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iPad Launching Soon in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark

According to the Wall Street Journal, the iPad will launch relatively soon in several northern European countries, namely Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The launch could happen later this month or in December, right ahead of the holiday season. European carriers will offer 3G data packages for iPad customers and, also according to the Journal, carriers Tre, TeliaSonera AB and Tele2 AB announced on Friday iPad-specific subscriptions, although they declined to comment on prices and provide more details on the plans.

Five months after its release, Apple already sold 7.46 million units. With the iPad being sold in several retail chains in the U.S. and now approaching to even more European countries, it’ll be interesting to see what will happen in the Q1 2011 fiscal results.

Combo Steve Says T.J. Maxx Isn’t An Authorized Reseller, And He Won’t Match Their Price

I guess you heard that T.J. Maxx is having this unexpected sale of iPads (16GB, WiFi models) at $399 – $100 off the regular Apple price. No one knows where these iPads come from, no one knows why and how are they running this promotion. Steve Jobs, though, doesn’t approve at all.

While people are excited about this sale and are apparently struggling to find these discounted iPads at the nearest T.J. Maxx store, el Jobso shot a series of emails claiming that they are not an authorized reseller. As reported by 9to5mac, he also promised a curious Apple fan that there’s not even the smallest chance he’ll match the discounted of T.J. Maxx, for Ballmer’s sake. Read more

iTunes Connect Mobile App Updated with iPad Support, Retina Graphics, iBookstore Stats

iTunes Connect Mobile is an app for iOS developers that allows them to check on their Apple dev account to see detailed information about the apps currently on sale in the App Store. It’s basically a mobile extension of the Sales & Trends section in iTunes Connect. The app can display data via table or graph format and it comes with filters and menus to restrict a search to specific countries and periods of time.

The latest 1.1 update, released last night, introduces support for the iPad (the app has gone universal), Retina graphics, multitasking and support for iBookstore providers.

A must-have for iOS developers, available for free here. Also, developers: iTunes Connect won’t be available starting December 23rd through the 28th.

iPad Owners, Get Ready for TweetMag [Preview Video]

Running a blog, it’s perfectly normal that you stumble upon unreleased applications from developers asking you to “take a quick look” at what they’ve been working on. It happens every day, and we love it. But there are some apps you look forward to on your own, without the need of a developer sending you 5 emails a day to ask for bugs found in the beta and “feedback on the UI”.

TweetMag for iPad is one of those apps. Read more

Aweditorium With Background Audio Is The Perfect Way To Enjoy Your Weekend

Aweditorium is a great music discovery app for iPad that launched two weeks ago, and I’ve been addicted to it since then. The app allows you to discover independent artists through a gorgeous “wall” visualization you can manipulate with your fingers. From my review:

So you have all these thumbnails on this digital grid / map, and you can tap around to load a specific song from a band you likely don’t know about. If you do know the artist, the experience is great nonetheless. This is the idea behind Aweditorium: you can listen to songs, byt why limiting the experience to just listening to something? Let’s put some additional information in there, and let’s forget about mimicking real-life objects. Let’s make it all be proud of being digital, meant for the iPad.

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iBendXL: The Thinnest Stand For Your iPad

The iBendXL, available at $9.99, is the thinnest stand you could ever use with your iPad. Designed to support the iPad both in portrait and landscape mode, it fits with almost any iPad case.

As you can see on the video at the official iBend website, all you have to do is take it out from the package and voilà, it’s ready to go. If you’re that kind of iPad users who wants to save as much as space as possible, yet retaining the possibility to prop up your tablet when necessary, you should give this a try.

Shall We Have An iPad Nano Clone?

Great gadgets come from the distant lands of China. Knock-offs, clones, weird imitations of well-known Apple products. Sometimes you can argue they’re pretty decent, most of the times you can’t even look at them. The iPad Nano clone we have below (as if there was an actual iPad Nano to copy) surely fits well in the second category. Read more

iPad 2 Part Suppliers Possibly Revealed?

According to the DIGITIMES report, Apple has already chosen some parts suppliers for the iPad 2, which could launch as early as first quarter 2011 (as expected anyway). The report says that Japan-based Ibiden, Taiwan-based Tripod Technology and U.S. / China-based TTM Technologies could be three initial suppliers for Apple’s second-gen iPad. Four more suppliers are mentioned to be added some time in February, when shipments are set to ramp up.

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PDF Expert Gets Even Better with Signature and Text Notes Support

PDF Expert is, in my opinion, the best PDF reader and annotation tool you can currently have on the iPad. It’s got a nice UI, a great engine that’s damn fast at opening large PDF files, it lets you pull documents from various online sources such as Dropbox and iDisk. It allows you to annotate documents and transfer them back to the Mac to view annotations in apps such as Acrobat Reader and DEVONthink. It’s a full featured app that, unlike many alternatives, doesn’t overwhelm you. Read more