Dropbox has just updated its official iPhone client to include support for the iPad. It’s available for free here.The new version takes advantage of the iPad’s portrait and landscape modes to display your folders on the list, and also makes use of popovers in the main view to email and copy links and access your favorites. Also, it’s now possible to export documents to native iPad apps such as Keynote and Pages.
Keep on reading after the break for our impressions with the app.
Koingo has been great to me as a software company. One of my favorite Mac utilities from them, AirRadar, is an essential tool I use when setting up wireless networks. ImageSmith, another often used product, is great for batch resizing photos to be shared online. One of their latest products, MacPilot 4, is absolutely mind boggling. Anything you’ve wanted to tweak on your Mac, uncover, or otherwise harness control of can now done through this single, feature rich utility.
So you browse a lot with Safari on your iPad and you’d like to get over the 9 pages limitation? No problemo.
If you’ve jailbroken your iPad and have Cydia up and running, just look for Tab+, released today, which is a nice tweak that allows you to have more tabs. Obviously the OS will start flushing pages’ cache when it runs out of memory, but at least you’ll be able to browse and open as many pages as you want.
Go download it in Cydia, and take a look at the screenshot after the break.
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.
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.
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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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.
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]
