Apple Updates Guided Tours For iPad 2
With the launch of the iPad 2 just one day away Apple have updated their Guided Tours sections on their website. There are fourteen new tutorials demonstrating how you can maximize your usage/pleasure with the iPad 2. The videos are separated into significant software features that the iPad 2 comes fully loaded with. See more below…
GarageBand
We can’t wait to get our hands on the iPad 2 with the new GarageBand software. It will support third party adaptors like the Apogee Jam for guitarists. As well as a whole bundle of smart instruments. We’ve heard that those new virtual instruments are ultra sensitive, so if you hit the drums or cymbals harder for example they play out louder. If you mishit the cymbal or hit it in a different place you’ll hear the difference. So cool.
iMovie
This looks like it is going to be a massive hit on the iPad, it is going to be amazing to upload your own videos to your new magical device. These are the formats that we know are supported right now but of course, until iMovie for iPad is officially released, these may change.
Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format
FaceTime
The front and rear cameras come into their own with FaceTime on the iPad 2. This is going to be a sensation.
AirPlay
Of course, Airplay also received a tutorial demonstrating the ultra cool wireless streaming capabilities.
If you would like to see the videos for yourself – head over here on the Apple website.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: joanne@theappwhisperer.com
