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- iBooks app now available in App Store
Filed under: iPad
Apple has released the iBooks app into the App Store. The iBooks app will only run on the iPad and includes a complimentary copy of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne. Some of the features of the app allows you to highlight your favorite passages with the built-in bookmarking feature, read a free sample of any book on the iBookstore, built-in search, and spoken word.
The app's page also states that only the ePub format is supported and to add ePub books from outside of the iBookstore to the iBooks app, they must be DRM-free and synced to the iPad using iTunes 9.1 or later. The iBooks app is free.
I think I just heard Jeff Bezos shaking in his reading jacket.TUAWiBooks app now available in App Store originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Letterman's iPad top ten list doesn't go quite according to plan
Filed under: iPad
Sure, David Letterman is rich, famous and apparently no slouch with the ladies... but he's not an iPad-savvy geek, as you can see here.
During tonight's Late Show, he brought out an iPad with the top ten list shown ("Top Ten Questions To Ask Yourself Before Waiting In Line For The iPad") -- then proceeded to turn the iPad upside down, get frustrated with his inability to wake it from sleep mode, accidentally try to power it down, lick it (!), then he simply went ahead and read from his paper card.
It's not clear how much of Letterman's frustration was feigned for comic effect, but it was a bit painful to see guest Sam Worthington place his coffee cup atop the iPad screen a few minutes later.
Meanwhile, over on basic cable, Stephen Colbert showed the world how it's done (as shown on Gawker). In addition to slicing veggies for a tangy salsa with his iPad, Colbert also got in a nice dig: "If you've already got an iPhone, a lot will be familiar to you on the iPad. The same touchscreen technology, the same apps... and just like the iPhone, you can't make calls with it." Oooh, burn.
TUAWLetterman's iPad top ten list doesn't go quite according to plan originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Dear Aunt TUAW: Did Steve Jobs gift me an iPad?
Filed under: iPad
Dear Auntie T,
Hi! First time writer. I was just curious if anyone else was receiving an email like I received. My first instinct is to say it is fake and/or an April Fools' joke. However I want to be sure. The entire message is below.
From: Steve Jobs
Subject: Congratulations! You've won an iPad!
Date: April 1, 2010 4:05:24 PM CDT
To: [Redacted]
Reply-To: steve.jobs@apple.com
Dear Kris [Redacted],
You are the winner of a brand new Apple iPad! Please show up at your nearest Apple Store on saturday April 3rd from 9am to 3pm. Bring an official ID an give Authorization Code # [Removed just in case it is real.]
I personally hope you enjoy our new product!
Steve Jobs
Apple Corp.
Please give me your take on this. Thanks! Love the site.
Love and Kissies,
Kris McG.
TUAWDear Aunt TUAW: Did Steve Jobs gift me an iPad? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - iFund doubles to $200 million, supporting Ngmoco, Booyah, and others on the iPad
Filed under: iPad
The iFund has been one of the driving forces behind some of the biggest names in iPhone development, so it's not a surprise at all that the investors are expanding their money pool and oversight to include the iPad as well. They're opening up the funding to a full $200 million (double what the original iFund offered to iPhone companies), and they've already got a whole slate of apps lined up from big iPhone companies like Ngmoco, Booyah, and Shazam.
There will undoubtedly be a lot of successful apps on the iPad, but these are probably the biggest no brainers we'll see. It is important to note that these are all iPhone-specific companies. While there are lots of companies on the App Store that are doing iPhone as "just another platform" or have the iPhone as part of their overall strategy, the companies spotlighted by iFund all tend to be companies who are focusing on the iPhone (and now the iPad) as their business.
Just as the iFund likely paid off for their iPhone investments, odds are good that they'll see the same result on the iPad. We'll have to wait and see.TUAWiFund doubles to $200 million, supporting Ngmoco, Booyah, and others on the iPad originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - First Look: Weather HD for iPad
Filed under: iPad
VIMOV's Weather HD combines standard weather forecasting with video backdrops. Although I doubt the application comes with the new age music track, you can tell from this preview that it focuses on looks.
