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Proper Use of the iPad

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The iPad. Oh, the iPad. Recently launched and already hacked but what do you show off first? Emulation.

The video above is showing off a jailbroken iPad playing two N64 games, Super Smash Bros. and Super Mario 64. It looks good. Great, almost, if the sound wasn’t so, well, emulated. Sound has always been a problem for emulators. and then there’s the control issue which just looks painful, but who cares? You can play N64 games on your brand new iPad! Now, when your friends laugh at you for having one, you can show them that.

I still wish I had one.

Video: N64 emulator running on hacked iPad via CrunchGear

This is Why I Want an iPad

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For something I could use to help me along getting myself better known on the web, take some notes, and check my email, among other features? Well, maybe, but I could do that with any old application on a tablet or cell phone even, but could I do it in a geek-enough style? Thanks to an iPad application called “Captain’s Log”, I can!

If anything, the iPad is a better version of Star Trek’s PADD (Personal Access Display Device), but for the last few years, PDAs, tablets, and the like have been able to do the same tasks as the PADD, but the iPad brings more sophisticated software and now, thanks to Captain’s Log, the look and feel of vintage Star Trek, though all it really is, is a spiffy skin for popular social networking tools, but as gimmicky as it may seem, it gives people a taste of the future, and a dash of Star Trek tech fulfillment.

This is the kind of tech and whimsical geeky stuff I could easily spend money on. If I had any.

Captain’s Log app turns your iPad into a Star Trek PADD via geek.com

Google Going Social with Google Buzz

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Earlier today, Google announced its push into social networking with Google Buzz which will allow users to share status updates, photos, and videos in a new Gmail tab called Google Buzz. Android and iPhone users can expect to use Buzz through a web-based application that will allow real-time updates that will update to your Google Buzz feed that can show up on a new version of Google’s mobile maps. Google says that about 1% of current users can expect to see it pop-up for them (not me :( )and the rest will just have to wait over the week. There’s a video after the jump that explains the wonderful uses of Google Buzz.
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