Category: Apple

Breaking News with iPad 2, iMovie

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Matt Tinsley at TUAW, on Robert Stephens, who captured a huge fireball on his iPhone, edited the video on his iPad 2 and submitted it to news organizations:

Stephens says, “It was iPhone to connection kit to iPad to iMovie to CNN,” apparently all within around four minutes.

According to Stephens, had this all occurred prior to the release of the iPad 2 he would simply have uploaded the raw footage from his iPhone, but since he had the iPad 2 he was able to do all the editing using Apple’s new iMovie app for the iPad.

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Ten Years of iPod

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Johnny Davis at The Guardian:

Apple’s iPod would hold 1,000 songs, could be recharged within an hour and would cost $399. “Do you remember what it was like when you got your first Walkman?” asked the singer Seal, who alongside other musicians appeared behind Jobs on a giant video screen. “‘Wow! I want to carry this wherever I go.’” Others were less convinced. Apple’s MP3 player was neither the first nor the cheapest nor the largest capacity device on the market. At that point it was only compatible with Macs – the majority of people used PCs. What’s more, it had a silly name. Technology bloggers soon decided iPod must stand for “Idiots Price Our Devices”, “I Pretend It’s An Original Device” or “I’d Prefer Owning Disks”. But within five years, via its iTunes Store, Apple would go on to become the number one music provider in the world – all but taking over the music business. After the introduction of iTunes video in 2007, it would quickly become the world’s most popular video store. Now, in 2011, Apple is set to become the world’s most valuable company full stop, overtaking the current leader, oil multinational ExxonMobil.

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Japan and iPad 2

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Reuters:

Apple Inc may face shortages of key components for its newly-released iPad 2 as a result of the earthquake in Japan, according to a report released on Thursday.

Several key components in the new version of Apple’s popular iPad tablet PC come from Japan, including the battery and the flash memory used to store music and video on the device, according to research firm IHS iSuppli.

In the face of such suffering, does anyone even care?

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iOS Wordpress App Updated

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Dan Roundhill:

The main focus of this release is to improve the app’s performance and reliability. The app has been moved to Core Data, which is a much improved way of managing information locally on the device. Also, the methods used to communicate over XML-RPC have been updated to better handle communication issues and increase reliability of the app. In total there have been 117 changes in this release.

We’ve cleaned up the Post Editor interface to make it easier to write and edit posts and pages. Simply select the icons along the bottom of the post editor to edit post settings, view attachments and add media. You can also now upload multiple media objects at once!

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On the Next iPhone

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Joshua Schnell:

Stephen and I have been going back and forth about the next iPhone for a couple of weeks now. I tried to convince him to hold off on the Verizon iPhone 4 until Apple announced the new iPhone, and he argued that the iPhone 5 would be similar to the iPhone 3G to iPhone 3GS update. Neither of us have any inside information on what to expect, but he may have just scored the first point in our ongoing battle.

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Donate an iPad to Teach for America

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Apple:

Donate your old iPad at an Apple Retail Store, and Teach For America will give it to a teacher in a low-income community.

TFA is a wonderful program. I have several friends doing it here in Memphis, and they really are on the front lines in some rough parts of town. This is great.

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