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- Pilots: Take your iPad flying with the Tech Board iPro Kneeboard
Filed under: iPad
With its beautiful display, capacious storage, and hundreds of thousands of apps, the iPad is an instant hit with both professional and private pilots. The iPad is much more readable than an iPhone, and it's easy to take PDF files of sectional and terminal area charts with you on the device.
As with any electronic device in the cockpit of an airplane, pilots want to make sure that the iPad is secured while in flight so that it doesn't become a projectile in turbulence or abrupt maneuvers. They also want it right at their fingertips for instant reference. Take those seemingly conflicting requirements and what do you get? The Tech Board iPro Kneeboard from For Pilots Only.
The all-metal iPro looks like it could withstand a CFIT (controlled flight into terrain), and includes a hinged cover that doubles as a clipboard for jotting non-digital notes. It's padded on the inside to protect the finish of your iPad, and there's an opening for a charger should you need to top off the iPad in flight. Like all kneeboards, the iPro has a strap that fastens around the pilot's upper thigh to hold the board in place. Kneeboards have been used for years by pilots for holding onto objects during flight, but the combo of the iPro and iPad are sure to make this a must-have accessory for pilots.
We'd love to hear from TUAW readers who are pilots. How are you using the iPad in the cockpit? Leave your comments below.TUAWPilots: Take your iPad flying with the Tech Board iPro Kneeboard originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Live at 5 PM EDT: TUAW TV Live with special guest Chuck Joiner
Filed under: WIN Business
Starting in just a few minutes, it's TUAW TV Live with your host Steve Sande and special guest Chuck Joiner. As we mentioned in the teaser earlier today, Chuck is the top podcaster in the Apple universe, hosting MacVoices, MacNotables, and The MacJury to name a few. He's been involved with the Mac user group community as well, and if there's one person who probably knows everyone in the Apple world, it's Chuck Joiner.
To join in from your Mac or PC, just go to the next page by clicking the link at the bottom of this post, and you'll find a live stream viewer and a chat tool.
If you're driving somewhere and would like to watch TUAW TV Live while you're stuck in traffic, please don't -- keep your eyes on the road. However, if someone else is doing the driving, you can watch the show on your iPhone by downloading the free Ustream Viewing Application.
iPad users haven't been forgotten. You can tune in the show on your iPad now by clicking this link, which will open a non-Flash stream. Huzzah!TUAWLive at 5 PM EDT: TUAW TV Live with special guest Chuck Joiner originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - It's coming... FarmVille heading to iPhone and iPad
Filed under: iPad
Some will cheer, others will groan, but it seems that the love-it-or-hate-it Facebook game, FarmVille, is on its way to iPhone and iPad. A recent search of domains has uncovered both farmvilleiphone.com and farmvilleipad.com, both reserved by the same company currently overseeing Zynga's official FarmVille website. This means that sooner or later, we'll probably be seeing official clients for Apple's mobile devices.
I've played FarmVille, and I find it to be not so much a game as a "social engine" -- it's basically a bunch of hooks to keep you "playing" and keep you passing gifts and virtual items between your friends. But it's definitely popular, and having official apps for the iPhone (or perhaps even just sites made to access on the iPhone -- the main game is currently done up in Flash) will likely only increase that popularity.
It'll be interesting to see if Zynga makes its way over to these platforms. Ngmoco has already usurped part of the FarmVille mindshare with its popular We Rule game, but if the real thing shows up, it's unclear whether people will go back to the original, stick with the new, or even play (and spend money on) both. We'll have to see.
[via Joystiq]TUAWIt's coming... FarmVille heading to iPhone and iPad originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Sprint giving away iPad cases at select Best Buy stores
Filed under: iPad
Sprint does not carry the iPad, but they will give you a way to carry your iPad.
Select Best Buy stores (a big box store here in the US) will be giving away those Sprint iPad cases that just happen to have a little pocket that's perfect for holding an Overdrive 3G/4G hotspot. Sprint expects to give away 10,000 cases before the promotion ends, so check to see if your local store has any.
Sprint has been indirectly courting iPhone and iPad customers for a while now. Back in March, an Overdrive ad featured an IPhone, along with some talk about its superior 4G speed (where available).
Additionally, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse recently compared the iPhone to a certain sports legend: "...you can almost put the iPhone, to be fair, in a separate category," he told Charlie Rose. "The Apple brand and that device have done so well, it's almost not... it's like comparing someone to Michael Jordan."
While early adopters are limited to Wi-Fi Internet access with their iPads, they can upgrade when the 3G models come out or, Sprint hopes, add an Overdrive to their lineup and share a single, go-anywhere connection with several devices.
