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Demystifying iPhone/iPad App Development, 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.

Just in case you haven’t heard, if you’re wanting to get an Apple iPad as quickly as possible, head on over to the Apple Store online to pre-order yours today!

From the Panic development blog: The idea quickly grew beyond “Project Status”, and has become a hub of all sorts of internal Panic information. What you’re actually looking at is an internal-only webpage that updates frequently using AJAX which shows: E-Mail Queue — number of messages / number of days. Project Status — sorry for [...]

The good folks over at MetaLab reported being ripped of by Mozilla earlier this week.  The open source Mozilla project, JetPack FlightDeck, was showing using UI mockups that clearly used the MetaLab UI elements and not just “borrowed” pieces or was the object of inspiration. Mozilla issued a public apology to MetaLab today stating: At [...]

California based PixelMags has 100+ apps ready for Apple’s iPad. PixelMags publications are releasing to top paid book app spots all over the world. 30% of readers are making subscriptions their top In App purchase. The release of the iPad is sure to increase this digital publishing phenomenon. Since PixelMags launched in December, 60+ titles for iPhone and iPod touch have been sold in 77 countries through the iTunes App Store.

Colorado based Media Lab Inc. today announces SiteGrinder 3, its powerful, next generation Photoshop web site development platform. In addition to over 300 new features, Media Lab SiteGrinder 3 supports two new optional add-ons, Commerce and Control. Graphic designers, photographers, artists or anyone can easily transform their Photoshop designs into CSS and XHTML standards-compliant websites without writing a single line of code.

I’m having a great time working on the application and incorporating some features that you’ve requested.  One of those will be a huge deal of iPod Touch users (Drafts), scheduled with the v1.1 release in the next couple weeks. v1.0.2 brings: NEW: Comments/Ratings are now instantly displayed in application. No longer waiting on moderation. NEW: [...]

I recently wrote about BitBQ’s acquisition of LittleSnapper for iPhone, now Cinder, that was originally developed by Realmac software.  Being a very light LittleSnapper user myself, I was interested in who had taken interest in the application and wanted to get to know Patrick just a little better. He agreed to answer some questions I put together, [...]

Apple’s eagerly anticipated iPad will be available in the United States on April 3, the company said Friday. Wi-Fi models of the tablet-style computer will go on sale that Saturday, while ones with Wi-Fi and 3G networks will be released later in the month. Customers can start pre-ordering the iPad on Apple’s online store on [...]

It’s always interesting to see what people are coming to the site to read, how long they’re staying and where they’re going to. I use and love Mint, from Shaun Inman, for all this analysis (in conjunction with Google Analytics of late) and this one caught me off guard this morning. A lovely 2200% increase [...]