Facebook's Secret iPad App Leaked Pics

TechCrunch's MG Siegler found the app to be quite good even in its non-public release form:

The app also makes great use of the pop-overs (overlay menus) found in other iPad apps. When you flip the iPad horizontally, the list of your online friends appears and you can chat with them as you do other things on Facebook. The photo-viewer aspect looks great — similar to the iPad’s own native Photos app. Places exists with a nice big map to show you all your friends around you. Etc.

Facebook is said to be launching this native app shortly. Facebook's own native iPhone app has been consistently in the top Free apps on Apple's App Store. The company has not yet released an iPad version of their app, though the demand has been clear as 3rd party Facebook apps such as MyPad have consistently ranked in the iPad bestsellers since the iPad's launch. 

Flo's Weblog has posted instructions on how to modify the Facebook app so you can play with this early iPad release yourself. TechCrunch has posted an extensive gallery of screenshots from Facebook's long anticipated native iPad app. It turns out the latest update to Facebook's native iPhone application also included the code and resources for the iPad app. 

Katy Perry Opens Up About Amy Winehouse's Death, Husband Russell Brand and New 'Smurfs' Movie

Singer Katy Perry attends the premiere of "The Smurfs" at the Ziegfeld Theatre

Katy Perry's star is on a meteoric rise.More than 20 million digital songs from her last album, "Teenage Dream," have been sold, including the hits "California Gurls," "E.T." and "Teenage Dream."Perry has several new projects in the works, including a foray into the world of movies.

She'll be the voice of the character Smurfette in the new animated movie, "The Smurfs." The new role will match her new look: she's now a blonde.The 26-year-old singer said the role brought her the opportunity to "test the waters in the film world."She may be venturing out into film, but her first love remains music – and it seems like the world of music loves her back.

The singer is in the middle of a hot streak. She's had 2 multiplatinum albums in 3 years and worldwide tour that's selling out arenas. She's also been nominated for a record 9 MTV Video Music Awards.No one is underestimating the star who shot to fame with the song, "I Kissed a Girl." When the song came out, some people viewed her as a bubblegum pop star, but since then, she's been reinventing herself, musically.

"I have to keep myself interested. And I am all over the place, and I always have been …," she told "Good Morning America."Perry had a very strict upbringing - her parents are evangelical Christians -- and much of the music she performs today would probably have been forbidden to her when she was growing up.

"I'm sure there was a subliminal part inside of me that was like, 'Well, now I'm going to try this 'cause I can," you know? But even today, I'm bringing my whole family to "Smurfs", which is exciting. Come very full circle," she said, laughing. "I wasn't allowed to watch it growing up, but now we're all showing up to the "The Smurfs" premiere. I think that people change, and I encourage change. I think it's an evolution and it's good for you. And I think with my family and my parents-- they've grown up as well, just like we have."With so much going on in her professional life, it's hard to imagine how she finds private time with husband Russell Brand, a British actor, comedian and television personality.

"Privacy is really important, especially in my personal life with my husband and I. And we just cherish it so much, and we go to great lengths, whether it means we have to ride in the back of a laundry truck to get out of a place unnoticed, we'll go for it. I just gave that away, I don't know why. Laundry trucks everywhere, we're in them," she said, laughing.As private as Perry is, she and her husband took to the Internet this weekend to talk about the death of the troubled and talented singer Amy Winehouse.

She told "GMA" how she felt about Winehouse's tragic death."My heart felt really sad," she said. "My husband, who's been clean and sober for almost nine years, you know, I -- I see him working a program and working on himself every single day. And I see how much work it takes to be clean and sober when you have, you know, addiction on your hands. So … it gave me a real -- a gratefulness for my husband, who got clean when he was 27. And I feel really sad and I just hope she finds peace."

Dealing with addiction is hard enough without adding the glare of the paparazzi."Everything is magnified in this world," she said. "It's very magnified. I mean, whether you're dealing with addiction, or you're just trying to date someone, it's magnified 100 times. So you have to really be prepared and you really have to find your footing."

source:abcnews

Singer Beyonce Photo Shoot for New Album

29 year-old Beyonce always puts on a vibrant show and she does exactly the same when promoting a new album: here she is in a sexy little shoot for her new album, 4, rocking new hairstyles and looking leggy in different outfits.

Beyonce in a promo for her new album 4Picture shows: Thigh High: Beyonce legs it up to the balcony for this outside shot

Singer Amy Winehouse found dead at home!

Amy Winehouse, the Grammy Award-winning pop singer-songwriter whose sultry and profane compositions reflected - and ultimately were overshadowed by - a turbulent personal life and struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction, was found dead Saturday at her apartment in London. She was 27.Police sources confirmed her death, but the cause was not immediately available.

The British-born performer's train-wreck-style public behavior often threatened to eclipse her talent. Although she received high-profile engagements, such as Nelson Mandela's 90th-birthday concert at London's Hyde Park in 2008, she routinely canceled or missed performances, whether from bad health or bad manners.
In June, Ms. Winehouse canceled a tour after she shouted "Hello, Athens!" to an audience of 20,000 in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. She appeared to be so inebriated that backup singers had to sing her songs when she proved incapable. She was ultimately booed off the stage.

Ms. Winehouse said living dangerously generated her creativity, and she was often photographed half-dressed, wild-eyed and disheveled."It sounds like such a wank thing to say," Ms. Winehouse once said, "but I need to get some headaches goin' to write about."Her reckless life often called to mind the doomed pop stars of earlier generations, including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain - all of whom also died at the age of 27.

She had a fondness for jazz-inflected vocals and 1960s pop, but she roughed up the style to include hip-hop slang and an infusion of profanity. Her music often focused on drinking, drug-taking and chronic infidelity.
Her song "Rehab" mirrored her life through its defiant lyrics: "They tried to make me go to rehab/I said no, no, no." The bouncy song, styled after the early Motown sound and 1960s girl groups, became a ubiquitous hit in 2007.

Amid the chaos and turmoil of her personal life, Ms. Winehouse won five Grammy Awards in 2008, including best new artist.In May 2007, Ms. Winehouse flew to Miami and secretly married her boyfriend, Blake Fielder-Civil, an acknowledged heroin and crack user. As her records jumped up the charts that year, her professional success gave way to a series of personal drug- and alcohol-related mishaps, many also involving her new husband, that were covered relentlessly in the British press.Most explosively, the London Sun newspaper posted a grainy video on its website in January 2008, about a month before she received her Grammy Awards, allegedly showing Ms. Winehouse smoking a crack pipe and talking about taking ecstasy and valium.

Model Candice Swanepoel Lovely looks for Victoria’s Secret

Supermodel Candice Swanepoel looked pretty at the launch of the new Victoria’s Secret Fantasies body care and fragrance collection earlier today, where she wore a beautiful floral dress.

Actress Katie Holmes Hot photoshoot for InStyle

“Hopefully I can age gracefully. And if not, I’ll have to figure it out. But I don’t think I’m ever going to do my lips – my sisters would kill me!” says American Actress Katie Holmes in InStyle Magazine this month, where she looks pretty in colorful feminine outfits.

Jennifer Lopez Hot Photoshoot for new Single 'What Is Love'

Jennifer Lopez stepped into some uncomfortable-looking outfits to promote her new single, What Is Love – the 42 year-old singer / actress wore some daring outfits for the shoot: a cropped, stringy and shiny ensemble, matched with loads of accessories and holey a metal outfit.