<div id="popup_box_thanks" style="display:none" onClick="close_popup_thanks('popup_box_thanks', 'ts')"><br>Thanks for submitting your tip! All submissions are moderated by an editor before appearing online. We've reset the form so you can enter another tip. Or you can close the tip submission box. <div class="x_close" id="thanks_upper_right"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onmousedown="close_popup_thanks('popup_box_thanks', 'ts'); return true;">Close</a></div></div>
<div class="tbf_row"><div class="tbf_wide_extra_top not_bold">Please submit only technical tips that will help other TidBITS readers better use their Macs, iPhones, and related software and hardware. All product announcements should be sent to <a href="mailto:releases@tidbits.com">releases@tidbits.com</a>.</div></div>
<div class="tbf_left">URL</div><div class="tbf_right"><input type="text" value="" name="tip_link_url" tabindex="3"><span class="tip_description"><br>Enter the URL to a Web page that supports your tip.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="spacer"></div>
<div class="tbf_row">
<div class="tbf_left">Linked text</div><div class="tbf_right"><input type="text" value="" name="tip_link_label" tabindex="4"><span class="tip_description"><br>Enter the name of the page linked above.</span></div>
<div class="tbf_wide"><input type="submit" value="Preview Your Tip" name="preview_tip" onClick="fill_preview('tipbits_enclosure_preview', 'ts', this.form); return false;" tabindex="7"> <input type="submit" value="Send Us Your Tip!" name="submit_this_tip" onClick="handle_tip_submission('ts', '', this.form, 'tip'); return false;" tabindex="8"></div>
</div>
<div class="spacer"></div>
<div class="tbf_row">
<div class="tbf_wide"><span class="fine_print">When you submit a tip, you give us permission to use it. Read <a href="javascript:void(0)" onClick="generic_show_hide('tip_terms')">our terms</a> for more details. All submissions are reviewed before publication.</span></div>
<div class="tbf_wide"><span class="fine_print">Our terms: By submitting a tip, you agree to assign TidBITS Publishing Inc., a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual license to reproduce, publish, and distribute your tip in connection with the TidBITS Web site and associated products in any media. You agree that you created the content you submitted, and that you have the right to assign us this license. You give us permission to use your name, but your email address won't be publicly displayed or shared. We review all submissions before publication, and reserve the right to select which submissions we feel are appropriate for our readers and to edit those we publish.</span></div>
<div id="comment_thanks" style="display:none" onClick="close_popup_thanks('comment_thanks', 'comm')"><br>Thanks for submitting a comment! Please check your email for a link that, when clicked, will verify that you're a real person and cause your comment to appear immediately. <div class="x_close" id="comment_upper_right"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onmousedown="close_popup_thanks('comment_thanks', 'comm'); return true;">Close</a></div></div>
<div class="tbf_wide"><span class="fine_print">Our terms: We reserve the right to edit or delete any comment, so please post thoughtfully. We use your email address <i>only</i> to send you a one-time verification message confirming that you posted this comment. We also store your address to allow you to verify using other Web browsers in the future. For more info, see our <a href="http://db.tidbits.com/privacy.html">privacy policy</a>.</span></div>
<li><a href="/feeds/tidbits.rss" title="Subscribe via RSS" class="gettb">RSS <img src="/images/feed-icon-12x12.gif" width="12" height="12" border="0" class="nav_img" alt="Subscribe via RSS"></a></li>
<li><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=276986548" title="Subscribe to the podcast" class="gettb">Podcast <img src="/images/feed-icon-12x12_podcast.gif" width="12" height="12" border="0" class="nav_img" alt="Subscribe to the postcast"></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.twitter.com/TidBITS" title="Get Article Updates via Twitter" class="gettb">Twitter <img src="/images/feed_icon_12x12_twitter.png" width="12" height="12" border="0" class="nav_img" alt="Get Article Updates via Twitter"></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/TidBITS/195314925519" title="Go to the TidBITS Page at Facebook" class="gettb">Facebook <img src="/images/feed_icon_12x12_facebook.gif" width="12" height="12" border="0" class="nav_img" alt="Go to the TidBITS Page at Facebook"></a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:void(0)" title="Sections" class="tabhead" onClick="return showhide('articleslist')">Sections <span id="articleslist_triangle"><img src="/images/nav_triangle_open.gif" width="9" height="9" border="0" class="navtriangle" id="articleslist_tri_image" alt="Click to show or hide the contents of this section."></span></a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:void(0)" onClick="return showhide('stafflist')" title="Staff" class="tabhead">Staff <span id="stafflist_triangle"><img src="/images/nav_triangle_closed.gif" width="9" height="9" border="0" class="navtriangle" id="stafflist_tri_image" alt="Click to show or hide the contents of this section."></span></a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:void(0)" title="Issues" class="tabhead" onClick="return showhide('issuelist')">Weekly Issues <span id="issuelist_triangle"><img src="/images/nav_triangle_closed.gif" width="9" height="9" border="0" class="navtriangle" id="issuelist_tri_image" alt="Click to show or hide the contents of this section."></span></a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:void(0)" onClick="return showhide('abouttidbits')" title="About TidBITS" class="tabhead">About TidBITS <span id="abouttidbits_triangle"><img src="/images/nav_triangle_closed.gif" width="9" height="9" border="0" class="navtriangle" id="abouttidbits_tri_image" alt="Click to show or hide the contents of this section."></span></a></li>
