As more observers look for signs that indicate the number of units sold, it seems that a few of us have been watching the sequential numbers that are generated for orders on the apple.com site. 

This morning we placed 2 orders ourselves about 2 hours apart.  The difference between those numbers is a little over 40,000.  Of course we can't assume that every online order is for the iPad, but I would bet that the vast majority of those are.

Fortune has also reported on an organized effort that seems to be showing orders in excess of 50,000 each 2 hours, roughly the same thing we found with our calculation.

Since Apple has placed a 2 order limit per customer, and that is not unlikely that some users bought more than 1 unit, it seems pretty plausable that today could bring over 200,000 units sold in their first day (assuming that demand keeps up and they don't run out of iPads)!

Today Apple announced that the App Store will have a special section for iPad designed apps.

This is great for consumers and developers who are trying to showcase their iPad specific versions of their apps.

I wonder how long it will take for there to be over 150,000 apps in that area! :)

As the time gets closer to the launch of the iPad, I thought I would share something I found on 9to5mac, a video walkthrough of Safari on the iPad. Even though this is running inside of the iPad simulator it still gives you a very nice view of how Safari will behave in the iPad...

I am starting to think that the iPad would do a very nice job of replacing the iMac in the kitchen!

We usually don't do this sort of "repost", but we think this is an amazing story.  Don't you?

Trapped Haiti survivor used iPhone app to treat injuries - Recombu -

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Trapped Haiti survivor used iPhone app to treat injuries Recombu Using a first-aid app on his iPhone, he treated a compound fracture of his leg and a cut on his head - and even set the alarm on his iPhone to go off every ... iPhone app helped US man survive Haiti quakeCNET Man Says iPhone Application Helped Him Treat Wounds in Haiti, Saved LifeFOXNews Haiti quake survivor credits iPhone appFox 31 KDVR.com Sydney Morning Herald -Huffington Post (blog) -Wired News all 59 news articles »

Even though we have lots of readers from all over the world, we want to take this opportunity to just wish everyone celebrating Thanksgiving with us in the USA a happy and healthy turkey day!

Now we're off to watch the Macy's Parade!

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You may not have noticed, but we had about 6 hours of downtime this morning, and we are just now finding all of the little bugs that were left.  It seems that one of our servers power supplies fried and it took the whole system down.  Obviously its been fixed, and we don't expect to have any more trouble.  Thanks for all of your emails and support!  We appreciate everyone who tried to contact us to let us know!

Whats On iPhone Staff

Its true, it seems Microsoft has announced that they need to make it easier for developers to add Bing search results to their iPhone applications.

Although developers can make a connection to the Bing search engine now, the process requires unnecessary steps and according to Microsoft;

"Right now, there is an unneeded step to climb to integrate Bing results in your iPhone app but we want to make that smooth," he said. "We want to make it as easy as link [a] library, create an object -- bam -- you're done."

The new library is being tested now and should be available in a few weeks said Alessandro Catorcini, senior program manager.

Although Bing was only released in June, its been gaining steady ground for Internet search traffic, and with the new Yahoo deal, this new iPhone library may not be such a bad idea.

Happy Birthday America!

We just want to wish everyone a very happy 4th of July! 

Hope your looking forward to the fireworks as much as we are!

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen confirmed that Adobe will release a beta version of Flash Player 10 for a number of smartphone browsers, including Windows Mobile, Android, Palm WebOS, and Symbian devices.

Guess who isn't on the list?!  I'm starting to think that the iPhone is simply never going to get Flash allowed by Apple.  I would think that at this point, Apple would be less worried about people developing flash applications since they have over 50,000 native ones already on the phone, but then again, I'm not the one running Apple.

I guess its less of a big deal today then it might be in the future in terms of competition to the native development environment, but right now, its really annoying to miss out on a lot of web sites which won't function properly without that Flash plug in.

I'm guessing that the rumored tablet or any other iPhone OS devlce wont support it either, but it sure does look nice on other devices...