If you snag a free case, let us know.TUAWSprint giving away iPad cases at select Best Buy stores originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Adobe: We won't spend any more time on Flash to iPhone features
Filed under: iPhone
Mike Chambers, Principal Product Manager for developer relations for the Flash Platform at Adobe, has informed Flash developers that Adobe is unlikely to make any further investment in Flash CS5's export to iPhone app functionality.
Chambers says that while Flash CS5 will still export to the current iPhone OS 3, developers should be aware that Apple will most likely pull any apps built in CS5 and ported to an iPhone app from the App Store in the near future. He also believes that Apple's enforcement of the infamous clause 3.3.1 of the developer agreement will be capricious/selective enough to permit some other alternative development environments through the gates.
Apple and Adobe's cat and mouse game has been going on almost as long at the iPhone has existed. Today's statements from Adobe effectively ring down the curtain on future development of the Flash CS5 iPhone features, barring any change of heart from Apple. But after previously admitting that Apple's no-Flash policy could hurt business, where will Adobe go with mobile Flash from here on out?
To Android phones and tablets, apparently. Chambers says that Adobe is taking what they've learned in trying to develop Flash for iPhone and using that experience in applying Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 to other mobile operating systems.
Despite the assertions from both the technical and executive branches of Adobe that Flash's relevance to the mobile space is certain and sure, there does not seem to be a significant hitch in Apple's device sales that can be attributed to a lack of Flash player. As GigaOM points out, even while CEO Shantanu Narayen was suggesting to Fox Business News that Flash-free devices were going to miss out on video content like the interview he was giving, it was no trouble at all to watch that clip via HTML5 streaming on an iPad.
Update: CNET's Steven Shankland got a comment from Apple (!) responding to Chambers' proposition that Adobe's products are about the openness of build-once, run anywhere: spokeswoman Trudy Miller says "Someone has it backwards--it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe's Flash is closed and proprietary."TUAWAdobe: We won't spend any more time on Flash to iPhone features originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Loyal Apple customer bases waited for stores
Filed under: Retail
A study by Experian Simmons demonstrates that customers in several of the USA's ten most Apple-loyal regions waited 5 years or more for an Apple Store to open.
The study ranked US cities by the number of adults who own (at least) one iPod, iPhone or Mac. It shouldn't shock you that San Francisco/San Jose area of California ranked highest (32.3 percent of adults met their criteria), while Boston, San Diego, New York City, Chicago, Denver and Las Vegas were also among the top ten.
DC, the study points out, is still without a store, despite 30.1 percent of its residents meeting Experian's criteria. Boston's Boylston Street store only opened within the past few years, and other high-ranking cities (Baltimore, Md. at #13, Charlottesville, Virg. at #16 and Boise, Idaho at #25) are still waiting.
Of course, some of these cities have stores in the suburbs. The Cambridgeside Apple Store, reachable from Boston by the subway, was one of the very first stores to open. Other stores like Braintree and Peabody are arguably within driving distance of Boston.
Likewise, Apple Store Bethesda Row and Apple Store Montgomery Mall are in the greater DC metro area.
[Via IfoAppleStore]TUAWLoyal Apple customer bases waited for stores originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Apple employee #66: Mac, iPhone and iPad created in similar way
Filed under: Cult of Mac, iPhone, iPad
In his latest post at AskTog.com, Bruce Tognazzini highlights the similarities between Steve Jobs's approach in bringing to market the original Macintosh, the iPhone, and now the iPad. For Tognazzini, known as "Tog" in computing circles, the success of these products is a byproduct of this approach. Like the original Mac, the original iPhone shipped with only a handful of apps. The iPhone also lacked common features on other smartphones, such as copy and paste, searching, MMS support, and contact search.Also, like the original Mac, the iPhone was created by a very small group -- most of them young and driven -- who worked in an ultra secretive environment. The small team environment meant that some capabilities had to be left out of a first release in order to focus on the most important features. The tradeoff, however, produces a superior user experience instead of a "rambling labyrinth of disjointed features." The result was a core that could be built upon for years without the need to start from scratch.
While Tog doesn't mention it, this focused and "essential feature" mindset also serves a marketing function. It gets people talking. Think about how excited you were when an iPhone firmware upgrade presented you with something new, such as copy and paste. Remember, too, how much buzz this generated in the media and how Apple touted these features.
These highlights and more, including details on the decision to add arrow keys to the Mac, are detailed in Tog's post.
Bruce Tognazzini's knowledge of the Mac stems from his experience at Apple. During his 1978 to 1992 tenure at Apple as employee #66 (Steve Jobs is #0 and Steve Wozniak is #1), he founded the Apple Human Interface Group and acted as Apple's Human Interface Evangelist. He went on to work at Sun Microsystems, led the design of WebMD, and is currently a principal at the Nielsen Norman Group.
