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Daily Deals: iPad Hockey App, App Store Freebies, Mac OS X 10.6 Server

The iPad may not ship until Saturday, but here on the deal desk we celebrate with the first price drop on an iPad app: Touch Hockey Extreme FS5. Also on tap today is a new batch of App Store freebies, including Batter Up Baseball. Finally, you can get your server's up-to-date with a deal on [...:]

IPad Sales Expected to Reach 7M in 2010, 20M By 2012

A day before Apple officially launches sales of the iPad, a new report predicts the Cupertino, Calif. company could sell 7 million of the tablet devices in 2010 and see demand double and triple over the next two years. Although the 7 million figure is just the latest to surpass Wall Street expectations, researchers Friday [...:]

10.6.3 Update Breaking SMB Mounted Volume Write Access for Many

If you need to write to a mounted volume over SMB, you might want to hold off on updating to OS X 10.6.3 if you haven't done so already: Apple support forum users are reporting major problems in multiple threads that SMB is borked.
Reader Eric Dube writes:
[T:]here seems to be a systemic issue with the [...:]

Apple Opens iBook Store Ahead of iPad Launch

Apple has released its iBooks application for download, ahead of Saturday's official launch of the Cupertino, Calif. company's iPad tablet device. The application, which allows iPad users to read e-books as well as purchase titles from the iBookstore, can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store.
To get iPad owners started, Apple will include the children's [...:]

iLight and The Line King: Movie Posters Featuring the iPad

Her at CoM, we've sent trackback hugs to our good friend Richard Gutjahr before for his fine, funny Apple Tablet inspired mock movie poster Photoshops. But as clever as Richard's last round of mock-up posters were, the iPad still hadn't been officially announced, and he didn't even know what the Apple tablet was going to [...:]

Report: Amazon E-Book Sales to Benefit from iPad

Could the iPad be the best thing to happen to Amazon? Although a debate has raged over what impact Apple's tablet device could have on the Seattle-based e-book leader, Amazon could actually benefit from the iPad, a Friday report suggests. Despite a wide-held opinion that the iPad is a more flexible platform, Amazon could sell [...:]

Reader Poll: Does the Name "iPad" Still Suck?

When the much-awaited Apple tablet device was christened the iPad in January, many people hated the name.
CoM readers were underwhelmed by the choice of iPad, 51% of the 1,380 readers who answered our poll on Jan. 27 gave the moniker a "meh" while just 17% said the name "rocks."
For English speakers, the sanitary product [...:]

UPS Hack Lets You Track Other People's iPad Orders

It's possible to hack UPS tracking numbers to monitor other people's iPad orders, consultant Stephen Foskett has discovered.
If you have a genuine iPad tracking number, you change the last two digits to get valid tracking numbers for other people's iPad orders. I just checked, and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with [...:]

UPS Gearing Up For "Huge Wave" Of iPad Deliveries Saturday

UPS is gearing up for a massive, "all hands" iPad delivery day on Saturday. UPS says ALL iPads will be delivered en masse on Saturday except to customers in very remote locations.
"We've got all hands on deck for a huge wave of Sat. deliveries," says MikeAtUPS, who is providing UPS customer service via Twitter. "Unless [...:]

iPad App Store Is Live, Lots Of Apps And Primo Prices

The first round of iPad apps are live on the App Store. There's already a wide selection of apps, from NetNewsWire for iPad to AOL's AIM.
But in a world accustomed to $0.99 apps, there might be some sticker shock.
Prices of iPad apps seem to be $3.99 and up. There's a handful of fre apps, but not many.
Wonder [...:]