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- Holiday apps that'll make your Grinchmas merry
My wife is probably one of the biggest Grinch fans out there. Yes, we have Grinch holiday decorations and end up watching the movies several times throughout the holiday season. We're sitting at 3 times already... I'm praying we don't pass 5. It's not that I don't like The Grinch -- the animated or Jim Carey version -- I'm usually not a multiple viewing kind of guy.
To help fuel her love -- or obsession -- the folks over at Oceanhouse Media have partnered with Dr. Seuss Enterprises to fill our holiday minds with the Grinch. The first app in the iTunes App Store is called "Grinchmas" [iTunes Link]. It's a simple game where you choose to be a mean or a merry Grinch. I, of course, chose to be mean the first time around... I found myself throwing snowballs at noisy houses with a goal of keeping the noise meter from reaching its max. Next, I tried the merry side: I was given presents and a timer and challenged to toss the most presents before the time ran out. It was a fun little game, good for true Grinch fans and a quick time waster but it's definitely not something that you're gonna play for hours on end.
They also created a pretty cool camera application that has a lot of pre-made greeting cards that you can email to your friends and family (the pic on this post is an example). It's called "Dr. Seuss Camera - The Grinch Edition" [iTunes Link] and is pretty awesome for sending fun cards to your friends. Unfortunately it's nearly impossible to line up the picture with the backgrounds if you're doing them yourself. It would have been nice of them to allow zoom and give you the ability to move your face to the correct spot: without that, you're pretty much limited to taking pictures of other people and sending them to your friends. My wife and I still had fun going through the different pictures and getting her to pose for the cards.
For those of you who have yet to be Grinch'd, Oceanhouse Media also has produced a visually stimulating e-book (it does the original justice) to go along with the Grinch-themed holidays. "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" [iTunes Link] is an interactive e-book that not only reads to you but plays sounds depending on what you touch on the screen. This is a great way to share a holiday classic with your kids. Read them the book, then let them play with the other two apps for a Grinch-tastic holiday. Don't forget to snag the movies too. My wife made me say that.TUAWHoliday apps that'll make your Grinchmas merry originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - POLL: Which industry should Steve reinvent next?
Filed under: Humor, Education, Steve Jobs, Apple
He showed the music suits, the Hollywood players, the mobile crowd, and the hand-held gaming giants how it's done. Next up? The publishing industry. But what after that?
Steve Jobs loves planes, hates license plates, and has some strong opinions on education. If it were up to you, what industry would you like to see Steve tackle next? What products would you love to see from the mind of Steve Jobs? The iCar? iUniversal Health Care? iToilet?
Cast your vote in the poll, then tell us what specific products or industries you think would be revolutionized by the mind of Steve Jobs in the comments!
TUAWPOLL: Which industry should Steve reinvent next? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Using Snow Leopard's Image Capture app, or how to clean up a room
Filed under: Software, Tips and tricks, Snow Leopard
One of the lesser-known changes in Snow Leopard is the update to the Image Capture application. This little gem of the Mac has always been available to grab photos from devices such as digital cameras and scanners, but with Mac OS X 10.6, Image Capture has turned into my personal hero.
In 2007 and 2008, my in-laws both passed away and in the process of closing out their estate, we inherited many family photos. When I mean many, I'm talking about boxes and albums filled with them, enough to fill a spare bedroom in our house! Rather than just tossing the photos, we wanted to keep them because many of them were cherished family pictures, and others (taken by my father-in-law) were spectacularly good travel photographs.
I've had an Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner for a few years, and the software that came with it was adequate. However, I just didn't feel like I wanted to spend the time and effort to scan a bunch of photo prints, and was considering sending them off to be digitized professionally. Then, in a fortuitous experiment, I tried Image Capture 6.0.
This latest version has made it possible for me to slap down a bunch of photos on my scanner without regard for orientation, and have the scanner digitize them individually for placement in a folder. All it takes is making sure to check the Detect Separate Items checkbox, and Image Capture analyzes the overview scan to pick out the individual photos, straighten them out, and save them to a folder, auto-numbering them in the process. Once I've digitized a large batch, I drop them into a folder on my wife's MacBook Pro, where they're dragged into iPhoto, tagged, edited, and organized. The originals? They go into the trash.
Image Capture is faster than the Epson software that came with the scanner, it allows me to scan a lot of photos very quickly while working on other things on my Mac (like writing TUAW posts), and it's making it possible for me to burn through digitizing thousands of prints without spending thousands of dollars using commercial scanning services. The best part of this entire project is that in the process of converting atoms to bits, we're going to recapture some space in our home. Your mileage may vary depending on the scanner model you're using, but if you haven't given the Snow Leopard edition of Image Capture a try, check it out.TUAWUsing Snow Leopard's Image Capture app, or how to clean up a room originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - iPhone is first smartphone to visit alien mothership, gets reception
Good news folks. When the aliens arrive our iPhones will work on their ships, at least according to the new V television series [iTunes link].
The iPhone has been seen twice on the show so far, both times being toted by the human traitor Tyler Evans, the second time when Tyler flies on up to the mothership floating over NYC. Admittedly, he is using the iPhone to take pictures of the alien lizard hottie Lisa, so his treason might be forgivable under the circumstances.
But come on Ty, you've got video recording on that 3GS. Next time she does this, how about a little filming?Continue reading iPhone is first smartphone to visit alien mothership, gets reception
TUAWiPhone is first smartphone to visit alien mothership, gets reception originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Video: another Apple tablet fantasy
Filed under: Rumors
French site Nowhereelse.fr has published some very cool video of what appears to be a multitouch tablet device. The user is browsing through an electronic version of an Ikea catalog. The device itself is very slim and seems to incorporate a multitude of Apple technologies: cover flow, shake to shuffle, Pure Coolness.
Is this the Apple Tablet? Probably not. It's just a beautiful mockup that should give Apple some concern if their tablet isn't as cool as the device shown in the video.
Check out the vid and let us know what you think of the device's authenticity in the comments.
TUAWVideo: another Apple tablet fantasy originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - AT&T Navigator for iPhone updated
Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone
Not wanting to feel left out of the festival of updates for GPS apps, AT&T has given AT&T Navigator [iTunes link] some new features that are sure to please people who use the app.
Here's what's new:
- Full landscape view integration
- Enhanced iPod controls with the ability to search through your songs, artists, etc. from within the app
- Inclusion of AT&T Wi-Fi Hotspots in the POI listings
- Seamless blending of navigation prompts and music for easy listening
One nice feature of the app is you can just sign up for a month to take you through holiday travel, and then drop your subscription. Unlike many of the GPS apps for the iPhone, this app requires a cellular signal, because all the maps and info are streamed in over the network.TUAWAT&T Navigator for iPhone updated originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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