CBC Hockey from the iconic Hockey Night in Canada series is a free download from the iTunes App Store and comes ready to stream all the live NHL hockey playoff action straight to your iPhone — via $2.99 in-app purchase.

• LIVE box scores from every NHL game
• Standings by division and conference
• Stats for every team, every player
• League leaders for points, goals,+/-, GAA, Sv%, and Wins
• CBC Sports stories and features from our writers
• Complete NHL schedule including CBC broadcasts and streaming info

And no, I’m not just posting this because of Montreal’s stellar playoff victory last night against Pittsburgh (for those who are more geek than hockey freak, that was the team with the big C’s on their chests trouncing the guys wearing the Linux Tux jerseys).

[iTunes via Daring Fireball]

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FlickStackr for iPad [$0.99 - iTunes Link] is a Flickr browsing application. The interface is beautiful, intuitive, and a pleasure to use.

With FlickStackr, you can browse photos on Flickr, even if you don’t have a Flickr account. If you do, then you can also browse your photostream, sets, favorites, groups, and contacts. FlickStackr also displays EXIF data, tags, and comments. The main feature that is missing from FlickStackr is the ability to upload photos. However, iPont promises to bring that ability in a future update.

In addition to the wonderful online photo viewing that FlickStacker brings to iPad, it also allows you to save photos locally for offline viewing. iPont calls this feature a “Stack”. You can choose any photos from Flickr to save to your stack. It only saves the actual images, however, not the EXIF data that’s associated with them.

FlickStackr is an excellent app for experiencing Flickr on the iPad, and for only $0.99, it’s quite a steal!

Pros

• Browse photos from photostream, sets, contacts, groups, explore, or search
• View photos as slideshow
• No account required
• Support for multiple accounts
• Offline viewing in your “Stack”
• Wonderful interface

Cons

• Cannot upload photos
• Offline viewing does not include EXIF data

Video and Screenshots after the break!

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Add another image to the Taoviet iPhone HD/iPhone 4G prototype gallery, this one purporting to run iPhone OS 4 in all shades of blurred glory.

Did they really get the PRO2 (which is apparently an earlier prototype to the Gizmodo iPhone HD/iPhone 4G unit) to boot up Apple’s next generation iPhone OS, or did some enterprising individual launch Photoshop, grab a 3GS resolution screen shot, match all the edges up, and then add the haze? If not, where’s the sharp, multi-angled pics and video like yesterday’s firmware-only posts?

You tell us — real, fake, or really fake?

[Engadget, Thanks Damon for the tip!]

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Top 5 iPad cases – best protection for your iPad [Sponsored Post]

Just get a new iPad and are eager to protect your expensive investment, to keep it safe from minor scratches and scrapes, bumps and blemishes? Check out the TiPb iPad accessory store’s 5 top-selling iPad cases and get the best in sleeves, skin cases, flip-lid cases, leather cases, hard cases, and body skins.

1. The Marware Eco-Vue for iPad opens like a book, and the elastic strap keeps the folio closed while the foldover tab inside helps keep the iPad from slipping out. A foldaway display stand round out a broad array of features provided in a single case solution.
   

2. The Marware Eco-Flip for iPad flips open at the top, and the elastic strap keeps the folio closed while the foldover tab inside helps keep the iPad from slipping out. A foldaway display stand round out a broad array of features provided in a single case solution.
   

3. Griffin’s FlexGrip Case for iPad wraps your iPad in durable silicone that’s easy to grip and protects against dirt, dings, dents and scratches. It fits snug around your tablet, and allows complete access to the audio output jack, dock connector, MultiTouch display and all controls.
   

4. The Griffin Jumper for iPad is soft, stretchy protection for your iPad, with tough neoprene sleeve, designed to protect your iPad from dust, dirt, scratches and fingerprints. The Jumper has an integrated pull tab tucked closed for 100 percent coverage. Slim enough to slip into a backpack, bag or briefcase, tough enough to protect your iPad from just about anything it might find in there.
   

5. The XGear PadShield for iPad is a dual compound case featuring a shock absorbing bumper and a smoked plastic back plate to protect your iPad from all angles. The bumper incorporates cutouts for docking and dust shields for button protection in potentially damaging environments.
   

Check out these and other iPad cases, from premium executive leather to brightly patterned fun at the TiPb iPad accessory store!

