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Scenes From The iPad Overnight At Apple's Flagship NY Store

Here are some fancy photos of the iPad overnight at Apple's 5th Avenue store in Manhattan, courtesy of our friend Richard Gutjahr, who is currently first in line for an iPad.
Check out Richard's campout blog here (BTW: it's in German, but there's a Google translate button).

If You're Buying An iPad On Saturday, Here's the Drill

If you're going down to the Apple Store to buy an iPad on Saturday morning, here's what to expect:

At 7AM, all Apple's ~14,000 retail staff will be in an all-hands meeting. They will be trained on all features of the iPad and each staffer will get face time with the device.
The stores will set up two [...:]

Amazon Launches Kindle App For iPad

Even though Amazon's hardware Kindle reader will be toast at 9AM Saturday morning, Amazon has just released its Kindle app for the iPad.
The app is free and available for download from the App Store.

Professional Line Sitter Greg Packer Bumped From Front Of iPad Queue

Professional line sitter Greg Packer has been bumped from the front of the iPad line at the 5th Avenue Apple Store.
Packer didn't reserve his iPad, so he's dropped behind German blogger Richard Gutjahr, who did reserve an iPad.
"Apparently nobody before me in the original line had a reservation," Gutjahr just emailed me from his iPhone. [...:]

FCC Leaks Pre-Release Internal Pics of iPad

iFixit, perhaps the premier gadget tear-down shop on the web today, dissected photos Friday of a pre-production iPad provided by Apple to the FCC, which inexplicably leaked the photos somehow, despite Apple's desire that they be kept under wraps until August.
With standard caveats about the photos being lower-resolution quality than those iFixit will publish Saturday [...:]

Mag+ Digital Concept Becomes Real On iPad

Back in December, we reported on the Mag+ prototype for an electronic magazine, developed by the R&D team at Bonnier with help from London design team BERG.
Today, Mag+ becomes reality with the release of Popular Science+, a version of the, um, popular science magazine that's been built exclusively for iPad. And it looks amazing.
Here's a [...:]

Five Fun Games: Romance at the Taj Mahal, A Magical Underground Oasis, Your Fashion Empire and More

Happy Friday! Here's this week's selection by Mac Games and More featuring fun casual games you can play into the weekend. The games include raising cute baby animals to adulthood, fighting against Seth's wrath, wandering in a dreamlike state from room to room in a magical castle and more.




Jane's Zoo – With this ecological time [...:]

Alpha Nerds Unite Against The iPad

A pair of alpha nerds, BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow and Lifehacker's Gina Trapani, have just published strong anti-iPad pieces. Neither is buying the iPad, for different reasons.
Doctorow is firmly against the iPad because it's too commercial and locked down. He wants an open device he can hack. And Trapani thinks the Mark II iPad will be [...:]

What Are You Playing on iPhone OS This Weekend? (Us: Sword of Fargoal)

It's April 3rd weekend, which means a good number of you will be trying out some of the first iPad games to hit the App Store. I, living in Germany, am not be so lucky: my own iPad won't be delivered until some still unknown date in the farther-flung days of April. Instead, I'm still [...:]

Stephen Colbert Flaunts His iPad

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