Map Draw is a new iPad app that lets you draw on maps. This could be great for runners who want to plan their route or for giving directions to a friend. Map Draw will even track the total distance, making it a pretty neat app.

Map Draw allows you to create your own routes and maps on the iPad. Total distance is tracked, and all maps can be drawn on by freehand and exported, making it the ideal tool for planning a run, giving driving directions, keeping track of your travels, and more. All map routes and entries are stored in a beautiful journal-style interface on the device. No uploading to or downloading from a website is needed.

• Use your finger to draw on the map. Our touch system makes plotting your route easy and accurate, and total distance is stored. This is the perfect tool for dynamically mapping a route or run on the iPad.
• Maps support forward geocoding, allowing you to search for any location by name or address.
• Use the zoom to location feature for easy access to your current location when drawing a route.
• Map type can be toggled between standard, satellite, and hybrid. The type is stored and remembered for each individual map.
• Plotting contains undo and clear-all support.
• Each map you create is stored in a journal-style interface for easy access. Every entry is plotted on a graphic map display.
• Journal interface is customizable.
• Application supports both landscape and portrait orientations.
• All Saved routes can be freely edited at any time. Changes are saved automatically.
• Information is cached locally, allowing you to view a route and map offline. However for pinching and zooming, an internet connection is recommended.
• Maps can be exported via email, or saved directly to the device in the photo library.
• All exported maps can be freely drawn on, allowing you to add additional notes, or paint directly on the map like a canvas.
• Application contains built-in help and support, is intuitive and easy to use.

Map Draw is available on the iPad for $1.99.

[App Store link]

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With iOS 5 Apple will be introducing iMessage, an SMS and MMS style service seamlessly integrated into the Messages app that uses your Apple ID and data plan instead of text plan… but only with other iOS 5 users. So lets say you and your special someone both have iPhones, or you have an iPod touch and your mom has an iPad, you can easily use iMessage to stay in contact. But, if you have an iPhone and your husband or wife has an Android or BlackBerry (and you stay with them!), iMessage will do you absolutely no good whatsoever.

So I have to ask, how much will you actually use iMessage? Do you and your family and friends have enough iOS devices that you’ll use iMessages whenever you so wish? Or are you a lone island of iOS amid a sea of feature phone or non-iOS devices? Will you be able to cut down on your texting and save some money, or will you have to pay as much after iMessage as you did before?

And if Apple adds it to iChat on Mac and releases an app for it on Windows, would that change your answer at all? Would it get you to switch to iMessage from whatever Skype, Facebook, AIM, or other message system you’re using now?

Bottom line, when Apple releases iOS 5 this October, how much will you be using iMessage?

Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Astroslugs: To support the Astroslugs you solve mind-boggling puzzles by drawing different shaped pieces onto an always varying board. [$1.99 for iPad - App Store link] [$0.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• FiLMiC Pro: Takes movie making to the next level and turns your iPhone into one of the most powerful and robust full featured HD video cameras around. On sale [$1.99 - App Store link]

• Jumvo: A new group messaging app that lets you send messages as casually as texting, but as intimate as calling. [Free for iPhone - App Store link]

• Stitcher Radio: Lets you listen to your favorite news, sports, talk and entertainment shows via thousands of live local AM/FM stations and podcasts. [Free for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

• Alfred: Alfred is your personal robot who recommends places based on your favorites! His goal is to make sure you never miss places you’ll love! [Free for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think!

MyGreatFest, the first ever jailbreak convention takes place in the UK tomorrow at The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London.

Our mission is to become the largest jailbreak/(i)community convention for coders, themers, hackers, developers or any other mobile device user. To leave others with the better understanding of what jailbreaking actually means to us, and that it does not stand for piracy.

The event should be a great day out for like minded iOS users and there will be talks by many of the leading lights in the jailbreak community. These include Chronic-Dev team member's @p0sixninja and @iOPK plus Cydia founder Jay Freeman @saurik and many more.

If you want to attend, tickets are still available to buy. If you can’t make it, there will be a live video stream of all the important parts of the event which will go live tomorrow; when the event starts. You can find the live stream here.

