Apple App Reviews

www.pickmore.com – Apple ipad Keynote 27 January 2010 – Part 2 of 9.

When we last saw renders of the GameBone iPhone gaming accessory it looked ridiculous. But the latest design actually looks like something we might slip our iPhones into to give them four buttons and a d-pad. The accessory features “a 2000mAh battery for additional power, an LED to show charging state and capcity, start/select buttons, built-in stereo speakers, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and an omni-directional microphone.” There’s no exact release date, but 22moo, GameBone’s maker, has released developer tools for those wanting to make their games compatible with the accessory already and hopes to have something on the market by the end of the year. [ Finger Gaming via GameSetWatch ]

Apple is reportedly preparing to finally bring out the long-awaited refresh of the Mac Pro line in June, using Xeon processors rather than the Core i7 Extreme Edition chips that have been previously rumored. Sources have told AppleInsider that the new Mac Pros should drop in June, along with a new Apple Cinema Display based on the monitor from the 27-inch iMac. The new Mac Pro will use hexacore Xeon 5600 processors, and AppleInsider quotes its source as being “stern” that the new Core i7 chips, which would be cheaper but require a redesign of the motherboard to support the new chipset’s memory bandwidth requirements, won’t be used. The Xeon 5600 is based on the new “Westmere” architecture, which is Intel’s 32 nanometer die-shrink of the existing Nehalem architecture used in the current crop of Mac Pros. That means that the chips can be dropped into the existing dual-CPU motherboard, which will allow for dodeca-core Mac Pros, running at 2.66, 2.8, 2.93, and 3.33GHz speeds. Now that the iMac 27-inch display problems have apparently been solved, Apple will be releasing a new 27-inch LED Cinema Display based on the backlit 16:9 ratio monitor. The screen’s 2560×1440 resolution approaches the image quality of the existing 30-inch monitor’s 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution

Apple has begun offering 10-pack iPad bundles for educational institutions, with a modest discount for quantity purchases. Each package includes ten iPads paired with USB-to-Dock Connector cables and power adapters, while a single set of documentation is shipped with each order….

Most iPad developers may not yet have touched the actual device , but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been busy working away on software for Apple’s newest invention. But, according to an email obtained by Macworld , if you want your iPad application to have a chance of being in the App Store for the iPad’s arrival, you’d better have it ready for Apple’s review by March 27.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple a patent that describes a location-based social-networking application for the iPhone. The patent, discovered by Apple blog Patently Apple, describes a location-based app, called iGroups, that would enable users to form a social network with others around them. The main focus is to deliver a social-networking-like service, while maintaining …

Tags: App Store, Apple , iPad . Developers have been given the March 27 deadline to submit their iPad apps for review if they want their apps to appear on April 3 in the App Store. Only apps that are submitted for the initial review …

Most iPad developers may not yet have touched the actual device, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been busy working away on software for Apple’s newest…

Apple submitted a new location-aware social networking patent that proposed to unite groups of iPhone users in the same geographic locations.

Apple is alerting developers that they have just over a week to prepare iPad apps and get them submitted for review if they want them to be in the App Store on April 3. Developers must build their apps using beta 5 of the iPhone OS 3.2 SDK and submit them by 5pm PDT on March 27 to get an initial review by Apple, according to an e-mail sent to developers this afternoon. Reviewers will run the …