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- Rocking the Objective-C[ountry]
Filed under: Cult of Mac
What happens when you tweet a silly off-the-cuff remark about wanting a Country/Objective-C song called "Retain My Heart (Or you might point to an invalid memory reference)"? Magic. That's what happens. Absolute weekend-ready magic!
Italian Mac aficionado and brilliant songsmith Andrea "Camillo Miller" Nepori jumped into my e-mail in-box and delivered exactly what I had asked for: a heartfelt country rendition of what has got to be one of the lamest geekiest puns I've ever made.
Nepori tells me that he recorded the music on his iPhone, adding a little reverb and compression in GarageBand before sending it on over to TUAW. A big round of public acclaim for the next biggest geek hit! Bravo! Download your own copy here (mp3) or listen to the embedded version in the continuation of this post.
The little Objective-Country pun? Thanks to Neil Twist.
TUAWRocking the Objective-C[ountry] originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 21 May 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Take a planetary tour with Solar Walk
Filed under: iPad
Solar Walk is a nifty astronomy romp from the folks who did the popular Star Walk iPhone and iPad app. Instead of exploring the night sky and deep space, you get to tour our solar system in luscious 3D graphics. While the app is universal for the iPhone and iPad, the iPad version is breathtaking with crisp graphics and beautiful color.
Tapping on any planet will take you close to it, and you can use your finger to orbit the planet and see it from any angle or zoom. You can see the planets on any particular date and time, and speed up the animation to watch the planets in their elliptical orbits.
Tapping the info button gets you some information on all the planets, like size, gravity, composition and more. One omission is that the program doesn't tell you which planets are up for viewing on a particular night. You'll need Star Walk for that.
TUAWTake a planetary tour with Solar Walk originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 21 May 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Magic Window creates living photo art piece
Filed under: iPad
Most iPad applications create a way for you to interact directly with your device via the human touch. Magic Window is not most applications. A $3.99 iPad application, Magic Window works when you put the device down. It transforms your iPad into a living photo art piece, creating a real-time window onto a virtual world. As the video here shows, you can select from fifteen pre-built time lapse experiences to display while your iPad rests on its stand.
Photo sequences include both natural and urban viewscapes. You can watch sunset over the Pacific, clouds drifting over Vancouver city, sunset in Santa Barbara, and more. A subtle audio track accompanies each presentation. Most of the sequences ship in a stripped-down "sample size" version. You need to have access to a Wi-Fi connection to download the full image sequence to your iPad.TUAWMagic Window creates living photo art piece originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 21 May 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - hacksugar: Mirror your jailbroken iPad display with DisplayOut
Filed under: iPad
Ryan Petrich's latest utility for jailbroken iPads just hit the Cydia store. DisplayOut for iPad sells for US$1.99. It allows you to mirror the iPad's screen out to an external display via an attached VGA or component/composite cable. Similar to earlier iPhone solutions like TV Out and ScreenSplitr, DisplayOut extends video out to the larger iPad screen. DisplayOut provides a great way to create application videos. It supports both in-app and Springboard video, so you can record complete sequences including application launch and run time.
If there is any negative to the application, it is that the video doesn't quite fill the screen, and I couldn't find a way to increase the screen size; that's why the video on the Magic Window review appears on the small side. Positives include the excellent Settings integration. You can easily enable and disable video mirroring with a simple switch change. An adjustable refresh rate lets you increase video quality, albeit at the cost of more system resources. I found that some applications slowed down exponentially as the refresh rate grew.
All in all, DisplayOut is a great little utility for anyone who has a jailbroken iPad, a video cable, and a desire to display or record iPad action. Note that you will need a recording device on the other end of the cable (VCR, DVD-R, or a video in device for your computer) to capture videos.TUAWhacksugar: Mirror your jailbroken iPad display with DisplayOut originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 21 May 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Carrie Bradshaw: a Mac no longer
Filed under: Cult of Mac
Say it ain't so, Carrie!
Our friend Christina Warren reports over at Mashable that the second Sex and the City film is featuring product placements from Hewlett-Packard rather than from Apple, including an entire site dedicated to the movie.
As Christina points out, Carrie's Mac was practically its own character in the original Sex and the City TV series. The episodes were bookended by Carrie typing away on her PowerBook (a Pismo was mostly used). The laptop was the focus of its own episode when the motherboard fried and Carrie's boyfriend at the time tried to replace it with the first generation iBook, referring to it as a "purse."