I was a little surprised to see the floaty utility-style palette. You'd think that new weather applications would provide some kind of "Find Me" Core Location-powered feature, but I guess people do want to check on places they're about to visit or are away from as well.
Weather HD is availablel for US$0.99 on the App Store.TUAWFirst Look: Weather HD for iPad originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Rumor: Cloud-based iTunes delayed until summer
Filed under: iTunes
Ever since Apple bought music-streaming service Lala, rumors of a cloud-based solution for iTunes have been floating around. And unfortunately, we don't have any official news on that yet (I know I'd use it -- I already share my library to all of my computers in-house anyway), but we do have more rumors. "Music industry sources" have informed CNET that there is a cloud service in the works, but that it's been delayed until the summer at least. There's no information about why, but apparently the delay came from Apple -- the company told music industry executives that the service wouldn't be ready until the third quarter of this year.
I'll wait -- having an iTunes service that could send my music library to any computer I own (or even my iPhone or iPad -- drool) would be awesome, but of course there must be lots and lots of technical and bandwidth issues to work out at least. So if you are expecting to see a cloud-based service from Apple in the future, you can at least stop frantically refreshing the iTunes page until sometime this summer.TUAWRumor: Cloud-based iTunes delayed until summer originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Find My iPad comes to MobileMe
Filed under: iPad
Find My iPhone, a long-standing feature on MobileMe that allows you to remotely locate a misplaced iPhone via MobileMe's web interface, has been extended to the iPad. Find My iPad has the same features as Find My iPhone, including playing the little sonar sound effect with an onscreen message (in case your iPad falls behind the couch or something). Find My iPad also includes the same Remote Wipe feature as Find My iPhone -- so if your iPad is irretrievably lost, you can remotely vaporize all the data on it, thus ensuring that thieves don't get access to your contacts, credit card info, or embarrassing lolcat pictures in addition to your iPad.
Apple notes that "The Find My iPad feature works best if your iPad includes both Wi-Fi and 3G, but it will also find your Wi-Fi-only iPad when it's connected to a wireless network." Translation: Find My iPad probably isn't going to work very well at all for the Wi-Fi-only models. It'll probably give you a very general idea of your iPad's location on Find My iPad's map, but without GPS capabilities, the Wi-Fi-only iPad will have nowhere near the specificity of the 3G-enabled iPad or iPhone.
Naturally, just like Find My iPhone, Find My iPad requires a $99/year subscription to MobileMe -- though if you're already using the service for your iPhone and/or Macs, there's no extra charge for the new iPad-specific services.
[Via Ars Technica]TUAWFind My iPad comes to MobileMe originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Twenty iPad apps you'll want to see
Filed under: iPad
The App Store is live and running with iPad apps right now -- you can download and buy any iPad apps you want, even though most of them are technically "embargoed" until tomorrow morning. There's a lot of amazing stuff out there, but we'll try to focus you as best we can. Here's twenty apps that you won't want to miss in the App Store -- even if you don't buy them for iPad this weekend, you should at least check out the info and screenshots that are now available.
- USA Today for iPad is free and is probably the quickest and easiest virtual newspaper experience on the iPad. The Wall Street Journal app is also free, as is the NYT Editor's Choice.
- Flight Control HD and Plants vs. Zombies HD are two of the most-awaited iPad games.
- Evernote has released their iPad app.
- MLB's At Bat 2010 has a new edition, so you'll unfortunately have to re-buy it on the iPad even if you've already bought it on the iPhone.
- Words with Friends HD and Fieldrunners for iPad are available right now.
- 2K Games has released Civilization Revolution on the iPad, the more accessible version of Sid Meier's classic turn-based strategy game.
- Here's the Comic Zeal comic reader app we covered earlier this week, and there's also an official Marvel comics app in the store.
- Twitterific for iPad is on the store and looking great.
- Aurora Feint 3 is the newest iPad version of one of the iPhone's biggest titles.
