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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 heavy censorship [...]

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 issue are [...]

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: About & Support [...]

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 March 12.
Surprised [...]

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 in traffic [...]

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MacJournal is the perfect app for you if you do any amount of writing, [...]

From the Realmac Software Blog:
Over the past few months, we’ve been giving LittleSnapper for iPhone some thought. We love the application as it is, however since its launch, we’ve remained entirely focused on the Mac, building applications for a platform that we love. Given our continued focus on the Mac platform, we’re excited to announce [...]

Sadly, as a web developer, I spend a lot of time designing, coding and testing web applications in several browsers to make sure that I can get the product to as many users as possible.  Internet Explorer is always the one that causes me the most headache, hands down.
Queness has an excellent post detailing 10 [...]