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- Apple reportedly testing three iPhone 5 prototypes
A Taiwanese Mac news site with a history of accurately predicting future Apple products says Apple is currently testing three different prototypes of the next iPhone. From what can be gleaned from the Google translation, tw.apple.pro says one of the iPhone 5 prototypes features a a slide-out physical keyboard -- a form factor that Steve Jobs and Apple have never seemed too keen to embrace.
Another iPhone 5 prototype is said to closely resemble the current iPhone 4 with a longer-lasting battery and an 8 megapixel rear camera. The site suggests that if this prototype is released, the iPhone 5 will be to the iPhone 4 what the iPhone 3GS was to the iPhone 3G -- in other words, a spec upgrade, but with no external redesign.
There is no word on what the third prototype features. As AppleInsider points out, tw.apple.pro has a relatively solid history of producing rumors that turned out to be true, including the white iPhone 4, the iPhone 4's battery, the 2008 MacBook redesign, the new Multi-Touch iPod nano, and the 2008 MacBook Pro's unibody redesign. However, in 2009 the site claimed a 15-inch MacBook Air was in development, but that never materialized. This of course doesn't mean a 15-inch MacBook Air has never been in development -- or even prototyped. Given the positive track record of rumors from tw.apple.pro, it's reasonable to believe that just because a reported prototype doesn't make it to market doesn't mean tw.apple.pro's information was false.
So, is tw.apple.pro's report correct? It's possible, but if they are correct, which of the three prototypes will become the iPhone 5? Only Steve Jobs and a handful of people at Apple know for sure. The next iPhone most likely won't ship until June, so until then, there's plenty of time for more rumors and speculation.Apple reportedly testing three iPhone 5 prototypes originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Verizon refreshes FiOS app, launches free iPhone program
Verizon updated its FiOS DVR manager for the iPhone, an application that lets you use your handset as a remote control for your FiOS television service and its DVR. In a fun feature, FiOS users with a penchant for taking photos with their iPhone can also easily flick their photos and watch them on their TV. The latest update was rolled out today and added support for multiple DVRs, a landscape view for the Guide, and the ability to change the name of your set-top boxes.
To celebrate the launch of the iPhone, Verizon is offering a sweet discount for those who purchase a triple or quad play bundle which includes FiOS TV, High-speed Internet service, home phone service or Verizon Wireless calling. The discount provides new customers with a $200 rewards card that can be applied towards the purchase of an Verizon iPhone 4 as well as a monthly discount on FiOS service that can total as much as $20 per month. Verizon also debuted a new ad that showcases the benefits of combining FiOS TV with the advanced capabilities of the iPhone. Check out the ad after the break.Continue reading Verizon refreshes FiOS app, launches free iPhone program
Verizon refreshes FiOS app, launches free iPhone program originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Space Gremlin helps you free up hard drive space on your Mac
Who knew gremlins could be so friendly? A new Mac app from Sean Christmann with the fantastic name of Space Gremlin is now available on the Mac App Store. This nifty little tool will help you to eat up all of the junk that's clogging up your Mac's precious hard drive space. It visualizes the contents of each of your drives in a really intuitive way: Item squares that scale dynamically based on how large items are in relation to the parent folder or drive. This means that it's a perfect app for finding out which artist is taking up all that space in your iTunes folder, or which game is causing your Mac to run low on resources.
There are some other tools available, namely DaisyDisk 2 (which admittedly has a much prettier interface), but there's something delightfully utilitarian about Space Gremlin that's caused me to make it my go-to app for cleaning up my trusty old Mac Pro. Sure, it doesn't look the greatest, but here's my philosophy -- you don't need a shovel encrusted with rubies to move some dirty old junk.
I highly suggest that you take the demo of the app for a spin before you slam down the Washingtons for a copy in the Mac App Store, but either way I'm sure you'll find Space Gremlin to be a pretty awesome utility. Just don't feed it after midnight.
Space Gremlin is available on the Mac App Store for a cool $3.99.Space Gremlin helps you free up hard drive space on your Mac originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Radiohead releasing new downloadable album, MC Hammer releases new iPad single
You may remember, about four years ago, Radiohead raising a stink over the digital release of its album In Rainbows. The band decided to "sell" the album on its website, asking fans to pay whatever they wanted, while at the same time shunning Apple's iTunes service, claiming they wanted to sell the album rather than individual songs. Back then, Radiohead's statement was pretty amazing, if only because there weren't a lot of other digital channels besides Apple's store.
Now, of course, there are a few more ways to buy your music online. Radiohead's gone iTunes anyway, and more artists have decided to sell music themselves. But Radiohead is back at it -- they've announced that a new album will be sold a little more traditionally, but at a $9 download for an MP3 version, as well as physically starting at $48. I doubt it'll be quite as disruptive as model as In Rainbows was, but figured it was worth a mention.
And speaking of releasing new music, MC Hammer released a brand new single on the Flipboard iPad app this month. You'll know Flipboard as a social aggregator, but apparently the company took a musical turn the other week, when it premiered the brand new single "See Her Face" on the pages of its app alone. There's no word on how the release went over, but you can listen to the song itself even if you don't have the iPad app on Flipboard's site.Radiohead releasing new downloadable album, MC Hammer releases new iPad single originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - YouMail provides an option to Google Voice for your voicemail needs
YouMail is a voicemail replacement for your iPhone, but is also available for Android and BlackBerry phones. It aims to give you a more efficient, share-able voicemail system across platforms. I've been testing YouMail for a couple of days and I think the first thing people will want to know is: How is this different than Google Voice?
