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QuickerTek today announced a carry handle for all models of the Apple MacBook Air laptop. This carry handle is a strong and secure means of carrying your Apple laptop. This new lightweight carry handle is made from sturdy non-flex aircraft quality aluminum for strength and weight savings. The unique design lays the handle out and the bracket elevates the MacBook Air which allows better airflow underneath the laptop which means a cooler laptop.

Avantar has released the Yellow Pages app for Apple’s new iPad mobile computer. Currently the new Yellow Pages iPad design is pending approval by Apple, but is expected to launch on the iPad release date or shortly thereafter. This release follows the extraordinary success of the Yellow Pages apps and preferred GPS-enabled directories in both the iPhone and Android. Now that Avantar has covered all its bases their next priority is tying them all together through social networking.

Apple has released a slew of updates this week.  Be sure to run Software Update to get: Snow Leopard 10.6.3 iTunes 9.1 iPhoto 8.1.1 iMovie 8.0.6

System Support Products, Inc. of Annandale, Virginia announces the availability of Release 5.0 of Mail Forward for Apple Mac OS X. Mail Forward is an award-winning, e-mail forwarding application which allows the user to forward mail from AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, MSN, Netscape and Yahoo web mail accounts to any e-mail address. Standard POP and IMAP e-mail accounts can also be forwarded. A maximum of 20 different e-mail accounts can be entered into the app, each with its own forwarding address.

According to two users on twitter, the Apple iPad is already shipping to some customers who have pre-ordered the much anticipated Apple tablet. @phillryu cool, wifi iPads have begun to ship, just got my apple store shipment notification @flyosity Just got notification that my iPad has already shipped! Says it’s been origin scanned in China. [...]

Grab the lastest update to the only application bringing the world’s best joke to your iPhone or iPod Touch! Version 1.1.1 brings: FIXED: Fixed bug introduced in v1.1 preventing users from submitting their own jokes, unless first saving it as a draft FIXED: Fixed bug where creating a draft and immediately send before saving to [...]

Bulgarian based software company Cramzy today announced that they’ve just submitted their first iPad app, Quotes Frame, for approval. Loaded with more than 23000 quotes from movies and celebrities, Quotes Frame offers the biggest quotes collection. Perfect for the office, shop, parties, and social gatherings, Quotes Frame is sure to raise the mood. All quotes are contained within the database and placed on the device, so the application does not require users to have an internet connection.

Melbourne based bitolithic today announced details of Comic Zeal V4, the next version of their iPhone and iPad comic reading app. Version 4 offers an iPad specific interface and other enhancements that make reading comics on Apple’s new device a pleasure. Bookmarks and bags show you which comics you’ve started reading and which you’ve finished. The announcement post discusses the new iPad specific features of Comic Zeal V4 together with the reasoning behind the decisions that were made.

Version 1.1 is now available for sale in the US Store.  The biggest feature added in this release is support for drafts of jokes.  Grab your update now! Release Notes: NEW: Added a drafts feature. You can now create/edit drafts to submit when you are online at a later time. NEW: “Write Review” is disabled [...]

“Demystifying iPhone & iPad App Development: A Non-Technical Overview for Decision-Makers and Idea People,” a conference session given at the Macworld 2010 Conference & Expo in San Francisco in February, is now available online as a free video screencast. Parade of Progress Productions, a Los Angeles-based design, development and consulting firm specializing in the iPhone, announced that it is making its Macworld session freely available, both for streaming and as a download.