At age 25, moving across the country from my family for the first time, Carrie and her PowerBook were both a comfort and a symbol of power to me. They represented the modern, independent female journalist and I wanted to be like her. Okay, so I could never have the hair or the figure, but I did scrape together $175 to buy a used G3 PowerBook off of Ebay. When I did my second cross-country move, this one solo, I recorded my journey on that PowerBook and was pleased with my inner Carrie.
The move by Sex and the City's producers appears to be motivated by HP's aggressive product placement program, and I'm sure that a good chunk of money was saved by having Carrie leap to Windows rather than upgrade to a 27" iMac and the latest MacBook Pro. It really is a shame, and I know I'll wince a little inside when I go see the movie. For me, Carrie Bradshaw will always be a Mac girl.TUAWCarrie Bradshaw: a Mac no longer originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 21 May 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - One district attorney's journey to iPad happiness
Filed under: iPad
Let's face it. Apple and the legal profession have not always enjoyed a terribly close relationship.
Since the advent of the word processor, being a lawyer practically required a PC. Lawyers' slavish dedication to Corel's Word Perfect, long after everybody else had stopped using it, is the stuff of legend. Database management programs were typically proprietary things, all requiring networks of PCs. Using a Mac in this environment required, at best, many workarounds, and, at worst, a separate PC to access various schedulers, run conflict checks and access documents.
Recently, e-filing and the need to share and trade digital documents allowed for greater platform-independence. Macs, iPhones and now iPads claim their share of diehard legal adherents; you can get stories from the front lines of Apple integration in law from sites like The Mac Lawyer, MacAttorney, EsquireMac, the Disability Law Blog and the MacLaw mailing list.
The legal world's growing acceptance of Apple means that lawyers like Ron Elkins can get their Apple mojo working. Ron, the District Attorney for Wise County and City of Norton, in Wise, VA, has shared the ways in which the iPad has integrated itself perfectly into his criminal practice.
Ron not only accesses documents (PDFs and audio files) through Safari, but conducts presentations with Keynote, dictates with Dragon Dictation, and accesses files through DropBox and GoodReader -- all through his iPad.
Here's hoping that Apple continues to make inroads into the legal community. It's been lonely.
[via The Mac Lawyer]TUAWOne district attorney's journey to iPad happiness originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 21 May 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - iPad supply constraints still in play, says Piper Jaffray
Filed under: iPad
As we noted earlier, finding the iPad of your dreams hasn't been getting any easier in recent days. Even with an assumed uptick in production to handle the imminent overseas launch, the search for available units on the ground in the US has been tough.
Today's Apple 2.0 note on availability cites a report from Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, who found that 74% of the 50 retail outlets he surveyed had no iPads in stock, and those that did have some in house only had Wi-Fi models; the 3Gs remain scarce as four-leaf clovers.
With 10 day delivery waits on online orders, it's clear that demand has not slackened -- but it may be that a good chunk of the manufacturing allocation is currently heading for the aforementioned country launches that will kick off one week from today.
You would think that "We're selling every one of them we can make" is a pretty good problem to have, but that doesn't always play that well. In a classic maneuver known as "the market's glass of unicorn tears is half-empty," Munster simultaneously acknowledges that he completely lowballed his million-unit quarterly estimate for iPad sales while suggesting that the supply constraints may cause Wall Street to balk at AAPL's premium price if the company can't catch up with demand over the summer.TUAWiPad supply constraints still in play, says Piper Jaffray originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 21 May 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Apple's new campaign: Why you'll love a Mac
Filed under: Apple
As the "halo effect" brings new users to the Mac, Apple has prepared for their questions and concerns. A new online campaign called "Why you'll love a Mac" explains just that -- the benefits and pleasures of using a Mac instead of a Windows PC. Past Apple ad campaigns have focused on the direct experience of switchers, so this is familiar ground.
The campaign's message is broken down into five categories: hardware, software, OS, support and compatibility. Each category is full of useful information. This is the kind of stuff, frankly, that I'd love to see in a TV ad. Sure, a cool and confident Justin Long panned out well, but just for once I'd like to hear about the terrific hardware or the benefits of OS X.
As I said, the online campaign does a good job of breaking this down, and offers answers to questions common to switchers and others who are new to the Mac. Plus there are snazzy rollovers.
If someone you know is riding the technological fence, do them a favor with a link to apple.com/why-mac.