- CastleCraft is a new strategy freemium MMO from Freeverse and Ngmoco.
- StumbleUpon will allow you to browse the crowdsourced best of the Web from your couch.
- iMDb has released a full iPad app of their movie database.
- Minigore HD brings another big iPhone title to the bigger screen.
- StarWalk for iPad recreates the popular astronomy app and TUAW favorite.
- And Let's Golf! HD brings a quality handheld golfing experience to the "HD" screen.
Update: Netflix's app is live as well, as is NetNewsWire for iPad, Galcon Fusion, Articles, and Twittelator Pad. Too many good apps!TUAWTwenty iPad apps you'll want to see originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Electronic Arts stable now live on the iPad
Filed under: Gaming
As with all of the other approved iPad apps, the full slate of Electronic Arts' iPad titles are now ready to go in the App Store. Mirror's Edge, Tetris and Scrabble are ready for download, as is Command and Conquer: Red Alert and Need for Speed Shift. Those last two are probably the most interesting -- playing an RTS on a larger touchscreen is something that a lot of people have wanted to try for a long time, and Command and Conquer will probably be the biggest budget title of that genre available at launch.
Need for Speed Shift will probably be pretty predictable as an accelerometer racing game, but it is notable for the fact that it's selling at $14.99, significantly higher than even the other iPad titles we've seen so far. C&C and Mirror's Edge are both above $9.99, and Tetris is the only EA app to go below that point, at $7.99. So it looks like EA is starting out pretty aggressive on pricing for the iPad -- we'll have to see how sales go for them at those levels and what happens to those prices after launch.TUAWElectronic Arts stable now live on the iPad originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - iTunes now segregates apps that are optimized for iPad and iPhone
Filed under: iPad
We posted a short while ago that iPad apps are now in the App Store. An interesting feature we just discovered is that iTunes now splits your downloaded apps in the Apps library in the iTunes source list. Any iPhone app specifically optimized for the iPad is now segregated into its own category. In your iTunes App library you'll now see two headings: the top heading is "iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad Apps" with all the non-iPad optimized apps relegated to an "iPhone and iPod touch Apps" category.
An iPad-optimized app is an iPhone app that supports both the iPhone's and iPad's native resolution and thus doesn't need to use the iPad's 2x zoom feature to display the app full screen on the iPad. And while we haven't gotten a chance to sync up an iPad yet, we'll presume that iPad-only apps will have their own section as well.
Update: Apple is now featuring iPad apps on the App Store homepage in iTunes. Looks like the iPad App Store is officially live. Get those iPad apps while they're hot.TUAWiTunes now segregates apps that are optimized for iPad and iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Confirmed: The mythical "iProd" is the real-world iPad
Filed under: iPad
Last summer, the Apple web was abuzz with the discovery of a mysterious "iProd" device in the iPhone's USB identifier list. Leaving aside the obvious jokes, and noting with some astonishment that Erica actually presaged the name back in 2006, we now can say for sure: the iProd was, in fact, the iPad.
Full explanation after the link below.TUAWConfirmed: The mythical "iProd" is the real-world iPad originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Activision puts Geometry Wars: Touch, Tony Hawk 2 on the App Store
Filed under: Gaming
iPad titles have started appearing on the App Store, and two big video gaming names are there with them. First up, Activision has apparently dropped a copy of the arcade shooter Geometry Wars out there in the form of Geometry Wars: Touch for iPad. Given that we haven't actually played the game yet, we're not sure how they work out the two-stick controls (generally in these games, you move with one stick and shoot with the other), but they are advertising a new game mode, called Titans. Looks fun -- it's a full US$10 app, which might be pricey without trying it, but the Geometry Wars series tends to offer up some fun and addictive arcade experiences.
