The nominations have been tallied in the 2012 About.com Readers' Choice Awards, and we are on to the final voting phase of the competition. And the Readers' Choice nominations for Best iPad App are...

• Animation Desk, an app that lets you create animations on your iPad.
• Feed the Monster, a game where you create your own monster as a play partner.
• Garage Band, Apple's musical creation app.
• Quick Office Pro HD, which lets you edit your Microsoft Office files and PDF files while on the go.
• Temple Run, a 3D platform game that has you escaping from demonic monkeys.

Voting ends at 11:59pm on March 15th and the winners will be announced on March 30th.

The nominations have been tallied in the 2012 About.com Readers' Choice Awards, and we are on to the final voting phase of the competition. And the Readers' Choice nominations for Best iPad Accessory are...

• Jawbone Jambox, a wireless speaker system.
• Logitech Fold-Up Keyboard, a keyboard that folds up under your iPad.
• OtterBox Reflex Series Case, which not only protects, it acts as a stand.
• Seagate GoFlex Satellite, which adds 500 GB of storage to your iPad.
• Soundfreaq Sound Stack, a wireless speaker system.

Voting ends at 11:59pm on March 15th and the winners will be announced on March 30th.

Despite seeing the words "confirmed" a few times, there's one thing we can count on: Apple won't confirm anything until the official announcement. But at this stage, there are a few good guesses.

The iPad 3 will have a better resolution display. This one goes in the all-but-confirmed category. The iPad 3 will not have a Retina Display, which is a display that has 300 pixels per inch (PPI). The current thought is the display will have a resolution of 2048x1536, which comes in shy of that 300 PPI mark, but you can count on some overzealous media outlets still going ahead with reports of a Retina Display.

The iPad 3 will support Siri. If there is one feature we can count on more than an improved display, it is that the iPad 3 will feature the same voice recognition that iPhone 4S users enjoy.

The iPad 3 will have a quad-core processor. Nothing about the iPad 3 is a sure bet, but we do know at the very least it will have a speed boost in both the processor and in the graphical department. Going to a quad-core processor makes sense.

The iPad 3 will support 4G LTE. This one goes more into the "I hope" category. The same rumor made the rounds with the iPhone 4S, but ultimately, it didn't turn out to be true. The same guesswork behind the iPhone 4S rumors is behind the iPad 3 rumors of 4G support. They very well could turn out to be true, but it wouldn't be a surprise to see this one come up false.

The iPad 3 will have an 8MB camera. The rumor of an 8MP camera is one of the more recent rumors, and it does make sense that Apple would upgrade the rather sad dual-cameras introduced with the iPad 2. Will it be an 8MP camera? Perhaps. The iPad isn't used as a camera nearly as often as the iPhone, but better camera support is always a plus.

The iPad 3 will really be the iPad 2S. This rumor is a side effect of the iPhone 5 turning out to be an iPhone 4S. But would people really have felt happier if the iPhone 4S had been called an iPhone 5 instead? Apple could have chosen any name for it, but the features would have remained the same.

And ever since Microsoft Word jumped from version 2 up to version 6 in order to look better sitting next to WordPerfect 6.0 on store shelves, version numbers have been as much of a marketing gimmick as anything. Heck, EA Sports uses Madden 2012 as the name for the Madden based on the 2011 season. It's all about marketing these days.

Apple will come out with an iPad Mini. Not so much an iPad 3 rumor as it is a persistent rumor that we'll see make the rounds throughout much of the year, one thing that is a good bet is that an iPad Mini announcement won't come in March. If Apple does come out with a smaller iPad this year, we'll probably see an announcement in the third or fourth quarter.

Along with the persistent rumor that Apple is about to hit the television market with an Apple-branded high-definition television, it has recently been reported that Apple is sitting on top of $98 billion in cash. That's clearly enough money to launch an all-out war on an industry with a new product. In fact, that's enough money to launch two new products.

CEO Tim Cook has stated that Apple will stick to their philosophy of focusing only on a few products and doing them to the best of Apple's ability. But if Apple did come out with a completely new product in addition to the so-called "iTV", what type of product would it be?

The iCamera

I've never been much of a picture taker, but after becoming a new father, I decided a camera was a necessity. And it didn't take long into the shopping experience for it to dawn on me that Apple could easily become one of the top-selling camera makers should they come out with an iCamera.

The iPhone camera isn't going to win any awards for quality, and the dual-facing cameras on the iPad can only be described as "sad". But one think these iOS devices bring to the table is Photo Stream. Introduced with the iOS 5 update as a part of iCloud, Photo Stream automatically uploads the pictures you take to a central location and downloads them to your supported devices. This means you can Read More...