When people start posting product videos like this, one can safely say that that product is a success. Fake (probably) or not (unlikely), Chinese pianist Lang Lang had some serious fun in walking onstage at San Francisco playing Flight Of The Bumblebee on an iPad.
Sounds crazy? Take a look after the break.
[via 9to5Mac]
Summer is coming, and Apple has just announced the iTunes Festival 2010 which will take place in London - at Camden’s Rondhouse.
We’ve implemented some cool new stuff today in order to keep MacStories more accessible from the iPad / iPhone and increase the interaction with Twitter.
Great news for all the players and Mac users out there: Steam for Mac is finally available in private beta, and we’ve received the first screenshots of the application. Check them out after the break.
I do miss Apple’s clock application on the iPad, and I guess many of you are. We all noticed that many developers had the idea to develop clock applications and sell them into the App Store, but what we’ve received in our inbox today is a simpler, good looking and - most of all - free solution.
The guys over at IconDesign.dk have developed a nice clock webapp, specifically meant for the iPad, which you can check out here and save as a home screen bookmark on your magical tablet. It will come with a great dedicated icon and smooth animations. The only downside is that you’ll need an internet connection to open it - but I bet you all have one if you bought an iPad. Great job.
Check out the screenshots after the break.
If you have an iPad, you’ve probably already tried to organize tasks, notes and other random pieces of text into the native Notes app. And if you really tried to do so, I guess you’re highly disappointed, considering how much Notes app should have been improved. Even though it sports a nice looking user interface now, Notes app still lacks any kind of over the air sync using MobileMe, support for better organization and sorting of notes, other fonts than damn Marker Felt. I wouldn’t suggest to people who need to take quick notes every once in a while, either.
The calendar app is pretty good instead. The interface has been highly refined, there’s a good amount of useful features and you can use MobileMe to keep your calendars in sync. Easy Agenda from 2 Boxes Studio is a simple iPad app that tries to combine the note tasking aspect of notes and the daily routine features of Calendar.
Daniel Jalkut from Red Sweater Software (developer of MarsEdit, FastScripts and many other applications) has published a post about the removal of the Downloads section from Apple.com navigation bar, and the recently discovered lack of updates:
“But Apple is riding the success of the Mac, too. The Mac is still the heart of everything that Apple does. Imagine an expansive desert where no life seems possible. A settler discovers a spring, churning out water, in the middle of this wasteland. Soon others join in, and a town emerges. Eventually a government is formed, businesses are born, and a thriving economy springs to life. When the brilliant new Town Hall is erected, everybody agrees it is the crowning achievement for the town. It represents every forward-thinking inclination the citizens of this place have, and yet it would not be possible without that water. Without that gushing spring, the town is dead. The Town Hall is worthless.
The Mac is that spring of water that allows life to thrive in Apple’s ecosystem.”
Sure Apple doesn’t have any intention to stop supporting Mac OS X developers, and Mac OS X itself. Even if iPhone OS 4.0 is the priority now, and even if everything that can’t kill Android must wait, Apple just won’t stop caring about Mac OS X.
Because after all, that’s where iPhone and iPad apps are developed.
Thanks everyone who entered the Run Mate giveaway.We also want to thank the code-aplus developers for the promo codes they offered to MacStories readers.
Here are the winners:
Ezequiel Lancelotti
Ben Metzler
David S
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You’ll receive the promo codes in your inbox in a few hours. Stay tuned for other giveaways coming this week. You can follow the official MacStories Twitter account as @macstoriesnet or Federico as @viticci
You know, I never really know whose birthday it is, when Mother’s Day is around the corner, or that I missed my best friends anniversary (doh!) two weeks ago. The problem I have, and terribly in my own family, is that I can’t remember jack squat. I can only remember three birthdays - that of my mother, my father, and myself. I really shouldn’t be expected to know more, but you always have a card to send or you have to make some acknowledgement that yes, my cousin did in fact turn 25 recently. But other than Facebook and my lack of mental indicators, there’s really no good system other than the calendar and perhaps a sheet of worn out notebook paper. Yet I have found, there is an app for that. Read more
