Alongside iOS 4.2 beta 2, Apple has also released iTunes 10.1 beta for developers to help them get their apps ready for the new firmware due in November.

This is a pre-release version of iTunes 10.1 beta to support testing of printing from your iOS app. Be sure to backup your iTunes content prior to installing iTunes 10.1 beta.

AirPrint to support wireless printing, along with AirPlay to support audio and video streaming are among the most prominent features.

[developer.apple.com, thanks for the tip DigitalLifeDad!]

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Apple has released iOS 4.2 beta 2 for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch to registered developers, once again keeping to their typical every two weeks on a Tuesday patten.

No word yet on what new surprises lurk in beta 2, or in the code deep beneath it, but we’ll update as we learn more. In the meantime, head on over to developer.apple.com and start your downloads.

And for more, check out our complete iOS 4.2 beta walkthrough.

[developer.apple.com]

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ToDo for iPhone by Appigo has long been one of my favorite productivity apps.  I’ve been desperately waiting to see this app updated mainly with support for local notifications.  The fact that you’d have to open the app in order to update the badge was somewhat irritating.  It’s part of the reason I switched back to Evernote.

Not only does ToDo now support local notifications, it’s been updated with complete multitasking support as well as high resolution graphics for the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4th gen.  It also supports password protection and adding multiple alerts for tasks.  I’ve noticed the app overall is a lot more responsive as well.

Anyone here a die hard ToDo user? And if you use something else, let us know why. This update tempting anyone to give ToDo a try for the first time?

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Looks like Hulu Plus will be coming to Apple TV competitor Roku. There’s already a Hulu Plus app for Apple’s iPad, and while my deepest, darkest wish is that it will support AirPlay to beam content straight to Apple TV, past history (and its use of non-standard video controls) make me think it won’t. And hey, even if by some miracle it does, just like Apple TV has built-in Netflix support, built-in support for Hulu Plus would be huge (no need to waste iPad resources and Wi-Fi bandwidth).

It would also nicely round out the ABC and FOX rentals with NBC shows, and add to the back catalog available on Netflix.

Powers that be, make it so. (And make it so outside the US as well while you’re at it, okay?)

Update: TiVO is getting Hulu Plus as well [@meinck]

[TechCrunch, now owned by AOL]

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BlackBerry maker RIM didn’t name their new iPad competitor the BlackPad as rumored, they named it the PlayBook while at the same time saying it was geared towards enterprise. PlayBook may be a football reference but football isn’t enterprise and the first thing anyone will read is “play” not “work”. Why not call it WorkBook then? Why not give it a UI more suited for business than the flashy eye-candy we saw in the demo video, which has “give us your consumer dollars” painted clearly all over it? Why not give it a powerful, native, C-based SDK to write for rather than HTML 5 and Adobe Air?

RIM no doubt wants the high-profit consumer market Apple has grabbed with iPad but knows their traditional base and best hopes for early adoption are with their existing enterprise customers. That’s a powerful if decidedly mixed bag of hurt when it comes to marketing. In fact, it may not even be what traditional BlackBerry owners were looking for.

Will they be able to leverage it into a one-two punch against Apple on both sides, or will it just confuse people, turning off business by being too slick and turning off consumers by being too serious?

We know it will be facing off against iPad 2, and maybe iOS 5 come 2011, so regardless of the “play” name, the BlackBerry tablet has its work cut out for it.

Check out CrackBerry.com’s Blogger Reaction video to see what other well known mobile tech writers have to say…

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Tapatalk for iPhone is a perfect app for those of you who browse several forums (including our own TiPb Forums!).  We all know most forums have mobile versions, but sometimes the controls aren’t so intuitive, nor is the control.  Tapatalk allows you to connect remotely to your forums via the app.  You can then visit all your forums from the accounts tab.  From there you can choose which site you’d like to browse and connect to it.

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One thing that’s always kept me from browsing forums more often is mobile integration. It’s just not that great. Browsing forums has always been a more pleasant experience on an actual computer. With Tapatalk, I think I like browsing forums from my phone even more. The premise is simple, connect to the forums you’re a member of by searching for them. You can then log in to your account and it’ll bring over all the threads your subscribed to and even your private messages. Tapatalk supports most versions of vBulletin (most forums use this) as well as a few other types.

As of now, not all sites are supported as the administrator of the site needs to activate Tapatalk on their forums in order for it to pull into the app. In addition to TiPb Forums, Android Central Forums are already supported, I’d only guess the rest will follow. Most of the forums I’m a member of are currently supported. Activating Tapatalk is free so if you see a site you’d like to be able to browse via Tapatalk, shoot the admin an e-mail and ask them if they can add it to their site. The list has been growing everyday.

Once you’re inside a forum, you can do mostly everything you can do from a computer. You can quote people and reply simply by tapping on the post you’d like to quote and a blue quote box will appear, which you’ll click and it takes you to a user entry field. If you tap on one of your own posts, you’ll get a second option to edit your post.

Under the latest section within a forum, you’ll notice that your tabs will carry unread counts as well. Your participated tab is where you’ll find all the threads you’re subscribed to within that forum. The unread tab is simply a list of all the latest posts within that forum.

