Vanity Fair launches iPad app issues

Vanity Fair has joined the ranks of magazines offering its own issue-based apps. The June issue is now available for both the iPad and iPhone in the App Store for $5 (the same as the cover price of a paper copy). Future issue purchases will be $4.

French iPhone Photos Actually from Vietnamese Leak

It was almost getting absurd. We posted a link to BeGeek who posted some new images of the leaked 4th Generation iPhone. As it turns out, they simply obtained those images from the Vietnamese leak on Taoviet.vn.

That means th...

Hulu Sticking With Flash For Now, Says HTML5 Not Ready Yet

Silicon Alley Insider reports on a blog post that briefly appeared on the site of television streaming service Hulu announcing a number of new features for the service. In addition to announcing the new ...

Prototype iPhone Running OS 4?

A new image (cached) posted by Vietnamese site Taoviet.vn shows what appears to be the prototype iPhone running iPhone OS 4. Few details are provided about how this might have been accomplished.

It seems likely that the poster...

Adobe aims ad campaign, open letter at Apple

The latest border skirmish in the war between Adobe and Apple is an ad campaign and open letter from the Flash developer's camp.

iPhone OS 4 running on prototype iPhone HD/iPhone 3G: real, fake, or really fake?

Add another image to the Taoviet iPhone HD/iPhone 4G prototype gallery, this one purporting to run iPhone OS 4 in all shades of blurred glory.

Did they really get the PRO2 (which is apparently an earlier prototype to the Gizmodo iPhone HD/iPhone 4G unit) to boot up Apple’s next generation iPhone OS, or did some enterprising individual launch Photoshop, grab a 3GS resolution screen shot, match all the edges up, and then add the haze? If not, where’s the sharp, multi-angled pics and video like yesterday’s firmware-only posts?

You tell us — real, fake, or really fake?

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Top 5 best iPad cases

Top 5 iPad cases – best protection for your iPad

Just get a new iPad and are eager to protect your expensive investment, to keep it safe from minor scratches and scrapes, bumps and blemishes? Check out the TiPb iPad accessory store’s 5 top-selling iPad cases and get the best in sleeves, skin cases, flip-lid cases, leather cases, hard cases, and body skins.

1. The Marware Eco-Vue for iPad opens like a book, and the elastic strap keeps the folio closed while the foldover tab inside helps keep the iPad from slipping out. A foldaway display stand round out a broad array of features provided in a single case solution.

1. The Marware Eco-Flip for iPad flips open at the top, and the elastic strap keeps the folio closed while the foldover tab inside helps keep the iPad from slipping out. A foldaway display stand round out a broad array of features provided in a single case solution.

1. Griffin’s FlexGrip Case for iPad wraps your iPad in durable silicone that’s easy to grip and protects against dirt, dings, dents and scratches. It fits snug around your tablet, and allows complete access to the audio output jack, dock connector, MultiTouch display and all controls.

1. The Griffin Jumper for iPad is soft, stretchy protection for your iPad, with tough neoprene sleeve, designed to protect your iPad from dust, dirt, scratches and fingerprints. The Jumper has an integrated pull tab tucked closed for 100 percent coverage. Slim enough to slip into a backpack, bag or briefcase, tough enough to protect your iPad from just about anything it might find in there.

1. The XGear PadShield for iPad is a dual compound case featuring a shock absorbing bumper and a smoked plastic back plate to protect your iPad from all angles. The bumper incorporates cutouts for docking and dust shields for button protection in potentially damaging environments.

Check out these and other iPad cases, from premium executive leather to brightly patterned fun at the TiPb iPad accessory store!

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Review: Animal Hide and Seek Adventure HD for iPad

Hide and Seek is a safe, fun and well-developed game that will keep your toddlers and pre-schoolers busy and entertained. Adults are also likely to enjoy the app.

New iPad ad evokes the spirit of the Newton

Apple has released its first post-launch iPad ad, and it might as well be channeling the Newton's original marketing.

Wal-Mart Planning to Carry iPad ‘Later This Year’

Bloomberg reports that Wal-Mart is expecting to be able offering the iPad for sale in its stores sometime "later this year", building on the companies existing offerings of the iPhone 3GS and various iPod...

Rogers won’t do unlimited data for iPad in Canada

Pre-ordering for the iPad has begun in Canada, but the enthusiasm faded as Rogers released its iPad data plan rates.

Review: Keltis Oracle is a great, light strategic board game for iPad, iPhone

Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, App Review, iPad

Keltis is a relatively new marquee family of board games - in Europe, at least - with a somewhat meandering history. The series started as the Lost Cities card game, which evolved into the original board game in the series, Keltis. That game won the Spiel des Jahres, Germany's highest board game honor, in 2008. Since then, there have been two expansions: a card game version (different from the original Lost Cities card game) and, most recently, a new board game called Keltis Oracle. U.S. board gamers will most likely recognize the Keltis games in the similar Lost Cities: The Board Game. Are you wondering why the European version of the game made it into your iDevice? Because the developers in Tribeflame are based in Finland.

