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Another fun toy has been developed for the iPad and iPhone. The AR.Drone is a helicopter with 4 blades(quadricopter) and 2 video cameras that can be controlled by an amazing video and graphic interface on the iPad. Using your thumbs, fingers, or tilting your mobile device, you can control the AR.Drone’s ascent, descent, and rotation. The product, developed by Parrot, sells for $299 and can be ordered on brookstone.com now.
Movie Vault for iPad is a great app for movie buffs of yesteryear, providing streaming over 3G and Wi-Fi. Although new movies are added frequently, most of the films available are from the 1940’s through the 1960’s. It’s a must have app for film enthusiasts who especially like older movies. Younger adults, teenagers, and those not impressed with classic movies and older styles of film may not find a need for the app.
Once you start up Movie Vault, there is a few minutes of waiting while the app updates the movie listings. There’s no waiting once you launch the app after that initial loading process. Users can easily pick any genre of film, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Western, and more. Movies are arranged on a shelf interface, much like the iBooks app. The iPad allows for easy swiping to the left and right to switch between movie genres.
Touching a movie icon brings up a window with details for that movie, including short description, director, date, writers, actors, and duration. After clicking “watch movie”, streaming begins within just a few seconds. There are currently some minor bugs that crash the app, but those should be worked out soon. And with new features coming soon like saving position in movie, more movies, navigating by year and actor, and more genres, this great app has even better potential.
Shipping delays have quietly shrunk from 5-to-7 business days to 3-to-5 days
The iPad shortages that delayed the launch of the iPad 3G and pushed back the international roll-out by a month have finally started to ease.
In a note to clients issued Wednesday, Susquehanna Financial’s Jeff Fidacaro notes that iPad shipping delays, which had been listed as 7-to-10 business days on Apple.com since early May, have now shrunk to 3-to-5 days.
Yahoo on Tuesday unveiled an updated, HTML5-optimized version of Yahoo Mail for the iPad, promising a faster, more organized, and feature-rich experience.
“If you’ve used our recently launched HTML5 mobile Web mail for iPhone you’ll feel right at home,” Lee Parry, product manager for Yahoo Mail, wrote in a blog post. “We’ve kept all the things users love about our new mobile Web mail experience, while also optimizing for the gorgeous large screen of the iPad.”
If you don’t have an Internet connection, Yahoo Mail on the iPad will use local caching capabilities to allow users to access and search their mail. You can search using full search, personal folders, or a smart folder of most important contacts.
Photo attachments will also be viewable in their full form or as inbox previews, Yahoo said, and the inbox itself has a dual-pane view.
The revamped Yahoo Mail “will be available globally to anyone who has an iPad,” Parry said. Access it via Safari on the iPad at http://mail.yahoo.com.