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iPhone Apps Get Background Audio in 4.0

Sick of third party programs not being able to offer background audio like iTunes does on your iPhone? Guess what? Apple just changed that.
As one of seven new APIs being offered to developers, now anyone can make their app run audio in the background. The big winner here is Pandora, who takes the stage and [...:]

iPhone OS 4.0 This Summer! iPhone OS Gets Multitasking!

Well, almost everyone called it, but almost three years after the first plaintive cries about the lack of the feature arose, Steve Jobs has just announced that the iPhone OS will be getting multitasking, come summer. Developers can start playing with the preview today.
It's the biggest of the "tentpole" features Apple is announcing today for [...:]

iPhone OS 4.0 Event: The iPhone Numbers So Far

The iPad's still fresh in every one's minds, and there's no shortage of analysts who have wanted to guess how many Apple's sold yet, but Jobs doesn't want us to forget how much the iPhone and iPod Touch are kicking ass and taking names.
Here's the big numbers from Steve's presentation:
• 50 Million iPhones sold to [...:]

Mobile Safari In-Page Search App 'Find In Page,' Now For iPad

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFE-9IJAoE4
The iPhone's stripped down version of Safari lacks many of the features it's more well-endowed OSX brother — for instance, Mobile Safari won't do tabs, or let users make in-page word searches. And iPad's Mobile Safari won't perform those tricks either.
A couple of months ago, we reviewed Vais Salikhov's Find-in-page, a $1 app that patched [...:]

Bullet Hell SHMUP "ESPGALUDA II" Coming To The App Store

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt-Jaz1oRAU
They're called bullet hell SHMUPS (shoot-em-ups): Galaga style arcade shooters where enemies puke so many bright bad bullets at you that surviving even for a few seconds requires muscle memory down to the pixel… and Cave's one of the most devious development houses out there at creating them.
Consider me more than impressed, though, by this [...:]

Turn Your MacBook Into A Wooden Apple With These Skins From Karvt

Carved unibody aluminum may well end up being to the gadget design of the late oughts what wood paneling was to the gadget design of the late 70s, so why not ironically set the trend and transform your MacBook into a laptop Mike Brady could be proud of with these laptop skins from Karvt?

You can [...:]

Apple Releases New iPhone Ad: "Shopper"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd_IDvDMeQE
The "Get A Mac" series may be over, but Apple's app-centric iPhone campaign is still as effective as ever. In the latest ad, "Shopper," a husband explains how he used his iPhone 3Gs and the RedLaser price comparison app to get his wife a new espresso maker.
Unlike other iPhone ads, this one is unique [...:]

Justin Long Says "Get A Mac" Ad Campaign May Be Over

He may be homo sapiens' answer to a hipster Droopy, but after Steve Jobs, Justin Long is the avatar of the Apple experience thanks to the popular series of "Get a Mac" ads. Now he tells the Onion AV Club that the campaign might be through.
""You know, I think they might be done. In fact, [...:]

Report: iPad Sales Already Surpass 600K

Although Apple said it sold 300,000 iPads just on April 3, that figure has more than doubled as of Thursday morning. More than 600,000 iPads have gone online, according to a running tally begun earlier this week by advertising network Chitka.
California, unsurprisingly, has the most dense iPad per population ratio in the country, with [...:]

Report: Apple Producing $400 Mini iPad for 2011

Just days after Apple began sales of the initial iPad, the Cupertino, Calif. company is readying a smaller, less-expensive version for 2011, a report suggested Thursday. The unit would be 5- to 7-inches and carry a $400 price tag, according to a Taiwan tech publication.
The mini iPad would focus on consumers needing a smaller device [...:]