Tooling around the Apple website, I stumbled across this fun little find. It's a desktop widget called iPad, released as freeware on February 28, 2006. Surprisingly, it's still available for download and now resident on my MacBook Air.
The iPad was created for taking notes. If you look closely, you can see the Apple logo in reverse from the back with iPad also appearing backwards. The screen was even elongated to fit more text.
A curious little find on the night before Apple's big tablet unveiling. Does this mean that the "iPad" name is not part of Apple's plan? There's no way to tell, but it's still a cool little widget to have no matter what Apple ends up calling their tablet device. You heard it here first.
[UPDATE: Apple yanked down the iPad Widget]
Nice widget.. mine work...
Posted by: iphonefreeware | August 02, 2010 at 08:00 PM
it's still a cool little widget to have no matter what Apple ends up calling their tablet device.
Posted by: cheap computers | February 08, 2010 at 11:02 AM
When I download a widget and click 'install' nothing happens. I have tried to move the widget directly to my home/library/widgets folder, but apparently I don't have one. When I tried to create this folder, I was told "The item cannot be created because 'Library' cannot be modified" even though this is my home library. I then hit 'authenticate' and am told the operation "cannot be completed because I don't have sufficient privileges for some of the items".
Posted by: cheap r4i | February 02, 2010 at 10:39 AM
Apple apparently was watching. The page is gone.
Posted by: Dheady@mac.com | January 27, 2010 at 12:26 PM