I have a lot of posts to publish and R5 dates but due to Virgin Media, I haven’t had internet since Saturday. However there meant to be coming round tomorrow so I’ll hopefully be able to update the list tomorrow. Keep your eyes on this page.
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UK iPad Launch To Be On April 24th?
The UK release date of the iPad is still not confirmed. Sources have pointed to an exact date of the 24th of April for the 
iPad to go on sale in the UK. Two different sources have both confirmed the date, one of them claiming to be an Apple employee. The other source says that Apple store staff are not allowed to take holiday on the 24th but they haven’t be told why. The same date has also been set for Canada also.
iPad Jailbroken & Cydia Running
MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev-Team has revealed a video showing a successful jailbreak of the iPad. The new hack exploits a bug found on the 3.2 version of the iPad OS, however with the iPhone OS 4.0 being previewed on April 8th plans for a release of this jailbreak might be changed so that Apple can’t patch the bug. In a recent picture it shows Cydia running on the device.
Apple Sells 300,000+ iPads on Launch Day
On the iPad launch day over 300,000 iPads were sold. Also on launch day iPad users have downloaded over a million 
apps and over 250,000 eBooks from the iBookstore. Steve Jobs himself said that “iPad users, on average, downloaded more than three apps and close to one book within hours of unpacking their new iPad.”
The numbers go against certain Piper-Jaffray’s analytical predictions that called for up to 600,000 to 700,000 iPads to be sold on launch day.
Updates Coming Next Week!
So I said a few weeks back about all the posts, reviews etc. that were going to be put on the blog. Well as of yet I’ve not really had the time to do all this but I have a 2 weeks away from college starting next week in which I’ll have more time to work on the blog and resume normal posting rountines like before. I hope to post at least 2 posts a day and a review every few days etc.
Keep coming back to check the new content and thanks for your patience.
R5 Blu-Ray Release Dates (March 2010 – November 2010)
Check the R5 Release Dates page for the latest release dates. (Dates go up to December 2010 and include DVD dates).
March 2010
Twilight: New Moon – 22nd March 2010
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – 23rd March 2010
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – 23rd March 2010
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – 23rd March 2010
Shutter Island – 25th March 2010
Sherlock Holmes – 30th March 2010
May 2010
Tooth Fairy – 20th May 2010
June 2010
My Name Is Khan – 17th June 2010
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief – 17th June 2010
The Lovely Bones – June 2010
The Wolfman – June 2010
July 2010
Clash of the Titans – July 2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang – July 2010
Green Zone – July 2010
Get Him to the Greek – July 2010
August 2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – 26th August 2010
A Nightmare on Elm Street – August 2010
September 2010
Date Night – 30th September 2010
Marmaduke – 30th September 2010
Robin Hood – September 2010
Sex and the City 2 – September 2010
October 2010
The A-Team – 21st October 2010
Jonah Hex – October 2010
Repo Men – October 2010
November 2010
Predators – 11th November 2010
Iron Man 2 – November 2010
How to Train Your Dragon – November 2010
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore – November 2010
The Last Airbender – November 2010
Shrek Forever After – November 2010
Updated: 16th March 2010
For the rest of the dates go to http://tinyurl.com/r5dates
Note: not all dates are 100% accurate and are likely to vary, please keep checking back for updated release dates.
R5 DVD Release Dates (March 2010 – August 2010)
Check the R5 Release Dates page for the latest release dates. (Dates go up to December 2010 and include Blu-Ray dates).