And as predicted, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 is now out on the App Store. It is not an iPad title -- it's only for the iPhone and the iPod touch, but of course it should still run on the iPad in an upscaled mode. This is probably my favorite Tony Hawk game of all time, and while the touchscreen controls may be a little squishier than the old PlayStation buttons, the reviews are great so far. There you go: Two nice, big titles from Activision to kick off the iPad's launch.TUAWActivision puts Geometry Wars: Touch, Tony Hawk 2 on the App Store originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Answering your #1 question, as fast as we can
Filed under: iPad
Earlier today, we asked you (via Twitter and @ask_tuaw) for your top inquiries about the product everyone's talking about. While we can't give you first-person photos and video -- yet -- we can give you an answer, straight from the lab and the lap, to the most popular question: Can you read iBooks in direct sunlight?The answer, surprisingly enough: Yes, you can. Even in bright sun, the high-contrast black type on a white page background was clearly legible, says our experimenter. In fact, the display looks quite a bit like the Kindle's e-ink screen under those lighting conditions.What does not look good in bright sun: video playback. The dark screen doesn't pump out quite enough candlepower to make TV shows or movies easily visible. However, that's a failing of most portable video devices, so you can't ding the iPad for it. Much.
As many have inquired, the screen does hold fingerprints and you can see them most annoyingly in the sun -- but the oleophobic coating means a quick sleeve swipe fixes that.Our question-answering squad wasn't in a situation to deal with iTunes and networking details, unfortunately, but we'll try to get more on that for you all soon.
TUAWAnswering your #1 question, as fast as we can originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - First Look: Foto Brush Pro on iPad
Filed under: iPad
One of the more popular genres of iPad app appearing close to launch time seems to be artistic or photography tools. The video above shows Foto Brush Pro from Bobby Software running on an iPad. The app has been available for iPhone and iPod touch under the name Photo Brush for quite some time, and is now expanding to fill the vast pixel space of the iPad.
The video shows how the app can be used to paint blank canvases or photos, add text, and otherwise enhance or create art. The bigger screen is definitely a benefit for this kind of app -- having a little extra room for tools and gestures helps a lot, we'd imagine. As of the time this post was published, the app was not yet available in the App Store for purchase, so be sure to check back often if you're interested in this creative app for iPad.TUAWFirst Look: Foto Brush Pro on iPad originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - First look: Rally Up, a social network for real friends
Filed under: Software
I have to admit it: I like location-based social networking apps. Probably my favorite to date has been FourSquare, which I love because I'm the "Mayor" of a couple dozen locations. But this type of app isn't for everyone. My wife, for example, says that she thinks they're a bit too much like stalking (to which I replied, "there's an app for that"), so she won't use them.
Rally Up is a new location-based social network (that's so awkward to say) that has several features that may sway my wife. The free app for iPhone, and soon for iPad, lets you set granular friend preferences. What does that marketing speak mean? Easy -- you set your real friends to "real" on a slider, which means that they get full notifications (i.e., "Steve is at the Blue Bonnet Café) and their check-ins show up in your feed.
The next slider setting is "feed," which is for those folks who you want to know about, but you don't want to receive push notifications from. Next on the slider? "Lurker." Here, you can see what's happening with a friend, but you don't let them see what you're up to. And finally, there's "mute." What do you use mute for? It's for all of those people who you started following because of social pressure, but who you really don't want to follow.TUAWFirst look: Rally Up, a social network for real friends originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - iPad apps now live in the store
Filed under: iPad
It looks like Apple has flipped the switch, as iPad apps are now appearing in searches and elsewhere on the App Store in iTunes. Here are the official apps, and quite a few other apps are up as well. There doesn't seem to be a section yet labeled in the main interface (there's no "iPad" selection in the menu dropdown), but the apps are in there and available for purchase, so if you want to get a head start on your app shopping, now's the time.
Let the magical revolution begin!TUAWiPad apps now live in the store originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Some Apple Specialist locations will have iPads
Filed under: iPad
A few days ago, we listed three ways you can score an iPad on Saturday if you didn't reserve one. Namely, see if your local Best Buy will have any (just 15 per store, and not every store), hang around an Apple Store and count on a no-show, or buy one from a customer on launch day. Now we can add a fourth: check your local Apple Specialist location.
