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Men’s Health Magazine Launches on the Apple iPad

Men’s Health, the largest men’s lifestyle magazine brand in the world, today announced that a digital edition of the publication designed exclusively for the Apple iPad will be available for purchase when the highly anticipated device goes on sale tomorrow. The release makes Men’s Health one of the first consumer magazines to enter the iPad market. The April issue of the magazine, complete with a host of multimedia and interactive content, will be available for download in the Apple iTunes store for $4.99 and will be followed by the May issue, available by April 20th. iPad users will also be able to download for free 12 pages of handpicked content from the April issue as a preview.

In addition to the health, fitness and lifestyle tips and in-depth feature stories Men’s Health readers have come to rely on from the print edition of the magazine, the iPad app will present users with a highly interactive experience – including real-time polls, increased social networking capabilities with Twitter and Facebook, audio-narrated slide shows, and photo galleries of bonus content. The Men’s Health iPad app is also set to incorporate full-screen, high-definition video footage from behind the scenes of Men’s Health cover shoots.

“When you have a brand as strong as Men’s Health, you have to let the content do the talking,” said Men’s Health Brand Editor, Matt Bean. “Our model—the free newsstand preview, with an in-app purchase option—does just that, while creating a natural opportunity for sponsor integration that never existed before. We won’t just be offering monthly issues using this approach, either. We’ll be able to provide everything from a training guide to a gift subscription to a compilation of recipes.”

“We’ve learned from our experience developing for the iPhone and iPod touch, and have taken full advantage of this new medium,” said David Zinczenko, SVP/Editor-in-Chief of Men’s Health. “Our iPad products will be some of the most robust and well-rounded in the marketplace yet.” Zinczenko also said that Women’s Health will be available on the iPad as of its May issue.

Hasselblad launches 60-megapixel H4D camera

Hasselblad chose Friday to unveil a long-in-progress upgrade to its H System medium format cameras. The H4D is billed as one of the first cameras to have a true off-center autofocus system, known as True Focus. Two models start of the line and help raise the maximum resolution of Hasselblad's line. The H4D-50 shoots at the same 50 megapixels of the H3DII-50 but won't be the most expensive camera, costing 19,995 Euros ($29,299) for a complete system. At the top is the new H4D-60, which as its name implies has an extremely high-resolution 60-megapixel sensor and a 28,995 Euro ($42,486) price. The premium model ships first and will be ready in November, but the H4D-50 won't be ready until January.

Courier, Microsoft

I seem that Microsoft is going to be there before Apple, and by there we mean creation of the first touch computer tablet. Let me tell you that that this concept looks amazing. not sure where this will end up, but Apple better make something amazing...

Apple - Next Level Fun

Yesterday Apple has released the new version of iPod nano with built-in camera and FM radio tuner. Than they have released new iTunes 9.0 with LP feature that gives a possibility to purchase albums with additional content and Extra is a similar feature for movies. New software includes integration with social networks too, and option to by precut ringtones for your iPhone...



The new (slightly improved) iPod Touch is in store already and for lower price and improved software. It is the pocket computer/ game console meeting iPod.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard to ship Aug. 28th

Apple has finally and officially announced that Mac OS X Snow Leopard will ship on August 28th. The software is a $29 upgrade for individual Leopard owners, or a $49 upgrade for people needing a five-license family pack. The OS introduces several underlying architecture changes, for instance removing PowerPC support, while updating all major applications to 64-bit code. Grand Central Dispatch is said to enable better use of multi-core processors, while OpenCL support allows video cards to speed up tasks outside of graphics. Protocol support also been expanded to encompass Microsoft Exchange, allowing access to the contact and calendar info through Mail, iCal and Address Book.

Snow Leopard further bundles Safari 4, and QuickTime X, which sports a minimalist interface along with improved video and decoding playback through support for GPU acceleration. The latter app can also handle HTTP video streaming, as in Safari. Some general changes in the Mac OS include faster wake and shutdown times, and tweaks to Expose and stacks, which change their operation and improve flexibility.

BeerTender Must Edition

Beer lovers with mugs full of fizzy juice in their hand may have little to do with design and aesthetics of the beer dispenser, but when the dispenser comes associated with brands like Heineken and SEB group, even the most insane in them would not resist and will happen to glance. The “BeerTender Must Edition” is the latest beer dispenser from Heineken that amalgamates functionality and refinement while maintaining a masculine look for the trendy beer lovers.

iPhone 3GS Announced

Apple has just announced the release of their iPhone successor, the iPhone 3GS which is set to release June 19th in a 16GB ($199) and 32GB ($299) model. The current iPhone 3G will be lowered to $99 starting June 8.



AT&T announced that only new and upgrade-eligible customers would be able to pick up a 3G S for the advertised prices of $199 (16GB) and $299 (32GB), or even an iPhone 3G for $99 (8GB).

Existing iPhone 3G customers, who endured those long queues last July, will have to shell out $599 for a new 16GB 3G S and respectively $699 for the 32GB model. Alternative upgrade pricing comes at $399 and $499.

Skylon Reusable Spaceplane

A reusable spaceplane that can take off from a conventional aircraft runway, carry over twelve tonnes to orbit and then return to land on the same runway could be less than a decade away thanks to a one million euro award by the European Space Agency (ESA).

The contract awarded to Reaction Engines Limited (REL), is part of a joint public and private multi-million pound development programme, that will demonstrate the core technologies for the SABRE air-breathing rocket engine, which will power the SKYLON spaceplane.

The future is coming faster than what we were expecting, or is it?

NEW SAFARI 4 ROCKS

No this is not an image of iTunes, it is SAFARI in it's new beta installment. Not the most innovative browser but the one that does the things in the most efficient and visually appealing way. The cover flow technology is now used to preview your bookmarks and history, with all new feature Top Sites which is the unique way to see your most visited sites in one click.

LEGO DIgital Camera is For Real

Digital Blue and LEGO have announced a licencing agreement that will bring several LEGO branded kid’s tech products to market. The line is scheduled for release this summer and will include digital cameras, video cameras, MP3 players, walkie talkies and other electronics. Your "kids" are going to be soo happy :-) The new LEGO product are scheduled for release this summer at price points of $19.99 to $59.99.