Microsoft has released an iPad version of their note-taking application OneNote. Now you can capture all your thoughts and to-tos on the go and keep them in sync with OneNote on your desktop.

Microsoft OneNote for iPad is a note-taking app for capturing all of your ideas and to-dos on the go, brought to you by Microsoft Office.

Create searchable notes with text, pictures and bullets. Make and manage to-do lists with checkboxes. Then keep your notes in sync using free Microsoft SkyDrive® online storage to access, edit and manage them from virtually anywhere, from your PC or almost any web browser. Access your notes online at http://skydrive.com.

Microsoft OneNote for iPad is available for free.

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In the latest iOS 5.1 Beta 2 it looks like Apple has taken steps to start hiding future iPhone, iPad and other iOS device model references from the bloggers and deep code divers who have previously delighted in finding and exposing them.

Mark Gurman of 9to5 Mac first noted the new, obviously obfuscating entries on Twitter, and now it seems that in the USBDeviceConfiguration.plist, Apple has thrown in over 100 entries have been added for everything from iPad10,1 to AppleTV9,2, and so on.

Interesting new move in the cat and mouse game, to say the least.

Source: Mark Gurman

“Hmm, I’m losing in Germany and Australia, but if I can just secure Canada and Mauritius…!”

The just-released iOS 5.1 beta 2 adds a small but incredibly important feature to iCloud‘s Photo Stream — the ability to delete individual photos.

Take a very personal or NSFW photo only to find, horrifically, that it was suddenly part of your Apple TV’s screen saver? Leave your iPhone unattended and suddenly you’ve been junk-bombed on all your devices? No longer… at least if Apple is good enough to leave individual deletion from Photo Stream intact in the iOS 5.1 release version when it’s made public.

Here’s hoping.

Randomly accurate rumor site Digitimes claims word from supply chain sources that Apple is on track to release the iPad 3 within the next 3-4 months.

The next generation iPads are expected to be available in the next 3-4 months as makers in the supply chain have started delivering parts and components for the new tablets to OEM contractors while reducing those prepared for iPad 2, according to sources in the supply chain.

This comes as no surprise to TiPb, as the original iPad first hit the streets in April of 2010, with the iPad 2 following up in March of this year. News that component makers in the supply chain are on target for a March/April release means that Apple isn’t running into any manufacturing issues as previously speculated.

The next iPad is also rumored to sport a 2048×1536 Retina display with around 300 ppi, handily beating out the 1024×768 resolution of the current iPad 2.

Source: Digitimes

Apple has just made iOS 5.1 beta 2 available to developers to test out on iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Apple TV. No word yet on what changes, if any are included, but a beta 2 means we’re still waiting on a GM, and then waiting some more on a public release, so we wouldn’t go expecting this to go wide for a while still.

Xcode 4.3 Developer Preview 2 is also available now.

Anyone notices anything special, let us know.

Source: developer.apple.com

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It seems as though there was an embarrassment of embarrassments to choose from this year. Apple chose not to release new iPod touch or Apple TV (so far) hardware this year. Granted neither has much competition but Apple’s mantra has always been to compete with themselves. Likewise the iPhone 4S didn’t get a redesign, bigger screen, LTE etc. even as competing devices have seriously upped the handset game.

Privacy also took a swift, hard roshambo in the rights this year as everything from Apple’s poorly coded location recording system to Google, Facebook, and Twitter being forced into decade, or double decade privacy oversight, to lack of disclosure surrounding Carrier IQ making headline. On the flip side, the media earned more than their usual share of fail points for once again never missing a chance to linkbait and headline grab at Apple’s expense.

Netflix decided to take one the most successful, most loved brands in modern media and jack up the prices without proper PR, then split the company into Qwikster, then not split the company, then… we got lost. Instead of making streaming more solid and reliable — and available internationally — they spun in circles. Twitter likewise decided that poor communications, creating unease and distrust among developers, the #dickbar, and now the #dickapp re-design, and generally putting their user base last is something they’re now big enough not to have to care about.

And then there were the patent problems — Apple and Android makers suing each other, Lodsys suing independent developers, and generally everyone taking the tools of innovation and wielding them for consternation.

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To celebrate Angry Birds’ second birthday, Rovio has updated its ever popular game to version 2.0. Angry Birds was originally released back in December 2009 and has become a huge franchise.

Fans everywhere can enjoy a new "Happy Birdday" update for Angry Birds, which features 15 delectable new birthday cake levels, spiffy new menus and graphics, and special birthday achievements. As a birthday gift to our fans, all episodes are now unlocked!

The new update is free and covers Angry Birds for the iPhone and iPod touch as well as Angry Birds HD for the iPad. If you haven't played Angry Birds yet, you can buy the game for $0.99.

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As part of a press release today touting 100 million Mac App Store downloads, Apple also revealed that they now have more than 500,000 iOS apps for iPhone and iPad, and collectively those apps have been downloaded more than 18 billion times — over 1 billion a month now.

"In just three years the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the Mac App Store is changing the traditional PC software industry," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "With more than 100 million downloads in less than a year, the Mac App Store is the largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world."

Anyone who ever had a Palm Treo or Windows Mobile phone prior to the iPhone knows how expensive, elaborate, and error-prone getting apps on mobile devices used to be. Since Apple made the idea of an on-ever-device, integrated-into-the-OS App Store mainstream in 2008 with iOS 2 (iPhone OS 2), it’s become economical, convenient, and reliable, and standard on every other major platform.

There remain challenges, like the inability to handle demos or paid upgrades, but the numbers don’t lie. Congrats, Apple.

Source: Apple PR

Apple has posted a 360 degree panoramic view of its latest Apple Store which can be found at the famous Grand Central Station in New York. What is so special about this particular photograph is that it is only visible on an iOS device and you can look right around it using your devices built in gyroscope.

To see the picture, you will need to visit the Grand Central Apple's store page from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Select view more photographs and you will see a list of pictures on the right, at the very bottom is one marked 360. Click on it and the picture will open and you will then be able to look around by holding your device and turning around as if you where actually standing on the spot.

To see the picture in all its glory using the gyroscope features, you must have an iPhone 4, 4S, iPad 2 or iPod touch 4^th Generation; as these are the only models with the gyroscope hardware. This is the first time that Apple has used this type of image on its store pages; it will be interesting to see if it adds similar images to its other stores too.

Source: TNW

 

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