By Michael DeWalt Arrival and Unpacking: At about 10 AM Saturday morning, Santa, otherwise known as the UPS guy, rang the doorbell. The anticipation was intense, but it’s here — the iPad has landed. To be more specific, an iPad Wi-Fi 64GB is now in hand. It took willpower not to just rip into the […]
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Ok, just got back from the iPad launch at the Apple Store in Arlington, Virginia, so bear with me here: Coming up on the line, you heard cheering from about half a block away. With dozens of blue-shirted Apple employees running about, handing out coffee and water and high-fiving each other and customers, they’ve adopted […]
The day before the official U.S. launch of the iPad, Apple’s long awaited iBooks app is now available in the App Store. Per MacRumors, the app offers both a book reader, an online bookstore to purchase new books and the following: – Complimentary copy of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne. – Read a free sample […]
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Apple releases iTunes 9.1 Update
Late Tuesday, Apple released iTunes 9.1, the latest version of its multimedia/jukebox application for Mac OS X. The new version, an 93.6 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – Sync with iPad to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on the go. – Organize and sync books you’ve downloaded […]
Yes, the iPad is coming. But it won’t come with the featured iBooks application. Per Apple’s product listing for the device, the iBooks application won’t be bundled with the iPad and will instead be downloaded from the App Store, a move which places it on an equal footing with other e-book readers on the market. […]