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Here’s a short list of what you can expect in the new iOS update for iPads, iPod Touches, and iPods if you are planning on downloading and installing it this weekend. Multitasking and Folders on iPad This shouldn’t be too surprising, as we knew it would come. Airprint Airprint enables you to print documents from your iPad or other iOS device without using any cables or drivers. The options for printing aren’t extremely detailed, just the range of what pages you want to print and the number of copies. Even though there were previously apps for this, this is still pretty cool. Airplay Seems like Apple…

Citing an unconfirmed report in a Chinese newspaper, Digitimes has had the stone guff to whisper into our supple ears a list of five possible features the iPad 2 may or may not possess. The list is shakey at best, but sensible, and includes thinner glass, for mobility, a Retina display, video chat (meaning FaceTime (meaning cameras)), a 3-axis gyroscope, and – get this – a USB port. On the whole, most of these features are a pretty good bet, I’d say. The only reason the iPad 1 doesn’t have a camera was so they could make money this time out, and a large-as-hell Retina display is also likely in the cards in…

Apple has now banned all single-station radio apps from iOS, stating that, according to Jim Barcus, “single station apps are the same as a fart app and represent spam in the iTunes store.” Many of us would tend to agree. But who the hell is Jim Barcus? He’s the president of DJB Radio Apps, a company that builds – surprise – single-station radio apps. And he’s not down with Apple’s decision. “[Apple doesn't] understand that radio stations are in fierce competition,” Barcus tells The Reg. “[Apple] just wants all radio stations to be on one big fat app, and that’s just not going to happen.” Well… can’t…

November 26 is a hectic day of the year — it’s Black Friday. It’s a pretty big deal for many companies, and while Apple doesn’t seem to be lacking in the revenue department, all the little boys and girls will probably want the latest generation iPods, iPads, iMacs, and more from Apple this year. So Black Friday might be the day that enables a struggling global economy to get their hands on some good deals on Apple products. The Black Friday deals page on Apple’s website offers little insight on what to expect, but we are hoping there will be better deals than what was offered last year, as there was little…

Okay, ‘released’ isn’t exactly the right word. But the now-mythic white iPhone 4 has been spotted in China, and it can be yours for the bargain price of up to 8000 Yuan ($1204) for the 16GB model. I don’t even wanna know how much the 64GB goes for. But considering China’s reputation as the land of knock-offs, can this be the real thing? Well, you be the judge. The boxes are marked ‘for internal use only’, and from the pictures, they’re certainly more real than any Chinese counterfeit version I’ve ever seen, by a large margin. Frankly, I’m willing to believe this is the real deal. It’s just being sold by…

If you happened to find yourself at Tokyo Designer’s Week this year, you surely saw iProject25 – a just-shy-of-completely-monstrous display made of 25 iPads, resulting in one hell of a large interactive screen. The use of iPads to make an omniPad is hardly why I, for one, am impressed. We were always destined to eventually see a YouTube video of someone doing exactly this. Where I’m impressed, frankly, is in the concept. Commissioned by Japan’s Environmental Ministry, iProject25 is meant to be a metaphor for the human race’s impact on the harmony of nature. Created by musician TaQ (of Dance Dance…

You just hit ‘play’ on a video touting the PlayBook’s allegedly ‘faster’ and all-around more awesome browser than the iPad’s. And the proof would appear to be in the pudding – the PlayBook’s browser DOES appear to be a fair bit faster, rendering pages in a relative jiffy when put beside the iPad’s sudden plod. The video also demonstrates the iPad’s lack of Flash (again), and even shows off some fancy Java rendering. But the big question here is: who cares? That’s a stupid question. Of course people care, but jeez, RIM… is it really wise to prod Apple fanboys like that, especially when the iPad 2 is…

I don’t know about you, but I was expecting something a little bit more from today’s iTunes announcement. Streaming music? Enhanced song previews? A completely rewritten iTunes application? Anything? No. We end up with The Beatles. What kind of crap is that? Okay, so I don’t want to offend all of The Beatles fans out there, but I guess I have to in order to make my point. The Beatles is a music group. They made music. They have withheld their music from iTunes since forever, and they became an enemy of the tech savvy among us for acting so incredibly greedy. Of course, if I was one of the world’s greatest…

Assuming you visit the Apple front page with any degree of regularity, you may have noticed that today, it’s been replaced with the above. Apparently, tomorrow we’re going to get an ‘exciting announcement’ from iTunes. Frankly, Steve, I dunno about that: seems your last exciting iTunes announcement was Ping, and last I checked in, it was still a pile of crap. So forgive me if I remain a little apprehensive of your promise that I’m truly never going to forget the day you released… well, whatever it is. I suppose we can speculate on that, can’t we? From where I’m sitting, this can be one of three things:…