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[26 Feb 2012 | No Comment | ]

Is there a way to get an audio file, such as one stored on Dropbox, onto an iPad? Is a tethered transfer of audio from iTunes the only solution?
iTunes maintains its own asset library system that isn’t generally accessible (except for reading) to developers. The third-party iPad transfer apps can browse the unit’s iTunes music library and choose tracks and play them back (and, even access the data directly if they need to). But there’s no way for them to modify the library itself by adding new tracks.
The Dropbox can …

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[18 Feb 2012 | No Comment | ]

Even if Apple keeps improving the camera on your iPad, your videos are not going to be any better if you don’t have a steady pulse or a tripod. There are two apps that help you to fix shaky video and stabilise your videos on your iPad directly.
Fix Shaky iPad video with iMovie
As a renowned amateur video editing tool, iMovie [iTunes link] must is the first choice for Apple customers for editing video. To fix shaky video, iMovie actually works by analyzing every single frame in a video clip and …

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[9 Feb 2012 | No Comment | ]

The popular DVD-by-mail rental service Netflix is now also an online rental service. If you are a Netflix subscriber and have the Netflix App installed on your iPad, you can watch as many online movies as you like, as often as you like, as part of your subscription. But because the movies stream, rather than download, you have to be connected to the internet while watching. So if you have a long plane flight and wanted to be able to watch movies on iPad, or what if there is a …

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[29 Jan 2012 | No Comment | ]

The built-in YouTube app on iPhone or iPad only allows user to view high quality video when you’re connected to Wi-Fi network. Once you switch to 3G data network, the YouTube app streams video in lower resolution and the YouTube slow on iPad or iPhone. If you own a jailbroken iPad or iPhone, you may use My3G hack to stream HQ YouTube video over 3G network. However, there is an easier way to do so and it doesn’t require jailbreaking.
Abandon the Built-in YouTube App
What you need to …

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[23 Jan 2012 | No Comment | ]

What is iCloud?
iCloud is Apple’s solution for synchronising your documents and data between all your devices. The key words here are ‘your documents’ and ‘synchronising’. What do we mean?
Syncronising is about keeping the same documents and data up to date across devices. Documents are things that you work with – a Photo, a Pages document, a Numbers spreadsheet and so on. Data is things like a Contact entry, an Calendar appointment and so on.
At it’s heart, like any cloud, iCloud is a central store of data which is synchronised for …

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[20 Jan 2012 | No Comment | ]

When you see these words – the latest music videos, short movies, TV shows, funny and extreme videos; Upload, share, and embed your videos, do you know what I want to talk about? Yes, the Dailymotion! This post introuduces two ways to stream and play Dailymotion video on iPad.
Play Dailymotion Videos on iPad with Dailymotion Video Stream App
Dailymotion Video Stream is an iPad and iPhone app that provides a new, immersive experience to discovering videos. It features your own personal dashboard where you can access your favorite HD videos and …

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[5 Jan 2012 | No Comment | ]

If you’ve ever wanted to copy, email, or delete multiple photos from your iPad or other iOS device, you may have been frustrated by having to tap, tap, tap on each and every photo that you wanted to select. This becomes very tedious if you have more than just a handful of photos to select. Fortunately, here’s a neat little iPad tip that I spotted over at Mac OS X Hints these days. It’s a slick alternative way to select multiple photos in the iPad photo library, so you can …

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[28 Dec 2011 | One Comment | ]

Apple allows users to authorize up to 5 computers (PC/Mac) to sync purchased iTunes contents(including ebooks, music, movies, etc) to iPad and other Apple devices. If you’ve recently been switching around from one PC to another computer, you might have problems syncing your iTunes Library purchases. And if that’s the case, you’ll probably need to authorize your new PC to access your iTunes account-and deauthorize your old machine- before you can sync all your iTunes stuff. Here’s a simple guide to authorizing or deauthorizing your iTunes account on multiple systems.
Authorize …

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[16 Dec 2011 | 4 Comments | ]

DVR (digital video recorder) is of course a great product, which you can record whatever your HDTV or media player plays. For those who don’t want to miss a show and are out of the house unexpectedly, it can really be a life saver. Well, with DVR you can easily watch the recorded movies, matches and more recordings on your HDTV, but what if you wanna enjoy the contents on the go with your iPad? So here is how to watch DVR recordings on iPad.
Watch DVR recordings on iPad with …

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[4 Dec 2011 | No Comment | ]

iTunes won’t transfer a few episodes of my favorite videos onto my iPad, even though I have enough free space. What might be the problem?
It’s likely that the file is too high-resolution, perhaps because it was created for an Apple TV. An iPad wants to play files that are in pretty specific video formats. iTunes will recognize and play video files outside those specs, so sometimes you’ll wind up with a file in your library that will play just fine within iTunes on your Mac but stubbornly refuse to sync …