Brand: MacTech

Chronos (http://www.chronosnet.com) has released F10 Launch Studio 3, an upgrade to its launch manager for Mac OS X. The upgrade adds the “Application Blaster.”

“The new Application Blaster works just like the application switcher built into Mac OS X where you press Command-Tab to switch applications,” says Jerry Halls, vice president of Sales at Chronos. “Instead of just switching applications, the Application Blaster lets you select the application you want to launch.”

Also in F10 Launch Studio 3:

Apple’s next iPad will arrive in 2011 and sport a 9.7-inch screen and Cortex-A9 based CPU, according to DigiTimes Research (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100809VL202.html).

The iPad will reportedly have 512MB of RAm and see the light of day in the first quarter of 2011. Apple will also launch a 7-inch iPad using the Cortex-A9 processor and an IPS panel with a resolution of 1024×768, according to Digitimes Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo.

MacBooks are the laptop of choice for college students, according to new info from Student Monitor (http://www.studentmonitor.com), which provides syndicated and custom market research services focused exclusively on the college student market.