Apple Day – everything about Apple, iPod, iPhone, iTouch, iMac, iBook

We’ve been showered in tablet talk in the wake of the Apple iPad announcement, and while we have our problems with it (and so did you), we’re still left wondering: Are you interested in some form of tablet computing?

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Want to know what your local MP is doing? There’s an app for that. Labour MP Derek Wyatt has become the world’s first serving politician to launch an iPhone app which he said makes him more accountable to constituents.The free MyMP app shows users what their MP is doing, where they are and lets the public send messages to them directly!

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In November 2009, Apple launched a feature dubbed iTunes Preview, which essentially enabled people to see what music is available on iTunes from their Web browser without the need to fire up – or install – the desktop software program. This morning, Apple activated the iTunes Preview feature for iPhone / iPod Touch applications in addition.

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Amazon said: You still can’t buy Macmillan books from Amazon, though, and now the book publishing giant has fired back with full-page ads in The New York Times and Publishers Marketplace.

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AT&T on Thursday greenlit the use of SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone on its 3G network. The carrier now claims that it has tested the app since mid-December and believes it can run without consuming too much bandwidth.

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With today’s launch of the USB friendly copycat iTablet and rumors that Mac has a second tablet in the works, we thought we’d make the March 14th decision to buy or not to buy easier for you.

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Tablets today are thought to be made in one of two ways: Upsizing a smartphone or downsizing a laptop. Many of these new tablets are decent, but both methods render something less than the perfect tablet.

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Software freedom requires more than just a license. It also needs an open market to be meaningful–witness Apple, Canonical, and others flirting with Microsoft. Read this blog post by Matt Asay on The Open Road.

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Days after Macmillan essentially forced Amazon to accept higher prices for its Kindle e-book titles, Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., said his publishing company HarperCollins is also in talks to increase titles beyond $9.99.

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Close scrutiny of the iPad which Steve Jobs presented at Apple’s special event last week shows what may be webcam, tucked away in the black screen bezel just

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Google vs. Apple vs. Microsoft. – One of these tech giants has it all, and the other two are still scratching their heads. Take a look at how deep their pockets really are…Who has the debt…who has the products, and who has the market fooled.

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“I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen an unreleased device draw such ire and approval. The reaction to the Nexus One, the iPhone 3GS and Google Wave don’t even compare. Some people just hate the thing, while others (like Jim Cramer) believe it’ll be the biggest selling device in history.”

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Though iPhone sales grew 18 percent in the fourth quarter, the overall market saw even greater growth, leaving Apple with a smaller market share during the holiday season, according to the Wall Street Journal. Nokia still leads the cell phone market though, with 37 percent of phones being Nokias.

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The question of whether or not potential iPad customers will accept the App Store as the sole source of iPad software, has gone largely unaddressed. Is Apple so blinded by their own success that they don’t see this? Or is it that Apple collectively is such a control freak that they don’t really care?

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Apple is facing new problems and issues on the production of the iMac 27″ Core i5 and i7, and is already announcing to its customers that it will not be able to ship the unit for the expected delivery date.

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Mac websites exploded in a frenzy of excitement recently when it became clear development machines running Mac OS X 10.7 were online.The thing is, you’d have been crazy to think that Apple was somehow done with its desktop operating system after Snow Leopard.

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Some iMac users have been affected by a flaw that causes areas of the large LCD screens to appear yellow. Apple hasn’t publicly acknowledged the issue, but internal support documents say that a fix is expected soon. The monstrous screen on the 27″ iMac, while a beautiful sight to behold, can be equally unsightly when some flaw is discovered…

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Apple has clearly hurt Adobe’s feelings. When Steve Jobs demonstrated an iPad at Wednesday’s tablet event, its Safari browser clearly did not support Flash.

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You know you can’t obtain an iPad for least three months, but you may not know the reason you can’t even buy one in advance: Apple has not yet obtained the

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The iPad may not have a camera in its current incarnation, but Apple’s at least laying the foundation for one: we just confirmed with extremely trusted sources that iPhone OS 3.2 contains rudimentary support for video calling, which could explain that mysterious space at the top of the device in our leaked pics.

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Apple has worked itself into a corner where people simply expect each and every new product release to change that product category for the better; to revolutionize things in a way that no other company has done so far. On almost every front, the iPad doesn’t do that. However, what’s really interesting is Apple’s A4 CPU.

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In 1994, Apple’s kingpin sat down for a free-ranging session with Rolling Stone reporter Jeff Goodell. As he introduces his latest revolutionary product, a rare glimpse into the mind of a true visionary.

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When Apple was demoing its new iBooks application for the iPad today during their keynote address, I just kept thinking to myself: this simply must have been designed by Delicious Monster, the shop behind the brilliant Mac app Delicious Library.

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In an update to its iPhone SDK, Apple is now permitting apps to make VoIP calls over 3G wireless networks, an option that was once only available over a WiFi connection.

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Steve Jobs announced Apple iPad yesterday. And the main question all over web was, what the hell is Micro SIM card, which will only fit into Apple iPad and will be distributed by AT&T!

Micro SIM or 3FF SIM Card – Apple iPad SIM card is the same as second form cards -just smaller – A 3FF SIM measures 12mm x 15mm and the current SIM card measures 15×25 mm!

Photo source – http://security.hsr.ch/lectures/IntSec2-SmartCards.pdf