Sneak Peek at Reeder for iPad

People have been talking a lot about the “second wave” of iPad apps these days. It’s pretty obvious that many developers rushed to have apps out in the iPad App Store on day one and many others are still working on new ones to be released / announced after the WWDC. That would be the second wave, if you’d like to call it so. And you can expect it to be freaking good.

To get straight to the point, we all know what’s the app currently missing on the iPad. If you’re an active Google Reader user and have an iPhone, I bet 10 bucks that you’re waiting for Reeder to be available on your tablet. If so, you should take a look at the screenshots we have below.

UPDATE: Check out our review of Reeder for iPad here.

Read more

Chirpy, Twitter DMs As Text Messages

If you spend many hours a day on Twitter, I guess you’re quite into having conversations with your followers, but sometimes you’d like to keep these conversations private. And you have an iPhone too, perhaps running the recently released Twitter’s official app so that you can send direct messages with it. But, Twitter for iPhone doesn’t support push notifications for DMs. Hell, it doesn’t support push notifications for anything.

If you’d like to receive instant notifications for your Twitter DMs, look no further than Chirpy.

Read more

Write Your Own Apple Lawsuit

We’ve slowly gotten used to see a company suing Apple every day, and - honestly - that’s quite ridiculous. If you’ve ever wanted to jump on the lawsuit boat too, I’m excited to tell you that now there’s a template for that.

The guys over at Mac|Life have put together a PDF file with all the info you need to write your own hopeless lawsuit.

Read more

Apple Launches “Why You’ll Love a Mac” Campaign

Remember the great Get a Mac ads? It’s official now that we won’t see them anymore, at least not in the near future.

Apple has just updated its website redirecting all the previous Get a Mac links to a new page called “Why You’ll Love a Mac”, which highlights 5 of the major features of Mac OS X: Better Hardware, Better Software, Better OS, Better Support,It’s Compatible.

Very nice and informative. Check out the page over at Apple.com and take a look at a few screenshots after the break.

Read more

Phoenix Wright for iPhone Available Next Week

TouchArcade is reporting that Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney will be available next week for $4.99 in the App Store. Phoenix Wright is a very popular console game from Capcom which went very well on the Nintendo DS before and, in fact, the iPhone version doesn’t seem to be anything more than a simple porting of that one.

For those of you not familiar with the concept:

“Phoenix Wright games are a strange mixture of a visual adventure game that play a lot like mixture of a hidden object game and a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book. The game is segmented in to two portions, the investigation and the trial. While investigating, you visit various location and gather evidence by looking around and interviewing anyone who is around. When you’re finished with that, you go to court where you cross examine witnesses, present evidence, and object to the arguments presented by the prosecuting lawyer.”

Check out the first screenshots after the break.

Read more

White iPhone HD Rendered

A couple days ago we saw that Apple may decide to make the white iPhone’s faceplate white. While some disagree with the move, I think it’s spectacular. In fact, incredibly classy. At least, I came to my conclusion once I saw some renders that everythingicafe came across from iSpazio.

Read more

Jobs, Apple Unlikely to Embrace VP8

This afternoon’s bombshell other than Google TV? Apple, who claims to support “open technologies,” will not be embracing Google’s new VP8 video codec. Jobs, in response to an email, linked to a website that describes VP8 as slower than its H.264 counterpart. While Apple hasn’t officially commented on WebM and the open-sourceness of Google’s latest projects, I don’t think Apple would pursue it for a number of reasons. For one, Apple probably doesn’t want to sleep in the bed of the enemy, and two:

“With regard to patents, VP8 copies way too much from H.264 for anyone sane to be comfortable with it, no matter whose word is behind the claim of being patent-free…”

Be sure to check out The Register for more information. They provide lots of juicy tidbits on the matter, but knowing Apple, the user experience and protecting their relationships with media providers comes first.