According to AppleInsider, several Apple Specialist locations will be selling iPads, though exactly which ones is a mystery. The resellers are supposedly under a non-disclosure agreement, preventing them from advertising the iPads before the official release.
So, what's a geek in need to do? Give your local shop a call and see what they say (though the NDA might prevent them from speaking the truth). If you're "in" with staff, you might get a confirmation in a "between you, me and the lamp post" kind of way.
In any case, good luck! Though we suspect you'll be waiting until April 12th at this point.TUAWSome Apple Specialist locations will have iPads originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - First look: free WunderMap weather app for iPad
Filed under: iPad
Weather Underground has been around for years, first with an Internet presence and later with mobile sites. The company is a bit different in that they take local weather readings from over 16,000 personal weather stations located around the world, in addition to using the traditional meteorological information sources.
I've always been a bit of a sucker for the Weather Underground "Who Is Hot?" and Wunder Radio iPhone apps, as well as their website, so I was anxiously awaiting word of when they'd announce something for the iPad. I didn't have to wait long, as the company has announced that their free WunderMap has been approved by Apple and will be available soon. According to a company spokesman, they also submitted a version of WunderRadio for iPad that was rejected by Apple -- it ran on the iPad simulator, but not on the actual device. They've resubmitted, and we can only hope that that great radio app receives approval before Saturday.
What is WunderMap? It's an amazing interactive weather map that uses Weather Underground's 16,000+ weather stations as well as radar and satellite layers to bring you weather information in a totally new way. You can start by looking at current conditions at any of the Weather Underground sites, with information including temperature, dew point, humidity, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction, and barometric pressure. Or course, most people want to know what the weather is going to be like in the future, so WunderMap provides 4-day forecasts for the center location in the current view of the map.TUAWFirst look: free WunderMap weather app for iPad originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Steve Jobs on Time magazine cover again
Filed under: iPad
There's a super article in the current issue of Time magazine featuring Stephen Fry's interview with Steve Jobs. As you may know, Stephen Fry is a writer, actor and comedian. He was also the 2nd person in all of Britain to own a Macintosh (author Douglas Adams was the first). That's precisely why this interview is such a joy to read -- Fry is a total fanboy (his tremendous skills as a writer don't hurt, either).
He admits buying one of those "I visited the Mothership" T-shirts from the Company Store at 1 Infinite Loop, and describes his first meeting with Jobs like this:
"I have met five British Prime Ministers, two American Presidents, Nelson Mandela, Michael Jackson and the Queen. My hour with Steve Jobs certainly made me more nervous than any of those encounters."
Fry asks Jobs, who resurrected Apple with the iMac's introduction in 1998, if he'd use the iPad's successful release (should that happen) as an opportunity to step down on top; to end his career on a high. Jobs responded as one might expect:
"I don't think of my life as a career," he says. "I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!"
In addition to talking with Jobs, Fry met with Phil Schiller (Apple's senior VP of worldwide product marketing) and Eddy Cue (Apple's VP of Internet services) who showed off the iBooks application. At last, Stephen got some time to use an iPad which he instantly fell in love with. You can watch him unbox his own iPad here.
As you pour over the media's reaction to the iPad this weekend, don't miss this article. It was a pleasure to read. While you're at it, use Time's Cover Search to find Steve's other appearances on the magazine.TUAWSteve Jobs on Time magazine cover again originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Mail Notifier subscription service for the iPhone
Filed under: App Store
When Apple introduced ActiveSync and Push email support for iPhone email, there were two reactions: 1) "Yay!" and 2) "What's this going to mean for battery life?" Any sort of "push" technology will reduce the battery life, but it is a trade-off many people are willing to make, especially when it comes to email.Mail Notifier is one of several applications in the App Store designed to avoid the battery drain of keeping an active connection to your mail server. I've been using it for a couple of months and it has worked very well with my Gmail (actually, "Google Apps") account. In fact, there have been times when I was sitting at my computer and my iPhone told me I had mail even before I saw it in Mailplane. Does it actually save on battery life? That's a difficult question to answer without doing tests in a controlled environment, but anecdotally and unscientifically I would say that it does seem to have improved my battery life.
