It seems like the iPhone 4 killed Apple’s website. Since Apple started pre-orders on its new device earlier today, many people reported that the website was slow, unresponsive and that they had to click multiple times to confirms their choices and try to get the order through.
iPhone 4 Takes Down Apple.com
Apple Confirms: White iPhone 4 Not Available Yet
Apple opened up the pre-orders of the iPhone 4 earlier today, but has also confirmed the rumors we heard yesterday: the white iPhone 4 is not available yet. Whether this means that US customers have to wait a few more weeks or that it will be available by the launch in more countries in July, we don’t know. We seriously hope so though.
Apple Releases New Mac Mini
We didn’t see this coming, but this morning Apple has released the beautiful and powerful new Mac Mini. Starting at $699, the new Mac Mini features up to 2 times faster graphics, an all new sleek aluminum design, built in power supply, HDMI port, built in SD reader and many, many other stuff. Check out all the details and pictures after the break.
Google Earth 3.0 Available in the App Store with Native iPad Support
iPad Will Get Retina Display
The iPhone is always the first to get new features; if succesful, they trickle on to other products. With the Retina Display being one of Apple’s newest features on the iPhone, we may see the beautiful display display come to the iPad. It would make sense considering that the iPad is great for reading text – Paul Miller from Engadget, however, often reminds us that the iPad’s low pixel density can be a problem for the most devout eBook Readers.
Spirit Developers Are Porting Flash to the iPhone
The guys behind the popular Spirit jailbreak for iPhone are working on a native Flash version for iPhone. No transcoding needed, no conversions, it runs as you can see in the preview video below.
ExpanDrive v2.1.0 Brings Better Amazon S3, Support for Strongspace
A better Amazon S3 Engine. Support for ExpanDrive’s upcoming storage service, Strongspace. And a whole ton of performance upgrades. ExpanDrive has been updated to v2.1.0, and it’s pretty great.
If you haven’t heard of ExpanDrive, it’s an awesome Mac utility that allows you to mount remote and network drives with ease. If you do any sort of IT management, work often in web development, or you’re like us and you have lots of places to store files, ExpanDrive makes grabbing files incredibly convenient.
Click past the break to see how you can take advantage of a special (extremely limited) offer for Mac users.
NPR iPad App Reaches 350,000 Downloads
The NPR iPad application is one of the best news apps currently available in the App Store. People seem to know that too, and according to NPR CEO Vivian Schiller the app has already been downloaded 350,000 times. An impressive result, which makes the app one of the most popular amongst iPad users.
Microsoft Paying iPhone Developers to Port Games to Windows Phone 7?
I’ve heard some shady things before, but this takes the cake. Sure we have some iPhone developers porting games to Android, but that is by choice. When you’re approached by Microsoft, it reeks of desperation. Does Microsoft not have their own developer community that’s ready to jump at the chance to develop for Windows Phone 7? Apparently not.