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Football Player Wrist Slapped for iPod Use on Plane

New York Jets wide receiver Santonio Holmes created a flap on a flight from Newark to Pittsburgh by using his iPod during landing.
Authorities filed an "incident report" on Holmes — he was not formally charged with violating FAA regulations on the use of personal electronic devices (PEDs) during flight.
Holmes got off easy,  one unlucky iPhone [...:]

iPad Apps Number 4,870

Less than a month since its release, there are nearly 5,000 apps available for the iPad, most are games but there are some important early sellers in the medical and finance titles.
Distimo, a start-up that analyzes app stats, tallied some 4,870 applications for Apple's magical tablet to date. (You can download the full report here.)
Games [...:]

Daily Deals: $999 iMac, $1,049 MacBook Pro, $1,629 MacBook Pro

We close out the week with another Mac hardware showcase. This time, the Apple store has a number of refurbished iMacs on sale, including a 21.5-inch LED-backlit model running a 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo processor for $999. Also on the price-chopping block: a 13.3-inch 2.4GHz MacBook Pro for $1,049 and a 15″ 2.53GHz MacBook [...:]

Sign Up For 3G Data Plan On Your Brand New iPad [How To]

The first thing you'll want to do on your brand new iPad 3G is sign up for a data plan. It's pretty easy, and you can do it right on the iPad. It's basically half-a-dozen finger taps (except for typing in your credit card number of course).
Here are step-by-step by instructions, courtesy of this knowledge [...:]

Adobe CTO to Apple: We Will Survive

Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch posted a brief reply about the break-up with Apple over Flash.
His post follows Steve Jobs' lengthy public letter "Thoughts on Flash" where Apple's CEO  said that despite a "golden era" the companies had "grown apart."
Lynch titles his 200-word reply "Moving Forward," and while he does say that if the [...:]

The LUXA H4 Is A Swiveling Display Mount For Your iPad

Last year, accessory LUXA2 released the H1-Touch stand for the iPhone and iPod Touch, which allowed you to position your handset on your desk like a miniature monitor. It looked great, but wasn't particularly useful.
I don't think the same can be said for the LUXA2 H4, a larger version of the same stand for the [...:]

Have You Got Your 3G iPad Yet?

I'm waiting here like a kid at Christmas, pulling the curtains, hoping to see the UPS  Fed-Ex truck outside. Some of you guys on the east coast may have got yours by now. Let us know in the comments. And send us pictures; we'll post them.

iPhone and iPad Apps Weekly Digest: It's… Super Turbo Action Pig Week!

It's time for our weekly digest of tiny iPhone reviews, courtesy of iPhoneTiny.com, with some extra commentary exclusive to Cult of Mac.
This time, we review Asteroid Panic (iPad), Dizzypad, Doppelgänger, PapiJump for iPad, and Super Turbo Action Pig.

APP OF THE WEEK
Super Turbo Action Pig: One-thumb iCopter-like survival game with fantastic art direction and loads of [...:]

Microsoft: HTML5 is the Web's Future

"The Future of the Web is HTML5," Microsoft declared. The software giant, in throwing its weight behind the Apple-approved standard, also announced its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 will not use Adobe Flash for video playback.
"Microsoft is deeply engaged in the HTML5 process with the W3C," the Redmond, Wash.-based company announced in on its Internet Explorer [...:]

iPad 3G Available At 5PM This Afternoon, Retail Stores Closed Between 4PM-5PM to Prep

Just a friendly Cult of Mac reminder that if you haven't already pre-ordered an iPad 3G, and if you aren't already elbowing Greg Packer for elbow room at the front of the 5th Avenue store lines, Apple's official retail stores will all be closed from 4pm to 5pm today to prepare the staff for the [...:]