I just wanted to throw this up here.  My partner blog is looking to raise enough funds to purchase an Apple iPad.  They plan on making some iPad cases with the funds as well.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tmu/ipadapalooza-ipad-and-iphone-cases-plus-sweet-apps

Here is manomio’s explanation:

Unfortunately Apple this night pulled the C64 App from the App Store. We had agreed with Apple to remove basic from the application, but as we believed it would be possible to convince Apple to let it in later on, we left it in the app to be activated remotely by us when we had “go” from Apple.

Due to the extreme publicity the app has received over the weekend and the fact that several users found a way to enable the basic back, Apple decided to remove the app from App Store until we have solved the issue.

This is very frustrating as we had no intention of tricking basic into the app and the fix was done in a few minutes the moment we found out – a new version has been submitted to Apple, and we can only hope Apple will appreciate our efforts to apply the changes they need in order to put it back on.

Until now – thank you so much for your overwhelming support, it´s a pleasure to read all your kind mails and suggestions. If we´re unable to answer all mails please understand, we do our best!!

First, plug your iPhone or iPod Touch into your mac. Go to your Applications folder and open the application called “image capture” the application will usually detect your iPhone right away. If you do not have anything plugged into the USB port, you will receive this message. You can plug the device in while the application is running.

When the device is plugged in you will see this dialog.

You now have a quick way to transfer the images from your device directly to your computer. There are multiple import options, you can click browse to select individual pictures by holding down the Command key and clicking the images, or you can select to download them all. The application will also give you the option to import all images when you plug the iPhone in.

Image capture also works with most digital cameras as well. I know this might be a silly post, though I have found out many people were unaware that Image Capture could download the images from the iPhone and iPod Touch.

• Copy and Paste : I think we’ll see copy and paste this time around. Everyone who owns an iPhone has been down that beaten path of having no way to copy snippets of text and pasting them in another application. I think Apple will finally make it happen.

• Live search : I think we might see some type of Spotlight integration. This would allow us to search all around the iPhone OS for contacts and the like. This would give Apple some definite fire power over the Palm Pre search functions.

• Push Notification : Mobile Me is running quite a bit better now. I think Apple will at least mention push notification. They haven’t mentioned it in quite some time. I think now is the time to announce the push notification fixes

What I’d like to see.

• Multi Tasking : I don’t see it happening right now. I would like to see the ability to run multiple applications. Just think, you could double tap the home button and it would bring up a menu that allows you to scroll through the open applications and select them, close them, etc. This would be nice for when you’re e-mailing and you need to jump back to the browser, or maybe if you’re sending IM’s and you need to refer to documentation without closing your chat session.

• Artist Artwork in iTunes / iPod : There is one thing that bugs me about the iPhone. The iPod management. I dislike how the content is arranged. I would like the ability to set album artwork to artists, much like in iTunes 8. I would like the ability to set album artwork per artist and have that said artwork displayed in the artist view. If you go to the albums view in the iPhone now, you’ll see what I mean. I think this would help the overall appearance whilst browsing for media. I would also like to see other view options available in iTunes. I want to be able to use the browse pane. Why can we not have that on the iPhone?

• MMS : There is allot of hubub going on about MMS. I don’t think Apple is going to roll the announcement out quite yet. I think it’d be nice, but I’m not sure if they will right now. I think they should though.

• Off line Mapping : I would love the ability to view my maps and directions off line. I think this one leans more toward the iPod Touch. I would like to be able to store different maps, not just directions, but I’d like the ability to view maps in offline mode. Right now you can only save maps that are in temporary memory. I would like the ability to download said maps and directions for offline viewing. The data isn’t too big to store offline, so I don’t see what the problem would be. I know this won’t happen, ever. I can dream though, right?

• Turn By Turn Navigation : The iPhone has GPS, Maps, and internet. Why can’t we have turn by turn? There are 3rd party developers creating turn by turn. I think we should be able to get this at a low cost. Who knows. I love the form factor of the iPhone, GPS works great. I’ve had my butt by the Maps application, turn by turn would really cut the cake for me.

