Back in April, Cody Fink posted a very thorough review of the 1.0 release of Kiwi for Mac, but now it’s time to follow up with a little sneak peek of version 2 - due out tomorrow, November 24. Yourhead, the company that makes Kiwi, has given me a little taste and I have to say the new version adds some great new features to an already very nice Mac desktop client.
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Preview: Kiwi 2 Sneak Peek
Beatles In iTunes: 2 Million Songs Sold, 450,000 Album Downloads
Unless you’ve been living in a yellow submarine for the past three weeks, I guess you heard about the Beatles coming to iTunes. In fact, Apple thought the day the Beatles’ library was released in iTunes would be a day we’ll remember for the rest of our lives.
Life-changing event or not, the Beatles in iTunes have sold over 2 million songs so far and generated 450,000 album downloads, Billboard reports.
In US the best-selling album was Abbey Road and best-selling song was Here Comes the Sun.
Backed by a strong advertising campaign which also happens to promote iTunes, it looks like there was room for The Beatles in people’s music libraries, after all. One could argue whether 2 million songs sold with all that campaign are much or not, we’re just going to wait for Billboard to provide additional numbers and information before judging.
iOS 4.3 To Launch In Mid-December With App Subscriptions
iOS 4.2 went public yesterday, but Apple is already aiming at a mid-December release for the next major update of its mobile operating system, iOS 4.3. Before we get into the details and we try to put the pieces together, it is necessary to recap all the rumors that have been going around recently about News Corp.’s upcoming iPad-only newspaper, The Daily. [The Daily icon via Consomac] Read more
Folders Are Coming to iBooks
With another email originally posted on MacLife.gr forums (Greek), Steve Jobs replied to a user asking for better PDF management through folders and said the feature is “coming”. Seriously, that’s the only word in the email. We can’t verify the headers of the email and MacLife.gr has no track record of previous Steve Jobs email-related material, but we think this one’s legit. Read more
Steve Jobs Says They’re Taking A “Giant Leap To Driverless Printing”
Ok, so AirPrint’s removal from OS X 10.6.5 left a few people disappointed. Users were expecting to be able to print from iOS 4.2 to any printer shared through a Mac or PC, but the feature didn’t make the cut in the final version of 10.6.5. Sure, you can achieve the same functionality using 3rd party tools like Printopia, but unofficial tweaks – even if well developed and stable – are never quite like Apple’s own implementation. In the case of AirPrint, mostly because it takes huge resources and teams to achieve stable and fast driverless printing.
That is exactly what Steve Jobs allegedly told a MacRumors forum member in a recent email exchange. Apple is doing the best they can to re-introduce the feature in the next iterations of OS X, and we have to wait. Read more
Jobs and Ive Rejoice: Apple Granted Patents for iPhone 4 and iPad Industrial Design
Apple wins dozens of design and tech patents every week, and most of them are about unannounced features and products the engineers at Cupertino may or may not use in the future. Think about the hybrid iMac: we haven’t heard anything about it yet, but the patent is out there. Same applies for hundreds of different patents: they’re cool to look at, but it’s likely that you’ll never see them in action.
Today’s patent, though, is a major win for Apple’s design team and Steve Jobs: as Patently Apple reports, Apple was granted patents for the iPhone 4 and iPad industrial design and the iPhone UI overview. Read more
Instapaper 2.3.1 Adds AirPrint Support, Improves Sharing
Developer Marco Arment has been working hard on improving Instapaper since he quit his job at Tumblr to work fulltime on his reading platform. Instapaper 2.3 was released two weeks ago with speed improvements and OmniFocus integration, version 2.3.1 (released last night) adds AirPrint support for iOS 4.2.1 users and introduces a redesigned sharing interface that shows icons for Instapaper-compatible apps. Read more
iOS 4.2.1 Tethered Jailbreak Available, We Suggest Waiting
A few hours ago the Dev Team released a public version of redsn0w (version 0.9.6b4) which can jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 on all devices and install a working Cydia, also on the iPad. As we wrote last night, though, this one’s a first jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1, and it’s a tethered one.
This means that unless you have an older device (iPhone3G, older iPhone3GS, and non-MC iPod touch 2G) you’ll be forced to manually boot in a “jailbroken state” on every device reboot using redsn0w on your computer. And considering that many jailbreak tweaks force you to reboot your device, you can guess a tethered jailbreak it’s a real pain to deal with. Read more
Apple Teases Black Friday Sale
We were browsing the Apple Store online, and look what we found. Apple is having a Black Friday sale of some kind, but the details won’t be announced until Friday, it seems.
The special one-day Apple shopping event.
November 26.
Come back to the Apple Online Store this Friday for a special one-day-only shopping event. You’ll find dozens of great iPad, iPhone, iPod and Mac gifts for everyone on your list.
Still, take a look at the teaser page and start making a list of the new Apple products you might want to purchase. We think some sweet deals will be available on the 26th.