The writer had already expressed serious misgivings about the said battery of the iPad, having been heavily criticized by many fans of Apple in the process. So imagine their surprise when your inbox is an email from the same founder of Apple responds in its brief familiar way:

.. yes, we got 10 hours [of time] in 680 grams [the weight of an iPad].
And as if that were not enough that Apple founder same answer you clarify your question, the reporter he was even more surprised by the foot of the message:

Sent from my iPad
So there you have, as mentioned the 10-hour battery iPad confirmed by the same Steve Jobs in a personal and writing …. from an iPad. We’ll see what other surprises brings the device to launch in early April.

The first is prescencia of Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the awards, but the truth is not so surprising considering that Steve Jobs is the majority shareholder of Disney, who was nominated in several categories for his animated films.

The second surprise was that Apple has used the television audience for the Oscars to launch air its first television spot. Not much news in it, but we can see some shots not seen in previous videos. I leave you with the commercial after the jump.

Once this is realized, Mac users will have access to a library of games impresionnate, the caliber of Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, Half-Life series, Batman: Arkham Asylum, among others.

The games also allow Mac and Windows users to compete online in a clean and smooth. Furthermore, the same president of Valve has stated he intends to return its universal content, which allow a user who has both Mac and Windows, to have the same game on both computers without having to pay for it twice .

A real pleasure to be gradually getting better games coming to our Mac, a trend that surely will be strengthened over time.

Better yet, Zen Bound 2 will be available on April 3, the day of the launch of the iPad, which already ensures a respectable level of sales. As to me, I can not wait to see play in various genres using this spectacular display.

As mentioned above, are more than 180 recipes, divided into categories according to the liquor used as main ingredient. But as “one who manages not take”, there are also non-alcoholic cocktails (they have thought of everything, hahaha). Includes information on where the cocktail is prepared (if in a blender, shaker, or in the same glass) and what kind of cup or glass is served. It also includes a glossary of cups and glasses (with pictures to identify them). And of course we always have at hand the gauge that tells us the recipe, there is a converter of measures, as I have thought of everything.

This application has just reached its second version, with improved interface, very friendly, very well accomplished photos. Perhaps this has reached the top downloads in Spain and Colombia, and in several other countries like Mexico, Chile and Argentina has been in the top 5. So totally recommended. The price of the application is U.S. $ 0.99

For those who pre-ordered your iPad in advance, it will be delivered on April 3 (again, in the U.S. only). So if you have a U.S. address where to collect your own website can go to Apple few weeks apart and wait until it is delivered.

The developments range from how to set up 3G plans iPad, implementation and operation iBooks, changes in hardware configuration and some other things.

Block Rotation

One of the biggest surprises of the day was that Apple has decided to change the function of the iPad mute switch for the lock function of rotation. A much more practical decision in my opinion, since many users may sometimes lead us to use iPad while we are lying in bed or just want to avoid that rotates while being transported through the house.

Let’s continue watching the rest after the jump ..

iBooks

Apple has released some information and some of the functions of your application iBooks. First, the application does not come installed by default on every iPad apparently to prevent those not living in U.S. territory since the install rights of the books sold through the application iBookstore are only available in EE. UU. for the moment.

Also we will have all the functions that a book lover would expect of an eReader, such as the ability to highlight text, make searches, consult any word in the dictionary, Wikipedia or Google with the touch and hold your finger on a word and use bookmarks.

But best of all, Apple has stated that iBooks will not be a closed platform, but anyone with a book in the ePub format can sync without problems in iTunes with the iPad. Excellent.

Another feature announced at the last minute for the iBooks is that this application will support the VoiceOver, we allow the same iPad we read the book you want to use the already known of the synthetic voices.

Control Data

For those who choose to buy the iPad WiFi with 3G, he need not have to go to tefefonía center to activate the 3G plans they want, but need only a few taps on the screen at the same iPad from the comfort of your home to activate the service.

Accessibility

In addition to the power function invert the colors in the iPad to make reading easier, it offered the option to turn on VoiceOver for users with visual impairments and to enable all audio to divert a single handset for those who have difficulty listening with one ear.

After the meeting, talked for a while and go. Time to walk with a little music. The Arcade Fire, Beck and Chairlift sound fantastic, but it is too late so I took another taxi. Study Japanese so I take the taxi to review some verbs Kanji and Japanese with Kanji Flip and Flip Japanese respectively, and then some of the concepts ” Japanese “, an excellent Japanese dictionary.

