This Week in iPad Episode 31

Cold Open
Today on This Week in iPad, we'll be talking about the latest iOS update 4.2, and we've got another game of the week review, and Andrea will show you how to call a taxi with your iPad. Stay tuned for all that and more on This Week in iPad.

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Game of the Week!
This week Andrea reviews Cut The Rope from the makers of Angry Birds. Andrea thinks the game is great, Jacob, not so much.


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News

iOS 4.2 goes Gold
This week Apple released the Gold Master of iOS 4.2. This is the first time that the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad will all use the same firmware. Read more here.

Skyfire, we hardly knew ye
Skyfire, an app that converted flash content into HTML5 via remote servers was pulled 5 hours after it was launched. The company said the reason wasn't due to any malice on Apple's part, but because their servers couldn't handle the traffic from the massive number of users who purchased the app.

Zuckerberg: "iPad is not mobile"
Mark Zuckerberg, the co-creator and CEO of FaceBook said that the iPad is not a mobile device. Speaking during the Q&A of this week's FaceBook mobile event, Zuckerberg thinks the iPad is a computer.

Creative enters the tablet market
Creative technologies announced their entry into the tablet market with the 7 and 20 inch ZiiO tablets. Both will run Android 2.1, feature a front facing camera, wifi and HDMI ports. For the moment, the tablet doesn't feature the Android market, though users can download apps through the companies app store.

Epic Games announces Infinity Blade
Epic Games, makers of the "Gears of War" franchise announced the game first demoed at the apple iOS event.

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iPad Video of the Week!
What if you could use your iPad to hail an automated taxi? Welcome to the future.



Planet of the Apps

Cooking apps

Epicurious
First up this week, Andrea reviews Epicurious. [FULL DISCLOSURE] Jacob has reviewed this app before, but only focused on the cocktail's available.[/FULL DISCLOSURE] Andrea likes it.

Martha Stewart
Jacob's first app is Martha Stewart Makes Cookies The app lauches with the worlds worst loadscreen but redeems itself by the recipes it features. If you like cookies well enough to but this app you'll like it. Otherwise, there's always Google.

Big Fork Little Fork
Andrea's next app is Big Fork Little Fork. This app comes from Kraft foods. It helps parents choose what foods are good, and what foods aren't.

Grocery iQ
Jacob's next app is Grocery iQ, a grocery list on steroids. Jacob thinks it might have a touch of feature creep, but that may be the Scotch talking.

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