Free and Legal Places to Get iPad 2 Movies

The iPad’s big screen and long battery life make it the perfect gadget for watching videos and movies. For movie lovers there are a lot of completely free, legal movies out there that just awaits to be taken. Today we bring you some top destinations for free and legal movies on iPad/iPad 2. Some, like Netflix and Hulu, are apps that you download, while others are iPad-optimized sites that help you find and watch the best TV and movies the Web has to offer. If you want to watch TV and movies from your own collection, you can use Mac DVD to iPad Converter to Convert all the DVD movies and videos to iPad compatible video format. Read the full article here.

Understanding the AVCHD Video Format

AVCHD(Advanced Video Coding High Definition) is a highly efficient codec for acquiring and displaying high quality high definition images. it is also known as the H.264, MPEG-4 part 10 standard and was jointly developed by Panasonic and sony to provide a high quality, low cost, high definition format. AVCHD is based on a long GOP (Group of Pictures) compression and as such is supported by the majority of both consumer and professional non-linear editing systems. Because of its superior efficiency, AVCHD requires far less bandwidth than the MPEG-2 based HDV format. Read the full articles here.

3 ways to put music on the iPhone without using iTunes

One of the major functions of the iPhone is music playback. The iTunes app has been designed in such a way to take advantage of the iPhone’s touchscreen. But what if you want to listen to music that doesn’t reside in your iTunes library? Thanks to the incredible success of the App Store, there are plenty of ways now to access streaming music even when you don’t have the files. In this article, I will point out 3 other ways that you can transfer music to your iPhone without iTunes.


PwnPlayer
Pwnplayer is an iPhone music player app that acts as an alternative to the default ipod.app in your iPhone. Its user interface is almost similar to the iPod.app, allowing you to view your songs in Artists, Albums, Songs, Genre list etc. It also supports album art display.


Pandora
Pandora seems like the obvious choice, and it is. Pandora is a streaming music service based on the Music Genome Project that has become wildly popular on the Web and now has a pretty successful (free) iPhone app. Through the app, you can listen to specific stations that you have already created or even make new ones based on the patterns of music you already like. You can even vote up or down certain songs directly from within the app, and Pandora will figure out what about that song was different from others you voted on in order to tweak its offerings.


AOL Radio
But perhaps you don’t need something that will ferret out music that’s just like the music you already like. Perhaps you’re more the traditional radio type. That’s why we like AOL Radio’s free iPhone app—you can choose from any number of streaming stations, categorized into genres, to find one you like. Especially nice is the “Locals” feature, which allows you to search for streaming stations near your area.


These are just a handful of the options available to the music fan, if you want to rip your favorite music or audios from your own DVD or videos you can use iFunia DVD Ripper Pro to extract the music from the DVD.

Apple to Announce iPhone 5 and iOS 5 on June 5 to 9?

Apple has just announced the details of its Worldwide Developers Conference for 2011, firing up rumours that it’s planning to launch its next-gen smartphone at the San Francisco event. So will Apple announce the iPhone 5 – or whatever its name will be – on June 5? That’s what this screenshot taken from the Moscone Center website reveals with the usual “Corporate Meeting” placeholder. Historically, Apple has always held its iPhone announcement in early June, so there is no reason for that to change.


Yesterday two independent reports indicated the iPhone 5 will be launched at the end of June and the opposite thing – it will not launch until September. According to the South Korean news outlet ETNews.co.kr Apple will announce the iPhone 5 during the upcoming WWDC and will release it as usual by the end June simultaneously in many countries including South Korea (SK and TK).

The Loop, on the other hand, claims it has its sources who are still keen that there will be no iPhone 5 announcement at the WWDC. They insist it will be released in September instead.

Previous rumors have it that the iPhone 5 will have a dual core A5 chipset, an 8 megapixel camera, bigger internal storage (and screen eventually), NFC support and even a metal casing. We guess we’ll only know for sure this June.

Best iPad 2 Apps: 5 Apps to show off your new iPad 2

Perhaps you just got your iPad 2 and you want to know what must have apps to get that are the best, most popular or the ones that are the best to start off with. Want to really show off those new cameras or put that new super fast Apple A5 processor to the test? Here are 5 best iPad 2 apps that will get you started. If you’re brand new to iPad, be sure to check out our Top 10 iPad Apps to get you started with all the basics, from social to casual to creative. If you really want to stun your friends and family, however — if you want to blow them away with your new iPad 2, then grab/update these next!