Your main sections are Network, Accounts, History, and Settings. Network will allow you to browse through categories of forums that are supported. I actually found a few forums I didn’t know about that I’ve now joined. The accounts tab will show all the accounts you are currently signed into. Tapping one of them will take you to that forum’s postings. History shows you a list of the forums you’ve visited recently. Settings is pretty self exclamatory. This is where you’ll be able to tweak settings such as link behavior, image control, and layouts. What’s nice about the setting app is if you aren’t sure what a setting is or does, they have notes telling you what enabling or disabling something will do which minimizes confusion.

My experience with the app has been overwhelmingly good. It’s incredibly fast and connects to forums almost immediately. If you’re on Wifi, it’s immediate. If you’re on 3G or lower, a page or account may take a second to load, but even on Edge, you’ll never wait more than a few seconds for something to load.

Tapatalk also offers a free version that is Read Only, meaning you can read posts but can’t sign in or post yourself. So if you want to check out the app before purchasing the full version, check out the read only one first to get a feel for it.

If this app eventually adds push for unread private messages and new posts in subscribed threads, that would severely minimize my e-mail clutter. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for that. But in the mean time, let us know if you’ve picked it up and leave your thoughts in the comments!

Pros

• Extremely easy layout to navigate
• Incredibly quick
• Integration supports with many blogs, and free for administrators to implement on any site supported
• Good tools for finding new communities
• Great user control within forums

Cons

• Push would be nice, but not a necessity in this kind of app. It would reduce e-mail clutter, which would be a nice plus.

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Apple’s iPhone 4 IPS LCD Retina Display has pulled out a big win over Super AMOLED displays used in Samsung Galaxy S and other Android devices for best mobile display in existence today. This comes to us from DisplayMate.com.

“Since its introduction the iPhone has been one of the wonders of the modern tech world for many reasons – but its display was never one of them – up until the iPhone 4, where it finally got the display it deserved. The iPhone 4 display, nicknamed the Retina Display, is an outstanding "Super" LCD delivering top performance in many of our test categories – it has the brightest and sharpest display, but on the other hand its color gamut is too small, producing under saturated somewhat washed-out colors, and its image contrast is too high, which produces punchier images and also partially compensates for its smaller color gamut. These were most likely intentional tradeoffs made by Apple to increase screen brightness, power efficiency and battery run time. None-the-less the iPhone 4 earned our Best Mobile Display Award in the DisplayMate Best Video Hardware Guide. We include a dedicated comparison with the iPhone 3GS below. "Retina Display" is a great marketing name, and it is the sharpest smartphone display available, but quantitatively it is a factor of two lower than the acuity of the human Retina. Click here for a discussion on the Retina Display. Finally, Part II of this series will discuss some major flaws in the iPhone 4's Automatic Brightness control, which hopefully will be corrected in the near future through a software update.”

For the full in depth analysis and test results be sure to hit up the link below and make sure you have quite a bit of free to time as you will need it.

[DisplayMate via Daring Fireball]

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Since Apple made the Apple TV iOS 4.1 firmware available on their website, developers and hackers alike have been scouring through with a fine toothed comb. What they have found so far is quite interesting – Facetime may be coming to Apple TV via your iPhone 4 using AirPlay, there could be DVD remote support, and the device does contain bluetooth code.

Perhaps the most exciting find has been what we touched on earlier today, Apple TV is capable of being jailbroken via the Shatter exploit.

Check out the source links below for more, including Erica Sadun’s comprehensive article at TUAW. Should be pretty exciting to see what this little device will be capable of in the upcoming weeks.

[TUAW, forums.mactalk.com.au via 9to5Mac]

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Apple has finally updated their Remote app to version 2.0, and included support for iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4 Retina Display, and for the iPad. It will also support shared libraries for iTunes and, of course, the new Apple TV (2010) that’s just started to hit the streets. AirPlay is also supported, currently for what was previously AirTunes, and no doubt for full on iOS 4.2 video goodness when that’s released as well.

Previous rumors have suggested Apple’s Remote app was the work of a single engineer at the company who had since been reassigned. Whether that was accurate or not, it looks like the release of the new Apple TV was enough to get Remote out of mothballs and onto the iPad, with a new iTunes 10-style icon to boot.

I loved the previous version of Remote, especially for entering passwords and searches — onerous via the infrared remote — so I’m eager to try this one out. If you have already, let us know what you think.

[Free - iTunes link]

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iPhone 4’s internal version is 3,1, so what then are the iPhone 3,2 and iPhone 3,3 versions referenced in the just-posted Apple TV iOS firmware? Seth Weintraub from 9to5Mac speculates:

Verizon? Sprint? China Mobile? T-Mobile? Antennas? All very good questions. No answers yet.

To put things in context, the original iPhone 2G was iPhone 1,1, iPhone 3G was iPhone 1,2 and iPhone 3GS was 2,1. So we’re looking at the difference between iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G, which mainly consisted of a new shell and new 3G radio, not the completely revved up guts the iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 got.

CDMA (like Verizon, Sprint, or some parts of Asia), or the higher frequency AWS radios needed for US T-Mobile and new Canadian providers like Wind and Videotron are certainly possibilities. Since there are two new product versions, how about both?

And if that’s not tease enough, there’s also reference to a 20547 unknown device. New iPad, iWatch, iOS desktop? Who knows, but feel free to give us your best guesses in the comments.

[9to5Mac]

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