<div class="center_top">Thoughtful, detailed coverage of the Mac, iPhone, and iPad, plus the best-selling <a href="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/?pt=TB-TAGLINE" style="color:yellow">Take Control</a> ebooks.</div>
<!-- begin centercolumn -->
<div id="centercolumn">
<!-- begin rightcolumn_container -->
<div id="rightcolumn_container">
<!-- begin rightcolumn -->
<!-- rightcolumn is embedded within centercolumn so featured text wraps around it -->
<div id="rightcolumn">
<p class="top"> </p>
<!-- begin tearoff box wide for bio -->
<div class="tearoffbox_wide_container">
<div class="tearoffbox_wide_p">
<p class="tearoffbox_wide_top_p"> </p>
<h5>Author Biography</h5>
<p class="tearoffbox_text">Glenn Fleishman is a TidBITS contributing editor and a Seattle journalist who covers technology for publications like Popular Science, The Seattle Times, and The Economist. He blogs daily about Wi-Fi and other wireless networking at <a href="http://wifinetnews.com/">Wi-Fi Networking News</a>. Glenn is a frequent contributor to <a href="http://arstechnica.com/">Ars Technica</a>. For TidBITS, Glenn builds and runs much of the technology infrastructure. Glenn lives in Seattle with his wife Lynn, sons Ben and Rex, two iPhones, and a dozen Macs of various vintages. </p><p class="tearoffbox_text_email"><span class="shift_down"><img src="/images/gettb_button_email.gif" height="12" width="12" border="0" alt="Send Email to Author"></span> <a href="javascript:void(0)" onClick="document.check_human_50.submit_type.value='email'; document.check_human_50.author_id.value='50'; ShowTipBox('hc_50', 'hc_recaptcha_50', 'cb_item_add')">Email the author</a></p>
<div class="tbf_wide_80" id="hc_rc_50">To help us avoid automated posts and misuse of our site, please enter the words below.</div><div class="x_close_row" id="hc_upper_right4_50"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onmousedown="HidePopupContent('hc_50', 'hc', '50'); return true;">Close</a></div>
<p><p>Although Fetch doesn't have a built-in scheduler, you can use iCal along with Fetch's Mirror command or Automator support to automatically upload or download files at a specified time. To find out how...</p></p>
<p>Visit <a href="http://fetchsoftworks.com/fetch/help/Contents/Tutorial/ScheduledTransfers.html ">Scheduling automatic transfers with iCal</a></p>
</div>
<div class="tearoffbox_wide_bottom_tips">
<div style="padding-bottom:35px"><div class="tip_display" style="float:left"><p><br><a href="/tipbits/225">Link to this tip</a></p></div><div class="tip_display" style="float:right; width:150px">
<div class="link_hover" id="link_box_full_11271" onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11271', 'show'); link_hover_swap('11271', 'in')" onMouseOut="link_hover_swap('11271', 'out')"><div class="link_hover_title"><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/151168/2010/05/250mb_ipad_plan_management.html" id="link_hover_title_11271">Strategies for Using Less Data on a 3G iPad</a></div><div class="link_box_right" id="link_box_right_11271" style="visibility:hidden"><img src="/images/external_link_arrow.gif" height="15" width="15" border="0" alt="arrow"> <img src="/images/favicons/macworld.png" border="0" alt="favicon"> </div></div><div class="spacer"></div>
</h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11271" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11271">TidBITS editor Glenn Fleishman offers strategies over at Macworld for how to cope with just 250 MB of cellular data a month on a 3G iPad when using AT&T's less expensive service plan. The advice is also worthwhile for non-U.S. plans that either have monthly usage caps or throttle to a lower speed after a preset monthly limit is passed.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 11 May 2010</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/11265"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11265', 'show')">International iPad Ship Dates and Prices Announced</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11265" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11265">Apple revealed that the iPad will appear on 28 May 2010 in nine countries outside the United States, with pre-orders beginning 10 May 2010. Another set of countries follows in July. Hardware and service pricing has been announced for most of the included nations.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> and <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 10 May 2010 | <a href="/article/11265#comments">9 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="link_hover" id="link_box_full_11256" onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11256', 'show'); link_hover_swap('11256', 'in')" onMouseOut="link_hover_swap('11256', 'out')"><div class="link_hover_title"><a href="http://bytemobile.com/news-events/2010/archive_260410.html" id="link_hover_title_11256">iPad Consumes More Data than iPhone for Same Apps</a></div><div class="link_box_right" id="link_box_right_11256" style="visibility:hidden"><img src="/images/external_link_arrow.gif" height="15" width="15" border="0" alt="arrow"> <img src="/images/link_globe.gif" height="15" width="15" border="0" alt="Generic Globe"></div></div><div class="spacer"></div>
