If you”re curious about how you’ll browse the App Store on your iPad, look no further than this video.

It’s a familiar and intuitive experience. In short, it’s more like browsing the App Store through iTunes on your Mac than launching the App Store on your iPhone, with apps displayed in multiple columns and big, beautiful Coverflow.

The one big thing that stands out to me about the video is that much like the launch of the iPhone App Store, developers are still experimenting with how to price, name and list their apps.

Understandably, iPad apps cost more than their iPhone versions… but expect a lot of fluctuation here, as App Store developers try to figure out if the iPad App Store can escape the $0.99 curse of iPhone apps.

It’s also interesting the naming conventions developers are using to differentiate their iPad versions from the iPhone apps are all over the place. Fieldrunners for iPad is listed right below Flight Control HD, and XL is also a naming convention that is gaining traction. Presumably the different naming schemes will be consolidated at some point… my guess with a little bit of strong-arming on behalf of Apple.

Personally, I prefer HD, which not only plays up the iPad’s higher-resolution display but also keeps extraneous characters down to a bare minimum.

[via Mac Stories]

Steve Jobs once again made Barron’s annual list of the 30 most respected CEOs worldwide.

Jobs, however, stands out among the global tycoons — other repeat honorees include Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com and John Chambers of Cisco — being called “probably the world’s most valuable CEO.” His career is called “cinematic” and on the eve of the iPad roll-out, Barron’s says, “America could use 1,000 more like him.”

Praise aside, unlike many other rankings, this one isn’t a popularity contest but is based on stock performance.

Here’s why, for Barron’s, Jobs just may be the MVP of the business game:

“Probably the world’s most valuable CEO is Steve Jobs of Apple, as shown by stock dips on news of his medical problems. Apple recently hit a record, with a market value topping $200 billion, a reflection of the Street’s confidence that a healthy Jobs (at least from what we can tell) continues to keep Apple ahead of the game. Jobs likely accounts for $25 billion or more of Apple’s market value.”

This is the latest accolade for Jobs, who was also named most admired celebrity entrepreneur and CEO of the decade recently.

Via Apple Insider

Whether questions like “Will the iPad will live up to its hype?” or “Should I stay or should I go to the Apple store?” are what keep you on edge, now you can ask Steve Jobs.

Head over to Ask El Jobso, the oracle for Apple lovers.

The random response generator was devised by the team at The Apple Lounge after one of their bloggers got a one-word answer from Jobs, generating a ton of  news stories last week.

Kinda like the Magic 8 Ball for Apple addicts, some of the answers generated are from real email answers that the King of Cupertino has recently fired off to people.

Let us know if El Jobso solves your dilemmas big and small.

Someone just forwarded me this hilarious story about a woman who was pinned to the floor by her Mac Pro.

The Mac Pro is a big, heavy machine and can weigh upwards of 40 lbs. The story circulated on an Apple consultant mailing list recently. Here it is, typos and all:

This is by far one of the funniest tech calls that I have ever recieved. One of my clients called this morning to say she is trapped under her MacPro tower and she needed me to come asap to help her out. I asked “where are you?” and she said “at home not at the studio”. She screamed “just get here!”. So I rushed over there, punched in the key code to get through the gate and entered her house calling out her name. I found her laying flat on her back on the staircase with the MacPro crushing her chest. I ran up there to pull the tower off her and I couldn’t help but to laugh. You see she is this small 4 foot 6 inches middle aged tiny lady. She just didn’t have the strenght to push the tower off. She had this idea to move the tower upstairs but because the tower was so heavy for her, she thought she could pull the tower while laying flat on her back over her body. Crawling the machine slowly up the stairs. It didn’t work. Helped her move the tower upstairs but the tower ended back down stairs anyway. It was just too funny.

So there you have it. Pro tip: Don’t move heavy machines around by putting them on your body and crawling across the floor.

