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THeproblem I'm having with mywi is that when I turn off wifi tethering in the app it doesn't turn off and even if I turn off wifi in iPhone settings it's still sending out the wifi signal. The only way to turn it off is to completely restart the phone. Other than that the app is great! But if I don't turn it off completely my battery goes down real fast
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THeproblem I'm having with mywi is that when I turn off wifi tethering in the app it doesn't turn off and even if I turn off wifi in iPhone settings it's still sending out the wifi signal. The only way to turn it off is to completely restart the phone. Other than that the app is great! But if I don't turn it off completely my battery goes down real fast
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/03/i...e-japanese-or/
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iPad used to assist surgery in Flash-free Japanese OR
By Joseph L. Flatley posted Jun 3rd 2010 4:01PM
At least one surgeon in Japan is using an iPad in the operating theater (a term we learned from M*A*S*H). It's unclear to us whether it's attached to an endoscope, he's looking at reference photos, or even if the device is serving any use at all other than attracting TV coverage, but it sure looks like the real thing -- he's pinching to zoom through latex gloves and everything! The next obvious question is, of course: is there an app for that operation? Video after the break.
iPad used to assist surgery in Flash-free Japanese OR
By Joseph L. Flatley posted Jun 3rd 2010 4:01PM
At least one surgeon in Japan is using an iPad in the operating theater (a term we learned from M*A*S*H). It's unclear to us whether it's attached to an endoscope, he's looking at reference photos, or even if the device is serving any use at all other than attracting TV coverage, but it sure looks like the real thing -- he's pinching to zoom through latex gloves and everything! The next obvious question is, of course: is there an app for that operation? Video after the break.
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/03/i...e-japanese-or/
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This thread should be renamed to the "iPad/Sarlacc's I told you so" thread
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Well, overall loving the iPad, a lot of fun and big fan of the netflix app and using it as a photo display. Never saw that update on the wifi issue, though it seems much better. Weird.
This is the wife's. I will wait for the update with all the magic to get mine
This is the wife's. I will wait for the update with all the magic to get mine
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We're talking widescale adoption and one dude isn't it
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no need for red text. You can put the router right next to the iPad, it doesn't matter cause it's gonna happen and when it does 
It recently went two days without being able to join my wifi network. That's with trying turning wifi on and off, doing forced restarts and normal restarts, it didn't matter.
FUCKIN BULLSHIT!
It recently went two days without being able to join my wifi network. That's with trying turning wifi on and off, doing forced restarts and normal restarts, it didn't matter.
FUCKIN BULLSHIT!
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Woah Woah Woah! I wouldn't declare one lone doctor in Japan using it as a monitor a success in the medical field. Shit I'm sure there's a doctor somewhere who has brought a ZuneHD into the office and used it at work, ZOMG teh ZuneHD is a tool in teh medical field.:zomg:
We're talking widescale adoption and one dude isn't it
We're talking widescale adoption and one dude isn't it
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The iPad is a great device... don't get me wrong. What frustrates me is how much better it could be with so little effort. Just do the following, and I'll be happy:
1. Enable flash in Safari.
2. Put friggen arrow keys on the keyboard.
3. Let me control my own files. It drives me nuts that I have a DropBox sync folder on the iPad but I can't put anything in it!
4. Enable multitasking (yeah, I know it's coming)
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And premature victory declarations are new for Apple fans? I believe Mr. Sarlaac also posted about a few companies offering HTML 5 video as the beginning of the end of the flash problem. But I still can't check my Google finance charts, I still can't see my WordPress stats, I still can't watch Hulu, or even load the HBO page.
The iPad is a great device... don't get me wrong. What frustrates me is how much better it could be with so little effort. Just do the following, and I'll be happy:
1. Enable flash in Safari.
2. Put friggen arrow keys on the keyboard.
3. Let me control my own files. It drives me nuts that I have a DropBox sync folder on the iPad but I can't put anything in it!
4. Enable multitasking (yeah, I know it's coming)
The iPad is a great device... don't get me wrong. What frustrates me is how much better it could be with so little effort. Just do the following, and I'll be happy:
1. Enable flash in Safari.
2. Put friggen arrow keys on the keyboard.
3. Let me control my own files. It drives me nuts that I have a DropBox sync folder on the iPad but I can't put anything in it!
4. Enable multitasking (yeah, I know it's coming)
I was bashed saying html5 was too nothing and it would not supercede flash...well, look at whats happening. Things are moving towards html5.
One guy is noted using his ipad in the medical field...more will follow. Drs have been noted using their iphones as well in the last years or so.