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In the ongoing feud between Apple and Adobe, Adobe’s founders have posted an open letter, “thoughts on openess” and Adobe has begun rolling out a new ad campaign on Engadget — and presumably other geek-rich online sites — declaring their love for Apple, and then telling users how saintly Adobe, users like us, and little puppies are being hurt by Apple’s evil ways.

It’s smart, at least much smarter than Adobe’s initial responses to — and complaints to the federal government about — Steve Jobs’ “thoughts on Flash”, although it still pretends that Adobe isn’t as self-interested, controlling, and out for money and market share as Apple — which they absolutely are.

If the web fragments into closed systems, if companies put content and applications behind walls, some indeed may thrive — but their success will come at the expense of the very creativity and innovation that has made the Internet a revolutionary force.

[...]

We believe that Apple, by taking the opposite approach, has taken a step that could undermine this next chapter of the web — the chapter in which mobile devices outnumber computers, any individual can be a publisher, and content is accessed anywhere and at any time.

Interestingly, Adobe’s open letter contains three registered trademark symbols (®), including one on Flash. Steve Jobs’ contained none.

Flash is Adobe’s. Tell us how popular it is. Make a phenomenal mobile version that does things so well it makes HTML5 cry in its standards-based containers. Win the case that Flash is better and too important to ignore. But continuing to pretend Adobe and Flash are open and end-user interests are what Adobe is fighting for is insulting.

Smart users know better. They’ve used Adobe products. Words aren’t going to make a dent now; it’s time for deliverables.

[Adobe via Engadget]

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Rumor has it Apple could be increasing their Facebook integration for iPhone OS 4, perhaps to include contact sync and messaging support for end users and Facebook Connect for developers.

Apple’s relationship with social networks has been tentative at best, with Mac OS X 10.6 and iPhoto 09 offering rudimentary integration for things like photo tags. The Facebook app on the iPhone has done some contact syncing (initially with funny to off-putting results), but nothing thus far as hinted at Palm webOS or Microsoft Kin level integration.

Business Insider cites only a “source”, and coming as it does with Facebook once again in the eye of the user-privacy storm, it’s sure to be met with mixed reaction. Here’s why it might just happen:

Some 34.2 million people were “active users” of the Facebook iPhone app in the last month, according to Facebook. That’s about a little more than a third of all the iPhone OS devices — iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad — out there. And it’s almost 10% of Facebook’s 400 million users.

It’s one of the rare instances where Apple is way behind the consumer curve. They don’t “get” social media (perhaps their hyper-secretive corporate culture doesn’t allow them to) but they’re slowly and painfully realizing that if they don’t do something, they lose an element of user tie-in, and Apple certainly “gets” user tie-in.

[Business Insider]

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Apple announced today that they’re opening a beta program for the “next MobileMe Mail” in order to get user feedback on the new features it will bring:

Widescreen and compact views. When reading your mail at me.com, the new widescreen view lets you see more of each message with less scrolling. Choose compact view to hide your folders or classic view to see more of your message list.

Rules to keep your email organized everywhere. Mail rules help you reduce inbox clutter by automatically filing messages into folders you select ahead of time. Set them up at me.com, and your rules organize your incoming email on the web and everywhere else — on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and PC.

Single-click archiving. Click the Archive button and the selected message is quickly filed into the Archive folder where it’s always available for future reference.

Formatting toolbar. You can create great-looking email messages using formatting buttons to bold or italicize text, change font color, insert images, and more. You can even create formatted web links to hide long URLs.

Improved performance. Mail at me.com loads your inbox and messages faster. And with interface refinements such as the ability to scroll through your entire inbox without having to manually click to load the next set of messages, you’ll be able to work more efficiently.

Increased security with SSL. With the MobileMe Mail beta, accessing your email on the web is more secure than ever. Your inbox is protected to prevent anyone from eavesdropping on your webmail. As always, you receive SSL protection when you use your MobileMe Mail account on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and PC.

Really Apple, you had me at Rules.

Originally introduced alongside iPhone 2.0 and the iPhone 3G at WWDC 2008, MobileMe has since introduced a few key features like Find my iPhone (and now iPad) but has seen few overall improvements. While the push experience itself has become good, the feature set is increasingly lagging behind free services like Gmail and premium services like Exchange.

Do these updates make MobileMe Mail more attractive to you?

[Apple MobileMe News]

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