One of the nice features that Mail Notifier offers is the ability to set a "silent period" when you won't be disturbed by alerts. This is something that I wish Apple would provide globally, i.e. "Disable all push notifications between 11pm-8am" or each push application would implement individually, e.g. "If it is my move in Words With Friends during the day, play a sound and display an alert, but if it's my move between 11pm and 8am, just display an alert, but keep quiet. I might be sleeping."
Mail Notifier is also said to work with free Hotmail accounts and AOL, although I did not test either of those. If you use webmail instead of Mail, you can setup Mail Notifier to open a web page instead of the Mail app. You can also setup different sounds for different accounts. That is a handy function if you have more than one mail account, or if you have a "multiple iPhone household" and want to avoid the "Which one of us just got an email?" confusion.
Overall, the app has worked very well, and as advertised. However, there is some "small print" to attend to. I was surprised to see a large number of 1-star reviews on the Mail Notifier iTunes/App Store page. Then, I noticed a list of "top in-app purchases" for Mail Notifier. As I scrolled down to read the comments, I found that most of the 1-star reviews seemed to be about the fact that Mail Notifier is actually a subscription service, rather than just a one-time purchase. This came as a surprise to me. I was provided with a review code (see note below) that must have included at least 1 year of service, since I have not seen any renewal notices in the app. I did some looking around to see just how obvious this would be to a new user who happened to be browsing the App Store.
My conclusion is that it really depends on whether you came in through iTunes on a Mac or Windows computer, or whether you used the App Store on an iPhone or iPod touch.
Read on to see more.TUAWMail Notifier subscription service for the iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - iPad Frenzy: Getting yours
Filed under: iPad
If you're looking to pick up an iPad on Saturday without having pre-ordered or if you're concerned about your pre-ordered iPad arriving safely at your door, TUAW has some helpful updates for you.
Ignore your tracking data. Does your iPad tracking show that it is still sitting in China? Mine does. But according to Boy Genius Reports, your iPad is actually here and waiting under guard. They write, "Don't worry if your tracking info still shows the package hasn't left China, it's probably only 10 miles from you, sitting comfortably under the watchful eyes of Top Flight security."
On his Twitter account, Thomas from UPS agrees. He is busy reassuring freaked-out Apple customers that, in fact, the tracking information they're seeing on UPS's site is inaccurate. It doesn't help that Apple's Order Status system has been up and then down and then up again all morning.
Buying one on Saturday. Did you not order your iPad in advance? We called around to a number of Apple Stores today and spoke with representatives, all of whom confirmed that they will be receiving stock in addition to preorder stock. This stock will be sold on a first come, first serve basis using the same two line system (one reserved line, one drop in line) you saw back during the 3GS release. Any remaining reserved stock will be released at 3PM.
Thanks, JP ChecaTUAWiPad Frenzy: Getting yours originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Man files "sharp" edge off his MacBook Pro
Filed under: Macbook Pro
I own a 2009 MacBook Pro and have never had this problem, but everyone's different. John Pozadzides got sick and tired of his MacBook Pro's sharp edge digging into his wrist (and people thinking he was trying to kill himself) so he took it into his own hands to file that beautiful machine's unibody to his liking. Watch the video above to see how he does it and in just 10 to 20 strokes of a $5 file you too can have a smooth-edged MacBook Pro.
BTW -- if you actually take a file to your $2000 laptop, you're on your own. We don't endorse this in any way.
[via Lifehacker]TUAWMan files "sharp" edge off his MacBook Pro originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Found footage: the first guy in the iPad line at 5th Avenue Apple Store
Filed under: iPad
It's not surprising at all that someone has already been sitting in front of the iconic 5th Avenue Apple Store in New York City. This video was posted this morning (April 1, 2010) and from the discussion with the person who is sitting there, he was in line yesterday.