</h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11256" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11256">Bytemobile carried out identical tasks on apps using an iPhone (presumably 3GS) and 3G iPad, and found that many generated substantially higher amounts of traffic on the iPad. This is explained by the iPad display's greater area, which shows more and larger graphics. USA Today's app used 6.3 times as much data on an iPad, while Maps ate up 2.6 time as much. This will have some impact on whether people choose a 250 MB or unlimited 3G plan (or any 3G plan at all). Bytemobile's interest? It works with cell operators to optimize content to reduce mobile data use and congestion.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 04 May 2010</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/11251"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11251', 'show')">Ins and Outs of the 3G iPad AT&T Service Plans</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11251" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11251">AT&T offers two simple service plans for mobile data on the 3G iPad. But the devil lurks in the details. We examine the fiddly bits hidden in the plan.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/11243"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11243', 'show')">Jobs Explains Apple's Position on Adobe Flash</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11243" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11243">In a sometimes brutally frank essay about why Apple doesn't allow the use of Flash on iPhone OS devices, Steve Jobs dishes opinions previously spoken only inside the company.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/11238"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11238', 'show')">AT&T Clarifies 3G iPad Data Plan</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11238" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11238">A data sheet from AT&T makes the 3G iPad's mobile broadband data plans far clearer than Apple's pre-release information.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/11231"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11231', 'show')">Eye-Fi Updates Geo Card for Apple and Adds Hotspots</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11231" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11231">Eye-Fi, makers of an SD memory card with Wi-Fi transfer capabilities, will offer an improved version for sale by Apple Stores in May 2010. Eye-Fi also announced a deal with Devicescape to make it easier to upload to many more hotspots.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11232" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11232">The iPad has a polarizing effect - but not in separating those who love it from those who don't. Rather, the effect renders the screen totally black when viewed in portrait mode through sunglasses.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/11221"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11221', 'show')">iPad USB Camera Adapter Supports Audio Headsets, Too</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11221" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11221">While Apple makes no mention of it, you can plug a set of driver-free USB headphones or a headset into the iPad Camera Connection Kit's USB adapter.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/11219"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11219', 'show')">iPad Camera Connection Kit Works Simply and Well</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11219" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11219">The iPad Camera Connection Kit, a two-adapter set, is now shipping. We take a look at the basics of using the kit to import photos from a camera or SD card. It's a solid offering, and one that surprisingly lets you connect devices other than cameras.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11215" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11215">Time Magazine finds no credible reason for the blockage of iPads into Israel, but notes that the sole authorized Apple importer, iDigital, is owned by the son of Israel's president. Time talked to wireless experts, the ministry of communications, and others, and the explanations are quite thin. The ministry appears to be relying on the word of iDigital, rather than, say, testing or calling up Apple, on whether the iPad meets the European standards that Israel follows.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 21 Apr 2010 | <a href="/article/11215#comments">2 comments | Comment on this link</a></div></div></div>
