In just one month (and only two weeks after Apple’s launch of the iPad), hundreds of iPad developers, designers, and entrepreneurs will be gathering in San Jose, CA, for iPadDevCamp. PayPal & eBay will be hosting the event.

Beginning a week after the launch of the original iPhone in June 2007, iPhone community has met every year to promote the work of developers and designers for iPhone OS. iPadDevCamp will focus exclusively on the iPad. The event will feature a large gathering on eBay’s main campus in San Jose, along with simultaneous Satellite events to connect developers around the world.

Event will take place on April 16-18, 2010, so now is the time to register if you plan to attend. Space is capped at 500 attendees and only those who have registered in advance will be able to attend.

Registration: http://ipaddevcamp.eventbrite.com/

Cost: Free for media, $50 for general public
iPadDevCamp is not affiliated with Apple, Inc.

Many developers are excited about developing for iPad. And some of them already have working prototypes of their apps on iPad. Before April, 3, the date when iPad will be officially available, IPAL will be covering pre-release announcements of iPad apps.

SHAPE Services today revealed the pre-release screenshot of their IM+ all-in-one messenger on Twitter. The UI looks pretty much like iPhone version and has a Buddy list along with buddy icons and status messages and a dialogue window on one screen. Screenshot featuring Skype group chat looks simple and slick.

Have any screens for iPad apps? Please let us know.

A few weeks ago, ratemyprofessors.com finally decided to jump on the app bandwagon. This is great news for college students all around, as the app, like the website, will feature over 10 million reviews and comments for more than 1 million professors at 6,000+ schools within and beyond US borders. Now students can have this useful information in the palm of their hands when signing up for classes, talking with fellow students, or figuring out if a class is worth staying in — without having to rely on computer access. Students hold the grade book now, and at only $0.99, this app is certainly A-worthy.

A unique new app just showed up in AppStore. This idea seems on the surface, but nobody implemented it until now. Your phone has quality speaker and microphone, why would you buy a PC headset if you have your phone already; and phone can be used as wireless headset since it has a WiFi connectivity, isn’t it cool? Get the Headset app from AppStore, download and install Headset desktop part run both and voila you can use your phone as wireless headset with Skype, gTalk, MSN, Yahoo and many other PC applications.

Update: We’ve just got update from the developers about their Valentine promo. You may win iPod Touch for your Valentine if you send them a screenshot with any 4 icons of their apps.

Use PlacePop to “collect” and share the places you go – restaurants, parks, bars, cafes… anywhere in the world – simply by checking-in when you’re there.

You can easily add your own notes and photos to any place, and gain status (Silver, Gold, etc.) as you check-in more frequently.

The app shows you the real-time activity at any place in the world, and where your friends are! Read the rest of this entry »

First of all congratulations everybody that the wait and hype is finally over. All of us at iPhoneApplicationList.com are very excited about the new device. We see a lot of opinions in the press that it looks like “overgrown giant iPhone” or that there are no new features on the iPad compared to iPhone.

I do not think so! The tremendous difference  is exactly in the screen size, content (movies, newspapers, books) made for big screen and WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT — APPS for big screen! Developers, just think about the opportunity of developing and using new innovative interfaces with huge multi-touch OLED beauty! This is a new platform even if it looks same as iPhone and huge challenge to get your applications right and discover all the new use cases of the device.

Do not get mislead. We are going to see a success of iPad.

There have been a lot of press all last year about Apple/Google battle over Google Voice app.  I even wrote a blog post on how to use Google Voice through web-service. But a lot of things wasn’t working right through web service. For example, making calls was a two-step process and the outbound caller ID feature didn’t work, meaning that whoever received the call couldn’t see who was calling, which is one of the most compelling features of Google Voice.

Google just launched a new Google Voice web-service specifically built for iPhone users. Just point your iPhone browser to http://m.google.com/voice and you will see a nicely designed interface which looks and behaves like native app and overcomes previously existing limitations. You can also save it as an icon on your Main Menu so launching Google Voice will be one-step process.  It works very well for me, it is free, definitely worth trying!