Give it time. Everything that I said that was initially poo poo'ed is coming to light.
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Nothing happens overnight.
I was bashed saying html5 was too nothing and it would not supercede flash...well, look at whats happening. Things are moving towards html5.
One guy is noted using his ipad in the medical field...more will follow. Drs have been noted using their iphones as well in the last years or so.
Give it time. Everything that I said that was initially poo poo'ed is coming to light.
I was bashed saying html5 was too nothing and it would not supercede flash...well, look at whats happening. Things are moving towards html5.
One guy is noted using his ipad in the medical field...more will follow. Drs have been noted using their iphones as well in the last years or so.
Give it time. Everything that I said that was initially poo poo'ed is coming to light.
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Actually hulu came out and said they're sticking with flash because html5 doesn't do everything flash does. There's no drm in html5 or analytics so July isn't going to be streaming their videos unprotected
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hulu is also going to go paid subscription and will disappear unless they figure out something cool and different to make people want to pay for something that was free.
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it's going freemium not just paid service. They'll be adding more episodes if for subscribers like a VoD service.
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Oh noes!!
fuckin Goatse...
http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-wor...owners-exposed
Originally Posted by Valleywag
Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.
The breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, exposed the most exclusive email list on the planet, a collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes thousands of A-listers in finance, politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It even appears that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's information was compromised.
It doesn't stop there. According to the data we were given by the web security group that exploited vulnerabilities on the AT&T network, we believe 114,000 user accounts have been compromised, although it's possible that confidential information about every iPad 3G owner in the U.S. has been exposed. We contacted Apple for comment but have yet to hear back. We also reached out to AT&T for comment. [Update: AT&T has confirmed the breach; an update appears below.] A call to Rahm Emanuel's office at the White House has not been returned.
The subscriber data was obtained by a group calling itself
Goatse Security. 
Though the group is steeped in off-the-wall, 4chan-style internet culture—its name is a reference to a famous gross-out Web picture—it has previously highlighted real security vulnerabilities in the Firefox and Safari Web browsers, and attracted media attention for finding what it said were flaws in Amazon's community ratings system.
Goatse Security obtained its data through a script on AT&T's website, accessible to anyone on the internet. When provided with an ICC-ID as part of an HTTP request, the script would return the associated email address, in what was apparently intended to be an AJAX-style response within a Web application.
The group wrote a PHP script to automate the harvesting of data. Since a member of the group tells us the script was shared with third-parties prior to AT&T closing the security hole, it's not known exactly whose hands the exploit fell into and what those people did with the names they obtained. A member tells us it's likely many accounts beyond the 114,000 have been compromised.
Goatse Security notified AT&T of the breach and the security hole was closed.
We were able to establish the authenticity of Goatse Security's data through two people who were listed among the 114,000 names. We sent these people the ICC ID contained in the document—and associated with the person's iPad 3G account—and asked them to verify in an iPad control panel that this was the correct ICC ID. It was.
Victims: Some big names
Then we began poring through the 114,067 entries and were stunned at the names we found. The iPad 3G, released less than two months ago, has clearly been snapped up by an elite array of early adopters.
Within the military, we saw several devices registered to the domain of DARPA, the advanced research division of the Department of Defense, along with the major service branches. To wit: One affected individual was William Eldredge, who "commands the largest operational B-1 [strategic bomber] group in the U.S. Air Force."
In the media and entertainment industries, affected accounts belonged to top executives at the New York Times Company, Dow Jones, Condé Nast, Viacom, Time Warner, News Corporation, HBO and Hearst.
Within the tech industry, accounts were compromised at Google, Amazon, Microsoft and AOL, among others. In finance, accounts belonged to companies from Goldman Sachs to JP Morgan to Citigroup to Morgan Stanley, along with dozens of venture capital and private equity firms.
In government, affected accounts included a GMail user who appears to be Rahm Emanuel and staffers in the Senate, House of Representatives, Department of Justice, NASA, Department of Homeland Security, FAA, FCC, and National Institute of Health, among others. Dozens of employees of the federal court system also appeared on the list.
The breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, exposed the most exclusive email list on the planet, a collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes thousands of A-listers in finance, politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It even appears that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's information was compromised.
It doesn't stop there. According to the data we were given by the web security group that exploited vulnerabilities on the AT&T network, we believe 114,000 user accounts have been compromised, although it's possible that confidential information about every iPad 3G owner in the U.S. has been exposed. We contacted Apple for comment but have yet to hear back. We also reached out to AT&T for comment. [Update: AT&T has confirmed the breach; an update appears below.] A call to Rahm Emanuel's office at the White House has not been returned.
