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Screencast looks at It’s About Time for the iPad

It’s About Time Products has posted a screencast on It’s About Time for the iPad. You can find it at http://vimeo.com/10576929 .

“It’s About Time” is an iPad application that allows you to access and utilize multiple “mini apps” with different, customizable types of information. It will be available soon at a special launch price of $0.99.

Mini apps 1.0 ships with a 1984-style mini Calculator, Browser, Sticky, Weather, and NASA image of the day, all of which run at the same time.

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NewerTech introduces iFolio carrying case for the iPad

Newer Technology (NewerTech) NewerTech has introduced iFolio, a custom handcrafted carrying/protection case for the new iPad being introduced April 3. Made in the US from premium imported black or red Brazilian leather, it’s available in black or red leather colors.

The iFolio for the iPad is available for pre-order at a special introductory price of US$99.99 (it’s normally $129.99) from NewerTech’s exclusive distributor, Other World Computing at http://www.macsales.com/ifolio . All pre-orders and regular orders of the NewerTech iFolio will begin shipping April 5.

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PDFpen for Mac OS X gets maintenance update

SmileOnMyMac has updated PDFPen (http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/download.html), its PDF editing and form-filling tool for Mac OS X, to version 4.6.1. Text resulting from OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is now positioned more accurately for selection and highlighting.

An occasional problem with sheet-fed scanners has been corrected, as well as an issue with drawing text annotations. Other minor improvements and fixes have also been made.

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‘Your Mac Life’ looks at ‘iPad madness’

On this week’s “Your Mac Life,” the gang looks at “iPad madness.”

How big a success will the iPad be? Will it be the “most important cultural phenomenon of this generation”? Or will it “remain an expensive, niche device”? These questions and others will be examined?

“YML” has also posted a video called “Please Please Mr Jobs – Don’t Release the iPad…” You can find it here: http://yourmaclifeshow.com/node/4435 .

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