I can hand my iPad to another person and let them move through a presentation at their own pace. With iPad, it feels more like sharing.
My brother’s organization is a big supporter of charity: water. It is a cool group, all the way around.
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Modder Turns Newton Into iPhone Case
This makes me happy and sad, all at once.
Apple Relents on Section 3.3.1 [Updated]
We are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code. This should give developers the flexibility they want, while preserving the security we need.
In addition, for the first time we are publishing the App Store Review Guidelines to help developers understand how we review submitted apps. We hope it will make us more transparent and help our developers create even more successful apps for the App Store.
My Top iPad Apps
This post has been sitting in my “Local Drafts” folder for some time, and after reading Shawn’s excellent “ An iPad Buyer’s Guide and Other FAQs” this morning, I decided it was time to finish it.
You will notice the above screenshot is of my iPad in the landscape orientation. I almost never use it in portrait. One reason is that I hate how the app icons on the Springboard re-arrange when the iPad is rotated. The Dock always has the same number of apps in it, regardless of orientation, so why can’t the rows above it?
New iPod Shuffle Gets Unboxed
Boy, is it tiny.
Why I Love the Apple Community
Riccardo Mori at System Folder:
You’re surely aware of the serious earthquake that struck New Zealand a few days ago. I was concerned for the safety of an active member of the NewtonTalk mailing list, Tony Kan, who lives in Christchurch, so I sent him an email to ask if all was well with him and his family. He replied that they were all fine, and pointed to this post on his blog, in which you can read an intense report of what happened there.
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The Macalope Nails It
In this week’s Macworld piece:
And that, kids, is the moral of this week’s Apple event: very little matters besides the iPod touch.
Ping Ignoring Indie Artists
Ping, Apple’s social networking service, allows artists to create a page on iTunes that their fans can follow. Artists are allowed to post more information than regular users, like pictures, videos and information about shows and tour dates.
However, the record label has to setup the page for you. That means that if you’re an independent artist on iTunes, you’re out of luck, because you don’t have a record label.
Angry Birds Comes to Android
Overall the Android beta didn’t feel as well-oiled as its iOS counterpart – we’ve noticed the occasional light hiccups while panning across the scene, so here’s hoping that this will be fixed in the final release. Regardless of this minor flaw, we’d still highly recommend Android users to check out this free Angry Birds beta in the market
I noticed this on my Droid, but after playing this amazing game on my iPad, I don’t want to play it on anything smaller, honestly.
iOS 4.1 Betas Faster on iPhone 3G
While the speed advantages ranged from marginal to significant, iOS 4.1 clearly outperformed iOS 4.0. It’s still significantly slower performance than you’ll get from a 3GS or iPhone 4, and we’re still not sure it’s a big enough improvement that 3G owners will want to ditch iOS 3. The most obvious difference was UI responsiveness. The UI didn’t get stuck nearly as much on an interface element or when trying to enter text. If you are set on using iOS 4, the upgrade is worthwhile for that alone.
‘The Incident Nano’
Neven Mrgan, joking about developing for the new iPod nano:
We were super excited, and I made some mockups to show how this would work. Sadly, what Apple announced was a great new product which, despite its obvious similarities to the iPhone and iPad, lacks the App Store. So I’m sorry to say we won’t be able to bring you The Incident for iPod Nano.
Codenamed The Subatomic Incident, this is a wrist-sized bomb of pure multitouch microfun. As really tiny pixel-images of really big things fall, you climb your way to safety using a simple swipe-to-jump gesture.