Since it has such a large screen, the iPad can handle a number of more advanced capabilities than smaller devices in the iOS family – the iPhone and iPod touch. In fact, some of iOS 5′s coolest features are exclusive to the iPad. Following our collection of 9 obscure iOS 5 tips & tricks , let’s take it a step further and get into what’s new for iPad users in particular.

Focus is a new application available on the Mac App Store that makes it easy to add depth and lens blur to your photos. With support for many of Mac OS X’s unique features, Focus makes enhancing photos more intuitive than ever. To those who know a bit about photography, depth of field plays a big role in what separates good pictures from great pictures.

Apple has made some significant user interface changes to OS X 10.7 Lion. If it’s too much change for you to handle all at once, there are ways you can disable many of Lion’s newest features. The marketing behind Mac OS X Lion touts it as being influenced by iOS from iPhones and iPads.

Monster has just released a new product that makes cleaning your iOS devices – specifically the iPhone and iPod touch – much more convenient. It’s both travel and touchscreen friendly. We’re constantly touching our iOS gadgets and gunking them up with greasy fingerprints

It’s a somewhat common problem for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users to find events synced to their calendar application have the wrong start and end times when compared to the iCal versions on their Mac. A few weeks ago I noticed some new appointments I entered in iCal on my Mac were not syncing correctly to my iPhone.

The tech community is in a frenzy over malicious software called MacDefender that targets Mac users. While this is a new phenomenon, it has nothing to do with the security of Mac OS X. Macs are still not susceptible to viruses.

Front Row, Apple’s media center software for Mac OS X, offers a simple menu-based interface for browsing music, videos, and photos. Many Mac users don’t want or need it, though, so let’s find out how to turn off and disable Front Row. Front Row was introduced with the iMac G5 in 2005 and soon became bundled with all new Macs.

You insert a CD or DVD into your Mac’s SuperDrive and it spits it right back out at you. You might think you’re in for an expensive optical drive replacement, but there is one last resort that could fix it.

When your Mac is in the middle of a long, CPU intensive task it can bring the entire system to a crawl if you try to do something else at the same time. To avoid this issue, you can temporarily pause processes in Mac OS X. Computers are far more powerful today than they have ever been, but there are still times when the system is overwhelmed by a greedy process that uses nearly all of the CPU.

If you are perplexed as to why Mac OS X’s green Zoom button doesn’t always maximize windows to full screen like in Microsoft Windows, there’s a perfectly good explanation. In fact, it truly makes sense when you think about it. As mentioned in MacYourself’s previous article, “ Mac switchers: 7 Windows concepts & habits you need to let go ,” the biggest hurdle many new Mac users face is their own frame of mind