Hulu Plus, the popular TV streaming app for iPad and iPhone, has been updated this week – to Version 2.5.
One of the headline new features in the update is retina display for the new iPad 3rd gen. There are a number of other notable new features and improvements in the update as well – one of my favorites is the ability to browse by genre.
Here’s the full change list for the 2.5 update:
• Support for browsing and discovering new shows by genres
• Re-engineered, optimized video player
• Updated, nicer, more graphical user interface (for iPad)
• Retina support (3rd-generation iPad)
• Improved AirPlay mirroring and HDMI support (iPad 2 and above, iPhone 4S and above); try it out in split view on the iPad!
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements
I updated the app earlier this morning and I think the new features and enhancements are very impressive – and this was already a very good app.
Here’s an App Store link for Hulu Plus; it’s a free app and a universal app designed for both iPad and iPhone.
If you’ve been waiting on an untethered jailbreak for your iPad on the latest version of iOS (5.1.1) it looks like your waiting will be over very soon. As iDownload Blog reports, Absinthe 2.0 is expected to be released very soon, possibly this week – and will offer an untethered jailbreak for iPads running iOS 5.1.1.
In fact, Absinthe 2.0 should be able to jailbreak all iOS devices except Apple TV3,1 according to the Dev Team’s Musclenerd. And there will be a new version of RedSn0w that will also be capable of untethered jailbreak for 5.1.1 devices.
According to Jeff Benjamin at iDownload Blog this new jailbreak is shaping up to be just as easy as the original Absinthe. I’ve used it on my iPhone 4S and have found it to be amongst the fastest and most solid jailbreaks I’ve ever done.
I’ve had very little temptation to jailbreak my iPad for a long while now, but this time round I may have a look. I’m planning to get a new iPad as a pure test device soon, mainly for testing iOS 6 betas when they are (hopefully) released during or soon after WWDC in early June. So I may well give the jailbreak, and a few of the latest tweaks, a spin before then.
Are any of you planning to jailbreak your iPad once the new versions of Absinthe and redsn0w are released?
Mr. Reader, the Google Reader / RSS app for iPad, has had a recent update – to Version 1.9.
This is a jam-packed update, with a ton of new features and enhancements to the app. These are a couple of the new features that I found most interesting:
– Support for multiple Google Reader accounts.
– Ability to define templates for connected apps and services in the app’s settings – including Twitter, OmniFocus and Things.
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Good news about my favorite Kickstarter project ever – the Battle of the Bulge strategic war game for iPad, by Shenandoah Studio: the project has met and exceeded its funding target. The target was $20,000 and it’s at over $30,000 this morning with seven days still to go.
Shenandoah Studio has also posted the first gameplay demo video this weekend – the screenshot above is taken from that video. You can take a look at it on the game’s Kickstarter page.
It looks like it is very early days in the game’s development and the demo was done on an iOS simulator rather than an iPad. Even so, the small bit of gameplay shown looks promising. I like the way adjacent units automatically rearrange themselves when a unit is moved.
I’m very glad, of course, to see that Battle of the Bulge for iPad has got its funding, and I hope the game is still on track for a release this summer.
This week’s weekend iPad wallpapers come from the always excellent Pimp Your Screen app, easily the best iPad wallpapers app I’ve ever seen.
The app was just updated this week with retina display support and now includes a number of retina quality wallpapers for the iPad.
The first of the two walls that caught my eye this weekend is the baseball bats and balls image shown above. This one is not a standard 2048X2048 iPad retina wallpaper size because it’s an icon shelf. It’s sized at 2048X1536 and works very nicely as an icon shelf when the iPad is in landscape mode.
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