Although Apple has slashed international shipping times for many countries, eBay auctions may bring iPads to early adopters before they can buy them in stores.

In Italy, where the official launch date hasn’t been specified beyond “end of April,” there are dozens of iPads for sale on eBay, the Apple Lounge found, where those willing to risk buying them online might get their hands on the device a few weeks early.

That same end of April date is also expected for the UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Spain and Switzerland.

A CoM search found the same scenario on eBay around the globe from France, Germany, Turkey, Brazil to New Zealand: vendors pre-selling iPads before Apple at a mark up. eBay currently lists 2,650 iPads for sale on its international circuit, in addition to the country markets.

The 64BG model pictured on eBay UK above costs $699 from Apple but the price requested by the indie seller is nearly twice that, $1,050 plus shipping.

Due to what used to be long lead times outside US borders, black market Apple products flourished as fans have had to wait years to buy them from official retailers.

Of course, a healthy dose of caveat emptor is in order: best case scenario, these are the real deal pre-ordered in the US. Worst case: they’re pricey knock-offs.

Anyone willing to take a chance (and spend the cash) for an eBay iPad?

As we reported earlier this week, gaming appears to be an early market for the iPad. Now comes word of some of the games that could be ready to download from the the iTunes App Store when the tablet device begins shipping April 3. Before Apple closed the leaky search engine, a blogger Thursday captured a partial list of game titles update for the iPad.

According to the PadGadget site, the following “HD” versions of iPhone entertainment titles were found. “HD” (along with “XL”) is often used by developers to denote games tailored to the iPad’s environment. Here is the list:

Earlier this week, as if in response to the iPhone’s incredible gains on the handheld gaming market, Nintendo announced the successor to their popular DS console, the 3DS. The main difference over their earlier, dual screen device? 3D without glasses.

The problem with this approach is that the Nintendo DS’ screens are too small for true, pop-out-of-the-display 3D to really work… and it also raises some big questions about touchscreen gaming.

Over at Kotaku, Deputy Editor Steven Totilo has an interesting theory on how Nintendo is going to do 3D gaming without 3D displays: they’ll borrow a trick from the book of App Store developers like Ngmoco and fake the 3D by using the accelerometer.

Almost a week before Apple is expected to begin selling the iPad, an analyst has increased this year’s sales estimate for the tablet device by 30 percent. Apple may also release a new iPhone in June, along with seeing a 17 percent jump in Mac sales, the analyst adds.

BMO Capital analyst Keith Bachman told investors Thursday his initial estimate of 2.5 million iPads sold this year “may be conservative.” In addition, Bachman raised his estimate for 2011 iPad sales to 7.2 million, up 30 percent from his earlier prediction of 5 million.

The iPad certainly hasn’t made the once-untouchable Kindle look cutting edge, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves: the Kindle’s still got some advantages on Apple’s e-reading tablet. For one, the Kindle’s e-ink screen is much easier for long reading sessions than the iPad’s LED-backlit LCD display… and because of the power efficiency of e-ink, the Kindle can go weeks at a time without needing a charge. For a lot of people, the Kindle is going to be good enough, especially for the $259.99 price.

The problem is, while the Kindle has some advantages on the iPad, what it’s doing technologically is easily done for less. Enter the Kobo, a $150 e-reader that smartly shaves a few specs to undercut the already-ailing Kindle by over a hundred bucks.

Today we have another batch of bargains for Mac fans. First up is a fully-loaded MacBook Pro running a Core 2 at 2.8GHz. The laptop is $2,787 and includes a 15-inch screen. Next is more App Store price drops, including “ElementalMonster TD,” a tower defense game. We round out our top trio with a free iTunes offer: Archie Bronson Outfit “Shark’s Tooth.”

Along the way, we’ll check out a Mac Pro memory upgrade kit, the Firefly interactive fitness game and Filemaker Pro 10.

As always, details on these and many other bargains are available at CoM’s “Daily Deals” page right after the jump.