Archive Your Tweets with TweetSheet

If you tweet a lot every day, it’s likely that sometimes in the future you’ll want to have some sort of archive for your tweets - that kind of stuff that you show off to your grandsons to remember the good days. Ok, maybe not with tweets, but you get the hang of it. You tweet links, you use different applications, you want to have your own Library of Congress archive for the messages you once sent and now you’ve forgotten about.

If this idea has ever come to your mind and you would like to be able to see what exactly happened on January 27th, then TweetSheet is the app for you.

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Find the Perfect iPad Case with iPad Case Finder

Amazon, Google Shopper, I’m talkin’ to you. You guys have been a serious letdown to my iPad wantingness. Every time I try to find a stupid case for my beloved device, you shoot me down with silly rubber skins and diamond encrusted leather chinese imports. I will have it no more! Thanks to iPad Case Finder, I’ll no longer be needing your services.

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The Android iPad Clone [From China With Love]

They did it again, and this time it’s the iPad’s turn to be cloned and sold God knows where in China. The following clone runs Android 2.1, and features a 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, 10-inch 1024×600 display and 512MB of RAM. Not bad, huh?

Well, actually yes. Check out the images after the break, and stay away from this stuff. Buy it only if you really hate someone and you want to give him a fake iPad. With Flash, someday.

[9to5mac via Crunchgear]

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Compartments Winners Announced, Coupon Code for MacStories Readers

Thanks everyone who entered the Compartments giveaway.We also want to thank the Littlefin developers for the licenses they offered to MacStories readers.

Here are the winners:

Francois

Wilfred Kidd

Gianluca Chinetti

Rowena

Ben Gagnon

You’ll receive the licenses in your inbox in a few hours. If you didn’t win, you can still get $3 off Compartments by using our “MACSTORY” coupon code at checkout.

Stay tuned for other giveaways coming this week. You can follow the official MacStories Twitter account as @macstoriesnet or Federico as @viticci

Video: Jailbroken iPad Running Pandora in the Background

After all the requests on Twitter, I decided to record a video showing my iPad running Cydia and Backgrounder.

As you can see, the iPad works just fine, it’s fast as usual and you can spot Backgrounder by the badges on the apps running in the backgrounder. I’ve used Pandora, Newsrack, Cydia and GoodReader to demonstrate it. Like I’ve written earlier this morning, you can’t install ProSwitcher or Kirikae by now as they’re not working yet. If you have suggestions or want to report bugs, feel free to do it in the comments below.

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FTC Looking into Apple’s Section 3.3.1?

The New York Time reports that the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are “locked in negotiations over which of the watchdogs will begin an antitrust inquiry into Apple’s new policy of requiring software developers who devise applications for devices such as the iPhone and iPad to use only Apple’s programming tools.”

Section 3.3.1 of Apple’s SDK for App Store app is the one that banned third party development tools, thus excluding tools like Flash Catalytist from being used by devs to create their applications.

Also:

“An inquiry doesn’t necessarily mean action will be taken against Apple, which argues the rule is in place to ensure the quality of the apps it sells to customers. Typically, regulators initiate inquiries to determine whether a full-fledged investigation ought to be launched. If the inquiry escalates to an investigation, the agency handling the matter would issue Apple a subpoena seeking information about the policy.”

We’ll keep you posted about it, but I have the feeling that Apple has the right to do what it wants with the App Store, and that the FTC can’t do anything about it.

[via 9to5mac]

How To: Run iPhone Apps on the iPad Without Pixel Doubling [UPDATING]

If you’ve just jailbroken your iPad I guess you’ve already installed OpenSSH from Cydia, which is that framework that allows you to root into your device using FTP clients like Cyberduck and Transmit.

If so, there’s a little trick you can perform that lets you scale iPhone apps for the iPad, without waiting for the developers to update their apps. In this way, and if you’re lucky, you can have an iPhone app running in fullscreen without pixel doubling, which supports all the various orientations and that even uses iPad’s UI elements.

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Apple Confirms: One Million iPads in 28 Days

This is not surprising at all, but it’s nice to have an official confirmation. With a brief press release, which we’re embedding after the break, Apple has confirmed that they’ve sold 1M iPads in just 28 days, while it took 74 days to have the same result with the iPhone.

Great job.

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Jailbreak the iPad With Spirit for Mac And Install Your First Cydia Apps - Compatibility List

So, big news tonight folks: Spirit, the universal jailbreak tool we’ve all been waiting for, it’s out. You can go check it out here. I’ve just managed to jailbreak my iPad (my iPhone is already jailbroken and stuck at 3.1.2) and the process has been very fast and easy. Check the tutorial after the break, together with our impressions about the first apps we’ve installed from Cydia.

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