He kind of looks lonely, but if past practice is any indicator of the next few days, he'll make a lot of new friends as the line begins to grow in the hours leading up to 9 AM EDT on Saturday, April 3rd, 2010.TUAWFound footage: the first guy in the iPad line at 5th Avenue Apple Store originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - OWC offers DIY kits for Mac minis, laptops
Filed under: Hardware
Other World Computing (best known on the net as OWC) has released more than 50 storage upgrade kits for laptops and the Mac mini.
The kits start at $65.99 and include everything for do-it-yourself replacements including:
- A new drive ranging from 250GB to 1TB.
- An enclosure for your old drive so you can use it as a spare external drive.
- A tool kit
[Via Macsimum News]TUAWOWC offers DIY kits for Mac minis, laptops originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Are you ready for the iPad? These sites are
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T-minus two days to the iPad release and Apple wants to make sure you're fully aware of which web sites are iPad-ready.
Of course, they reassure us that those on their list are using the latest web standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript (and omit any mention of that "bastard" stepchild of coding, otherwise known as Flash.) iPad-ready sites include CNN, the New York Times, the White House, Time, and more. Several of the listed sites are utilizing BrightCove for their HTML5 video.
For sites wanting to prepare their content for the iPad, a support document is also linked to provide guidance.TUAWAre you ready for the iPad? These sites are originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Amazon caves to book publishers
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Amazon has submitted to pressure from the major book publishers ahead of the iPad's Saturday launch. HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster will now, like Macmillan, be allowed to use an agency model that gives them control over their book's prices. "Our digital future is more assured today than it was two months ago," HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray told the Wall Street Journal.
Bestsellers will now cost between $13 to $15, up from the standard $9.99. While many other books will remain at the $10 mark, some will even be priced below Amazon's old $9.99 average. Amazon and others have been very concerned over the iPad's iBookstore. Just last week, Sony cut the price of its Reader Pocket Edition while Perseus Books Group, the largest independent book publisher, ignored Amazon's threats and penned a deal to sell their books on the iPad.
At the iPad unveiling, Steve Jobs told Walt Mossberg that "publishers are actually withholding books from Amazon because they're not happy" and that "the prices [on the Kindle and iBookstore] will be the same." What he didn't clarify at the time was whether ebooks on Apple's iBookstore would cost what they do on the Kindle or vice versa. Now we know.TUAWAmazon caves to book publishers originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Happy 34th birthday, Apple!
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It's hard to believe, but Apple has been around for 34 years today. On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer, Inc. was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
The company had an amazing childhood (Apple II, Mac), an awkward adolescence where it nearly killed itself with a broad, unfocused product line (Performa, Quadra, Newton), and then finally straightened itself out after reaching true adulthood in the late 90s and early 2000s (iMac, iPod).
Apple now has a nice family (iPod, iMac, MacBook, Mac Pro, Mac mini, iPhone, and the awkward kid Apple TV) and another child on the way -- iPad. It's been able to become one of the most prosperous companies in the United States in the midst of a recession, and shows all signs of being able to survive into middle age.
Happy 34th birthday, Apple!TUAWHappy 34th birthday, Apple! originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - First Look: Hurricane HD for iPad
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Do you enjoy tracking storms? Ilene Jones, CEO of Kitty Code was kind enough to send over this preview of her Hurricane HD application, a bigger, updated version of the current iPhone version. It offers both Atlantic and Pacific storm tracking. You'll be able to check wind speed, direction and pressure as storms develop and dissipate. The application also offers satellite images, forecasts and advisories among other data.
This is a pretty exhaustive video (it runs over nine minutes) and showcases pretty much every storm-related feature you might imagine, all presented using the iPad's extended screen space. We haven't heard anything about a price yet, but it looks like storm trackers will have software to run on the iPad right away.TUAWFirst Look: Hurricane HD for iPad originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Official Netflix app will stream to iPad
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Many iPad owners will use their devices to watch television shows and movies. Netflix and ABC want to make that easy with their official iPad apps. And no, this is not an April Fools prank.
