countries are: Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore.

CUPERTINO, California—July 19, 2010—Apple® today announced that iPad™ will be available in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore this Friday, July 23. iPad allows users to connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. Users can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, all using iPad’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ user interface. iPad is 0.5 inches thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds—thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook—and delivers up to 10 hours of battery life.*

iPad is currently available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the US for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for 16GB, $599 (US) for 32GB, and $699 (US) for 64GB for iPad Wi-Fi models and $629 (US) for 16GB, $729 (US) for 32GB and $829 (US) for 64GB for iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G models. iPad will roll out to many more countries later this year and Apple will announce availability and local pricing for these additional countries at a later date.

Not really iPad ‘news’ as such, but it’s kinda cool to see Michael Bay using his iPad on the set of Transformers 3

Padgadget has completed a series of follow up tests on the iPad’s Wi-Fi performance after upgrading to the 3.2.1 firmware. They tested both the iPad Wi-Fi only and the iPad 3G using a series of six tests at different distances and with varying interference.

In order to keep things simple, we focused on speed. The test is a mix of content download as well as raw http performance tests via speedtest.net, repeated 10 times for each test, and averaged out (normalized to a scale going from 0 to 100, 100 representing the best throughput we could measure).

Update your iPad through iTunes now

It has been reasonably assumed that Apple will bring FaceTime to the iPod touch and iPad in the future. Here is how they are planning to do it.

According to a BoyGeniusReport source, Your Apple ID will be registered with your device/s, and that will allow other Apple devices to start a FaceTime call using your email address. Apple will also reportedly make use of push notifications to deliver these incoming FaceTime connection requests as we have been informed there is a push notification detector tied into the FaceTime frameworks in the new iPhone OS 4.1 beta.

The site has managed to obtain some screenshots showing the registration of your email for FaceTime which can be seen below…

App Apps has announced the release of version 1.5 of Audiotorium Notes for iPad with added localization support, new features for organizing notes and user interface streamlining. With this latest release App Apps continues to improve upon their note taking product. Founder Michael Emmons had this to say about the latest release, “We have the privilege of working with some of the most enthusiastic users around. We receive great feedback from them. This release continues to incorporate their ideas and suggestions. Our goal is to make the Audiotorium Notes user experience the best it can possibly be and so we are always excited when we release a new version.”

Audiotorium Notes is a great way to record, organize, review and share your audio and text notes from your meetings, classes, and conferences. Using Categories, Subjects and Notes, you can keep everything organized in the way that makes the most sense to you. It’s perfect for the business professional or student.

Audiotorium Notes is $7.99 USD

Intersog has announced the release and immediate availability of Pocket Manager: Accounting & Finance 1.0 for the iPad. A complete professional-level business course geared for those without an Accounting and Finance background, Pocket Manager: Accounting & Finance is the ideal learning tool to quickly get up to speed on these invaluable subjects. Pocket Manager: Accounting & Finance is available on the iTunes App store. Pocket Manager: Accounting & Finance has already reached #58 in Top Grossing iPad Business apps in the iTunes App Store. New features added to both the iPhone and iPod versions of Pocket Manager: Accounting & Finance include an in-app search feature and several social networking options. Users can also enhance their app experience by selecting and emailing course text to friends or associates as well as posting messages on Facebook and Twitter from directly within the application.

Pocket Manager: Accounting & Finance is a full-featured business course logically divided into 3 distinct sections: course, flashcards and tests. The full-text course book contains 7 chapters that cover every facet financial management. A handy bookmarking feature allows users to save their place anywhere in the course and to resume from that point upon restart. And to help users with terms they may not understand, a course glossary is provided for easy access to definitions from within the app. After the course text is completed, users have access to a set of interactive flashcards designed to prepare them for the in-course texts. Comprehensive tests follow each chapter, designed to reinforce the learning process. Detailed explanations are provided for each right or wrong answer and tests can be saved and retaken, so users can track their learning progress.