We’ve heard many rumors and news about a native version of AutoCAD for Mac in the works, but we still lack an official confirmation about the release date or other specific details.

It turns out that some people have spotted comments and references in the header files of the latest ObjectARX 2011 SDK (the Autodesk programming environment) suggesting that the Mac version is the works and should come pretty soon, but it’s not exactly imminent. We’ve included the code after the break, be sure to check it out if you’re really interesting in knowing everything about your favorite Windows app coming to Mac OS X.

Soon.

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Apple has posted a job offer on jobs.apple.com (link here) suggesting that they’re indeed already working on a second generation iPad which should have a digital camera.

“Job title: Performance QA Engineer, iPad Media

Description: The Media Systems team is looking for a software quality engineer with a strong technical background to test still, video and audio capture and playback frameworks. Build on your QA experience and knowledge of digital camera technology (still and video) to develop and maintain testing frameworks for both capture and playback pipelines…Experience with tuning of and image pipeline, including, but not limited to AWB, Color Correction, AutoExposure, FrameRate adjustments is a plus.”

We know that a new model is coming next year. Not a reason to not love the iPad now, though.

Loren Brichter has had a lot on his plate recently. After all, the man who crafted the incredible beauty that is Tweetie now sings under the umbrella of Twitter. But before this whole spiel was made public, he led us on to a little preview of of the next version of Tweetie 2 for Mac. Obviously it was a joke, but somebody apparently took it to the next level.
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Just like I wrote yesterday, the Opera guys achieved what they were aiming for: Opera Mini Web Browser for iPhone is the top free program in all the international App Stores.

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Macworld:

“The update is about par for the course, including reliability improvements, but it introduces one interesting new feature apparently borrowed from Time Machine: automatically recycling old backups to conserve space.

Detailed in this Apple support document, Backup 3.2 for MobileMe users will now “recycle” backups (read: delete them to recover space) after a certain time period, depending on the original schedule used to back up that data, as well as the destination.”

Was about time. Still using Arq and Dropbox though.

Bad news: Apple has officially confirmed what we were fearing the most, a delayed international launch for the iPad.

Press release:

“Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad™. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April.

Faced with this surprisingly strong US demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, until the end of May. We will announce international pricing and begin taking online pre-orders on Monday, May 10. We know that many international customers waiting to buy an iPad will be disappointed by this news, but we hope they will be pleased to learn the reason—the iPad is a runaway success in the US thus far.”

In the meantime, you can either wait or try Bundlebox. It works great.

After all the buzz about Apple and the changes to the section 3.3.1 of the iPhone Dev Agreement, many people feared tools like MonoTouch, PhoneGap and Adobe’s Flash to iPhone compiler may no longer exist. While this is true for Adobe and, perhaps, MonoTouch, PhoneGap’s developer has just received word from Apple that PhoneGap is ok and PhoneGap-based apps will be reviewed based on their own merits and not the framework.

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Seems like I’m saying this more often recently: something must be wrong with people. So wrong that we’ve come to the point we’ve spotted a guy selling iPhone OS 4.0 beta “invitations” on eBay. Read on.

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