<a href="/article/11212"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11212', 'show')">Apple Posts $3.07 Billion Profit for Q2 2010</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11212" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11212">Apple continues to set records with its earnings report for the second quarter of its fiscal year. iPhone sales were up 124 percent over the year-ago quarter, and iPod sales stayed remarkably strong. Mac sales fared well, too. Growth outside the United States contributed to the overall strong results. And this quarter ended before a single iPad was delivered.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/11210"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11210', 'show')">Undercover Theft-Recovery Software Update Gives You the Details</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11210" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11210">In a change in Orbicule's Undercover 4, the theft-recovery tool gives you the information generated by a stolen computer, as well as sharing it with law enforcement. You can also optionally track your laptop in real time.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11204" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11204">Sprint is upping its promotion of the combined 3G (EVDO) and 4G (WiMax) Overdrive portable hotspot to iPad owners as an alternative to a 3G-enabled iPad by offering a special case that can hold both an iPad and the Overdrive. The case requires a trip to a Best Buy in a state in which Sprint's Clearwire division offers WiMax service. The Overdrive costs $100 with a 2-year contract at $50-$60 per month for unlimited WiMax, and up to 5 GB of 3G service each month (300 MB outside Sprint's 3G/4G territory).</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11185" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11185">A Google developer, formerly on the Android team, provides a detailed, fair, and clear explanation of how iPhone OS 4 multitasking will work. Robert Love explains the difference between true background application multitasking and Apple's limited set of APIs that let certain processes continue to operate in the background. He also differentiates serialization (quitting an app while preserving its state precisely) and true background operations.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11187" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11187">Our own Glenn Fleishman was quoted by Australia's Senator Stephen Conroy, the minister for broadband, communications, and the digital economy, in a recent speech. The quote came from an article Glenn wrote for the Northwest news site PubliCola, about <a href="http://www.publicola.net/2009/12/11/the-killer-app-of-1900-2/">electricity being the killer app of 1900</a>, in the way that broadband is the killer app today. Australia plans an ambitious fiber and wireless infrastructure buildout to ensure near universal high-speed access, with 90 percent of residents having fiber to the home.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 12 Apr 2010 | <a href="/article/11187#comments">8 comments | Comment on this link</a></div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11166" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11166">Apple's own user forums and other discussion sites are filling up with posts about problems getting a strong and consistent Wi-Fi signal on the iPad. </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/11150"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11150', 'show')">Reading Books on the iPad: iBooks, Kindle, and GoodReader</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11150" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11150">Glenn Fleishman tries reading in several apps - iBooks, Kindle for iPad, and GoodReader for iPad - and finds the experience uniformly positive.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11141" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11141">Macworld puts together links to the first seven iPad reviews, featuring the usual suspects (Pogue, Mossberg, Baig), plus our friends Andy Ihnatko (Chicago Sun Times), Bob LeVitus (Houston Chronicle), and Xeni Jardin (BoingBoing), along with reviewers at The Root and PC Magazine. Actor, comedian, director, and blogger Stephen Fry also received an iPad and posted his thoughts.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 31 Mar 2010</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/11125"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11125', 'show')">Apple May Be Making Verizon-Compatible iPhone</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11125" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11125">The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is working on an iPhone compatible with Verizon's and Sprint's CDMA cellular networking technology.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 29 Mar 2010 | <a href="/article/11125#comments">28 comments</a></div></div>
<p class="cat_next">
<a href="/index.cgi?article_author=Glenn%20Fleishman&full_search=1">start of results</a> | <a href="/index.cgi?article_author=Glenn%20Fleishman&full_search=1&search_start=1">previous 20 results</a> | <a href="/index.cgi?article_author=Glenn%20Fleishman&full_search=1&search_start=3">next 20 results</a> | <a href="/index.cgi?article_author=Glenn%20Fleishman&full_search=1&search_start=33">end of results</a>
