Amazon shopping app for iPad launches
Filed under: Deals , iPad If your actual iPad purchase hasn’t drained your debit card down to the red-alert level, Amazon has your back: the web retail giant has announced that the Amazon Mobile app is now fully updated for iPad , and it’s available now on the App Store. The free app gives you all your favorite functions: browse the store, add to your Wish Lists, track packages and orders, watch movie trailers and listen to song samples — even One-Click purchasing is included, otherwise known as “The Danger Room of Online Shopping.” Point of aggravation, though: searching for music in the app only displays CDs, which seems somewhat backward. The mobile site for iPhone lets you search digital downloads, although you can’t buy them (you have to add them to your wish list for later purchase); browsing in Safari on iPad is both better and worse, as it lets you get all the way to the point of buying an MP3 track before failing to download the helper app that in turn would download the track. Memo to Amazon: You probably want to fix that as soon as you can. Update: If you decline the helper app, you can actually download the MP3 track in the browser on the iPad — but then what?
Twenty iPad apps you’ll want to see
Filed under: iPad The App Store is live and running with iPad apps right now — you can download and buy any iPad apps you want, even though most of them are technically “embargoed” until tomorrow morning. There’s a lot of amazing stuff out there, but we’ll try to focus you as best we can. Here’s twenty apps that you won’t want to miss in the App Store — even if you don’t buy them for iPad this weekend, you should at least check out the info and screenshots that are now available. USA Today for iPad is free and is probably the quickest and easiest virtual newspaper experience on the iPad.
Quix makes bookmarklets even easier to use
Filed under: Internet Tools Bookmarklets are one of my favorite things. I have an entire folder of them in my Safari Bookmark Bar for Instapaper and Readability and bit.ly and Pukka and Tumblr and … well, you get the idea. They’re incredibly handy for doing “something” with the current webpage that you are viewing, or quickly looking up other information. Quix has come up with a way to make them even better. It calls itself “Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids” and it’s hard to argue with that description.
How to cram the entire Internet Movie Database into your iPhone
Filed under: Freeware , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch , First Look , App Review The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), an Amazon.com company, has just released a free iPhone app [ iTunes Link ] that puts the power of the huge repository of movie facts, fables, and trivia into the palm of your hand. I use IMDb regularly, so when I saw that the app had been released, I downloaded it immediately. Upon launching, the app will ask if you wish to let it use your location — this is used to display show times and movies for local theaters.
