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"What is usually the first thing everyone that gets a new iPad wants to know? Which apps to get. But there are still some cool things that you can do with your iPad, even without buying a single app."

A set of ten tricks, or tips if you rather, about the iPad and you may not even be aware of all of them. I certainly wasn't, although I did know about most. I particularly like the trick of getting movies from an SD card onto your iPad via the camera connection kit. Worth the read if for nothing else than a reminder about what you can do with the iPad.

"Apple's Ping music social network has been met with all sorts of user opinions; some love it, some hate it, others recognise it has potential if it continues to innovate and evolve."

But it hasn't stopped over one million users from signing up for the service, all in less than 48 hours. I'd say that was a success, but the key is to keep signing up users and then keep them using the service. Only time will tell for that, but so far so good. You can find out more about this new service at Apple.