First it was iPhone icons. The we had the “made for” iPod, iPhone, and iPad insignias. Now, Apple has filed a trademark for “iTunes Live.” If you’ve been a fan of the “iTunes Sessions” and “Live from SoHo,” expect (or not necessarily) to see more concerts at big Apple retail store locations.
“iTunes Live” - Now Trademarked
Turn Your iPad Into A Scrapbook with ScrapPad
I bet you’ve already shown your iPad off to your friends and relatives, who surely were impressed by the ease to use of Apple’s new device. If you’re really that kind of guy that collects photos of vacations and stuff, then you might consider giving a try to ScrapPad.
Developed by Album tArt, ScrapPad is a simple and great-looking scrapbooking utility that lets you choose from multiple colorful kits, attach photos and include borders and backgrounds. You can do almost everything you could ever do with a real scrapbook, and the feeling itself is pretty good too. You can pull, drag, pinch and zoom, enter text, create unlimited scrapbooks and even share them on Facebook.
The app is 20% off during the introductory period and available at $3.99 in the App Store. Check out the screenshots after the break, and go download the app here.
Mémoires, A Lightweight Journal for your Mac. Review & Giveaway!
Journaling applications are great for getting all of your ideas in one place. Lately I’ve been checking out Mémoires by Coding Robots, a Mac & Windows development company that makes some really nifty goodies. Mémoires is sweet because it’s perfect for being lightweight, and it’s super easy to back up your multiple journals to Dropbox or a Flashdrive. Let’s check it out shall we?
How To Control The iPad With A Magic Mouse [Video]
Redmond Pie has posted a tutorial on how to control a jailbroken iPad with a Magic Mouse. The hack requires you to install the BTstack Mouse app from Cydia, but the overall setup process looks very easy.
Check out the video after the break, and go jailbreak your iPad if you still haven’t.
The iPhone 4G Case, Spotted In The Wild Again [Video]
SmartPhoneMedic has posted a video on Youtube showing the iPhone 4G LCD screen and metal case you’ve probably already seen in some bar in California. Well, at this point I wouldn’t doubt that the final model will look something like this - rounded corners are gone, metal plate and all. We’ll find out in a month.
Check out the video after the break.
Steve Jobs on the iPad Price in Germany: “Blame your government”
If you live in Germany or followed the news yesterday, you may have noticed that the iPad in Germany comes at €15 more than Italy and France, where it’s priced at €499 for the 16GB Wifi model. If you want to purchase the same iPad in Germany, you’ll have to pay €514.
Why? Because of a new tax Germany has put on computers. But what’s interesting is that Steve Jobs has a response for that. German website Fscklog reports on an email from Steve to a German Apple fan who emailed el Jobso asking about this price thing. His response?
“Blame your government.
Germany just added a new copyright levy for computers.”
So yeah, blame your government. But don’t ask Steve, he’s kinda busy making some Gianduia now.
The Forklift 2.0 Public Beta Review
Servers are kind of like warehouses. It’s where you temporarily store product for later use. Simple concept right? With our warehouse metaphor intact, we have two products in the Mac world that want your undivided attention. First we have Transmit 4, an incredibly sexy can-do-it-all FTP client by Panic which in everyone’s eyes, is the current pinnacle of perfection. Depicted by a storage truck, Transmit promises to deliver your data.
But when a truck backs into the warehouse, its work is done. For it is the forklift that loads and unloads the truck’s contents. Forklift, currently in it’s first public beta as version 2.0, makes a strong statement. BinaryNights promises that no matter how strong the competition, they’ll always have the fastest speeds. So does that hold true? And how do Forklift’s features compare to Transmit’s? And ultimately, will this little workhorse outdo the truck that has captured the Mac world? Hold on to your trucker caps people - this is going to be fun.
Apple Plans To Go Against Flash With A Gianduia
Remember Flash? Yeah, that weird guy Steve Jobs is so mad at, the little kid from Adobe that has taken over the web in the past years and that now is in serious trouble. Well, it seems like Steve wants to beat the guy using chocolate, some Gianduia to be exact.
Twittelator for iPad: Best Twitter App Yet?
Twitter clients are like word processors and spreadsheets in the ’90s: they’re everywhere, on every device for every operating system. Whether you want to access your Twitter stream, check upon your friends’ location or just tweet the song you’re listening to - you can. If the App Store’s unofficial motto is “there’s an app for that”, Twitter could seriously use a “there’s a client for that” pitch someday.
And it’s not like developers haven’t spotted the gold mine in there: I know some guys who made serious money out of it and hell, Twitter has even acquired Tweetie from Atebits to make sure to deliver the best Twitter experience on the iPhone. You know, Loren’s app is simply the best client around and people were confused of going into the App Store, search for Twitter and download Echofon in exchange. It wasn’t exactly the best scenario for Twitter, and so instead of go developing their own software, they bought the king. As you can guess, this move made many 3rd party developers worried that they wouldn’t be able to keep up with the platform anymore: really, developing and selling a client for Twitter when it’s Twitter itself that has the best app around, renamed “Twitter for iPhone”, and gives it away for free in the App Store? It’s been difficult for many devs to accept the news and keep working on their stuff, and I’m not blaming them. But you know, I think that sometimes it’s all about offering different point of views: having the official client as competitor doesn’t necessarily mean you have to give up.
Let’s talk about the iPad now. What about Twitter clients on the iPad? There aren’t too many of them, and most of them are crap sold at $2.99. Fortunately, the Iconfactory has shown us once again what being great developers mean, and they released Twitterrific for iPad on day one and, as you may have read, it’s one of the best Twitter apps for iPad around. Not because it’s just better than the others (of course it is) but because it’s a really great piece of software on its own, period. There’s another developer though, who firmly believed in his creation and released a client on day one: Andrew Stone, the mind behind Twittelator. Twittelator for iPad (previously known as Twittelator Pad) was highly criticized for its “original” user interface and design choices, but Andrew kept working hard on the app, refined the experience and I now I have to say, Twittelator for iPad really is one of the best Twitter apps for iPad.
The best one, maybe? Keep on reading to find out.