Apple has finally updated MobileMe Gallery to version 1.2 with support iOS 4 fast app switching, iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4 Retina Display, and made it a universal app for the iPad to boot!

And, like Remote app, all it took was Chad complaining for weeks and months on the podcast to do it! (Be afraid, Keynote Remote…!)

Also supported is the iOS-only ability to see friends’ galleries even if you yourself don’t have a MobileMe account. Nice.

Screen shots after the break. If you’ve tried out the new, improved, MobileMe Gallery app for iPhone or iPad, let us know if you liked it.

[iTunes link - thanks everyone who sent this in]

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Yup, we’re giving away an Apple TV (2010) in all its iOS-powered, potential Jailbreak-able glory. (Technically we’re giving away a $100 Apple Store gift-certificate, but you get the idea). You want it? Of course you do, you’re here on TiPb reading about it, aren’t you?!

Well, just head on over to our brand new Apple TV Forum and leave a reply telling us why you want it. Is it all-about AirPlay? Netflix calling your name? Is it for the children? Need them $0.99 rentals? Or do you just have to have everything iOS? Any reason will do, and you only need to enter once (so don’t be spammy about it, okay?).

Give-away starts now and ends Tuesday, Oct. 5 at 12pm PT. So what are you waiting for?

Go enter now!

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Firemint’s Real Racing is an ADA award winning game for the iOS platform, and they’ve just sent TiPb word that soon, using Apple’s new Game Center, it’s going to be offering 4-way multiplayer.

The wait is almost over! We're very happy to announce that one of the most requested features in Real Racing is coming soon: online multiplayer! We are currently working on an update that will let you race in real-time, online via Apple Game Center, with support for up to four players.

If you can’t wait for the multiplayer update to come out, there’s a way to get in early:

Even better, we have just kicked off our Firemint Beta Program. We’re inviting our existing player community to apply, and be among the first to experience all the adrenaline fuelled racing action they’ve come to love… online! Stay tuned for more news soon.

Real Racing is currently on offer at only $2.99/£1.79 so go and get it and you’ll get these multiplayer functions as a free update!

[iTunes link - Firemint.com Beta Program]

This is an official entry by JorjLim in TiPb's next top blogger contest. Think you have what it takes to join Team TiPb? Bring it!

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Facebook CTO Bret Taylor is “very confident” Facebook and Apple will be able to come to terms on integrating Apple’s social music network with Facebook’s social people network.

Ping launched with Facebook Connect so you could more easily find your friends, but the service was blocked by Facebook and then pulled by Apple, with rumors following the two had been going back and forth over a deal for up to 18 months and Steve Jobs complaining Facebook wanted “onerous” terms.

While Apple improved Ping with iTunes 10.0.1’s inclusion of a sidebar and the ability to Ping music you already owned from within iTunes, the service is still off to a rocky start. It remains inaccessible from a web browser when you’re away from your desktop iTunes and don’t have an iPhone with you (blasphemy, but it could happen), and otherwise still feels like a work in progress.

So here’s the question: would heavy Facebook integration make you want to use Ping more?

[Business Insider]

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Looks like Apple TV (2010) can indeed be Jailbroken via the SHAtter exploit just like any other iOS 4.x device to date. Keep in mind the image above is just a tease and the Jailbreak hasn’t been packaged for the masses yet, nor have we heard of any Apple TV-centric Jailbreak apps or extensions yet, but we can dream, right?

What’s on top of your list? Xvid and MKV streaming? Hulu Plus? Safari web browser? Let us know here or in our brand spanking new Apple TV Forum.

[@MuscleNerd, thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Yeah, crediting the iPod, iPhone, and iPad for why Apple is so much more successful than Google or Microsoft is a loaded headline, or would be if Mark Sigal from O’Reilly didn’t point it out in so succinct a fashion:

The following inconvenient facts must be an affront to the horizontal, commoditized, open, market share zealots. Apple has launched three major new product lines since 2001: the iPod (October, 2001); the iPhone (July, 2007); and the iPad (April, 2010).

The company’s stock is up 3,000 percent since the launch of iPod, 125 percent since the launch of iPhone, and 20 percent since the launch of iPad.

In that same time period, the major devotees of the loosely coupled model — Microsoft, Google, Intel and Dell — have been, at best, outpaced by Apple 6X (in the case of Google dating back to the launch of iPod) and at worst, either been wiped out (in the case of Dell) or treaded water (in the cases of Microsoft and Intel) in every comparison period.

ChangeWave’s Paul Carton says consumer interest in Android is rising at the expense of iPhone, but at the same time Horace Dediu from asymco points out that counting non-Google approved Android devices, and Android devices like Verizon’s Fascinate where Google is torn out, Google actually makes far more money from iPhone where they’re the default search engine, map provider, etc.

Now, just like Stephen Colbert isn’t truthful but “truthy”, and dime store popsicles aren’t chocolate but “chocolatey”, Google isn’t really open but “openy“, and neither is Microsoft, but it doesshow that just who won — or will win — what PC or smartphone war against Apple depends entirely on how you frame the terms of victory.

[Daring Fireball]

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