[via The Loop]TUAWApple's new campaign: Why you'll love a Mac originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 21 May 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Starting from zero on the iPhone home screen
Filed under: iPhone
This is what my iPhone looks like right now. No, it's not because iTunes went crazy and deleted all my apps. I'm trying to figure out which apps I actually use.
I've downloaded over 150 apps from the App Store. Of those 150, I have roughly 100 of them still in iTunes. I've tried grouping them using springboard pages, but I find it frustrating because I don't usually have 12 related apps. (I'm really looking forward to Folders in iPhone OS 4.)
Here's how I have been organizing my pages:
Page 1 and 2: anything app I use a lot or that may pop up a "badge" that I want to see.
Everything else: launch using search.
Here's the thing: I've gotten used to putting some apps on page 1 or 2 because I think I'm going to use them. The Phone app? I finally moved it off my Dock, but I left it on Page 1, even though I bet it's one of the apps that I actually use far less frequently than others.
Update: A hat tip to Patrick Rhone's MinimalMac, where a version of this experiment appeared in January.
Read on for more...
TUAWStarting from zero on the iPhone home screen originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 21 May 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Friday Favorite: BetterZip
Filed under: Friday Favorite
BetterZip is a utility I might not use every day, but I'm very thankful for it when I need it. It's an archive/compression utility which handles a broad array of archive formats, including ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, and some that you rarely see on a Mac, such as 7-Zip and RAR formats. While the unarchiver built in to OS X can handle quite a few of these formats -- and is what I use on a day-to-day basis -- BetterZip adds a few very useful tools to the mix.
BetterZip opens or creates your archive in a file-list format, and you can drag files between Finder and BetterZip to add to or extract from the archive. Creating new archives is just a "File->New" or Command-N away, and you can save them in Zip, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, 7-Zip or XAR formats. While the Finder lets you easily create archives by right-clicking a file selection and choosing "Archive," it doesn't allow you to easily edit the archive or add to it. For quick compression of one or more files for emailing, it's fine and I use it regularly, but for larger archives that need to be more flexible, BetterZip is an excellent choice. BetterZip also makes it easy to search large archives for a single file you're looking for. Read on for more reasons BetterZip is my Friday Favorite ...
TUAWFriday Favorite: BetterZip originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 21 May 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Howard Stern digs his iPad
Filed under: iPad
Oh, my.
Yeah, we know...another "celebrity x enjoys his/her iPad post" is hardly riveting reading, but this story is worth a mention. Any long-time Stern fan knows that 1.) He dislikes Apple and 2.) He's adverse to new tech gadgets. Unless he's pimping Sirius/XM hardware, you won't hear much fanboy gadget-gushing from Howard (he famously clings to Lotus Notes for much of his tech-based communication).
This week on the show, he talked about the 64GB 3G iPad he received as a gift from Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher. Calling it "pretty cool," Howard mentioned reading the New York Times with it and taking screenshots of his wife, Beth O, appearing on a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live via the ABC Player app.
This story is less about the celebrity and more about the iPad winning over yet another unlikely customer. Good job, Apple!TUAWHoward Stern digs his iPad originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 21 May 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - TUAW's Daily App: Mint.com Personal Finance
Filed under: iPhone
Not all of the apps we spotlight here are new or games (though I admit that most of them have been lately). Mint.com's app has been around for a while, and it's just as useful as the site that gives it the name and functionality. If you have a bank account, you should at least give Mint.com a look -- just by plugging in your bank information (which is as secure as it can get on the site), you can start seeing patterns and trends in your spending even without doing anything at all. And after a few months of use, the site will even do things like create a budget automatically for you, tell you when you're spending more than you usually do, and even recommend ways to save your money.
The iPhone app does all of that on the go, giving you instant access to your financial information wherever you are. You can check your accounts, edit your transaction records, and see your monthly budget (so even while out shopping, you can know exactly how much money you've got to spend) as long as your iPhone has a connection. You can get alerts when something goes wrong. And security even on the mobile device is excellent -- there's a password built-in to the app, so anyone using your phone can't get immediate access to your information, and if you lose your phone, you can even disable iPhone access directly from the web app, ensuring that no one who uses your lost phone gets any sensitive information from the app.
Oh yeah -- and it's all free. Mint.com is definitely worth a look if you haven't installed it yet.TUAWTUAW's Daily App: Mint.com Personal Finance originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 21 May 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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