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Remember Newsprint? It’s the RSS application for iPhone we reviewed a while ago here, and I was quite impressed by that first release of the app. The interface surely looked different but good, there were some interesting features to be explored for future releases and, overall, I just liked it.
Finally, Hashbang Ind. has released an update to Newsprint, the 1.1 version, which brings a lot of stability improvements and fixes requested by the users.
This is great news for App Store analytics tools such as Flurry and Medialets: they won’t be banned, but only if they respect Apple’s rules. So, unlike we reported some weeks ago, it’s not like they’ll be completely banned, they just have to change their system. The entity of “just” is still unknown though.
Something about the iPad makes it great for casual word games. For example, Words with Friends and Scrabble (which admittedly have the same type of gameplay) are really great to play on the iPad’s larger screen. But if you’re looking for something a little bit different, let me direct your attention to Jumbalaya - which not only tastes good, but also happens to be a great iPad game. Read more
Floating between contacts in GMail and maintaining a carbon copy of those recently added contacts on my Mac has become somewhat of an evening chore. Believe me, manually adding the same contacts to multiple devices over and over again bites. But with Syncman, it’s easy to keep your GMail and Address Book in sync nirvana. Read more
We know that if there’s something great about the multitouch technology it’s accessibility. It’s intuitive, easy to understand, everyone can use it.
Virginia Campbell is a 99 year old lady who’s just bought her first computer to read and write, two things she’s always loved to do. Thing is, the computer is an iPad and it’s incredible to see how she uses it without problems and limitations of any sort. Like we said many times, it just works.
The video we’re embedding after the break is going viral on the Internet, and the story even got picked by Fox12 Oregon. Also, she prefers landscape mode and uses Pages to write her poetry. Well done, Apple.
We at MacStories are always looking forward to new and good apps, but when it comes to apps such as text editors and Twitter clients we’re definitely looking forward and living on the edge. We do this because we firmly believe that one can always do better than someone else, and sometimes it’s just about discovering that good app that’s out in the App Store but no one has ever written about. Sometimes it’s just about trusting that small team of developers that have a great idea. Most of the times though, I guess it’s just about trying new software and be open to new stuff.
That’s why we are always looking forward to the next good app. Without forgetting about the current ones, of course. Once you’re in the loop, it just happens.
The app I’m going to talk about today is a text editor, a quite simple one, that I’ve discovered while browsing the App Store the day it opened. InCode by Novastorm Software looked promising back then, what about now?
The iPad App Store is already overcrowded with hundreds of apps that let you sketch and draw quick visual notes with your fingers. We should have seen this coming, considering the bigger screen and the fact the average App Store user loves this kind of stuff. So, we have all these apps that should enable us to sketch, but it’s safe to say that most of them are pure crap.
Penultimate is not. It’s a great app, a first release that already sports a beautiful interface and features that make this simple utility fun and, in the very end, useful.
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.
