GarageBand: The iPad's killer demo

Every great Apple product needs an app that shows off its unique features

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The 1984 Macintosh had MacPaint. The 2007 iPhone had visual voicemail and Google Maps. The iPhone 4 had FaceTime.

Steve Jobs offered two tent-pole demos last week when he introduced the iPad 2. iMovie was cool, but GarageBand for the iPad is Apple's (AAPL) new must-have app.

According to a press release issued Thursday, the $4.99 program will be available for download before the end of the day. Meanwhile, the company has posted a slick guided tour here.

UPDATE: GarageBand for iPad and iMovie for iPad are now available for download.

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Posted in: Apple, FaceTime, GarageBand, Google Maps, iMovie, iPad, iPhone, MacPaint, Steve Jobs, Tablets

• iOS 4.3 has landed

  As predicted, it arrived a couple days early, for the iPad, iPhone* and iPod touch

  For a summary of the new features, see Apple's (AAPL) press release.

  Between downloading, backing up and re-syncing, the procedure took me nearly 20 minutes to update my iPad. When I checked, iMovie and Garage Band had not yet appeared in the App Store.

  * For AT&T (T) iPhones only. Apple has not yet said when iOS 4.3 MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 9, 2011 1:31 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, AT&T, Garage Band, iMovie, iOS, iOS 4.3, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Verizon

• YouTube Cloud Editor: Is this Android's iMovie?

  Today, YouTube revamped its video editing page to make it easier to edit YouTube videos.

  As first spotted by the unofficial Google Operating System Blog, YouTube today sports a whole new Cloud video editing interface.

  Check it out here.

  YouTube had previously tried a Flash-based editing system a few years ago called 'Remixer' which wasn't very reliable and therefore unpopular.

  'Editor' isn't based in Flash (though the output will be played in Flash if MORE

  Seth Weintraub - Jun 16, 2010 10:41 AM ET
  Posted in: Editor, iMovie, Video, YouTube