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”.
iPad Owners, Get Ready for TweetMag [Preview Video]
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.
Foxconn Denies Selling White iPhone Components→
Foxconn Denies Selling White iPhone Components
If you look at MacStories’ sidebar, you can see there’s a banner with a white iPhone 4. He’s from the kid (Fei Lam) who runs WhiteiPhone4Now.com, the same kid who has been making the rounds of the internet this week with rumors of Apple going after him with a private investigator to find out how he managed to get the components. Lam apparently told the press he got the components from Foxconn itself, but now Hon Hai (Foxconn’s parent company) is denying any Foxconn worker ever sold white iPhone parts.
Foxconn Technology Group employees didn’t sell white iPhone casings and other parts as reported by media including the Apple Daily, its flagship Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. said in a statement to the Taiwan Stock Exchange today.
Now, I don’t know what are the legal implications behind this whole story, mostly because it seems like Lam also managed to raise some good bucks out of his “conversion kits”. But I do know one thing: he’s just a kid.
Apple Posts “iAd Highlight Video” Ahead Of European Launch
Earlier today Apple posted a video on advertising.apple.com to showcase the various iAd campaigns the company has launched up until today in the U.S. The video features brands such as AT&T, Nissan and JCPenney.
Apple announced yesterday iAds are coming to European countries in December. The first companies that will launch iAd campaigns in Europe are L’Orèal, Renault, Luis Vuitton, Nespresso and Perrier & Unilever. Despite some initial concerns of excessive control and a cancelled Adidas campaign, Apple has already signed on over half of the top 25 US advertisers. Read more
White iPhone 4s Being Sold … In China?
Giz-China has posted a report and photos claiming that genuine white iPhone 4s are being sold in China’s grey market. What is a grey market you ask? It’s a system involving the secret but not illegal (black markets) sale of goods at excessive prices. Many unofficial resellers in China have a large amount of these and are selling them online.
Get 50% Off Assassin’s Creed 2 for Mac [Deals]→
Get 50% Off Assassin’s Creed 2 for Mac
Assassin’s Creed 2 is the follow-up to the title that became the fastest-selling new IP in video game history. The highly anticipated title features a new hero, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, a young Italian noble, and a new era, the Renaissance.
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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.
What I Really Want From The iPad 2
Today’s another “iPad 2” rumors day. With speculations of “iPad 2” parts suppliers revealed and blogs wondering whether the second version of Apple’s tablet will carry 3 additional USB ports, a second multi-touch screen and Steve Jobs’ fingerprints embedded in the device’s chassis, I thought I might just write what I really want from the “iPad 2”.
I want iteration. I want the same refining process Apple adopted with the iPhone. We know that Steve Jobs probably already had an “iPad 2” running Apple’s cloud service in the backstage of the iPad announcement in January, and I’m pretty sure even more units of the new model are connected right now to some WiFi router at Cupertino. Heck, maybe they even have an iPad 3 prototype hidden under some black cloth in their secret labs. But I just want to explain why I don’t want and need any of the features mentioned in the rumors, and why I don’t believe that stuff won’t happen anyway. Read more
Printopia: Finally An App That Lets Me Enable AirPrint On OS X
Since Apple removed AirPrint support from OS X 10.6.5 (we’re referring to support for shared printers, which was enabled in earlier 10.6.5 beta versions), many tweaks and apps to re-activate the functionality have surfaced on the internet. We’ve covered some of them, such as the AirPrint Hacktivator, but in my personal experience I’ve found these hacks to be unreliable at best. I’ve tried many of them, and I don’t know why – after some time they just stop working for me. Perhaps my local network isn’t stable enough, perhaps I have issues with 10.6.5. I don’t know. But thing is, these apps and tweaks stop working after a couple of print sessions.
Yesterday I found out about this new app for Mac, Printopia, which the Ecamm developers tout as the simplest way to enable AirPrint for every printer you have configured on your Mac, together with the possibility to print from an iOS device to a local directory on your Mac and Dropbox. Read more