A few months after the iTunes Store got web previews, Apple finally decided to implement the feature for the App Store too. The layout of the page is clean and very similar to the App Store’s one, but you can’t obviously buy an app from there. Also, Apple removed the “customers also bought” form the bottom of the page.  It was about time, anyway.

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“shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet that can be applied to your browser to hide comments on many popular web sites without user intervention.”

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“During his company’s earnings call this week, Murdoch revealed that he doesn’t like the $9.99 pricing currently employed by Amazon because it devalues books and hurts retailers who sell the hardcover editions. But he noted Apple’s content deals for its new iPad allow publishers more flexibility to set prices at a level they believe is fair.”

Rumor has it that 13bold, the developers of the popular Bowtie and Bluebird, will make an announcement next week.

13bold was founded by the developer Matt Petaneude and the graphic designer Laurent Baumann, who’s now working at Apple. To stay up to date, be sure to follow @mattpat @13bold and @lobau on Twitter. Stay tuned for next week.

Newsstand, the popular RSS reader for iPhone, is now called NewsRack. Seems like the developers received many trademark complaints, so they were forced to change the name.

Overall, still a great app, priced at $4.99 in the AppStore [iTunes Link]

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“On Wednesday I expressed some of my concerns about the new iPad, and the expanding footprint of closed platforms built by Apple. Since then, Apple has posted a video of the keynote, and it turns out that in a span of about 2 minutes browsing the web, there are at least 5 instances where there is broken web content. I’ve also spent a lot of time the last two days talking with people about how Apple could consider this a great browsing experience. It’s perplexing.

Unfortunately, a lot of the speculation I’m hearing for why Flash Player isn’t on the iPad doesn’t make sense:

“Flash technology isn’t open” – The Flash file format specifications are open and unrestricted, so Apple can build their own Flash Player if they want. If Apple wants the source code to the Flash Player, we’re happy to provide it, just as we have to many other device manufacturers.”

Apple building its own Flash player? Unlikely. Apple ignoring Adobe? Yes.

From the official changelog:

iTunes 9.0.3 provides a number of important bug fixes, including:

• iTunes no longer ignores your “Remember password for purchases” setting;

• Addresses problems with syncing some Smart Playlists and Podcasts with iPod;

• Resolves a problem recognizing when iPod is connected.

• Addresses issues that affect stability and performance.

Available through software update, fixes one of the most annoying bugs ever.

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“During Apple’s 90 minute unveiling of the iPad this week, a lot of new multi-touch interactions were shown off. But they went by fast. So as a service to digital product designers everywhere, we took the time to extract 8 minutes of new user interface demos from the iPad keynote. Now you can quickly just catch the UI in action on Apple’s new native iPad and iWork applications.”

Interesting video showing off many new gestures and interactions of the iPad. /via @DavidKaneda