TUAWApple employee #66: Mac, iPhone and iPad created in similar way originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - TUAW TV Live at 5 PM EDT today with special guest Chuck Joiner
Filed under: WIN Business
Every Wednesday, TUAW provides its readers with the best in state-of-the-art live Internet reporting through TUAW TV Live. Today is no exception, and at 5 PM EDT, scores of the Apple faithful will point their browsers to TUAW.com for another exciting episode of this landmark in Internet journalism.
Today's show features a special guest who you're going to love. He's a man who needs no introduction, but we're going to introduce him anyway. It's Chuck Joiner, the host of MacNotables, MacVoices, MacVoices TV, The MacJury, and probably at least a dozen other podcasts that we don't know about yet.
Due to all of his connections, Chuck is probably the most knowledgeable blogger in the Apple blogosphere. He's a lot of fun to talk with, and it's sure to be a lot of fun having him on the other side of the mic today.
Come back to TUAW.com at about 4:50 PM EDT (1:50 PM PDT) to join in on the fun. We'll provide you with instructions on how to watch the show live on your iPhone or iPad as well.
TUAWTUAW TV Live at 5 PM EDT today with special guest Chuck Joiner originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Found Footage: Creating manga on the iPad
Filed under: iPad
In the video above, artist Yoshitoshi Abe uses LiveSketch HD [$0.99] to sketch one of his characters named Ain. Yoshitoshi's normal medium is pencil and paper, but you can see that the detail he achieves in the sketch on the iPad is almost in parity with his pencil sketches.
What's even more impressive is that he does the sketch in under four minutes and uses only one hand. As you can see in the video, his other hand is busy holding his iPhone 3GS, which he is using to record his creation. Ah, when talent and technology meet.
[via ZanyPickle]TUAWFound Footage: Creating manga on the iPad originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - iPhone sales soar in China
Filed under: iPhone
After a slow start, iPhone sales are soaring in China.
During yesterday's financial conference call, Apple COO Tim Cook answered questions about the iPhone's performance in what he calls "greater China" (China, Hong Kong and Taiwan), uncharacteristically sharing some numbers:
"The revenue, we have never released this number before but I will do this in this particular case, through the first half of the fiscal year that we just completed for the six month period our revenue from greater China was almost $1.3 billion and this is up over 200% year-over-year."
The folks at Brainstrom Tech did some math and figured that represented 2.1 million iPhones sold (give or take) in a 6-month span -- a number that beat Wall Street's Q2 2010 estimates by 25% to 30%.
Initially, the iPhone failed to thrive in China due in part to an active black market and the Golden Shield Project (GSP), which censors certain Internet content. To comply with the GSP, devices that include wireless Internet have been required to use China's own WAPI standard. Meeting that requirement forced Apple to re-design the iPhone for China.
Fortunately for Chinese customers, carriers and Apple, that ruling was recently changed to allow or Wi-Fi capable iPhones. Late last year China Unicom launched a 46-city roadshow tour promoting the iPhone.TUAWiPhone sales soar in China originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Pulitzer Prize winner's app now accepted into App Store
Filed under: Software Update
Last week we told you about Mark Fiore, who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning despite the cartoons' sole medium being the internet. What surprised many was that, though Fiore's cartoons were good enough for a Pulitzer, they were not good enough for the App Store.
Back in December, Fiore had submitted an app called NewsToons, which displayed a collection of his political cartoons, only to have it rejected by Apple for ridiculing public figures. However, shortly after he won the Pulitzer and the news broke that his app had previously been rejected, Apple invited Fiore to resubmit the app, with Steve Jobs saying that the rejection of Fiore's app "was a mistake that's being fixed."
I'm pleased to report that, as of yesterday, the mistake is fixed. Mark Fiore's NewsToons app is now in the App Store. The $0.99 app gives users access to automatically-updating political animation and the ability to dig deeper into the cartoon and see what news stories, events, and facts inspired each animation. Wonder if we'll see a Steve Jobs cartoon anytime soon?TUAWPulitzer Prize winner's app now accepted into App Store originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - TidBITS celebrates 20 years of online publishing excellence
Filed under: Odds and ends
Although the Apple blogging community is fairly tight-knit, we usually don't go out of our way to laud our competitors. This week, however, we're making an exception.
Back in 1990, Adam and Tonya Engst jump-started the online publishing world with TidBITS. Initially, TidBITS was distributed as a HyperCard stack filled with Mac news, reviews, and opinion articles. Later it became a text-based publication, then moved to the Web. Adam was responsible for getting many Mac users connected to the Internet in the early days through his classic book The Internet Starter Kit for Mac, which provided step-by-step instructions in how to connect to the 'net in the days before Wi-Fi and broadband.
