Air Display Makes The iPad An Additional Display For Your Mac

Air Sharing is one of the best apps I have on the iPhone and iPad, and it’s become a such important part of my daily workflow that I can’t imagine working without it anymore. The guys over at Avatron surely did a great job in building an app that, no matter how deep you delve into it, it’s user friendly, easy to approach yet powerful and highly customizable. But Avatron is not only Air Sharing HD, at least not anymore: they’ve been working on this new application called Air Display for a while now, and we’ve taken it for a spin after its approval late last night in the App Store.

Is Air Display really worthy?

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iPads Already Arriving to Italy

Call it an error or just a huge amount of luck, some Italian users are already receiving their iPads. iPadevice’s reader Ricky has got his iPad, and has also posted a video of the unboxing which shows the European plug - it’s legit.

We heard that Apple is using UPS Saver as shipment option for European devices, which is a faster service than the US one. Maybe that’s why iPads alre already showing up. More importantly, the good news is Apple isn’t blocking shipments like they did for American customers.

Check out the video after the break.

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Apple Opens Retail Stores Early for iPad in UK, Italy

Apple has started sending out emails this morning telling customers that Apple Retail Stores will open early at 8am this Friday for the iPad. As far as we know UK and Italy customers have received these mails, where Apple says “The Apple Retail Store is the best place to experience the iPad”. Well, beside your own bedroom of course.

Are you getting an iPad on Friday? Which model? There’s a comment section below waiting for you to share your plans on Apple’s magical device.

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Mutiny! Apple Employees Sue Apple

You heard right. Employees. And not just any employees. Geniuses. That’s right folks, the very people who have access to all your precious hardware and software are now using their knowledge of the known universe to take down Apple themselves. Right?

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Apple’s iPhone 4G Ads To Show Video Chat Features

Well, at least we’re almost there. In two weeks or so we’ll know everything about the new iPhone, served hot by Steve Jobs himself on the WWDC stage. Engadget is reporting that Apple is already looking out for actors for the upcoming commercials of the new iPhone, which (according to a trusted source) will be about the new video chat features.

What, the new iPhone does video chat?

You should start reading Vietnamese forums, brotha. You really should.

Windows Hell? User Error? Bad Juju?

This weekend, an editor at TUAW almost died at the hands of Windows. Yes, sometimes the Windows experience does suck, but was this necessary?

While some would argue it’s a combination of all three (use 7-zip next time dude), I would argue he shouldn’t have started with Windows Vista. Secondly, why blame Microsoft for all these problems when the author happened to buy a shitty webcam that wasn’t really Mac compatible in the first place? Come on. Also, Windows has always had a taskbar - it’s nothing like the Mac’s object dock.

Flaws in the whole, “It’s all Microsoft’s fault,” aside, it does bring back memories of the all the times I spent finding drivers online. For a rather lengthy read on what could have been summed up in one sentence, “Installing hardware sucks!” TUAW has a rather compelling and way overdramatic article on what  makes the Mac a simple platform to use. You decide: is it that far from the truth?   … I think he might be stretching it.

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PhotoForge, Finger Safe Photo Editing. Review and Giveaway!

Editing photos on the iPad should be a pretty big thing. After all, it eliminates the need to carry a 4.5LB laptop, and the iPad’s screen offers a great editing interface over that of a netbook. While it’s debatable whether your smudgy fingers can make more accurate changes than a good ol’ fashioned Wacom pen or even the mighty mouse, I’d have to say the iPad is perfect for quick edits on the go. Today, we’ll be looking at PhotoForge, an iPad app specifically designed to mark up fussy photos.

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Agile Web Solutions Acquires Knox, Great File Encryption App for Mac OS X

The folks over at Agile Web Solutions are very serious about your local and online security: as if 1Password wasn’t enough, this week they bought Knox from Marko Karppinen & Co developers, as TUAW reports. While 1Password aims at collecting all your online identities, accounts and casual notes, Knox is meant to protect your local documents from unwanted eyes and fingers. Do you really need this?

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