Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

A Hands-On Review of the new Apple iPad

UPS delivered my new iPad this morning. This has been one of the most publicized devices of the decade, creating more excitement than the original hula hoop. I was anxious to see if it lived up to my expectations. You can read tens of t...

Apple's iPad and Genealogy

Apple CEO Steve Jobs today announced a new tablet computer to be called the iPad. This device has been hyped more in the past few months than the Super Bowl. Thousands of news articles have appeared online and in print, trying to guess w...

I Ordered an Apple iPad

As I wrote a few weeks ago, Apple recently announced a new tablet computer to be called the iPad. This device has been hyped more in the past few months than the Super Bowl. Thousands of news articles have appeared online and in print, ...

Genealogy Programs for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad

NOTE: This is a repeat of an article I wrote about a year and a half ago, before the iPad was even announced. There have been MANY changes and updates and new iPad and iPhone genealogy programs released since then so I have updated this ...

Update: Using the iPad's External Keyboard

FedEx delivered a new package today: the external keyboard for my iPad. It works. Indeed, it works well. I am using the external keyboard to write this article. (Click on the thumbnail image to see a larger picture.) The new keyboard...

Apple iPad: The Day After

Thousands of articles have been posted online in the past twenty-four hours describing what is included and what is not included in the newly-announced iPad. I haven't read all the articles but I did read quite a few. Here are a few quot...

(+) Follow-up: Using the Apple iPad for Several Days

The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. On April 3, I received a new Apple iPad tablet computer, used it for a few hours, and then wrote an article entitled "A Hands-On Review of the new Apple i...

Running iPhone Applications on an iPad

Someone asked the question today, "Can this [iPhone program] be used on iPad even before its iPad version is released?" I thought I would share the answer here where everyone can benefit.The answer is: "Yes, at least 99% of the time."

Genealogists: Win an Apple iPad!

One lucky genealogist, probably a reader of this newsletter, is going to win an Apple iPad worth $499! That winner could be YOU! To enter the contest, all you need to do is enter a genealogy query, an advertisement for a genealogy servic...

Apple's New iPad

Apple has now unveiled its long-rumored new iPad. Strangely, Apple is not calling it the iPad3. Instead, it is simply “the new iPad.” The new device contains a lot of improvements over the previous iPad2 but I see little in the list that...