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Apple has doubled its monthly output capacity of the iPad and is now manufacturing 2 million per month to meet strong consumer demand, but the company reportedly would like to go even further and produce 3 million every month very soon.

Analyst Katy Huberty with Morgan Stanley indicated that iPad builds recently increased to 2 million per month, up from the previous number of just 1 million a month. Apple allegedly indicated to its suppliers that it would like to produce 3 million a month starting in the fourth calendar quarter of 2010.

It’s likely not coincidental that less than a week ago, iPad shipping times for new orders from apple.com improved to 24 hours. For months, customers had to wait an estimated 7 to 10 days, as Apple was surprised by strong demand for the device when it launched in April.

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iOS 4.2 Software Update. Coming soon to iPad.

iOS 4 is the world’s most advanced mobile operating system. And soon iPad owners will get to enjoy its 100+ new features and innovations — including multitasking, folders, printing, and more. Look for iOS 4.2 coming in November for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

Multitasking
Run all your favorite apps — and switch between them instantly — without slowing down the performance of the foreground app or draining the battery unnecessarily.

Folders
Organize apps into folders with drag-and-drop simplicity. Get faster access to your favorites and browse and manage thousands of apps.

Printing
Print mail, photos, web pages, and more directly to a printer on a wireless network.

AirPlay
Wirelessly stream videos, music, and photos from iPad to the new Apple TV, and stream music to AirPlay speakers or receivers, including AirPort Express.

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Popular Photography today launched a Popular Photography + tablet edition for the iPad. The magazine can be purchased through the iTunes App Store for $2.99 per issue as a special introductory price.

The magazine’s editor, Miriam Leuchter, explains how the iPad edition is just one facet of its ongoing revamp:

We’ve started an exciting cycle of announcing major improvements each fall. Last year, just four months after Bonnier acquired the magazine, we rolled out a complete redesign, and this year we’re complementing that with our new tablet edition, Popular Photography +.

The iPad edition will feature tips and techniques for taking photos and product reviews. Readers can move horizontally or vertically through the app’s pages and peruse content in “Look” mode in order to focus solely on images without the accompanying text, or return to “Read” mode to access articles.

iPad News Source: mediabistro.com

App Store: Special Introductory Price – $2.99

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Taking class notes is going digital in a big way with the iPad, and a major CourseNotes upgrade aims to make the process more social and flexible.

New in version 2.0 of this note-taking, sketching, and to-do-organizing iPad app is the ability to export notes for sharing with friends and classmates on Facebook, or with other CourseNotes users. A new in-app store with premium note templates, study sheets, and other content should also help students take better notes.

These new features are in addition to CourseNotes’s existing tools that let you organize notes by subject and note sessions; draw and sketch notes; track assignments and to-do lists; share notes via e-mail; and store a glossary of terms and definitions for each subject.

CourseNotes 2.0 is available now for $5 in the App Store and requires an iPad running iOS 3.2 or later.

iPad News Source: macworld.com

App Store: $4.99

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We have reviewed a couple of different iPad cases here at Geeky Gadgets, the latest one is the Speck Fitted iPad case. The Speck Fitted iPad case is a hard case for the iPad and it is designed to protect your Apple iPad from knocks and bumps.

The case some in two separate parts, which fit over the iPad to form a hard shell that will give it some extra protection, as usual you still get access to all the required ports, volume buttons etc.

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(Business Insider) — Apple’s iPad tablet isn’t just for geeks, yuppies, and rich people. It’s also for grandparents.

That may not be the target audience you’re thinking of for a $500 piece of high-tech metal and glass. But it actually makes sense. Why is that?

First and foremost, the iPad is incredibly simple to use, and easy to learn. (After more than 100 days of owning one, I love it.) For older people, or especially for inexperienced computer users, that’s very helpful.

Because the iPad is just a 10-inch touch panel, all you need to think about and interact with is what’s on the screen. There are no hidden menus to have to learn about, or buttons to think about. There’s no need to master double-clicking or right-clicking. You just touch what you want.

So while there is some learning curve for the iPad, it should be much easier than trying to figure out the intricacies of Windows or even a Mac. And the touch-based user interface should seem very intuitive. There isn’t anything much simpler than just touching what you want from the screen.

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As absurd as it might seem to dock a 9.7-inch tablet atop what amounts to a glorified boom box, let’s be real: the iPad’s meek speakers are easily outclassed by its ability to swallow gigabytes worth of music and high-quality video content. Sure enough, iPad-compatible docks are quickly becoming a thing now, and Philips is jumping head-first into the market with its Fidelio DS8550. Oh, but there’s more than meets the eye here — it’s not just a speaker with a giant slot in front for a 30-pin connection, you see. You can either connect the iPad to let it charge and get a direct audio connection or roam with it and let it talk back to the dock over stereo Bluetooth, which was demoed to us as an awesome option for gaming — as long as the Fidelio is within a few yards of you, games really become a more immersive experience when you’ve got thick, booming bass and virtually limitless volume nearby, and we found that you really don’t notice that the sound is coming from “somewhere else.”

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The iPad, which could dominate the tablet market until 2012, has been appearing in boardrooms and cubicles around the country. Previously it could be blamed on a manager showing off a new gadget or ordering one for the office in hopes of figuring out what to do with it later. But with Apple’s 4.2 iOS upgrade available in November, the iPad will soon have wireless printing, the ability to share files and multitask (the final two were available on the iPhone but not the iPad) — basically all things an office device should be able to do.

The new 4.2 essentially upgrades the iPad with apps previously available on the iPhone, including fixing various bugs, and provides streaming video and music with AirPlay.

The problem with the newest upgrade is that it’s not available to users until November. Until then, employees will have to use the 4.1 upgrade available next week for the iPhone or the iPod Touch – but may not be able to use the print center application. If Apple intends for the iPad and iPhone to infiltrate the enterprise market, it would have been better if Apple had combined the upgrades into one megagrade that would have been available and applicable to all its handheld devices.

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