The results of a recent survey of iPad owners conducted by Resolve Market Research seems to indicate that the tablet is taking a notable chunk out of the handheld gaming industry share. According to Mashable, 28 percent of respondents claimed that one of their main uses for the iPad was gaming, while 23 percent said between the iPad, smartphones and portable gaming devices, the former is “the most enjoyable for playing games.”
Most evidential of the iPad’s effect on the market is a question inquiring what mobile device respondents had no interest in purchasing after owning an iPad — 38 percent answered portable gaming device. Of course, these same respondents may have had no interest in buying a handheld before purchasing an iPad — still, Sony and Nintendo are likely sweating these harrowing percentiles.
PrinterShare is an awkward app to set up; besides installing it on your Mac, you also have to register an account. After that, on your Mac, you have to specify which printer (or printers) you want to share, whether you want to hide your printer from search results (more on this in a moment), find the remote printer as registered online, select the printer (which is now displayed in two panes of the main Mac application window, and then configure the printer (paper size, “notify me on job completion,” encrypt or not, and so on). In addition, a third window appears when you click on the Mac application’s “incoming” button, and that provides you with a variety of options, including setting default permissions (automatically download and print from approved users, wait for approval, remove, and so forth).
This all makes sense, in a way, because PrinterShare is designed to enable you to print remotely, over the Web, and to allow multiple users to print to the same machine remotely. (For example, employees can all remotely print to a shared printer.) However, there’s no apparent option for simply printing over a local network. And although you can choose to hide your printer from search results (when you are searching for a printer from the iPhone app), it seems that the only way for users to find their own printer is to make it public and find it; then, once that’s done, they can hide it from search results. It’s a confusing process, in part because developer Dynamix Software attempts to protect users from having their printers hijacked by unknown users. It seems, however, that the first option should simply enable you to link your iPhone to your printer by using your user ID, and that “searching” for printers should be a secondary option (because it would probably be unnecessary for most users).
Apple has sent late last week an email to developers on its development program for iPhone and iPod Touch warning them they could now propose their first creations dedicated to the iPad to be validated for the App Store,.
If they want their software to be online April 3, official launch date of the iPad on the shelf, they must submit before March 27. Its not a matter of chance that Apple has detailed the schedule to this point making sure applications will be ready for launch date: the Cupertino company has a large interest to maximise the number of applications made available when the first iPad will be delivered to U.S. buyers.