Appadvice has posted screenshots and details of how the subscription will work. The app will be free and available at launch on April 3rd, allowing Netflix customers to stream video directly to their iPads. The nice thing is that you can watch a bit of a movie on your computer, and then pick up where you left off on your iPad (and vice versa). You'll also be able to browse and manage your queue from the app.
US television network ABC is also offering an app. This free app gives customers Wi-Fi access to some of their most popular shows, like Lost and Grey's Anatomy. You can even browse the network's weekly and monthly schedule to find just the show you're after.
We've been expecting Netflix to offer something for a while, and the ABC app isn't entirely unexpected either, as the network 's corporate parent's biggest stockholder is someone we all know.
Now if only Hulu would pull the trigger.
TUAWOfficial Netflix app will stream to iPad originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Gmail enables OAuth, Syphir for iPhone already using it
Filed under: iPhone
Google has introduced OAuth authorization for Gmail, meaning that approved applications can access your Gmail account without you giving them access to your Gmail username and password.
OAuth has been used as Flickr and Twitter for some time, but is a new development for Google.
Previously, if you wanted to get push notifications on your iPhone when you received a message at Gmail, you had two options: trust a third-party application with your username and password, or automatically forward a copy of all of your email to a different email address and trust that they would not save a copy of your email. As you can imagine, neither of those made security-conscious users very comfortable.
There is already an iPhone app available which uses OAuth, SmartPush ($2.99) by Syphir promises to give you finer control over notifications from Gmail on your iPhone. We hope to have a review of SmartPush here on TUAW in the near future, so stay tuned for that.
TUAWGmail enables OAuth, Syphir for iPhone already using it originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - TUAW Reports: FCC filing, photos detail last-minute iPad changes
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We have received exclusive access (via an envelope slipped under the door of TUAW headquarters somewhere west of Socorro, NM) to a set of documents outlining last-minute changes to Apple's iPad, which is due to arrive in stores, homes, and offices throughout America on Saturday, April 3rd. These documents are part of a required Apple filing with the FCC*, released today -- April 1 -- and they show hardware features that have not previously been seen in public demos or videos of Apple's new tablet device. A gallery of photos accompanies this post and shows these changes for the first time.
First, and most important to the estimated quarter-million people who will have iPads in their hands on Saturday, is that there will be a front-facing digital camera on the device. As you can see in the gallery, the camera is a 6.0 megapixel unit with a zoom lens. It's apparent that Apple partnered with Canon on the camera -- the first time the Cupertino-based computer manufacturer has gone "out of the house" on a digital camera since the original Apple QuickTake was designed and manufactured by Kodak.
The second feature makes a lot of sense, considering the power of the Canon-designed camera on the device. It's an SD card slot, which means that photos and videos captured with the camera can now be easily transferred to other devices via inexpensive and commonly-available SD cards.
In the documents, there are also details of other members of the iPad "Most Wanted List" that appear to have made it to the shipping. In particular, Flash has been added as well. That's right -- Flash can be seen in one of the photos. Be sure to click the Source link below for a better look at the documents.TUAWTUAW Reports: FCC filing, photos detail last-minute iPad changes originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Munster: Apple developing a search engine
Filed under: Apple
The great prognosticator Gene Munster (who spends his days working as an analyst at Piper Jaffray) has another guess at Apple's future for us: a search engine. He says there's a 70% chance that Apple will create its own search engine within the next five years -- right after that HDTV that he predicted a little while back.
Obviously, putting together a search engine is a big undertaking, and once again, it seems unlikely that Apple would want to put one little toe into such a crowded pool. However, Munster's got that covered; he says that, instead of building from scratch, Apple might use some of its huge pool of cash to buy an existing database like Cuil.
While that seems unlikely as well, it does make a little bit of sense. If Apple and Google really are on the rocks (sit-down between Jobs and Schmidt notwithstanding), Apple is probably looking at strategies to extricate itself from Google's search grip.TUAWMunster: Apple developing a search engine originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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