The Apple iPad can’t come soon enough for some people, especially as details continue to trickle out at a snail’s pace. That is why we are proud to share with you video footage of the iPad’s dashboard in action. Does it look familiar? Well, to anyone who has owned a Mac, we are confident that it does. The iPad’s Dashboard will run widgets just as the Mac computers have done for years now. It is a smart move — there are a myriad of quality widgets already available for Dashboard, and by utilizing those existing widgets, the iPad will already have a nice “home” interface to work with. Yet we can’t help but…

Yesterday The Apple Blog announced that the new iPad was going to be offering 30,000 free eBooks. The thing is, the free books are all hosted at Project Gutenberg (and have been for years) so any device with a web browser can access these eBooks, even a Blackberry. The headline, “iPad to Offer 30,000 Free e-Books at Launch” actually downplays their generosity. In point of fact, you can go read the 30,000 books RIGHT NOW on whatever machine you are reading this article! Apple’s offer is so downright selfless that you don’t even need to buy the iPad, you can still get the 30,000 books anway by clicking…

Looking for a neat way to take notes and read bits and pieces on that brand new iPad you’ve already busted your credit limit to buy? Seeking out an efficient and easy-to-use partner to guard all your favourite data as you prep for the next assignment, report or special mission? We’d like to introduce you to Instapaper, which we promise will emerge as the ultimate App for just that. …

You know you’ve made it when the US Army knocks at your door to ask for help. And that’s exactly what happened this month when Major General Nick Justice and several members of his staff traveled to Cupertino to discuss using Apple’s solutions in the field. Major General Justice leads the US Army’s Research, Development, and Engineering Command. He’s considering dumping some of the Army’s proprietary systems in favour of consumer products, including Apple’s army of mobile solutions. Apple gave its Army visitors a much-coveted tour of its labs and talked about how the military is…

The iPad is just one of a series of futuristic devices Apple plans as it stakes an ever-larger slice of the connected home – expect the company to introduce an Internet and iTunes-connected HDTV. Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster (one of the better Apple analysts) says the front room Apple-powered television will sell for “around $2,000” and will ship in “two to four years”. “Apple is uniquely positioned to deliver a premium all-in-one solution (different than Apple TV),” Munster wrote….

Doing its best to keep it real as Facebook and Twitter grab the Zeitgeist, Digg today introduces its all-new iPhone App. Digg founder and CEO, Kevin Rose, hinted at the new software last year, now we learn it offers a deep user experience including support for browsing popular, upcoming, and recent stories across topics. You also get to Digg and bury stories using the app on your iPhone….

Apple today added the ability for customers to send apps in iTunes as gifts. The gas station need no longer be the only option for the forgetful party attendee, since you can now purchase apps through the app store and then print or email them as a gift certificate. The option appears in the dropdown menu in the purchasing options on both the online and iTunes store. The option is not available for in-app purchases, upgrades, updates to iPod touch OS or people looking for a range of gifts at over $10. Apple continues to push forward, providing more and more features and capability for developers and…

‘Don’t be evil’ may be the old Google mantra, but it looks as if that still leaves space for a string of affairs and some business double-dealing on the part of the company CEO, Eric Schmidt. An incisive Valleywag report looks at the breakdown of Schmidt’s relationship with Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the way things came to a head in 2007, while the Google boss was attending Burning Man with one of his mistresses….

You know Steve Jobs, right? The technology superstar CEO of Apple Inc., the man who invented the iPhone? Now paper artist Jay Hauf has created a papercraft Steve Jobs cut out, complete with a paper iPhone….

There’s an iPhone browser break out beginning, with Opera Software submitting its Opera Mini 5 browser/app for the iPhone to the App Store. All that’s left is to wait and see if Apple will approve the Safari-competing browser….