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Concept M-Pad tablet appeals to designers
As we all know, tablets are great for enjoying content, but creating content? Not so much. Inherently, it’s getting better, but a completely touchscreen based interface and the lack of buttons for customization and advanced commands hamper the experience greatly. With that in mind, a designer named Volker Hübner recently came up with a concept tablet that’s been designed to address the issue. Called the m • pad, this 15.6″ tablet is catered to professional designers, architects and developers. It supports the use of input with a pressure sensitive stylus, and a whole array of different controls on the left side of the screen to aid with content creation. It also features feet on the back of the tablet that allow you to adjust the inclination angle of the tablet, giving you an angled surface which makes it easier to draw or write on when you’re on a desk. It also comes with an array of ports including USB, Ethernet, Firewire and a memory card expansion slot for your extra peripherals and thumb drives. While it’s only in concept right now, it looks pretty sweet, and we sure hope it’ll become a reality one day. Read up more about the m • pad.
The title says it all, and that was pretty quick. It was only yesterday when the iOS 5 was announced and the beta was made available to developers but yet wasting little to no time, hackers MuscleNerd and Co have managed to jailbreak iOS 5 on the iPod touch fourth generation. The exploit they used was the limera1n jailbreak which means that iOS 5 presented the hackers with little surprises when it came to closing the loop holes that would make the limera1n exploit work.
Naturally the iOS 5 is currently in beta which means there are probably still plenty of holes to be exploited and we can only assume that in the final release iOS 5 would-be hackers will have a harder time trying to jailbreak it. However this is good news for those on jailbroken devices who were worried that they might be in for a rather long wait when it comes to getting the jailbroken version if iOS 5 on their devices.
Anyone who has owned an iOS device knows that upon out of the box, the first thing they see is their device asking them to tether it to their computer in order to set up synch with iTunes. Not necessarily a bad thing but what if the person’s computer was not well equipped enough to run iTunes properly or what if they didn’t know what all these synching meant?
Tabbed browsing isn’t new. In fact there are browser apps already available for iOS that features tabbed browsing, but either way we are happy that Apple has decided to sit up and take notice of what users want in their browsers and finally implemented tabbed browsing in their native iOS browser app, Safari.