The convention will be UK only this year, but, event founder, Craig Fox (@flawlessfox) has said that they hope to host the event in the US in Early 2012. You can follow any news on this event and upcoming events with the twitter hashtag #MyGreatFest.

[MyGreatFest]

World renowned luxury car manufacturer Bentley has produced an interior for its Mulsanne car that would make any Apple fan weak at the knees. The car on its own is an impressive lump of pure luxury, sporting a twin-turbo V8 engine with a price tag of around 250,000 euros. Now throw in another 100,000 euros worth of interior enhancements which includes two iPad 2s and a Mac Mini and you can see why this is such a desirable car for us Apple lovers!

Press a button in the center console and a wood-encased tray gently folds down from the back of the seat in front — there’s one in each. Once folded down you can hit another button on the right side and the tray automatically (and noisily) splits in two, exposing an iPad 2 in the top and a Bluetooth keyboard in the bottom

The Mac Mini is installed in the trunk and is connected to an LCD monitor that drops down from the ceiling. It is controlled by a Magic Trackpad and a keyboard that sits in the rear of the center console in a handmade leather pouch.

It is currently just a concept and who knows if it will ever be offered as an option on future Bentley cars. If it does become available, who is getting one?

[Engadget]

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iPad 2 have been marked as discontinued at Target according to a source who sent TiPb the above screens. Though these only show the 16GB iPad 2 3G on both Verizon and AT&T as being discontinued, our source maintains none of the current SKUs are long for Target’s shelves.

That implies that we will not be ordering more, which implies a new iPad is forthcoming rather soon (October-ish, say). Either that or Target’s exiting the iPad business, which seems unlikely. A lot of the cases have gone clearance too.

TiPb previously heard that while Apple was considering moving it up to a fall release, iPad 3 had been pushed back again to spring, perhaps because the 2048×1536 Retina Displays couldn’t yet be made cheaply enough at sufficient yield rates.

If that’s accurate, and the discontinued status isn’t a glitch in the system, what this portends for current iPad 2 SKUs, or Target’s iPad business is uncertain.

According to 9to5Mac, as has been rumored for a while now, there will be two different iPhone models coming in the early part of next month. The first model will be based on the current iPhone 4 and will be the low-end model (budget or what was previously rumored to be iPhone nano). It will still have the glass front and back panels and is said to be rolling off the production line in huge quantities. What is interesting is that this model will supposedly be offered at an extremely aggressive price point with prepaid and post paid service plans.

The iPhone 5 on the other hand will have a larger screen with a thinner rounder body. It is said to be a sight to behold as it is impossibly light but very solid to hold. The camera will even rival point and shoot cameras and will be a major selling feature of the new model.

Now the bad news, rumors abound that Apple has had a few design and production problems with the iPhone 5; which will result in a slight delay and may affect stock levels right into 2012.

Now as with all of these rumors, take them with a giant size pinch of salt. I remember similar stories about delays to the iPad 2 just before it was announced and they turned out to be false. The only thing I would take from the astonishing amount of rumors that are floating around about the iPhone 5 this week is that this is a sure sign that its launch will be sooner rather than later.

[9to5 Mac]

 

If the clicking sound you hear when entering text on your iPhone iPad or iPod touch annoys you or in my case others around you, then there is an easy solution. Instead of turning the sound down or muting it completely, you can just disable the keyboard clicks.

• Start off by selecting Settings
• Then open up Sounds
• Scroll down to the bottom of the page
• Flick the toggle switch for Keyboard Clicks to Off

That is all there is to it. You can now type away to your hearts content without annoying yourself or those around you!

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Like Apple with iOS for iPhone and iPad, Microsoft appears to have no intention of supporting Adobe Flash or other web plugins in the upcoming IE 10 for Metro in Windows 8 tablets.

Running Metro style IE plug-in free improves battery life as well as security, reliability, and privacy for consumers. Plug-ins were important early on in the web's history. But the web has come a long way since then with HTML5. Providing compatibility with legacy plug-in technologies would detract from, rather than improve, the consumer experience of browsing in the Metro style UI.

Will there be the same level of outrage-mongering by then, or will it have become as accepted as RealMedia-free video, ActiveX-free websites, and floppy-less PCs?

[Building Windows 8 via Daring Fireball]