In any case, the universal app (US$4.99) that's now available on the iPad and iPhone (and iPod touch) is the latest Keltis game. Is it the greatest? To some, maybe. It's certainly the most player-friendly of the batch, and it looks good on the iPad screen. The game works, but as you can see in the galleries below, it's crowded when packed into the iPhone's 480 x 320 pixel screen. Read on to see what the Oracle can do for you.

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Few Details Emerge About Leaked iPhone in Vietnam

The Associated Press managed to track down Tran Manh Hiep, the mobile phone accessory salesman in Vietnam who posted a hands on video of the next generation iPhone earlier this week.

The trail seems to end there, however, as Hi...

Apple Extending Facebook Integration to iPhone OS?

Silicon Alley Insider reports that a "plugged-in source in the mobile industry" has indicated that Apple is building some form of Facebook integration into iPhone OS, with a possible introduction next month at the company's Worldwide Develope...

Adobe Responds to Apple’s Anti-Flash Stance With Comments on Openness, Ad Campaign

Adobe today went on the offensive regarding the controversy over its Flash platform, pressing its support for openness on the Internet and responding to some of the comments made by others about the platform in recent weeks that it believes a...

Rob Shoesmith intros Problem Halved 2 for iPhone

Rob Shoesmith has updated his iPhone application Problem Halved with a range of new features.

TUAW’s Daily App: Silent Hunter Mobile

Filed under: iPhone

The Silent Hunter series is largely accepted as the pinnacle of submarine simulation. The PC and console games are pretty much the best way to feel like you're in charge of a real old-school submarine. Ubisoft currently owns the license, and they've now released an iPhone version of the brand, which has you piloting a German U-boat around the North Sea in 1939. It lacks most of the depth (pun intended, sorry) that Silent Hunter is known for; the game is basically a shooting gallery, and while there is a bit of strategy in ship placement, the plan is mostly to kill the other side before they kill you.

Still, it's fun, and except for a little bit of lag in the controls, it plays pretty well. You can send your sub up or down in the water (make sure to stay below when you get close to the escort you're stalking) and fire torpedos at any targets you spot. The game's campaign mode has 12 different missions, and each one offers up a nice set of progressions, from just hunting down merchant ships to taking on destroyers, on up into anti-air combat. You can earn XP to upgrade your sub and its parts, but the gameplay doesn't change much; you pretty much just navigate to the right spot, and then open fire at the right time.

The graphics are presentable on the iPhone, but the music is actually excellent. All in all, the game is definitely worth a go at US $1.99 (which is what it's on sale for in the App Store right now). You won't find anywhere near the level of complicated and subtle gameplay that the larger versions of Silent Hunter have, but if you just want to line up a destroyer in your sights and yell, "Torpedo away!", Silent Hunter Mobile does the trick.

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Five burning questions about the Verizon-Google tablet

Verizon says it's working on an iPad rival with Google. But with so little information available, a number of questions about this rumored device remain.

Adobe hearts Apple, hits them in userbase with open letter on openness, new ad campaign

In the ongoing feud between Apple and Adobe, Adobe’s founders have posted an open letter, “thoughts on openess” and Adobe has begun rolling out a new ad campaign on Engadget — and presumably other geek-rich online sites — declaring their love for Apple, and then telling users how saintly Adobe, users like us, and little puppies are being hurt by Apple’s evil ways.

It’s smart, at least much smarter than Adobe’s initial responses to — and complaints to the federal government about — Steve Jobs’ “thoughts on Flash”, although it still pretends that Adobe isn’t as self-interested, controlling, and out for money and market share as Apple — which they absolutely are.

If the web fragments into closed systems, if companies put content and applications behind walls, some indeed may thrive — but their success will come at the expense of the very creativity and innovation that has made the Internet a revolutionary force.

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We believe that Apple, by taking the opposite approach, has taken a step that could undermine this next chapter of the web — the chapter in which mobile devices outnumber computers, any individual can be a publisher, and content is accessed anywhere and at any time.

Interestingly, Adobe’s open letter contains three registered trademark symbols (™), including one on Flash. Steve Jobs’ contained none.

Flash is Adobe’s. Tell us how popular it is. Make a phenomenal mobile version that does things so well it makes HTML5 cry in its standards-based containers. Win the case that Flash is better and too important to ignore. But continuing to pretend Adobe and Flash are open and end-user interests are what Adobe is fighting for is insulting.

Smart users know better. They’ve used Adobe products. Words aren’t going to make a dent now; it’s time for deliverables.

[Adobe via Engadget]

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Review: ABC Player for iPad

This excellent app lets you watch your favorite ABC shows any time you want with limited commercial interruption. It sets a standard for other streaming video apps to live up to on the iPad.