The long awaited, highly anticipated iPad

The most important thing in my mind today is the launch of the new Apple iPad. There is so much to cover and, as usual with all things tech, Gizmodo is the first choice in tech coverage. They have tackled it from so many angles, I’ve chosen my favourite topics and delivered them below.

The New Apple iPad – Finally it’s launched! I just love how everyone (including me) was speculating on what the device will be called – happily convinced that it was something clever like an “iSlate” or a “Tablet!” Meantime, it was something slightly more obvious. Follow this link for everything you need to know about the new iPad [gizmodo]

How To Use The iPad – Have you even considered how one would type on this thing? Can you get an external keyboard? How does it operate when surfing on the net? Can it multitask? Gizmodo (you’ll see a lot of them this morning!) have put together a short guide on how to use the iPad interface. [gizmodo]

Apple iPad: Books, Magazines, Newspapers, Movies and Music – The iPad combines Apple’s solid content delivery system and a device which is almost ideal for all that media. We’ll listen to our iTunes collection while reading out iBook collection and squinting at the grease marks left from a popcorn-powered ten-hour movie marathon. [gizmodo]

Google Maps on the iPad – Video Google Maps on the iPad isn’t significantly different from Google Maps on the iPhone. But Street View? It’s huge. As is the Eiffel Tower. [gizmodo]

Eight Things That Suck About The New iPad – Not everyone is gonna be stoked with the new Apple iPad. Personally I can’t comment too much, as I have never seen one in real life. But the guys at Gizmodo have, and here’s the one geek’s list of iPad negatives. [gizmodo]

The Official Apple iPad Video – Who better to walk us through the features of the Apple iPad than some of the people behind the device? [youtube]

Michael Douglas’ Son Is Going To Jail For 10 Years – Instead of doing what you and I would do, which is ride the family name and become a movie star and become fun things like “iconic,” Michael Douglas’ son, Cameron, would prefer to deal in drugs and get caught. Knob. [huffington]

Radical Video Footage Of Mars – A space-loving animator has created stunning flyovers of Mars from data captured by NASA’s HiRISE imager, which is mounted on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite. HiRISE creates detailed digital-elevation models. Crunch that data, add perspective and some cinematic effects, and you have these videos. [wired]

Avatar Is Actually 26th Biggest Movie Of All Time – James Cameron’s sci-fi epic Avatar may have sunk Titanic to become the most successful film of all time in terms of the amount of money it has taken worldwide. However, it still has some way to go in order to become the most popular movie of all time with cinemagoers – according to these statistics. Huh? What? [yahoo]

Teenage Girl Found Alive In Haiti, 15 Days After Earthquake – Darlene Etienne, 17, was found in the rubble of the College St Gerard school in Port-au-Prince. She was severely dehydrated and appeared to have a leg injury. According to rescue workers at the scene she was happy, shocked and crying. And slightly peckish, perhaps? [skynews]

Kiefer Sutherland Loses $869k In Cow Ponzi Scheme – It’s all a it confusing for me. Maybe you’ll have better luck. Something about a ponzi scheme involving cows. Yup, you heard me. Apparently the guy Kiefer was dealing with would buy them in Mexico and bring them into the US and then… it kind of fucked out after that. [tmz]

Zuma Dismisses Fears Over World Cup Security – President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday dismissed fears of any attack at the Soccer World Cup later this year, promising South Africa blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah blah. [mail&guardian]

[thanks steve]