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Amazon Mobile Updated For The iPad

Amazon has updated the Amazon Mobile iPhone app and made it compatible with the iPad, as a universal application. The update (1.2.4) also includes new features like bestseller and recommendation lists, video preview and music track samples.

The app sports a nice interface design, and it uses split view, popovers and paper stacks much like many other applications on the iPad. It seems like Amazon put a lot of effort in this, even though it sometimes hangs or doesn’t feel too much snappy. Maybe an update will fix these issues.

Check out the screenshots after the break.

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iPod Touch Prototypes Spotted on eBay? [Update: Removed]

9to5Mac has found something very interesting on eBay: two prototypes of iPod Touch, with built in camera and labelled as “DVT-1” and “DVT-2”, “Apple Development Team”. They don’t have a firmware as we know it, they’re running some sort of “Switchboard “OS” instead, which might seem a legitimate fake OS testing teams run just to see the hardware working.

The eBay seller he doesn’t have idea where the devices come from, because he bought them “from a guy at a flea market, who bought them from a live auction in the Bay Area”.

We’re pretty sure Apple is going to report this and block the auction, because the devices really seem to be actual testing units, those ones we heard about many months ago and never went into the production process.

UPDATE: Just like we guessed, the auction has been removed. I wonder what’s going to happen to the seller now.

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What’s ‘Happening’ Near You? Review & Giveaway!

Where I live, shit’s sparse. I live in a rather quiet town that certainly is jam packed full of residential homes and shopping, but what’s there for the average guy to do? I’m not exactly cosy in New York City or Miami Beach, so I actually have to seek out things to do. Thank god there’s Happening for the iPhone and iPod touch.

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Developer Recreates Toy Story iAd for iPhone

Remember when Steve showed off iAd for the first time? The cool Toy Story 3 iAd demo with the rotating menu and movie characters? We do, and s0 does developer Ted Littledale, who wanted to see if it’s actually so easy to create an iAd.

Well, probably not, because as he wrote in his blog post he had to go through some documentation from the Webkit team and play around with functions and finger swipe events to get the thing working. Also, he used pictures of his dog in the “ad”, which you can test on the iPhone here.

We’ve embedded the demo video after the break. Cool stuff.

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Goalbook, A Place to Jot your Goals. Review & Giveaway!

Boy, I sure am a dreamer. While I probably won’t live on that billion dollar yacht afloat over a man made martini ocean smack dab in the middle of Russia, there’s always the chance right? Probably not, but I might be able to sing in my own local band one day or form an ultra elite team of hackers that protect the world from evil doers like Federico. So for those rather minute goals (and perhaps even bigger ones), I can store my dreams and aspirations in the eye-popping iPhone and iPod touch application, Goalbook.

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Weather Station Pro Winners Announced

Thanks everyone who entered the Weather Station Pro giveaway.We also want to thank the Toopia developers for the promo codes they offered to MacStories readers.

Here are the winners:

Klein Maetschke

Thomly

Shane Hollifield

KaL MichaeL

Sofia Fontes

Technogasms

Todd Johnson

Day

Eugene Gordin

Chad

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

iStat Menus 3: Beautiful Stats For Your Mac

I have a late 2008 Macbook Pro, and one could argue that maybe it’s time for me to consider an upgrade to a new model. Maybe with some SSD and new processor goodness. I think that my machine is still a great one though, with its 4GB of RAM and a pretty capable hard disk: it’s been able to do so many things for me in these two years that I don’t see it being replaced anytime soon, actually. But, I think that’s a given that I should keep an eye on its internal stats: you know, stuff like the battery health, CPU usage over time and memory consumption.

I’ve always done that with the iStat Pro dashboard widget from Bjango (former iSlayer), but last night I decided to upgrade to iStat Menus 3. Here’s why you should do the same.

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