Saurik recently gave twitterific a shot on his ipad and lets just say his opinion on the app wasn’t very pretty. Below is what he had to say about twitter and all of the 3rd party twitter apps that are popping up on a daily basis:

I am a die hard fan of iPhone Twitterific. In fact, I’d say that it is the most important third party application I have on my device, and in fact possibly the only one I use. Twitterific has super-fast scrolling and seemed to really get the Twitter workflow. The iPad version of this app doesn’t live up to that legacy. Read more…

Apple has ended their no cash policy after a woman on fixed income was prevented from buying an iPad. The woman had saved up for the device for weeks but when she went to the Apple Store she was turned away.

“It took quite a long time for me to just save up this small amount of money to go down and purchase one,” she said. “I had my cash in the backpack and I went up proudly to the counter and told them, ‘I would like to purchase an iPad.’” Read more…

I’ve been a fan of the Netflix app for iPad (free) since it first arrived on the scene, but it always made me sad that I couldn’t use my little Apple Dock Connector to VGA Adapter to display videos through a projector or TV.

Now I have a happy face. As of this afternoon, Netflix has updated the app to version 1.0.2, which provides support for video output via the aforementioned VGA adapter as well as the component and composite video cables. That means that you now have the ability to stream a movie from Netflix to your iPad, then zap that movie out to your projector, VGA monitor, or any TV with component or composite inputs. The resolution might not be what you’re used to with an HDTV, but this does have a high coolness factor…

Excuse me, but I’m going to stop writing now and go watch all the Netflix movies available for instant play that have a 4-star or higher rating.

[Via tuaw.com]

As loyal readers know, Apple stores are not particularly cash-friendly; in the case of the iPhone and the iPad, they’re downright cash-hostile. Both devices require a credit or debit card for purchase, although you can waltz down the block and buy an iPad with cash at Best Buy if you like (and you can use a gift card for iPhone, but not for iPad).

There are some points on Apple’s side for the pay-with-plastic requirement (the primary one being that it’s hard to enforce the two-per-person purchase limit without some way to track buyers), but it’s clear that the rule is a source of annoyance to some potential customers. Now the annoyance is getting magnified. Read more…

Here’s an interesting demo video from Comcast that features an iPad as a remote control with a few extras. In the demo, Comcast’s Brian Roberts shows how to use the app to search for programming (both TV and On Demand), change channels and even program the Comcast DVR. Pretty neat.
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If you are familiar with  Loren Feldman from 1938Media, you know what this video is all about. In this video, Steve Ballmer doesn’t seem to like the iPad. No multi-tasking, no Farmville, no porn. How can this this thing be called a web tablet when you can’t get to 95% of the web with this thing. It’s like a big Palm pilot. Let me guess the next version will come with a camera. Before they get there though they need to install a clock and calculator on this thing.

[Via fsm.com]

BeeJive IM for iPad has been submitted to the App Store for review and should be available by next week, according to a Wired report.

The site had a chance to try an almost finalized version…

My favorite part about the BeeJive UI is it lists your chat sessions in a column on the right side of the screen. You can see a preview of what a person is saying in a bubble, which eliminates the need to switch back and forth between chats over and over. Selecting a chat in the right window displays the full conversation in the center screen. Read more…

Skype’s Asia-Pacific VP Dan Neary says that the company will release its first iPad app this summer, according to iPodNN.

Neary also hints that the company may be adding video chat to its iPhone application. “We believe that video is part of the Skype experience,” says the VP, “and we believe that video is moving aggressively into the mobile environment, so stay tuned on an announcement on that.” Read more…

As part of a planned expansion of electronics products in its retail stores, Walmart hopes to sell Apple’s iPad in some of its retail locations starting this year.

Gary Severson, senior vice president of entertainment for Walmart’s U.S. stores, told BusinessWeek that his company believes it will carry the iPad later this year. Specific details, including timing and pricing, were not provided.

Since the iPad launched in early April, Apple has sold the multitouch device at its own retail stores, as well as Best Buy and other assisted locations. Some Apple Specialist locations also carry the hardware. Read more…

Apple has released a new iPad commercial titled “What is iPad?” This ad takes quite a different tone from the first iPad television commercial that premiered during the Oscars. The new commercial is more “in your face” in the way that a gangster is when he lets you know that your eyes were mistaken when they saw that man pushed off the ledge — “He tripped.” The gruff narrator starts out by asking “What is iPad?” He then proceeds to answer his own question. “iPad is thin. iPad is beautiful,” he tells you. The ad goes on to show the iPad in a variety of locations (including on a moped). Read more…