David Caolo

Classics is a forthcoming iPhone and iPod touch eBook reader by Andrew Kaz and Phill Ryu. You can read about its development history here. The UI looks nice, with a clever “page flip” animation.

Still, I can’t imagine reading a book on that tiny screen. I can remember reading Stephen King’s “On Writing” on my old Palm ///e, and it wasn’t the most pleasant exprience.

Classics will be released with an introductory price of $2.99 soon.

One tip to the developers: The title of the book is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Might want to fix that before release.

Poolga continues to post very nice wallpaper for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Piper Jaffray goes out on a limb and predicts that Apple will do something they’ve done every year for the past three years: Release new iPods in September.

Way to sick your neck out, boys.

Brett Kelly notes a trend in the App Store

“The number of tip calculator apps for iPhone is quickly becoming absurd.”

He’s right. In a few seconds, I found

1. Tiptap
2. Check Please
3. iTip
4. Tips (here’s the lucky bastard who got the name everyone wanted)
   
5. mTip
6. Tipulator
7. BigTipper

These range in price from free to $1.99. The worst part is how darn easy it is to figure a tip in the first place. If the bill is $20.00, you move the decimal one place to the left to figure 10% ($2.00), cut that in half for 5% ($1.00) and then add the two together to get the 15% tip — three bucks.

Really, people. This is 3rd grade math.

The UK’s Mail Online (the online version of The Daily Mail) has posted an article about a rumored “iPhone nano.” According to an “expert,” the phone will be the shape of the iPod nano and possibly feature “…a touch wheel on the back and display on the front so that numbers would be dialled from behind,” which, as you’ve certainly realized, is the dumbest thing anyone has ever heard.

Selecting numbers on a keypad that can’t be seen. Where do I line up for that?

During this week’s financial conference call, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer revealed his company’s intention to exectute a “product transition” sometime before September.

Apple typically refreshes the iPod lineup in September, and back in March I predicted the death of hard drive-based iPods. We’ll see if this is it.

A waste of a notebook, but cute.

[Via TUAW]