iPad Archive

iPads Replacing Textbooks?

The most aggravating part of the beginning of the school year is ordering textbooks. Each year, I navigate an unhelpful website and manage unpredictable shipping until my books finally arrive. Last year I thought they had found a solution when they had students come to school to buy their books. For me this worked out well as it allowed me to receive all my books quickly and in one place. This system did not work out for everyone, with some people not being able to make it to school in time to pick up their books, so it was scrapped. This annual aggravation makes me think of a way in which we could have the convenience of purchasing all books needed for the school year in one place combined with the accessibility to purchase the textbooks. What if the school could provide Ipads for its students, in place of textbooks?

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It Has Finally Arrived!

Well, my iPad finally arrived. I have been waiting a while for it, even after getting a WiFi iPad for 14 days and returning it (yes, I got my money back). So, I filmed GadgetHigh’s first unboxing for you all. You can see the face behind this writing. The download link to the unboxing is below. If I can find out how to get it directly into this post I will. Enjoy the video and enjoy your iPads. I got it to work! I had to create a YouTube account for GadgetHigh. More on that later. The video is below:

Apple adds “App of the Week” section to App Store

When the iPad store went up on April 1st just five days ago, almost everybody including myself rushed to pick up the latest and greatest higher resolution iPad apps in preparation for our upcoming magic and revolutionary devices. Because of this, we allowed something to slip past us, Apple has put up an App of the Week section in the App Store.

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GadgetHigh App Store Pick of the Week: We Rule

The GadgetHigh App Store Pick of the Week is a weekly series of posts where we talk about an app for iDevices that we just can’t put down.  This week’s app is a Farmville like game that is developed by App Store Giant Ngmoco:).  

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Hulu on the iPad

With the iPad only 37/67 days away from the announced ship date(who’s counting anyway), people have started to speculate if Apple and their fearless leader have a few tricks up their sleeve.  

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Stephen Colbert is the First Man in America with an iPad

How did Stephen Colbert get an iPad? Read on…

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Introducing the iPad — Wait, the What?!

I am sure anyone reading this now has read or heard about Apple’s new iPad, either through Ross’s great review or by some other means. So I am not going to just write another review.  I am going to discuss another part of the new iPad—its name.

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iPad is released after years of speculation

Wow.  After years of waiting, the iPad is finally here.  Months of rumors and false leaks have led us to this point and now…. we discuss it.

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McGraw CEO pretty much lets it all slip

Tonight is what I consider to be the most official sign of the impending apple tablet/iSlate/iPad.  During a CNBC interview, Terry McGraw, CEO president and chairman of McGraw Publishing said these words exactly (from MacRumors)…

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