• Better app management : As we install more and more applications the screen gets cluttered, we need a way to better organize our applications.

• iTunes app store queue : I don’t know how many times I will be searching for an application or two and I find several that I would like to download. I would love the ability to put downloads into a queue and download them all at once. JailBroken iPhones can do it, so why can’t we have a download queue natively?

I think that’s all for right now. I am off to read the liveblogs.

UPDATE

The keynote is over and the web has been flooded with iPhone 3.0 news. Now it’s my time to see how right predictions were.

What I got right

• Copy and Paste

• Spotlight Search

• Push Notification

What I got Wrong

• MMS

• Turn by Turn Navigation – Apple didn’t release any turn by turn, but we are now able to use it in 3rd party applications

I was able to get quite a few predictions right. I was rather surprised at some of the announcements. Apple really delivered in this update. I still wish there was better iTunes management on the phone. I would love to see an app queue , artwork of artists, and a few other things. I can’t complain too much though. Apple has addressed pretty much everything else that people were wanting.

You can catch the keynote here.

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0903lajkszg/event/index.html

New Features

- Google Talk support. You can now use your google talk and gmail account to chat with your contacts in Google Talk.
- Added Jabber support. The Jabber network is now supported.
- Added new message alerts.
- Added new message appearance settings.
- Added auto saving of chat-logs.

This all ads on top of what is currently offered in this application. (taken from their site)

Supported services:
- MSN (Windows Live Messenger)
- Yahoo IM
- Gtalk
- Jabber

Services to be supported soon:
- AIM
- ICQ
- QQ (OICQ)

Features:
- Multi accounts support
- Chat with friends (multi conversations)
- Changing status (online, away, busy, hidden)
- Persisting Conversations history
- Multi languages support

I really enjoy the new interface tweaks and the ability to style your messages. I will be thrilled when they add AIM support. Some features I would like to see would have to be horizontal typing and possibly the ability to add custom colors to the message styles via color picker, there are some decent colors to choose from. I’d rather have the ability to choose custom colors via the color picker.

I would also like to be able to hear he message sounds when you’re in the active IM window. The sounds only emit when you receive a message from someone in the background. Other than that, this application is very simple, fast, and it works well.

Images after the break.

Simple, turn on the international keyboard. I found this little feature that could possibly be a little bug in the Notes application. What does this all mean? Let me walk you through it.

This is what Marker Felt looks like in the Notes application.

While it’s not terrible, it can be an eyesore at times. Now I’ll demonstrate how to change the Marker Felt.

Go into your settings.

Go into the general tab.

Now go down to the keyboards tab.

Keyboard panel view. From here select the international keyboard tab, then scroll all the way down to the Chinese (Simplified) tab. Then you’ll want to select the Pinyin option and turn the slider to “ON”.

Once you have selected the keyboard option, you can now hit the home button to return to your home screen. Now you can open the Notes application. If you begin to type, you’ll notice nothing has changed, except there is a new icon on your keyboard. What you need to do now is, start typing. Hit the “globe” icon on the keyboard, choose any character and press it. Now delete that character you just made. Voila! Your text has suddenly become readable. See pictures below

New international icon on the keyboard.

Globe icon has been selected. As you can see the bottom keys have changed. Once you press any letter the other language will pop up.

Once any letter is pressed it will change the Marker Felt font. You can delete the letter you just created and then go back to using your native keyboard by pressing on the globe icon again.

There you go. This isn’t permanent, any time you create a new note you’ll have to do the last steps in order to get the font from being Marker Felt. This isn’t a big hassle really. I don’t know why they chose not to allow you to change the type for the application. I hope this helps anyone out there that doesn’t want to jailbreak their device.

Maybe we’ll get the ability to change the font in a future update. Let’s hope.

-ghostshadow