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Great overview over at TiPb of what’s new and improved in this first 4.2 beta for iPad. Didn’t know about Gmail becoming “Google Mail” in Mail and Contacts settings, new iCal colors and Youtube’s percentage-based voting system. Must read.
This is one of the games I grew up with, one of those that deeply contributed to building my (geek) passion for retro-gaming. The Secret of Monkey Island, adventure game released by Lucasfilm Games in 1990, is now available as “Special Edition HD” on the iPad. It’s time to be a pirate, again. Aye. Read more
In his latest column for the WSJ, technology pundit Walt Mossberg has taken a look at three different eBook reader applications for the iPad: Apple’s own iBooks, Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook app.
The verdict is interesting: according to Mossberg, they’re more similar than different. Read more
I feel bad writing this. No, let me rephrase: I love when facts prove me wrong. I especially love when third party developers of iPad applications prove me wrong. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece called “Your Alternative iPad Browser Sucks” in which I basically stated that every alternative browser I had tried on the iPad couldn’t keep up with the elegance and powerful engine of Safari. I still stand by that statement: 3rd party developers are not Apple and I’m pretty sure Safari has got some exclusive features buried deep down in the code engine (such as memory management) which 3rd party devs have not access to.
What’s great now is that I found an alternative that doesn’t suck. Actually, it’s a beautiful, powerful and feature-rich app for iPad called Grazing that has been sitting on my homescreen for a week now. Grazing is now my favorite alternative browser for iPad. Read more
There were rumors and speculations about Apple looking to release a smaller, thinner iPad “mini” by this holiday season, but according to the latest Digitimes report the folks at Cupertino have started sourcing parts of the second gen iPad - which is set to come out in the first quarter of 2011, exactly one year after the first-gen iPad. Read more
According to the International Gamers Survey 2010, iOS has nearly surpassed the Nintendo DS as the most popular gaming platform in the U.S. This is interesting news, especially considering that iOS already surpassed Sony’s PSP, which is used regularly by 18 million Americans. Sorry, Marcus. Read more
Office would be great, especially for enterprise. I have the feeling it’ll be some Bing stuff, though.