Best iPad 2 Apps 1 – Flipboard
This is a must have iPad 2 app because it’s one of the best ways to display all your social networking such as Twitter, Facebook, and now Instagram in a magazine-style view that is absolutely incredible. Flipboard is free.


Best iPad 2 Apps 2 – Dropbox
Dropbox is a must have iPad 2 app as it is one of the best ways to store all your documents, files, music, and videos. There are over 50 apps that work with dropbox and they give you 2GB free storage so it’s the perfect way to get started with cloud storage. Dropbox is free.


Best iPad 2 Apps 3 – Penultimate
Penultimate is one of the best must have iPad 2 apps for news users and it’s an essential app if you like taking notes or sketching down ideas. You can sketch out just about any idea, draw diagrams, web pages, flow charts or just brainstorm. I use it daily. Penultimate is $1.99.


Best iPad 2 Apps 4 – Brushes
Want to experiment with painting on your iPad? This is hands down one of the must have iPad 2 apps if you want to experience doing any kind of art or just seeing the capabilities of the new graphics. If you get serious about painting then you might also want to check out this special iPad stylus brush you can now get. Brushes is $7.99 but well worth it.


Best iPad 2 Apps 5 – DVD to iPad 2 converter
Getting DVD movies to iPad 2 is easy. With iFunia DVD to iPad Converter for Mac, you can follow three steps to rip and convert your loved Hollywood DVD movies to iPad 2-ready MP4, M4V and MOV video formats and M4A, MP3, AIFF, WAV audio formats. iFunia DVD to iPad Converter Mac also allows you to trim DVD movie, crop DVD and select DVD subtitle and audio track to convert your movie with any available languages.

What's new in Mac OS X 10.6.7

With a seventh beta already in developer hands, Apple’s just about ready to release their seventh Snow Leopard maintenance update. With a not ill-generous girth of 541.5MB, OS X 10.6.7 is an important patch even though it puts little if any new functionality to the table. Released with no known issues, developers and insiders report that Mac OS X 10.6.7, the seventh Snow Leopard maintenance update, is winding down with the final code expected to arrive in end user hands as early as next week. Apple has asked developers to focus their testing on the Safari, Mac App Store, Bonjour, SMB and Graphic Driver portions of the update.

It will be interesting to see whether we simply get refreshed graphic drivers or if something more substantial gets delivered — game maker Valve among others has identified a number of graphics performance issues.

That said, the considered wisdom of the blogsphere is that no new features will debut in Mac OS X 10.6.7 with Apple pushing out new functionality until the release of Mac OS X Lion, which is expected this Summer. When it arrives, Lion will sport a number of iOS-inspired features, including Launchpad, full-screen apps, and a new version of Exposé, a.k.a. Mission Control, where users can access and manage open applications.

Survey shows 82% Of Tablet Buyers Want The iPad

Apple iPad 2 is now available and according to a new survey, the majority of those that want a tablet want an iPad. Say what you will about other tablets beating the iPad at the specs game, I think this chart speaks volume for which one people actually want. This is based on a survey of more than 3,000 people, and more than 80% of those planning to get a tablet want the iPad. I think really effectively shows that it’s not all about a pissing competition for processors and memory, it’s about user experience.

Say what you will about other tablets beating the iPad at the specs game, I think this chart speaks volume for which one people actually want. This is based on a survey of more than 3,000 people, and more than 80% of those planning to get a tablet want the iPad. I think really effectively shows that it’s not all about a pissing competition for processors and memory, it’s about user experience.


The second chart demonstrates how satisfied iPad owners are with their device. 70 percent are very satisfied, 25 percent are somewhat satisfied, with those that are not satisfied making up a tremendously small amount.


Finally, those considering purchasing the iPad were asked what, if any, wireless service provider they would use for their 3G iPad and where they would purchase an iPad. Those providing answers indicated they would purchase the WiFi version of the iPad and would do so from Best Buy, Wal-Mart or Target.