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iAd Applications Now Appearing on App Store

The Apple Store is finally getting some iAds love this morning in a few popular applications you might be familiar with. iLounge reports Avantar developed applications such as OneTap Movies and the Yellow Pages are gleaming with the shiny new banner, although there is one major caveat: iAds don’t officially launch until July 1st, and a test ad or empty banner act as current placeholders.

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Could Multitouch Lead to Musculoskeletal Disorders?

If you read MacStories or any other Apple-related blog out there, I guess you’re all big fans of the multitouch technology. You know, that little patented thing that powers your iPhones, iPods, iPads and Macbooks. Gestures, that’s how we interact with our devices nowadays. And now a group of researchers of Arizona State University is telling us that our beloved multitouch might actually lead to musculoskeletal disorders.

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DestroyTwitter 2.0 Going Live Today

Update: Destroy Twitter 2.0 is now live. Check out the new features here.

We’re not hearing too much about Tweetie 2 for the Mac, and even other clients are getting stale as we venture forward in the Twitter verse. We also haven’t heard too much out of DestroyTwitter, but the master of DestroyToday (a quick warning, there is a disturbing image on his blog if you’re squeamish) and related projects is planning to release a big update today that should bring an improved preferences canvas, improved item rendering, and an overhauled account canvas.

DestroyTwitter is a solid Adobe Air client that should be released sometime later today, or as Jonnie Hallman puts it: “It’ll be released between now and 11:59pm EST.”

We’ll likely go hands on this evening and post a review tomorrow morning.



Is This Toshiba’s Answer to the iPad?

Just as we predicted months ago, everyone wants to release its own tablet now. Apple has created a new market with the iPad (some say it has reinvented an already existing market that only needed a kickstart) and now we’re seeing tablets popping up from anywhere in the industry.

Now, Toshiba wants to release a tablet computer as well, to fight the incredible success of the iPad. They have this prototype, and they call it “Libretto” - which stands for “small book” in Italian. It doesn’t look exactly like a tablet computer, but more like a touch-enhanced netbook. It’s an interesting prototype, so let’s take a look at the specs.

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