Apple Shows Off Sharper 4G iPad, Updates Apple TV

For those who want to relive Apple’s event moment-by-moment, here’s the transcript of AllThingsD’s live coverage.
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Apple Turns iPhone and iPod Touch Into World’s Smallest GarageBand

Cupertino brings its music creation app to the even-smaller screen.
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GarageBand, the Evil Plan

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

iPad 2: Thin, Not Picture Perfect

The new IPad 2 is thinner, lighter, faster and more powerful than the original. It offers an excellent balance of size, functionality and price, and keeps Apple ahead in the tablet race, at least for now.
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Grand Opening: Mac App Store Debuts With 1,000 Apps

Apple’s Mac App Store went live this morning with the release of Mac OS X 10.6.6. And it’s off to a good start already. At launch there are some 1,000 apps, paid and free, spread out over the standard of categories–productivity, games, etc. Among the Apple apps on the store’s virtual shelves: Pages and others from the iWork suite for $19.99, iPhoto and GarageBand for $14.99 and Aperture 3 for $79.99.

Apple’s “Back to the Mac” Event by the Numbers

As Apple events go, Wednesday’s was a bit lighter on metrics than some others we’ve seen this year. Still, there were quite a few worth noting, beginning with 13.7 million–the number of Macs sold in the fiscal year that ended in September. Then there was the Mac’s installed base: 50 million; and the number of Mac developers: 600,000; and…

Apple Still Selling Laptops, Refreshes MacBook Pro Line

Perhaps the iPad and tablet computers will replace laptops one day. But for now, most people are still going to use conventional computers for day-to-day work.

Weekend Update, 1.31.09

Rumor has it there are big games going on this weekend–at least one of which involves football players. The rest involve the usual players, though they might appear in different positions–and on different teams–from week to week. These games, most likely, will continue through Monday and beyond. Scores will be kept on an ongoing basis.

iLife Gets Better; Just Don’t Ask It to Find a Face

Walt reviews the new features of iPhoto, GarageBand and iMovie in Apple’s iLife ’09.
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Mac Faithful to Get an iLife

iLife ’09–the latest iteration of Apple’s multimedia application suite (iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, iDVD)–arrives at market tomorrow with a groaning board of new features, among them facial-recognition in iPhoto, video stabilization in iMovie and a Learn to Play function and artist lessons in GarageBand.