Quick Tip: iCab for iPad/iPhone Browser

Safari iPad Annoyances No cookie management other than dump them all. No private browsing mode. No option to change the browser user agent. If you get sent to a mobile version of a site just because you are on an iPad you cannot do anything about it. No adjustable cache. No offline mode. Those are [...]

Quick Tip: iOS USB/SD Card photo/video import

Say you want to take a very long trip with just your 32GB iPad, and while traveling you would like to catch up on a lot of movies and TV shows, but your 32GB iPad can only hold about 30 hours of content. What can you do? Fortunately you can store your extra content on [...]

Quick Tip: iPhone to iPad photo/video import

I just read this was possible. (It never occurred to me to try.) Just connect up your iPhone (or possibly any other phone) as illustrated to the USB iPad Camera Connection Kit (sold separately) and voilà!, you can import. This old-school wired method is faster than using Dropbox. However I still prefer Dropbox–I find it [...]

iPad 2 0-day with review

Friday 5 AM local time I woke up, made tea, and rushed off to my home office.  My first conference call was at 5:30 AM–it was going to be a long day.  On my desk, in front of my keyboard, was an orange post-it note reminding me, that of all the things I had to [...]

Finally, Apple II and IIgs warez on your iPad

Updated: October 16 2011 See updates at the end. Running 1985 Code on a 2010 Device I had an awesome childhood; a big part of that was computers, specifically my Apple II+.  Ah, the memories… Sadly I do not have my original Apple II+ (clone). Nor do I recall the name of the manufacture. C’est [...]