I few hours ago we caught a tweet that managed to distract us the excitement and rumours surrounding the Apple press conference tomorrow. The tweet from ThumbJam reads, "The next update will not only fix ThumbJam for iPod touches, but also bring in native iPad support!" Much loud cheering and group hugging ensued. ThumbJam is an iOS app that fulfils that fantasy of many a young lad and probably a few lasses too. In short, it can turn almost anyone into a Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai or Joe Satriani. The screen is divided into 'keys', and through skilful uses of scales, acceleration detection and multi-touch ThumbJam will have you pulling off crazy solo's with ease.

As you can see from the awesome video above -- thanks ElectricAlienCat! -- the current iPhone version scales up nicely on the iPad so we are expect big things from the universal version.

Be sure to follow ThumbJam on Twitter for all the latest news.

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