March 2010
Up in the Air – 9th March 2010
The Slammin’ Salmon – 11th March 2010
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief – 11th March 2010
Triage – 11th March 2010
Twilight: New Moon – 22nd March 2010
Amelia – 25th March 2010
Shutter Island – 25th March 2010
Transylmania – 25th March 2010
Sherlock Holmes – 30th March 2010
April 2010
Frozen – 1st April 2010
Brothers – 8th April 2010
The Descent: Part 2 – 8th April 2010
The Crazies – 15th April 2010
The Book of Eli – 15th April 2010
The Bounty Hunter – 15th April 2010
L’immortel – 29th April 2010
Avatar – April 2010
The Road – April 2010
Costa Rican Summer – April 2010
The Boys Are Back – April 2010
L’arnacoeur – April 2010
May 2010
Kick-Ass – 7th May 2010
Date Night – 13th May 2010
Valentine’s Day – 18th May 2010
The Blind Side – 18th May 2010
Fish Tank – May 2010
Everybody’s Fine – May 2010
June 2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – 3rd June 2010
My Name Is Khan – 10th June 2010
When in Rome – June 15th June 2010
Cop Out – June 2010
The Lovely Bones – June 2010
Invictus – June 2010
The Wolfman – June 2010
July 2010
Marmaduke – 1st July 2010
The A-Team – 8th July 2010
Clash of the Titans – July 2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang – July 2010
Green Zone – July 2010
She’s Out of My League – July 2010
An Invisible Sign of My Own – July 2010
August 2010
Knight and Day – 5th August 2010
Predators – 12th August 2010
Unthinkable – 19th August 2010
A Nightmare on Elm Street – August 2010
September 2010
Barbie Fashion Fairytale – September 2010
Young Americans – September 2010
Robin Hood – September 2010
Sex and the City 2 – September 2010
13 – September 2010
October 2010
Leap Year – October 2010
Jonah Hex – October 2010
Repo Men – October 2010
Get Him to the Greek – October 2010
The Killer Inside Me – October 2010
November 2010
Despicable Me – November 2010
Iron Man 2 – November 2010
How to Train Your Dragon – November 2010
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore – November 2010
The Last Airbender – November 2010
Shrek Forever After – November 2010
Updated: 16th March 2010
For the rest of the dates go to http://tinyurl.com/r5dates
Note: not all dates are 100% accurate and are likely to vary, please keep checking back for updated release dates.
App Reviews, Video Reviews, Product Reviews & A Whole Lot More..
So a lot of you will have realised I haven’t been posting for the last month, this isn’t due to me being lazy it’s because I’ve been very busy, as always. But I’ve been coming up with new ways that I can interact with you, the reader; such as app reviews, video reviews and a lot more blog posts.
I endeavour to do 2 blog posts a day if not more, maybe an app review every 2 days and a video review once a week. The product review part might be products I’ve purchased or if someone has sent it in, a company has sent me a product for review and although they sent it a while ago I will be posting the review soon. Also any other companies who wish to send in a product feel free to get in touch.
I will hopefully be sorting out the blog and checking through everything too and might be setting up the blog on my new website too. So there’s a lot of things coming very soon so keep your eyes peeled and apologies once again for the lack of posts recently. Expect a lot more soon!
Lack of Posts
I would just like to take the time to apologise to my readers for not updating my blog since the iPad announcements, it’s not that I’ve stopped writing to my blog but the fact that I’ve been so busy with college work and designing a website for a organisation. I’ve had a week off from college but I’ve had very little time to post to my blog but now that I’ve finished the website and I won’t be getting as much college work I shuld be able to update the blog.
The updates probably won’t be always that frequent as I have to start revising for my May exams soon but I will still be updating the blog. I’m unsure if I should back log the news or not because this will take a long time but then again you will most likely know most of the news by now so there isn’t much point.
I also plan on start doing reviews of apps soon and had a review item sent in by a company which I’ve had for a long time now and just haven’t got round to reviewing it so expect that soon too. Also if your a company who wants me to write a review get in touch by going to the about page.
Thanks for your time and expect updates soon!
Apple Announces iBook App for iPad
Apple today announced the iBook app for the iPad tablet device. It will offer books and content from many big names in publishing and also an interesting note is that it uses the ePub format, which is not proprietary, so is there a possiblity of creating your own books for the device if the content isn’t available on the store?
Apple has 4 big partners with the iPad: Penguin, Macmillion, Simon & Shuster and more. This will give a good start to the release of the iPad and it’s lineup of books.
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