Turn your iPad into a classic table top arcade game

So you were the early adopter who stood in line for hours to get your hands on a new iPad. You probably downloaded tons of apps for your latest gadget. Maybe even bragged about the battery life. Now it’s time to get the next hottest iPad accessory. From Thinkgeek.com, comes the iPad Arcade Cabinet. Simply slide your iPad and presto, you have a table top classic arcade game ready to go. It retails for $149.00.

Some features:

• Beautifully retro styled, handcrafted wooden tabletop arcade cabinet and MAME emulator for your otherwise useless iPad
• Hundreds of games available from various online sources – not included in product!
• Professional grade arcade stick and microswitch buttons rated for 10,000,000 uses
• Authentic arcade controls connect to your iPad via a standard 30 pin dock connector
• One and two player select buttons add authenticity and really work!

So get ready to trip down memory lane with Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Qbert, Donkey Kong and hundreds of others. Get one at Thinkgeek.com

Dropbox is a great place to put all your digital stuff

This video really showcases the simplicity and usefulness of DropBox. I’ve been using it for sometime now and I find it to be invaluable. Being able to access my important documents from various devices such as my iPhone, MacBook Pro, and Mac desktops makes my digital world work. I especially like the fact that DropBox keeps a history of every change I make so that I can undo any mistakes and even undelete files if necessary.

Here’s a quick overview:

• Allows quick, easy way to share files
• It’s free up to 2gb of storage
• Online backup is automatic
• Allows you go back in time to undelete or undo changes to files

Dropbox replaces:

• Emailing file attachments to yourself and other people
• Using USB drives to move files between computers
• Renaming files to keep a history of previous versions
• Complicated backup software
• FTP servers, system-specific sharing methods, Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Simple pricing plan:

• FREE up to 2gb
• $9.95 per month up to 50gb
• $19.95 per month up to 100gb

If you have multiple devices and require access to the latest and greatest files, I encourage you to give it a spin.

Wake the kids and tweet the neighbors, there’s hot goodness fresh out of the oven!

BakerTweet is a novel idea. Here’s the description from BakerTweet.com:

BakerTweet is a way for busy bakers to tell the world that something hot and fresh has just come out of the oven. It’s as simple as turning the dial and hitting the button. All of the baker’s followers get a Twitter alert to tell them that it’s bun-time. Or bread time. Or whatever.

What a great idea for a local bakery to alert the neighborhood what is hot and fresh out of the oven. Nothing better than waking up, checking your tweets and knowing you can head around the corner for some hot cinnamon buns. Mmmm Mmmm good!

Check out the tweets from the Albion Cafe on Boundary Street in Shoreditch, London. Follow them here: @albionsoven.

Los Angeles band “The 88″ records “Love is the thing” entirely on an iPhone!

While touring on the road with the B-52s, “The 88” lead vocalist Keith Slettedahl disovered and downloaded the “four track” app. Collectively as a band they thought they would attempt to record an entire song on the iPhone. Yep, there’s an app for that! Not only is it a great catchy tune, but it sounds fantastic as well!

Kindle iPhone app

Kindle - A slick hand-held book reading device by Amazon –  was all the buzz in the book publishing world when it was released back in November, 2007. Amazon was by no means the first to release a hand-held portable book reader far as technology was concerned. Others were first but the Kindle was the first to reach mass appeal. For starters it was deployed on the oldest and best known online book store. Surely this fact alone helped propel the Kindle to where it is today.

In February, 2009 Amazon released the much improved Kindle 2 which boasts more storage and a slimmer curvier design. Although I had always admired the Kindle from afar, it didn’t really seem practical for me to carry yet another device with me.

Fast forward to 2009 when Amazon released a Kindle app for iPhone (Also for iTouch).  Free to download, the  Kindle iPhone app is phenomenal!  At first I wasn’t sure if I would like it or not. However, after reading two pages of “The Four Hour Work Week” I was hooked. There is a control to vary the font size which is a rather well thought out feature. I started out with the smallest font size. After my eyes grew tired, I increased the font size. Nice! And with over 240,000 books to choose from, you can’t go wrong.

Since I already had an Amazon account, I was able to quickly download my first book. I attribute the success if the Kindle to the Amazon store. Think about it, how many people have an account there. Exactly. Much like Apple has done with the App Store for iPhone, Amazon has built it’s own content delivery system for the kindle. The difference is that people don’t have to learn something new or log into a new site. There is something to be said about instant gratification.

If you own an iPhone or a iTouch and you’re an avid reader, I strongly recommend this app!

my_photos – a collection by stephen chip

I put together some of my favorite photos using Issuu. It’s a very impressive application. The interface is intuitive and covers all the bases (Post to blogs, social network sites, etc.) Oh yeah – did I mention it’s free!

View full size here.

Disco – Hands-down the best disc burning application for Mac OS X Leopard!

The folks over at madebysofa have built the best disc burning app that I’ve seen for for Mac OS X Leopard by far. It’s so innovative and simple is hard to believe no one has thought of it before. I downloaded a trial here, then after burning two discs, I bought it. 

Let’s start with the interface. Super clean + sexy. Black with white type with great icons and animations. For example, once you begin burning a disc, animated smoke flows out the top of the window. You can even set a preference so that you can blow into your microphone and affect the smoke. Little touches like that make Disco fun to use.

There is even an option to pull up an “Index” window which keeps a record of all of the discs you’ve burned and allows full search capabilities. Usually a secondary program is required.

Disco also includes “Spanning” which automatically divides files that are too big for one disc and would “span” across several discs. With Disco you can create a disc image from a set group of files. For you laptop burners, it can even detect physical motion to prevent coasters.

With a price of only $29.95, it’s well worth the effort. You will not be disappointed.