钢琴家用iPad当琴弹奏

日前有报导：

"华人钢琴家郎朗，上周一在美国三藩市演奏时，突然拿出苹果iPad平板电脑，用软件来“演奏”一曲。一向在黑白琴键上飞舞的指尖，这回变成在显示屏上跳动，但效果同样技惊四座，博得全场掌声与笑声".

"27岁的郎朗站在台上，用左手拿着iPad，右手好像上了马达一样，在显示屏上劲弹，逗得台上的乐师和台下的观众哈哈笑。这软件是由美籍华人王戈创立的Smule公司研发，它预录了多首歌，使用者只要触碰显示屏上不断闪出的光点，就能“演奏”出名曲"

"郎朗是钢琴家，即使在电脑上弹琴，也特别精彩。《野蜂飞舞》节奏极快，但他不用看着显示屏来弹，弹了6、7秒，软件好像追不上他的手指速度，中间有些音不清楚。郎朗于是举起手、停一停，然后再弹，就弹得很顺了。郎朗一下子换成左手弹，然后又将iPad放在钢琴上，用左手弹真钢琴与右手弹iPad合奏。之后他又将iPad拿给指挥家艾森巴赫弹，极尽视听之娱，全场鼓掌欢呼"

It is called "Magic Piano" made by Smule at price of $1. I got this after reading above news and found it is a great game.

iPad Camera Kit is here

This camera kit for iPad is working very well. For SC card reader, when it is plugged into iPad, Photo will be up automatically. Camera will show up other than Photos, Albums and Places on the top. All the pictures in SC card will show. Any pictures can be selected(a check mark will show). On the right, a blue color Import can be selected to import pictures. On the left, red color Delete Selected can be clicked to delete selected pictures. During the import, a pop-up window will show us with two options: Import All, Import Selected. After import completed, a question window pop-up with this message: "Import Complete (next line)Would you like to delete imported photos from the attached camera?" with two options: Delete or Keep(as default). After import, under Albums, there are two new Albums related to this import: Last Import containing all newly imported photos and All Imported which contains all imported pictures.

For USB camera connector, it is used to connect iPad with new digital camera(supporting PTP - Picture Transfer Protocol) with a USB cable. As I see, it is for digital camera not using SD card or people like to download pictures from camera to iPad directly without taking out SD card. Once I pluging this connector, digital camera is in play mode so iPad will show all the pictures in the digital camera. Import process is the same as using SD card connector. Other than connect to digital camera with this connector, it can be used to connect iPhone or iPod Touch to import photos to iPad. Another way(from iPad to iPhone or iPod Touch) will not work since I am getting "iPod is not supporting this" message.

This is a nice camera kit to download pictures to iPad without a Mac or PC. It is good for field or on site use.

After reading news about using this USB camera kit connector with USB keyboard, I tried it. It is working! Now, I can use my USB PC keyboard with USB connector in this USB camera kit with iPad.

iPad Camera Connector Kit is on the way

This camera kit contains two things - USB connector to connect camera to iPad, SD card reader to read SD card in iPad. It was shipped out from China yesterday. We will see how this works.

iPad WiFi Disconnect or Dropping connection

We are using the router coming with Verizon FIOS and experiencing same issue as some of iPad users. WiFi drops from time to time.I have to rejoin network by retype password. After reading blogs and discussion related to this issue. it seams it is related to iPad and router. Not every router gets this issue. So I tried to connect a Buffalo router to Verizon router and set iPad to use this Buffalo router. It is working! I don't get disconnect any more.

iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter

The iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter can play content to a VGA display when using only following apps:

Videos
Photos — Slideshow playback only
YouTube
Keynote
Safari—Video content on webpages

iPad video output over VGA is set to 1024 x 768 using a 720p scan rate.

If you like to get this adapter, make sure it fits your needs. Basically, it is only for watching video, photo, and slide show with Keynote but not showing everything from iPad.

iPad is Great

In 4/3 morning right before 9am, I arrived the local Apple store near my home. There are about 50 people were there to pick reserved iPad and lining on right hand side out of store. There is another line about 15 people to buy it without reserve on the left. They allowed 10 people to get into the store on each patch.

Soon, I saw people carry their new iPad and came out with happy/exciting faces. The first one came out was a man who pull out his Mac Book and started to sync iPad with Mac right in front of the Apple store.

About 20 minutes, all the people outside the store got into it. So did I with the people in line on the left and had my first try of iPad. iPad is great! I should reserve it and pick up in store instead of pre-order and ship to home.

My iPad arrived home around 12pm and delivered by UPS. In last two days, we have been playing it and even brought it to our friends house to show them this great new toy.

iPad on Show

The Apple iPad is in national TV appearances and last night appeared on David Letterman's Late night talk show.

Steve Jobs and iPad

Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the iPad are set to be the cover story for the upcoming issue of Time, and as part of the coverage, British actor/comedian Stephen Fry describes his visit to Apple headquarters to learn about and play with the iPad, as well as to meet Jobs himself. Yesterday, Fry posted a video of the unpacking of his iPad and associated accessories.

In January Apple keynote, Steve was holding this iPad and showing it to the world. In two days, many people can get a hands on this great new toy.