Many of the writers at TidBITS are well-known names in the digital world, and TidBITS has also spawned its own publishing house: Take Control Books.
This week marks the 20th anniversary of TidBITS, and (fitting for a digital publication) issue 1,024 -- that's 2 to the 10th power for those of you who don't play with numbers. From all of us at TUAW to all of you at TidBITS, congratulations!TUAWTidBITS celebrates 20 years of online publishing excellence originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Apple releases Final Cut Server 1.5.2
Filed under: Software Update
Apple has released an update to its Final Cut Server asset management and workflow automation software.
Final Cut Server 1.5.2 fixes an issue that blocked the use of a transcode setting for the Matrox CompressHD H.264 encoding card. Plus, it fixes an expiring Java certificate in the Final Cut Server Java Client and fixes an issue that blocked the use of a transcode setting for the Matrox CompressHD H.264 encoding card.
The update weighs in at 41.9 MB and requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or above.TUAWApple releases Final Cut Server 1.5.2 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - iPad defeats Kindle in reader poll
Filed under: iPad
Over at Mashable, a poll of readers put the iPad up against the Kindle, by asking which device would "...win over the hearts and minds" of Mashable readers.
The results were 48% for Apple, 36% for Kindle, and 11% preferred their books in analog format. Mashable is not a Mac fan site, so the results are, at least, interesting.
Of course it's not a scientific poll, but it's an indicator that the iPad is catching on as a preferred device for reading books and magazines.
I have a Kindle and an iPad. I really like the ability to read in low light with the iPad, and the text looks fine to me. I haven't experienced any eye strain, but some people are adamant that reading an LCD screen isn't good in the long term.
At this moment, the Kindle book store is far superior to the Apple version. The number of books that Apple offers is relatively small, and it isn't as easy to find things. Of course, I can read my Kindle books on my iPad, but I hate having books scattered around between different apps.
I know several Kindle owners who are, either, planning to dump their Kindle for an iPad or have already done so. What's your take? Do you own a Kindle and an iPad? Is the Kindle redundant now, or is it still, with that sharp e-ink screen, a better reading experience?TUAWiPad defeats Kindle in reader poll originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Estimate: Top 1000 iPad apps making $372k a day
Filed under: iPad
Here's an interesting look at just how big the iPad app market might be. Vimov, the makers of Weather HD, have used their own sales numbers to put together an analysis of what the top 1,000 iPad apps on the App Store are pulling in, and they've come up with a series of estimated sales for each position in the top 100.
By their reasoning, the top paid app in the store sells about 5k copies per day, with the number two app selling about 3k, the number three app about 2.5k, and so on. Vimov estimates that everyone in the top 100 list, when you add them all together, is making about US$304,058 on any given day. The shelf drops off from there -- in the top 1000, developers are making about $372,000, and past that, they're obviously making less.
So, what does this all mean? First, these are obviously estimates; Vimov's app is $0.99, and Weather HD, as they say, peaked in the early frenzy around the iPad's release. They did try to account for that, but even they admit that there's some error involved. Second, things are changing quickly; Apple told us that there were around 500,000 iPads out there last week, but that number is probably much higher a week later. Also, iPad app pricing is still all over the place. Even now, you've got everything from $0.99 to $9.99 in the top 10, which suggests that profits are hard to guess.
[via MacNN]TUAWEstimate: Top 1000 iPad apps making $372k a day originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - TUAW's Daily App: LaDiDa
Filed under: Software
LaDiDa is a strange little app that came out a while back. It's basically a "reverse karaoke app," in that, instead of playing music that you can sing along with, you sing, and it'll play the music back to you. The technology seems based on the same idea as Microsoft's MySong -- you hit record on the app and then sing whatever melody you want (or rap, or just play a tune on another musical instrument), and then the app quickly builds up the rest of the band around you.
It works surprisingly well. I'll spare you the trauma of hearing me sing, but even when I just threw in a few nonsensical bars of an improv song, the app did an admirable job of backing up my tune with drums and chords. If you do hit on a worthwhile tune, you can save it on your iPhone, and there's even a "Discover" section in the app where you can hear what other users are recording and rating.
The app allows you to create a full song without any musical talent at all. While it doesn't guarantee that you'll create anything worth listening to, if you've ever wanted to write a song but don't know your sharp from your flat, LaDiDa can help. The app is $2.99 for the iPhone in the App Store.TUAWTUAW's Daily App: LaDiDa originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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