After the iPad was announced developers started working on new applications for it, and we all remember that. What you probably don’t remember is the huge amount of previews that were floating around on the Internet back then: video previews, exclusive screenshots, leaks. Put simply, every single development team wanted to gain some attention for their new products, and now - two months later -  we’re waiting for the second wave of great iPad apps, because let’s face it - the first one hasn’t been that great after all. There was this app though, called iMockups, which managed to actually gain a lot of exposure, be it for its name (the “i” prefix is still pretty strong) or for its purpose. Cody has already reviewed iMockups here.

Today I’m going to take a look at a similar app which has been recently released in the App Store, SketchyPad.

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To celebrate the 50 years of international racing, Suzuki has launched a brand new website called “Suzuki 50 Years”, which is specially formatted for the iPad.

You can go check it out here in any browser, or take a look at the iPad video preview after the break.

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Is there someone who seriously believed that Apple wouldn’t manage to reach distribution deals for iBooks in the end? Of course it happened, and what Apple achieved in the UK is pretty impressive: publishers Hachette UK, Penguin, HarperCollins and Pan Macmillan are available on the iPad with their titles.

As the BookSeller reports though, books comes at a higher price than Amazon’s hardback versions:

“Prices are in the main more expensive than the equivalent print versions available on Amazon.co.u. For example, the paperback of Wolf Hall is £3.60 on Amazon, but £6.99 on the iBookStore. Thousand Autumns… is £11.99 via Apple, but Amazon is charging £9.41 for the hardback.

However, readers can download more than 100 pages of Wolf Hall for free, with an option to buy it while reading the sample. Nearly 100 pages of Mitchell’s novel can also be downloaded for free.”

The platform has to grow, and this is just the beginning.

Wi-Fi Sync, the utility available in the Cydia Store at $9.99 that allows you wirelessly sync your devices using iTunes, is now iPad compatible. The latest 1.1 introduced support for the new device, which can now be configured to sync apps / info / music without the need to plug in.

If you still haven’t, check out the preview video of Wi-Fi Sync after the break and go download it in Cydia.

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Can you imagine if two college students reinvented the way you consume news on your iPad? Think about a small project, with no big budget and a couple of good ideas: that’s how great products usually come to life, right?

Now let’s face it, if you read news on the iPad you either do it using a Google Reader client or a website-specific application such as the New York Times one. Me too, I have downloaded some apps from the App Store to enjoy the single website experience they provide and installed the latest beta of Reeder (check out our exclusive preview here) to catch up with Google Reader.

Now let’s try something different, shall we? Meet Pulse for iPad.

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Let’s step into the world of audiobooks often promoted by great figures like Leo Laporte to understand why such things are so good. One might wonder, “Why would I want to listen to a book when I can just read it?” Of course, don’t knock it until you try it. Being able to crank out MacStories rants and reviews often comes with aid of podcasts like The 404, or recently the mellifluous tones of AudioBookShelf (App Store link). If you’ve ever wanted to step into the realm of audiobooks, this is where you start.

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The Wired iPad application has sold very well in the first 24 hours of availability in the App Store. Executives of Wired have announced that the app has sold 24.000 copies, for around $80.000 of revenue in just one day.

Also from Wired.com:

“In press briefings before they released their app, Wired and Condé Nast executives emphasized that more and better features would be rolled out in the immediate coming months — including the leveraging of iPad functionality not tapped in the June issue — as part of a continuing R&D process.”

We can’t wait.

If you think about it, there’s no way to easily share content between a Mac, an iPhone and an iPad. I’m not talking about documents and songs - you can use iTunes for that - I’m talking about web content, the stuff you stumble upon every single day on the internet. Articles, images, videos, quotes - where are they when you change your device? They are tied to each machine’s local storage and browser, and there’s no way to keep everything in sync. When you change your machine, content is lost.

So one would think the cloud is the perfect solution to this, and indeed it is. If I could manage to browse the web on my Mac, close the browser and find the same links, the same videos, the same anything again on the iPad screen - I’d be a happy man. I want to be able to browse and save content, have it organized and backed up, then synced to all my other devices.

GotProject is a new web application developed by a University of Colorado student that, through a clipper bookmarklet, allows you to save any kind of web content you like and access it later no matter the device you’re using. Cool thing is, it works excpetionally well on the iPad - touch gestures included.

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According to the New York Post, several media companies including Time Warner and NBC Universal told Apple that they won’t adopt HTML5 for iPad playback and that they will stick with Flash. As sources report, “such a reformatting would be expensive and not worth it because Flash dominates the Web.”

The New York Post goes even further and reports:

“In addition, one media executive pointed out that Apple’s ability to dictate terms to the media giants will be weakened further by Google TV, a software product that enables viewers to watch online video on their big-screen TVs.”

I’d wait until this fall season to see what’s going to happen with media companies and their playback offers. If the iPad will turn out to be a bigger success than the iPhone, of course they will jump on the HTML5 wagon.