iMovie and Garage Band now on iPad

 

iMovie and Garageband are featured apps on iPhone and iTouch and also on OS X, but not yet on the iPad. With todays announcements Apple has said that they are brining iMovie and GarageBand to the iPad, which will be able to use the iPad 2's new A5 dual-core processor to its full potential. There are tons of features with iMovie, it has new themes, tweaked UI, and a home screen that looks like an old movie theater which shows previous project and theme templates. Gestures play a prominent role in editing the clips. Transitions are fully customizable, audio is also shown with full waveforms and able to include multitrack audio and import songs from iTunes. On Garageband the iPad studio has 8 different track recordings, 250+ loops and fully compatible with the Mac version. There are cool touch instruments like piano, synths, guitars and more. You can now plug-in a guitar and shred for real with virtual guitar amps and effects. When using the virtual instruments the harder you press on the screen the louder the instrument actually gets and plays a different sound. You are able to edit, with rearranging, trim, and edit it all from you finger tips. Both of these launch on March $11 for $5.

iPad 2 Silicone Cases Hands-On

The Apple iPad 2 will be released on March 2 but we already have our hands on the iPad 2 cases sent to us from Budgetgadgets in China. I can't say for sure that these silicone cases are spot-on but I have a feeling they do have the correct thickness and form to fit the iPad 2. As you may already know, the iPad 2 will feature a back facing camera as well as a front facing camera for FaceTime. These silicone cases from Budgetgadgets have a few new cutouts made for the iPad 2 including back and front facing cameras, a larger cutout for the speaker and another small cutout at the top for some sort of mini-USB port which I'm sure will not be found on the iPad 2.

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