Well, users if you have advanced your iPad to the new beta released last night then, you might probably noticing reliability and speed improvements that are making it much faster than even 3.1.3. It looks like Apple has done some major tweaking to the iOS, which is now using fewer resources. iPad deevice noticed that the new firmware is also going easier on the precious little of the iPad’s 256MB of RAM.

iPad heightened in iOS 4.2 Beta 2 is a post from: The Apple Bites

Recently many schools, colleges and universities are implementing iPads into their classrooms and curriculums this fall and with that, textbook publishers and developers are jumping on the education technology bandwagon. Now for that the Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) announced a year long pilot program of a full-curriculum iPad Algebra app yesterday.

The iPad’s based curriculum will provide interactive environment which will allow students to receive feedback on practice questions, write and save notes, receive guided instruction, access video lessons and more with the simple touch of a finger. Now the use of Fuse and the HMH app will also help teachers tailor their curriculum to meet the individual needs of their students while providing student-specific performance feedback.

Well in iPad there is nothing to substrate but only to add and this one is no different from others. Hope to see some changes in grade for school children after Algebra app in iPad.

Trial algebra app for iPad in school is a post from: The Apple Bites

While you were all asleep, Apple quietly made minor changes to the App Store. This is good news for all users as it’s the first step to a less cluttered App Store, but it’s a real pain towards developers.

Probably the most controversial change is the new “New releases” listing. When you went to the App Store before the 5th of November and you opened up a category, the apps were all listed starting with apps which were recently updated or completely new ones. Now only the completely new ones are listed and developers don’t get bumped to the top of the list anymore when they update their application. This also brings two dates to an application’s description page in the iTunes Store, a “Released”-date and an “Updated”-date.

This is good news for users as Apple is doing an effort to clean the App Store of useless updates which some developers used to push to their users to be in the spotlight for a short while. This used to be a commonly used strategy among small iPhone developers.

But is Apple doing things the right way? Probably not. Many iPhone developers are furious and disillusioned by the changes Apple made. They fear that in this way apps which are currently unknown won’t get known at all. If this is true many developer’s coding work was entirely in vain and the “Top Selling” listing as you see it now will be more likely to remain that way.

Another drawback of this change is that the “Spamming” developers will now start making new apps instead of updating their old ones eventually creating an even bigger mess. So instead of just updating things like e.g. “Incredible Wallpapers”, apps like “Super incredible wallpapers” or “Amazing Wallpapers” will start popping up, all with the same content.

A lot of developers have already announced to stop updating their Apps, even if they need updates. On the iPhoneSDK message boards moaning developers are already starting various topics about this subject. An example is this one.

At the moment it seems a harsh change but users and developers will eventually get used to this, spamming developers will change their methods and the App Store will be cluttered once again.

Apple’s (failed) attempt to clean up the App Store is a post from: The Apple Bites