iPad Lifestyle

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion ( RIM)  has been long rumored to be on its way to bringing to the market its very own BlackBerry tablet; the BlackPad . If true, it would stack up against the HP PalmPad, Lenovo LePad and, of course, the Apple iPad.

iPad owners who are still upset that Apple won’t allow Flash in iOS might soon have a solution.

A new application for jailbroken iPads called Frash allows owners to run Flash in their Mobile Safari browser. The app was developed by Comex, a company that created the Spirit jailbreak.

Frash isn’t currently available for wide release. The app, according to its developers, just isn’t stable enough to justify releasing it just yet. Realizing that, Comex has decided to make the app’s files available on GitHub to allow any developer to tweak and improve the software for iOS. The goal is to make the app reliable and then release it to the public.

Ironically, Frash is a port of the Android Flash plug-in that Adobe recently released for Google’s mobile operating system. The app will only run in the Mobile Safari browser, but the company plans to support the iPhone 3GS and iOS 4.

Frash is what many iPad and iPhone owners might have been waiting for. As Adobe has pointed out time and again, the vast majority of the Web’s videos and games run on Flash. With the help of Frash, owners of jailbroken iPads will finally be able to access all that content when the app is made available to the public at some point in the relatively near future

source: Cnet news

By this time people had the chance to form a full range of opinions about the iPad . It should be clear that there are aspects of this device which we love, and others which we clearly do not. People are torn between- one-  analyzing the device’s position in relation to the advancement of the personal computer, and two- whether or not it is justified to spend your money on this thing.

The buyer of an iPad is one of two people, the first is someone who sees not just the present, but the potential of a product like the iPad… and believes in and is excited about that potential. This is also a person who can afford what amounts to a luxury item. The second is an individual who simply doesn’t need to get that much work done, and would prefer their computing experience to be easier, faster, and simpler. And clearly has other things that he needs to buy before the iPad.

home screen on an iPad

I bought my iPad this week. Here are few Pros and Cons of iPad , which you need to consider before buying yours. 

Pros of Apple iPad:

• Long (10 hour) battery life
• Built in Speaker and microphone
• Awesome App Store
• Interface is very much like the  iPhone/iPod Touch
• User-friendly to read newspaper, eBooks, magazines
• Uses home Wi-Fi
• Supports third party apps without modification

Cons of Apple iPad:

• Camera and flash is not supported in iPad
• GPS is not supported completely .
• Can’t load flash enabled videos.
• No USB support.
• No Multitasking
• No Drag and Drop file management
• No SD card reader built-in.
• You won’t able to connect iPad to TV because there are no HDMI output.
• No DVD/ CD built in.