If you’re a college student or work at a school and are thinking of buying a new Mac, this is a great time to do it. Buy a new iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac Pro (Mac mini doesn’t qualify) from the Apple Store or a participating Apple Authorized Campus Store from June 16, 2011 through September 20, 2011, and receive a $100 Back to School Card for use on the Mac App Store, the iTunes Store, the App Store, and the iBookstore.

Apple has added the iBookstore to iTunes, a needed addition that should have been available since the introduction of iBooks, in my personal opinion. The iBookstore now allows users to purchase and download books from within iTunes and sync them with your iDevices rather than only making it possible to purchase the books on the actual iDevice.

As expected, one of the highlights of Steve Jobs’ Keynote Address today was the formal introduction of its newest flagship product – the iCloud. This new service is described as a new cloud services that will work seamlessly with your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac or PC applications and will automatically and wirelessly store your more »

Well, it’s been far too long since we heard about Apple making a decision that made them look like control freaks, hasn’t it? Fortunately, the New York Times comes to the rescue. According Steve Haber, president of the digital reading division at Sony, Apple has informed them that app makers can no longer sell in-app content purchases. This, of course, directly affects ebook apps like Sony’s, but also the Barnes and Nobel Nook app and Amazon’s Kindle app, but could also affect Downloadable Content (DLC) purchases from other app makers, like, say, the Mighty Eagle from Angry Birds.

Rumor has is that the iBookstore will be preloaded with 30,000 free Project Gutenberg eBooks. If true, this could mean you wouldn’t have to go searching for free eBooks, or worry about how to get them on to your iPad next week when the iPad launches. If you’re scratching your head as to what Project Gutenberg is, then let me explain. It’s an online library that offers digital copies of public domain eBooks for free.

As reported at Appletell, the first TV ad for Apple’s iPad made it’s TV premiere during the Oscars. And you’re probably not surprised that the story doesn’t stop there. No, we actually gained some real information about the iBookstore, how documents may be stored on the iPhone, and a little more about the rumor that just won’t die, a front facing camera.