As many people on Twitter and Short Order Tech report, it looks like Apple has started shipping the first iPads.
We previously heard that Apple charged many credit cards last week, and now we’re receiving the first news about shipments coming from China. Early delivery? That’s very likely.
We’ve seen so many screenshots of the iPad App Store , but what about some video footage? We’ve just been sent a short video that shows the actual store being used, with all the applications we’ve seen so far: the Yahoo Entertainment app, Twitterrific, OmniGraffle and OmniGraph Sketcher, Real Racing.
Check it out after the break.
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I’ve never had that great of a relationship with internet radios, mostly because the Italian ones suck. Plain and simple. As many other things in this country, internet isn’t really seen as an opportunity to bring innovation and better quality to old media and traditions, and so internet radios are slow, unreliable and stuck to mid 90’s standards. But like I said, I’ve never had that great of a relationship with internet radios. Not that big of a deal.
I remember last year I stumbled upon a promising new service called Spotify which, though it wasn’t officially available in Italy, looked too much interesting to not give it a proper spin. So I signed up for an account, downloaded the Mac client, enjoyed the freedom of having an immense music catalogue legally available for high quality streaming. Man that was the future of music, a mix between internet radio and iTunes. I upgraded to a Premium account to avoid ads and use the iPhone app, which has been one of the best things of summer ‘09 (yeah, together with that goat we stole and put in my car, but that’s another story). I mean, the Spotify iPhone app is the thing you want to bring with you on the Lost island. It lets you listen to music under a simple 3G connection, all the music you want. Jesus, wish I had it when I was 10 (damn new boys).
Back to our business, we’re talking about internet radios. Well, there was this application for Mac OS X I never really consider until my friend Zak Soup reviewed it here on MacStories, which looked so sexy and useful - Snowtape. From the review: “Snowtape is an internet radio player for the Mac, a one-of-a-kind app that looks good as it blasts your tunes. Sporting a slick, dark, interface, Snowtape is like an iTunes for your iRadio, helping you browse through thousands of stations and even import your own.”
Fast forward 2 months. I remember there’s this music app I have to test. I install Snowtape. I love it. I read the iPhone app announcement post. I get accepted into the beta testing group. I love Snowtape even more.
Then Apple rejects Snowtape for iPhone. I’m sad, upset, I wanna talk about the app. Damn Steve Rea, you can’t reject this.
I woke up this morning with the feeling something good was about to happen. Checking out store.apple.com didn’t help, nothing was apparently new. But wait, I’ve got an email from Vemedio telling me Snowtape for iPhone is out.
Here we are folks, talking about one of the most beautiful and useful music applications for iPhone to date. Meet Snowtape for iPhone.
We posted a lot of pictures yesterday, regarding the iPad App Store, but we’ve got more to share. We’ve managed to get a few screenshots of the iTunes Music and Movies Store as seen from the iPad: as you can see, the layout is basically the same of the iPad App Store.
We can’t wait for April 3rd. See the screenshots after the break.
We’re getting nearer to the release of the iPad and the iPad App Store, and so are developers with their applications. We’ve just received more screenshots of the first two apps Omnigroup is going to release on the App Store, OmniGraffle and OmniGraphSketcher.
Take a look after the break.
We had the chance to take a look at the iPad App Store guys, and there’s some great stuff going on. Besides the apps you’ve probably already seen on other blogs, like Real Racing, Twitterrific or Fieldrunners, we’ve been able to take some screenshots of the other iPad apps, previously unseen.
Take a look after the break.
When something works, don’t touch anything. When a software just works, it’s still possible to make it work better. I think this is the rule that Silvio Rizzi followed when thinking about the new version of Reeder, the feeds reader application I reviewed some months ago, calling it the best RSS reader for iPhone. Reeder 1.x was a great application, but as time went by it started to fall under the pressure of the features new applications such as MobileRSS, Newsprint or Newsrack introduced, and as consequence to this people started complaining about Reeder and Silvio not caring much about it anymore.
They were so wrong. Silvio has been working hard on the just-released 2.0 version, a free update for previous Reeder users that introduces some new functionalitites, and a lot of tweaks under the hood that make Reeder feel completely new, and fresh again.
You can call this a comeback.
“Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder not only documents the war in Afghanistan with traditional digital cameras, he also used an iPhone camera, carried in his flak jacket pocket, coupled with a Polaroid film filter application to photograph the daily lives of Marines, Afghan soldiers and fellow journalists during the military offensive in Marjah, Afghanistan.”
I’m pretty sure the application is Hipstamatic.