I come home, I review and edit my appointments and tasks of tomorrow (again in Pocket Informant) and remember to make a transfer to my brother. I use my Macbook but not easy for me to do it from my iPod so I send the transfer from there. I take to buy Blindness (Saramago) at Amazon and confirm the appointment with the Agent Apple Authorized Service within two days.

How do you do all these things with one device-not including the iPhone-and at the same time pass so well? And without even worrying about the battery! Japanese dictionaries, databases, whole language, read and download documents, watch YouTube videos, check my email and play Rolando (excellent game by the way). Not to mention the contacts, notes and the excellent support that Pocket Informant and that gives me almost by itself is a Personal Assistant. All this with an iPod.

I’ve always liked the PDA’s, I had a couple (Windows Mobile) and at this time I had affection for them both. But the fact that an iPod can do most things more important than a PDA is just unbelievable. And the iPod is faster, sharper, more reliable and is even starting to have very good games. And compared to a PDA is also cheaper.

As I wrote above, I’ve had PDAs before and am well aware of the limitations of the iPod Touch against them (many of which will be resolved with the release of iPhone OS 3.0). But for what I need and for what I do is almost perfect. Sure, I do not have the demands of a senior or an expert in systems and technology, but maybe that’s what Apple got (and probably “accidentally wanting”), a PDA for the user “average”, a PDA for “the rest of us.”

It is difficult to conclude this small article without going into some kind of cliche, but there is no other way to describe the potential here. Whoever buys an iPod Touch and see beyond what most do with one of them has the opportunity to find a bit of whatever they like. Sure, the iPod Touch / iPhone have become a tour de force for anyone even slightly interested in technology but not only for themselves, here’s a little bit of everything for us all.

Let’s be clear from the beginning, I’m not the CEO of any company, not the busiest person you could imagine, but like many of us, one way or another I have so many things to do during the day, and like many rely heavily on my computer (my MacBook Pro) to achieve them.

And with that, I must admit I am among those who would like to have both an iPhone 3G as an iPod Touch at the same time. I know it too but I like both very much. However, since I mobilized mostly on foot, by taxi and in combination, having to show an iPhone every time someone calls you on the phone is a risk I’d rather not run. So for this and other very compelling reasons as well, my iPod Touch portable ended up being my platform of choice, that I carry with me all the time.

I did not expect was that in this situation give me a unique opportunity to judge the iPod Touch mobile device itself, knowing that there is no 3G iPhone, but has some disadvantages and also has some important advantages on them:
Battery: I listen to music on my iPod Touch most of the day, use WiFi in moderation, watch the odd video and continue using other applications I use on a daily basis and still not charge the battery my iPod Touch more than once every day or day and a half. One big difference with an iPhone.
Accessibility: These days all you need to get an iPod Touch are a little over $ 200 or $ 250 and mobility to the store, mall or wherever you go shopping. No contracts, no monthly fees of 200 soles (or more), no cumbersome commitments. Once you buy, you are ready ara be used.
Power: A little known fact but the iPod Touch is the most powerful handheld device with the Apple account, which has a 532 MHz processor, much faster than 412 MHz processor that uses the iPhone 3G.
And it’s worth. No need to tell you what the iPhone means for the mobile phone market, but what causes it and the iPod Touch do “click” for me and for many users worldwide is the App Store. This little monster that already has over one thousand million downloaded applications may return to your iPhone / iPod Touch in (almost) anything you want.

So to prove my point better then I leave you with a day in the life of your server, and as my iPod Touch (iPod only from now on) helps me to do things in a much more rapid, organized and efficient:

Awake at 8 am to sound the alarm on my iPod (very strong and effective by the way). Use the Pocket Informant to see the commitments they have and the tasks that I must complete. Then I turn on my MacBook Pro to sync some playlists to do yesterday, plus a couple of games that I want to prove and I will need some later files, which synchronize via Air Sharing.

I forgot to download my email to my iPod so I make sure I do before leaving. In the taxi listen to some music while I check my email and write the first lines of this article in the Notes (to send email to my Mac later). Later I meet two friends had not seen for years so I take this opportunity to update their information in my Contacts, and continued talking and joking as he shows me where they live on Google Maps and my friend showed me a video of his daughter one year old on youtube.