Archive for April, 2010

The iBooks is now avaliable in the Apple AppStore for free. It comes with Winnie the Pooh and the ability to sample any book in the store before buying. For now it is US-only and iPad-only, global editions are expected in the near future.

Rumors say Apple might build versions for iPhone/iPod Touch and even Mac in the future.

Here is a nice drawing application for the iPad called Drawing Pad.  The interface is great. Take a look:

This one costs $1.99 (AppStore link). There are many free versions, which are more simple. For example, Erica Sadun Draw and others.

Today Apple updated the App Store, adding a new feature which showcases the 'App of the Week' for both the iPhone and iPad.

This week we can see Ngmoco's We Rule for iPhone and MLB at Bat 2010 for iPad.

We all like jokes. But what are the best practical tech jokes? CNet specialists know the answer. Let's find out:

Apple released a new iPhone commercial entitled 'Commute'. Like other recent ads, 'Commute' features three App Store applications:

• MassTransit ($3.99)
• Here, File File! ($9.99)
• WSJ - The Wall Street Journal (Free)

The same ad for England is a bit different:

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Time Magazine's cover story this week is Steve Jobs and the iPad:

There is an interesting article from Stephen Fry, who had an hour long conversation with Jobs:

I have met five British Prime Ministers, two American Presidents, Nelson Mandela, Michael Jackson and the Queen. My hour with Steve Jobs certainly made me more nervous than any of those encounters.

You can read it here.

Apple published 11 different iPad tutorial videos on their site. The quality is perfect and the information is quite useful too.

You can watch all of them here.

How does it feel to unbox the brand new Apple iPad? What's inside the box? Let's watch the video:

There are so many applications written for the iPhone. How much are there for the Apple iPad? 9to5mac published a video of AppStore running on the iPad where we can see 700 already approved apps:

Macstories published another interesting video about iPad App Store. It covers some interesting iPad applications: New York Times, AP, NASDAQ, Twittelator.

Let's watch:

Non-flash version is here.

Recently KTS S.C. has announced the release of their app for iPod Touch and iPhone named Kiosko.net 1.0. It is a visual daily press directory that helps you to access the world's largest news web-resources wherever you are. Moreover, the app brings the images of around 1200 newspapers frontpages directly to your device. Few finger taps and you'll reach newspaper you wish.

Other features include navigation ads, powerful search, favorites management tool and, of course, social networks integration. Kiosko.net can even download and save newspaper frontpage's so you will be able to read them even if you're not connected to the network.

Kiosko.net 1.0 is available all over the world for $1.99. You can download it here from the iTunes App Store.

Yesterday iTunes update was found to have issues with those of iPod Touches and iPhones that were tethered jailbroken with blackRa1n. If you have one of these, you will be unable to rejailbreak your device after rebooting it with blackra1n. The problem is being experienced only by Windows users. iH8Sn0w has an explanation:

"Blackra1n hooks to the dll that has different offsets of what it is actually looking for".

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