Shawn Blanc

Didn’t know this one: Hitting the eject key on a paired bluetooth keyboard will bring up the virtual keyboard.

How nerdy is it that my killer app may very well be a to-do list app? I can’t help it; I love this Thing.

And speaking of winsome wallpapers for your iPad…

Neven:

If you provide a 1024×1024 image, it will be cropped to 768×1024 or 1024×768, depending on the orientation. So, your safe area is the middle 768×768.

A fantastic article for Time Magazine profiling Apple, the iPad, and Steve Jobs. Seriously, a great read.

The iTunes store is now updated with iPad Apps. Some of this nerd’s anticipated favorites include:

• Instapaper Pro

• Things

• 1Password

• Flight Control HD

• Marvel Comics

• NetNewsWire

• And even though I don’t use Evernote, its iPad version looks incredible.

It is amazing that almost every single one of the iPad apps available right now were built by developers who have never even held the device.

David answers a few of the most-asked questions after his iPad review on NY Times last night. And also, this little nugget:

But I’m telling you, the multitouch screen/software makes it very, very different from a laptop, and the screen size makes it very, very different from an iPhone. It’s something entirely new.

Lukas Mathis:

Let’s say you want to open the App Store on your iPad, and you know that you’ve put this icon at the bottom right of your apps. Turning the iPad shuffles the positions of your icons. The App Store now suddenly jumps to the middle of the second row.

Most of my apps I don’t even know which homescreen they’re on, just where they are on their screen.

iWork, Instapaper, Things, and 1Password aren’t just apps worth trying, they’re apps worthy of your first homescreen. (Of course, it’s pretty ironic for me to say this without ever even holding an iPad. Ah well… be sure check out the cool hand-drawn sketch that Cultured Code sent Mitch to show what Things on the iPad may look like.) (Via David Chartier.)