Apple today introduced GarageBand for the iPad – a version of the company’s entry-level digital audio workstation, optimized for multi-touch mobile music making. GarageBand for the iPad could be a great new option for mobile audio podcasting – turning your tablet into a mobile recording studio for $5. Features: Musical instruments designed for Multi-Touch. 70 […]

Apple’s iOS app review process has long been the source of criticism: It’s too slow, it’s too arbitrary or it’s biased. Unfortunate news about the Android platform, though, suggests that maybe Apple’s app review process may not be so heinous after all. Android Police reports that 21 popular free apps for Android phones, apps that […]

Publishers of The Daily – the major new new app for the Apple iPad – have published a mea culpa at their blog, admitting that their app is buggy and saying that they are working on improving it: We’ve had massive uptake since Wednesday’s launch, and with that kind of audience scale in such a short […]

Delora Software has introduced a new wireless iPad MIDI Controller for GarageBand, gbTouch (App Store link). The app lets you control the major functions of GarageBand wirelessly. This could be useful for podcasting, especially if you want to set up your recording space away from your computer, for sound isolation or other reasons. gbTouch is $4.99. […]

There’s a lot of discussion today about iPad magazine sales plummeting, based on a report from WWD Media: Remember when Wired’s debut issue for the iPad sold more than 100,000 times in June? It looks like it will be a while before that type of performance is seen again. Digital sales dropped toward the end of […]

According to new research from The Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) that looks at how the iPad is affecting how people get news, the iPad tops both the Web and print for getting news. Highlights of the research: iPad news consumers prefer newspaper apps to newspaper websites; less likely to use print. The vast majority of […]

Audio equipment manufacturer TASCAM has released a new recording application for the Apple iPad. The Portastudio is based on – and nearly the same dimensions as – the TASCAM Porta One four-track cassette recorder that debuted back in 1984. The Portastudio app records four tracks, one at a time, with VU meters and a virtual […]

It looks like the Apple iPad has claimed its first victim – the Fusion Garage + TechCrunch JooJoo tablet. e27 reports that the JooJoo is at its “end of life” – aka dead: “With the new platform, the current Joojoo will be at its end of life,” says Fusion Garage founder Chandrashekar Rathakrishnan. Chandra says […]

IK Multimedia has introduced iKlip — a $39.99 multi-angle iPad microphone stand adapter. This could come in handy if you use the iPad for controlling Garageband, as a digital audio recorder, for reading scripts or with other music and audio apps. According to IK Multimedia, the iKlip is is constructed from dense thermoplastic molded components […]

Apple’s latest Macs are shipping Flash-free, and it’s highlighting the “Flash tax” – the hit Flash puts on your computer’s performance, browser stability and battery life.

New battery-life tests show that Flash can cut your battery life by a third, just to display banner ads.