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Pioneer has just launched its own versions of an AirPlay-equipped system, and they’re characteristically bigger and badder than the rest of the crowd.

A few short months ago, we wondered whether the wee ones should be learning their ABCs with iPads.

The answer appears to be yes: Fall 2011 brings a bumper crop of U.S. preschools launching iPad programs. From Maine to Tennessee, kids are saying teary goodbyes to their parents and being greeted in schoolrooms with sympathetic teachers (we hope) and Apple’s magical device.

Since we can no longer carp about people smoking, it would seem we have to find some bone to pick with fellow diners in restaurants.

Case in point: a server in a busy San Francisco restaurant (where else?) wonders if it is a breach of etiquette 2.0 to bring your own mobile entertainment to the table.

Google has just released an HTML 5 optimized iOS web app for its Google Music cloud service.

Now you can play your tunes on any iDevice from the browser.

Want to take your boring iOS screenshots and add a little flare? Are you a developer looking for an easy way to create iPhone and iPad mockups of your app screenshots?

Screentaker is a new app in the Mac App Store that lets you easily bring your iOS screenshots to life.

With Apple releasing new laptops every couple of years, what’s a Mac lover to do with the obsolete models he’s abandoned in favor of the newest and shiniest new model? Here’s one “ingenious” Mac fan’s solution… and it’s enough to make even this hardened tech journo weep a tear of admiration as he remembers his own cinder block furniture days of post-frat bachelorhood.

Have you tried Turntable.fm? You should: it’s like being in a club where five kick-ass DJs war amongst themselves trying to spin the illest track, except at any time, you can hop up on stage and show them how it’s done.

Turntable’s a fantastic service that very understandably got all sorts of people — including us here at Cult of Mac — excited a few months ago. The only problem? Turntable.fm is dependent on Flash, and therefore can’t be accessed from the road on your iPad or iPhone.

Guess what’s about to change?

Steve Jobs might not be as charitable as Bill Gates but Apple’s trying to improve its image when it comes to charity by instituting a great new employee policy: they’ll now match all of their employees’ charitable contributions up to $10,000 a year.

Disgruntled video editors who were unsatisfied with their Final Cut Pro X purchase earlier this year seem to have turned to Adobe’s products instead. The company’s video tools for Mac have seen a 45% growth year-over-year, undoubtedly thanks to the fiasco that surrounded Apple’s latest Final Cut following its release.

For those concerned Android was catching up with Apple’s iPad, JPMorgan analyst Mark Moskowitz has this message: stop your worrying. “Beyond the iPad, there has not been another high-volume tablet offering, yet,” he told investors Thursday. When one does, don’t look to Mountain View, but Microsoft for a credible Apple competitor.

Despite its upcoming ‘spaceship campus‘ in Cupertino, Apple will need a third campus by 2015 because of the rate at which the company continues to expand. The inaugural hearing to discuss the second site are set to take place tonight in San Francisco, but Apple may already be thinking about a third base.

Japan is the next stop in Apple’s far-reaching attempt to stop the spread of Samsung rival devices. The tech giant has filed suit in Tokyo asking the court to suspend sales of the Galaxy S and Galaxy S II smartphones, as well as the Galaxy Tab 7 tablet. The Galaxy S is outselling the iPhone in this tech-obsessed Asian nation.

Dying to get your hands on an iPad 2 before the weekend? Don’t order one from the Apple online store, then, because a whole host of Apple’s gadgets have had their shipping times mysteriously extended.

Wait, is this a joke?

The people responsible say no, but still: I have my doubts.

These BlackBox cases are some of the most stylish cases I’ve seen for our Apple gadgets. Available for the iPad 2, the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro, they’re all made from beautiful bamboo and provide you with ultimate protection and a super sleek design.

We’re all eagerly anticipating the launch of Apple’s iPhone 5, and while the Cupertino company is still yet to announce its release date, the device’s unveiling looks to be imminent as production is ramped up to 150,000 units per day.

Michael Hart, founder of free ebooks repository Project Gutenberg, died this week. He was 64.

For fans of simple, elegant desktop wallpapers on the Mac, make sure to check out the newly-released Simple Desktops app in the Mac App Store.

Based off the simpledesktops.com website, the Simple Desktops app for the Mac sits in the menubar and allows you to easily cycle through wallpapers featured on the site.

Seagate’s new, largest-in-the-world GoFlex Desk external hard drive ($250) weighs in at a strapping four terabytes. I know, that’s only one terabyte more than their next biggest desktop drive; but that’s enough storage space for 30.3 million more press images like the ones above; 833,333 more GoFlex user guides; or 2,272 more videos of me trying to duct tape some gadget to my forehead in a hilariously misguided attempt to gain interesting yet incredibly useless data about something or other.

Parliamentarians in Western Australia demanded a trial of Apple’s tablet computer, waging the kind of epic battle between users and the IT department that happens in companies around the globe.

The lawmakers it so badly 15 of them threatened “industrial action” if iPads were not allowed on the list of devices for their laptop allowance after being told by the ICT gurus that the device did not yet meet existing IT infrastructure or security standards.

If you’re in the vicinity of the Tice’s Corner Apple retail store in New Jersey on Saturday, check out this iPad Art event and class.

The saga of the lost iPhone 5 prototype continues, with the SFPD beginning an internal investigation on the police’s involvement with Apple security in recovering the lost device.

While it was originally thought that Apple security impersonated the police in an attempt to recover the prototype, the SFPD then came out saying that officers did in fact assist Apple in the investigation.

Today’s chunk of Best Thing Ever are these tasty looking Instagrahams – cookies inspired by photo app Instagram.

Thing is, the basic recipe could take you anywhere you want to go in this strange new world of edible application icons.

If you’ve got the colored fondant icing and the skill to apply it, you could make yourself an entire home screen’s worth of iconified cookies. Which we would totally love to see, by the way, so if you do that, let us know.

In the meantime, you’ll find me browsing the archives at Bakerella, which has just become my new favorite baked goods blog.

Adobe has announced that it will add support for the iOS 5 Newsstand to its Digital Publishing Suite. This will provide an easy way for publishers to take advantage of the delivery system that Apple has established in the Newsstand iOS 5 app.

Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite customers will be able to deliver high quality content optimized for iOS right to the virtual doorstep of Newsstand subscribers.

Apple’s been keeping the venerable iPod Classic on life support for years without changing a thing, but now, Apple Bitch says shipping times are starting to slip in Europe, implying a very uncharacteristic lack of availability for a very out-of-demand product.

Does that mean Apple’s about to kill off the Classic once and for all? At the Classic’s current capacity, there’d be no reason to keep it around anymore if Apple just doubles the maximum capacity of the next-gen iPod Touch.

That said, I suppose Apple could always surprise us and cram a 320GB or 500GB drive into the Classic for the customers who just have to walk around with a hundred years’ worth of CD quality music in their jeans pocket.

We’ll have to wait and see, but if I had to guess, I’d say the Classic dies and a 128GB iPod Touch takes its place.