Who said books on the iPad are lame? No seriously, because after this one you’ll have to fire up your credit card and buy this book in the App Store. Perhaps you’ve already heard about it in the past few days, but we’ve had the chance to put our hands on a copy of Alice for iPad, a recently released book which runs on the iPad but it’s not available in iBooks.
Alice for iPad, Redefining Digital Books
Complete your Music Collection with Tune Finder
When I find a new artist that I really like on iTunes or elsewhere, the first thing I’ll do is check out their current album. For me, I like to keep only music from the past two years and up on my iPad and iPod touch. With such a current collection, there might just be an earlier album I missed from what I think are new and budding artists, so instead of heading over to Wikipedia or Myspace, I’ve come to check out Tune Finder instead. Read more
myPhoneDesktop Updated for iPad, 10 Copies Up for Grabs
Remember myPhoneDesktop? It’s that neat utility for iPhone we reviewed here that lets you share any kind of information you want from your Mac to your iPhone, using the Cloud and push notifications.
Split the Bill, Leave a Tip, Checkmate. Review & Giveaway!
On the fringe of my college campus exists a slew of restaurants. Chinese. Greek. Mexican. No matter where you go, you’re gonna have to sit down and eventually tip your hot, um, friendly waitress. But if there’s one thing I can’t do in my head, it’s percentages (especially if more than one person is involved). How the heck do you tip? Does each person leave a dollar? What if one person forgets to bring cash? (Damn card carrying bastard!) For situations such as these, there is Checkmate. Read more
Marketcircle Announces Billings Pro [Beta]
Marketcircle has just announced that they’re working on a Pro version of their award winning time tracking and freelancing tool, Billings, which we reviewed here.
The Pro version will come with support for multi-user tracking and billing, meaning that it will be geared towards small and medium teams and offices. You can sign up for the beta testing group here. We can’t wait.
Reshaping the Night With Instapaper for iPad
Imagine this: it’s 5am in the morning, your wife is sleeping. But you’re awake, and you don’t want to leave the internet as you’ve got some cool conversations going on with your Twitter followers that just can’t be interrupted now, even if your wife is sleeping and you feel a little bit guilty about it. You stayed up until 5am again. Every day, every night, with the usual excuse that you have to work on your website, you decide to avoid the bed and focus on the latest stories from John Gruber instead. You know everything about iPhone multitasking. You got pissed off when that Adobe’s employee published that post against Apple, you installed iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 1 and you watched Twitter’s Chirp live streaming while having a good cup of coffee. You’re an internet guru, but that doesn’t mean you have excuses for staying up all night again, alone in the dark with your glasses shining in the light of your Macbook.
Then one day, completely enlightened, you thought that maybe, just maybe, you should find a productivity purpose for your dirty little AM secret and do something good for yourself instead of faving tweets. Perhaps you should work? No, something more intellectual. Something that requires darkness, a comfortable chair and silence: you realized you can read in those morning hours. A calm, relaxing and stress-free read you’re usually not able to have during the day because everything is too fast, too short. Read can’t happen when writing blog posts. Definitely not.
Maybe it’s time to give Instapaper another spin.
Steve Jobs Replies To Email: “Are You Nuts?”
Once again, Steve Jobs replied to another email, and this time in quite a different mood. Paul Shadwell emailed el Jobso expressing his frustration about Apple’s delays for the international iPad shipping and lack of pricing information, and he got a nice “Are you nuts?” as response.
Full conversation and screenshots after the break.
AutoCAD for Mac Coming Soon, References Spotted In SDK
We’ve heard many rumors and news about a native version of AutoCAD for Mac in the works, but we still lack an official confirmation about the release date or other specific details.
It turns out that some people have spotted comments and references in the header files of the latest ObjectARX 2011 SDK (the Autodesk programming environment) suggesting that the Mac version is the works and should come pretty soon, but it’s not exactly imminent. We’ve included the code after the break, be sure to check it out if you’re really interesting in knowing everything about your favorite Windows app coming to Mac OS X.
Soon.
Apple Job Posting Suggests iPad 2nd Gen with Camera
Apple has posted a job offer on jobs.apple.com (link here) suggesting that they’re indeed already working on a second generation iPad which should have a digital camera.
“Job title: Performance QA Engineer, iPad Media
Description: The Media Systems team is looking for a software quality engineer with a strong technical background to test still, video and audio capture and playback frameworks. Build on your QA experience and knowledge of digital camera technology (still and video) to develop and maintain testing frameworks for both capture and playback pipelines…Experience with tuning of and image pipeline, including, but not limited to AWB, Color Correction, AutoExposure, FrameRate adjustments is a plus.”
We know that a new model is coming next year. Not a reason to not love the iPad now, though.