So I woke up at 3:30 am HST to order / reserve my iPad. That's 5:30 am for all you West Coast folks.

I got the WiFi 32GB version.

You're welcome.

I was first introduced to Raina Telgemeier's work when we paid a visit to the San Diego Comic Con back in 2007. It was our first trip to the comic con, and we only had a day to spend there so we wanted to make the most of it. Audra was very excited to pick up a copy of Raina's adaption of the Ann M. Martin's The Baby-Sitters Club graphic novel. Audra was a fan of Raina's work and was excited to finally meet her. Unfortunately we couldn't track her down and things were really crazy that Saturday that she didn't get a chance to meet her.

Flash forward to today and now we own all 4 volumes of The Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels as well as a couple of pages of original artwork from one of the books! (Yes, we are huge fans!) We both follow Raina on twitter and had been anxiously awaiting her new graphic novel called SMILE to be released.

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How to make your own iPhone Webcomics app

We had been toying with the possibility of a nemu*nemu iPhone App since the iTunes App Store launched but had no idea how to go about building our own app. For a while, I thought having our own app would mean I'd have to learn Cocoa and figure out the iPhone API. While I could probably do it, it would take a lot of time and effort... and I don't know about you but I don't really have much extra time outside from my day job and nemu*nemu.

So it was to my utter delight that we launched the nemu*nemu iPhone app this week! (or rather, iTunes released it for us.) The entire process took about a month or so in between my other projects, and constant testing and re-testing to ensure the app worked the way we wanted it to.

How did we do it?

Guy Kawasaki, one of my personal heroes, tweeted about how he made his own iPhone app, quickly and more important, easily. He used a company called AppMakr which specializes in creating iPhone / iPod Touch apps using RSS feeds and graphics that you provide. AppMakr was able to create a bunch of iPhone apps for the various topics from his AllTop website. Fascinated, I decided to check it out myself. I was quite amazed at how easy it was to make an iPhone app using AppMakr.

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After almost 2 years of speculation, Apple Inc released their first product in a new category called the iPad.

With so much hype and anticipation, it was almost impossible for Steve Jobs and company to fulfill everyones expectation of what this device could/should be. It wasn't very long before comparisons to other products began and folks started pointing out what they saw as shortcomings of the device. Voices from all over the interwebs quickly made comparisons to netbooks and others began calling it a "Bigger iPod Touch".

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