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- Voices that Matter iPhone: App Store prices
Filed under: App Store
Here's just a quick shot from Jeffrey Hughes' lunchtime presentation on marketing iPhone apps here at this weekend's Voices that Matter iPhone developers' conference here in Seattle. Because the presentation ran a little long, he had to hurry through his planned section on pricing, but he did share these interesting figures, culled from 148Apps.biz. The average non-game app price in the iPhone store right now is actually over US$3. But the average game price, $1.39 (driven way down by the many 99 cent games available) actually brings the overall app price down another 20 cents or so, putting the total at just $2.79.
That might seem low (especially if you're an app developer who has worked a lot on what you think is a quality app). But given all the 99 cent and free apps out there, it actually seems somewhat higher than I expected. And apparently this includes iPad apps, too, many of which have settled down at $9.99. Interesting stat to see.TUAWVoices that Matter iPhone: App Store prices originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: iPad
Want to hold up an iPad as you give a talk, but afraid that you'll drop it as you gesticulate with your hands? Here's a clever way to keep control over your device while limiting risk, as seen at this weekend's Voices that Matter iPhone conference in Seattle. iPhone developer and author Andrew Donaho demonstrates the "iPad glove," a simple iPad grip in the gallery at the bottom of this post.
The glove, made of leather and fabric, attaches to your iPad using stretchy corner bands (there are both 2-corner and 4-corner versions of the holder), and then lets you hold up the device easily with just one hand, leaving the other free to point out app features or otherwise gesture. It is being developed by TKO Solutions in Austin, Texas. To learn more about the product, you can drop Andrew an email and ask him about it.
TUAWVoices that Matter iPhone: One-handed iPad holder originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - TUAW Review: Reiner Knizia's Monumental turns puzzle apps upside down
Filed under: App Review
The basic gist of Reiner Knizia's Monumental [$1.99] is that it's a thinking man's Tetris. This isn't to say that Tetris is a game for dummies - it's not - it's just that the never-ending rain of blocks means it's part puzzle, part twitch-fest. In Monumental, on the other hand, blocks fall constantly, but they do so at a rate you define. You still want to form complete lines and make them disappear, something old Tetris hands will feel right at home doing, but now you're placing each block carefully instead of in a frentic rush.
The game is the brainchild of prolific board game designer Reiner Knizia, and you can feel the math Knizia is known for (he has a PhD in mathematics, after all) in his games poking its head. Read on to find out if a slow-paced but tense puzzle game is worth your time.
TUAWTUAW Review: Reiner Knizia's Monumental turns puzzle apps upside down originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Tonight on Fox31: Georgia TV station buys iPads for news anchors
Filed under: iPad
[TVNewsCheck.com via 9to5 Mac]
Someone at Fox affiliate WFXL in Albany, GA must have had the brilliant insight that an iPad looks a lot like a pad of paper. That insight is going to save the TV station about $9,600 per year.
WFXL purchased 6 iPads to replace the paper scripts that their news anchors use. According to News Director and anchorman Terry Graham, the station is expected to save hundreds of thousands of sheets of paper every year. The scripts are composed in their usual manner, but instead of printing the files, they're now formatted as PDFs and emailed to the iPads.
The 16 GB iPads cost the station $499 each, but should pay for themselves in less than 4 months. Graham expects the station to purchase more iPads in the future, and once he's confirmed the savings he'll pass the word to other Fox stations. WFXL also has plans to use instant messaging to link producers and reporters, elicit viewer input through social media, and "enhance the way our journalists gather information."TUAWTonight on Fox31: Georgia TV station buys iPads for news anchors originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Inertial scrolling should be possible on all multi-touch trackpads
Filed under: Macbook Pro
A new feature called "inertial scrolling" has been introduced in the latest MacBook Pros. This feature changes the way that scrolling functions in OS X, making it behave more like the iPhone. Traditionally, when you use two-finger scrolling in OS X, scrolling stops dead as soon as your fingers stop moving. On the iPhone, however, there's a certain "momentum" to scrolling that is entirely dependent on how quickly you flick your finger to scroll; slow scrolling motions have almost no momentum to them at all, while fast flicks mean the screen continues to scroll long after your finger has left the tracking surface, possibly even scrolling all the way to the top or bottom of what you're scrolling through in a matter of seconds. Many people prefer the way scrolling behaves on the iPhone compared to the Mac, so it's been introduced as an optional behavior in the newest MacBook Pros.
Since the multi-touch trackpads on the MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro use essentially the same multi-touch hardware as the iPhone, it's been possible to bring this same scrolling behavior into OS X. However, it only works on the newest MacBook Pros for now. I suspected that there wasn't any reason this new inertial scrolling behavior couldn't be implemented on the older multi-touch trackpads, so I spent most of the morning investigating how to get it working on my Early 2008 MacBook Pro (the first model of MacBook Pro with a multi-touch trackpad). Read on to find out what I discovered.TUAWInertial scrolling should be possible on all multi-touch trackpads originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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