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Landing Pad, A Great Site For Gorgeous iPad Apps

Landing Pad is a lovely piece of work; a blog that celebrates the beauty of the best-looking iPad apps around, in all their full screen glory.
No scrappy little thumbnails here; at Landing Pad, each app is shown full-size, as Steve Jobs intended it to be seen.
In all seriousness, for those of us outside the [...:]

HTC HD Mini 2 Would Be The Would-Be iPhone Nano If It Could

With the fourth-generation iPhone making the display even bigger and more pixel dense, it looks increasingly unlikely that Apple has any plans for the much rumored iPhone Nano… but that's not stopping just the scuttlebutt of a potential Apple product from inspiring competing phone manufacturers to release their own iPhone Nano clones.
The HTC HD Mini [...:]

Seeing The Macintosh For The Very First Time [Recollections]

In Part 2 of My Close Encounters with Steve Jobs, Macworld-founder David Bunnell tells of seeing the Mac for the first time, and why Steve Jobs parks in handicapped spaces.

Bounding out of his chair, Steve skipped around the receptionist desk through a passageway leading to the inner sanctuary, an atrium surrounded by labs and offices. [...:]

Is There Another Lost 4G iPhone In The Wild?

While there was, up until recently, at least one next-generation iPhone outside of Apple's possession and in the wild, could there be another one still lurking out there… a golden ticket for one would-be "source" to sell to the highest bidding practitioner of checkbook journalism?

Apple Insider points out that back in February, another supposed fourth-generation [...:]

Apple.com Is No Longer Updating Its OS X Software Downloads Page

Over at TUAW, TJ Luoma made note of something I wasn't aware of: about a month ago, Apple quietly removed the "Downloads" tab from the Apple homepage. The page continued to exist, but it appears that Apple is no longer updating it.
On the one hand, Apple's own Downloads page was always inferior to the likes [...:]

Another New iPhone Ad: Dog Lover

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOSSz5G41zI
Apple's most recent iPhone ad, "Dog Lover," is pretty clearly some Cupetino employee's excuse to get their cute new dog some face time while simultaneously appealing to squealing canine lovers country-wide. That's okay though. That pooch is pretty cute.

The Dog Lover ad follows a family adopting their new dog Baileywith the free Pet Finder [...:]

Adobe Abandoning iPhone Support in Flash CS5

And that's the bloody towel flying into the middle of the ring.
Software makers Adobe, mercilessly pummeled on the release of their Adobe CS5 suite by a new provision in Apple's iPhone Developer Program License Agreement that prohibits apps made with translation tools, have just announced that they officially intend to abandon their iPhone app [...:]

Starcraft II Beta Coming To Macs Next Week

If you're itching to Zerg Rush with the Windows world, great news coming from Blizzard: the beta to their sequel to the award-winning and still wildly popular space RTS, Starcraft II, will be coming to Macs next week.
It's a bit belated, since Blizzard released the Starcraft II beta for PC users over two months ago, [...:]

New YouTube For Free Kids Books Is Just Right For iPad

ePub Bud is a new site that simply describes itself as "YouTube for children's books". And it's just right for iPad.

Despite being founded in extremely sad circumstances, the site has a particularly joyful approach to its mission – which is to provide free, no-DRM book publishing for anyone and everyone, with particular emphasis on books [...:]

iFixit On Gizmodo's iPhone Teardown: "It's Very Close To Production"

iFixit is famous for its authorative Apple product teardowns. I just emailed the CEO, Kyle Wiens, with some questions about Gizmodo's teardown. Here's Kyle's take:
Eh… the photos are so bad.
Gizmodo emailed me asking the same thing.
I asked them why they didn't remove the (very removable) EMI shields.
It's closer to production than I was expecting. I'd [...:]