Well, everyone else has gotten into the act, so with a little more than twenty-four hours left in which to speculate, here are my official predictions as to what the new iPads to be announced tomorrow will have:

1. Front facing and rear facing cameras. Well, duh. This has been a mainstay of the rumor mill since the first iPad was released last spring. Lack of a camera for FaceTime was a partial (not the major) reason for me not purchasing the iPad 1, and I’m looking forward to easy video conferencing capabilities in the new version.
2. Increase in storage capacity. Bye-bye, 16GB. Your new low-end iPad will be the 32GB, with 64GB and 128GB being the middle and high-end options, at the same prices as the current low/middle/high ends.
3. 3G everywhere. I think the wi-fi only option will also go by the wayside. Starting tomorrow, every iPad will contain the required circuitry for handling GSM and CDMA 3G networks.
4. SD card slot. Okay, even I don’t believe this one, but I’m throwing out there for a lark. If you believe all the case leaks, there’s a mystery port at the top of the new device. USB? Perish the thought. ThunderBolt? Well, maybe. But I think an SD card makes the most sense of the possible options.

So how did I do? We’ll find out tomorrow afternoon.

Update: URL shortening appears to happen in the background, without you choosing which shortener to use, and the shortened URL length is reflected in the character count.

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It’s been waaay too long coming, but Twitter finally released version 2.0 of the Mac Twitter client formerly known as Tweetie.  Finally we can see native twitter retweets (an implementation I still don’t like, but it’s a fact of life in Twitter now, so clients need to be on board with it) and a slicker, more modern interface.

“Review: Twitter for Mac” continues…

Hitting the “screen off” button during a call while having my headphones plugged in = screen locked.

Hitting the “screen off” button during a call while not having my headphones plugged in = disconnected call.

WTF?

Update 12/22/10:

iOS 4.2 has added a “triple-click home button” feature with accessibility options, so now it’s possible to set white/black mode by going to “General Settings -> Accessibility -> Triple-click Home” and choosing the “White/Black” option.  Once done, you can switch the iPhone to inverted colors at any time by hitting the home button three times in quick succession.

I still consider this a “hack”, as it turns your entire phone into inverted color mode.  I would still prefer iBooks to have a true white text on black background like the Kindle and Stanza apps do.

“White on Black in iBooks” continues…