The subscriber data was obtained by a group calling itself
Goatse Security. Though the group is steeped in off-the-wall, 4chan-style internet culture—its name is a reference to a famous gross-out Web picture—it has previously highlighted real security vulnerabilities in the Firefox and Safari Web browsers, and attracted media attention for finding what it said were flaws in Amazon's community ratings system.Goatse Security obtained its data through a script on AT&T's website, accessible to anyone on the internet. When provided with an ICC-ID as part of an HTTP request, the script would return the associated email address, in what was apparently intended to be an AJAX-style response within a Web application.
The group wrote a PHP script to automate the harvesting of data. Since a member of the group tells us the script was shared with third-parties prior to AT&T closing the security hole, it's not known exactly whose hands the exploit fell into and what those people did with the names they obtained. A member tells us it's likely many accounts beyond the 114,000 have been compromised.
Goatse Security notified AT&T of the breach and the security hole was closed.
We were able to establish the authenticity of Goatse Security's data through two people who were listed among the 114,000 names. We sent these people the ICC ID contained in the document—and associated with the person's iPad 3G account—and asked them to verify in an iPad control panel that this was the correct ICC ID. It was.
Victims: Some big names
Then we began poring through the 114,067 entries and were stunned at the names we found. The iPad 3G, released less than two months ago, has clearly been snapped up by an elite array of early adopters.
Within the military, we saw several devices registered to the domain of DARPA, the advanced research division of the Department of Defense, along with the major service branches. To wit: One affected individual was William Eldredge, who "commands the largest operational B-1 [strategic bomber] group in the U.S. Air Force."
In the media and entertainment industries, affected accounts belonged to top executives at the New York Times Company, Dow Jones, Condé Nast, Viacom, Time Warner, News Corporation, HBO and Hearst.
Within the tech industry, accounts were compromised at Google, Amazon, Microsoft and AOL, among others. In finance, accounts belonged to companies from Goldman Sachs to JP Morgan to Citigroup to Morgan Stanley, along with dozens of venture capital and private equity firms.
In government, affected accounts included a GMail user who appears to be Rahm Emanuel and staffers in the Senate, House of Representatives, Department of Justice, NASA, Department of Homeland Security, FAA, FCC, and National Institute of Health, among others. Dozens of employees of the federal court system also appeared on the list.
fuckin Goatse...http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-wor...owners-exposed
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interesting... i was kind of thinking of something like what these people thought up to get flash running on the ipad.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/a...a-pinch-video/
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Artefact puts Flash on your iPad 'In A Pinch' (video)
By Joseph L. Flatley posted Jun 11th 2010 6:46PM
Despite Steve Jobs's ethical reservations, it's clear that people want Flash on their iPads (or at the very least, developers want to find ways put it there). Recently we saw Smokescreen, a browser plug-in that pulls apart SWF binaries and reassembles them into something Apple-friendly. Taking a slightly different tack, the kids at the Artefact Group have been working on a service called Flash In A Pinch. Right now, it's but a proof-of-concept, but it's a pretty sweet concept at that: Flash is rendered on Artefact's servers, which streams the images to the user's Safari browser. By placing a Javascript layer on top of the content, the user's touch interactions can be sent back to the server, making the whole megillah fully interactive. At present, the whole affair is a little too slow to use, and as of yet there is no sound, but all in all it's a great start. Video after the break. Hit the source link for more technical details (and yet more videos).
By Joseph L. Flatley posted Jun 11th 2010 6:46PM
Despite Steve Jobs's ethical reservations, it's clear that people want Flash on their iPads (or at the very least, developers want to find ways put it there). Recently we saw Smokescreen, a browser plug-in that pulls apart SWF binaries and reassembles them into something Apple-friendly. Taking a slightly different tack, the kids at the Artefact Group have been working on a service called Flash In A Pinch. Right now, it's but a proof-of-concept, but it's a pretty sweet concept at that: Flash is rendered on Artefact's servers, which streams the images to the user's Safari browser. By placing a Javascript layer on top of the content, the user's touch interactions can be sent back to the server, making the whole megillah fully interactive. At present, the whole affair is a little too slow to use, and as of yet there is no sound, but all in all it's a great start. Video after the break. Hit the source link for more technical details (and yet more videos).
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My boss has this case
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC361ZM/A
and loves it, when they ok it for me buy iPads for the rest of the team, I will probably order these cases for as well for everyone.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC361ZM/A
and loves it, when they ok it for me buy iPads for the rest of the team, I will probably order these cases for as well for everyone.