Like Google Voice, there's a web interface for checking your voicemails. Also like Google Voice, it can "take over" voicemail from your built-in provider (in my case, that's AT&T). But YouMail has a paid version and some additional paid services that distinguish it from the mostly-free Google Voice services. Are these enough to make it worth paying for? Read on to find out.
YouMail offers a handy iPhone app for getting started. You don't have to go to a website to generate an account; it's all handled within the app. It really takes about five minutes to get the thing to start taking your voicemails. Of course, there is a website and it does allow you to configure every square inch of the service. Setup on the iPhone was quite simple, and the app adds two contacts to your phone: one to activate the service and one to deactivate it (and return voicemails to your carrier).
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YouMail provides an option to Google Voice for your voicemail needs originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Share links between Mac and iOS with Dropbox trickery
It's beginning to look like the holy grail for any Mac user that also totes around an iPhone or iPod Touch -- being able to open URLs remotely so that one can view them later from the comfort of their big, delicious Mac screen. Thanks to MacStories and their readers, we now have a workaround that fits the bill quite nicely.
There are a number of apps and services that let one send links to the iPhone easily, but no one seems to have truly mastered sending links the other way. For that, you'll need a Dropbox account, some knowledge of Folder Actions on OS X, and at least one cup of coffee. In the end, you'll be using Dropbox as a middleman between your iOS devices and your Mac, which monitors the Dropbox folders for URLs using Folder Actions.
The point is, this is a very doable and very effective workaround for the time being. I'm still waiting for a single service that will streamline the way we send content between desktop Macs and their touch-based brethren, but I'm never one to turn down a fun afternoon of desktop tweaking.
You can find the full set of instructions over at MacStories.Share links between Mac and iOS with Dropbox trickery originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Report: Zynga worth $7-9 billion
The Wall Street Journal says that with its $250 million in new funding, social gaming company Zynga could be worth as much as $7 to 9 billion -- that's "billion" with a B. An astounding number for the company behind the extraordinarily popular Facebook game Farmville. Zynga has a number of interests in the iOS space, including a Farmville app as well as the recent purchases of iPhone developers Newtoy and the studio behind Drop7.
Of course, that number is only an estimate of the company's value, not actual money it's earned. But investors do expect the company to go public within the next few years, and given that Farmville has attracted an audience (and appears to have nailed down a way to make a significant amount of money from an all-new gaming audience), there's no question that Zynga is a huge relatively new force in the gaming space.
Zynga is likely not done growing -- the company has picked up one developer per month over the past nine months, and I'll bet that we haven't heard of the last iPhone developer being acquired by them just yet. The iOS platform isn't the only reason for Zynga's huge valuation, but it certainly seems destined to play a part in its future.
[via Mashable]Report: Zynga worth $7-9 billion originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - The Matrix app turns iPads into a video wall
I spoke with someone from Anywise Enterprises at CES this past year, and they told me about The Matrix, an iPad app (that's now out on the App Store) that will network a bunch of iPads together to create a video wall of whatever size you want. We've seen this idea custom implemented in art installations and design ideas before, but this is a one-touch implementation for broadcasting a multimedia installation across a set of iPads.
When we talked about the app at CES, I asked the developer to make a video of it and send it out when it was done, and sure enough, you can see the app in action after the break. He's only got a set of three iPads running it (1x3), but I was told it can run on any "rectangular" group of iPads, so if you have a wall full of iPads, you can run the video across each one.
The app is $4.99, and you'll have to install it on every iPad you want to use -- there's no free version if you just want to receive a broadcast from another controller iPad. Still, $15 is cheap for a 1x3 video wall of something you'd have to code and design yourself. And if you have enough iPads to make a bigger Matrix you can probably afford the app a few more times as well. Then again, if you're doing this regularly (for a trade show or demo) you would probably just use the same iTunes account and install the app across all iPads for the one-time cost of $4.99.Continue reading The Matrix app turns iPads into a video wall
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Переслать - Apple issues report on supplier workplace audits and standards
Over the past several years, reports about alleged mistreatment of contract workers building Apple devices at plants throughout Asia have been rampant. Apple has not taken these reports lightly, and today the company issued a new report on supplier responsibility that outlines the efforts that have been made to make life better for the people who make our shiny toys.
According to the report (link to PDF), Apple conducted 127 workplace audits in 2010 -- 97 at locations that had not been previously visited, and 30 repeat audits. In the report, Apple refers to the corporate Supplier Code of Conduct, a comprehensive set of standards which suppliers must meet in order to continue doing work with Apple. The Code of Conduct covers labor and human rights, health and safety, the environment, ethics, and management commitment.
Apple lists some of the dismal scores achieved by suppliers, showing a lot of transparency to the company's stockholders and the public. To bring up audit scores, the company has trained over 300,000 workers on occupational health and safety, worker rights, and local labor laws in the past two years, and has trained more than 6,000 supervisor and managers on their responsibilities to workers.
The report also covers Apple's attempts to get away from use of conflict minerals in production, as well as a detailed section on how Apple COO (and acting CEO) Tim Cook and a group of executives met with Foxconn CEO Terry Gou and his staff in June of 2010 to discuss the string of worker suicides.
While the report shows that Apple suppliers still have a long way to go before creating a "worker's paradise," the company is taking positive steps to improve the situation for hundreds of thousands of workers. It's an eye-opening report worth reading for anyone who buys and uses Apple products.
[via CNET]
Apple issues report on supplier workplace audits and standards originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - JustMobile Gum Plus packs a lot of power in a small package
There are a lot of external battery packs available for iPhones, but how about one that can recharge your iPhone up to 4 times?
The JustMobile Gum Plus is an attractive and powerful little battery pack, holding a whopping 4400 mAh of power in its aluminum case and charging just about anything with an output current of about 1 Amp. As a comparison, the NewerTech NuPower Charge + Sync contains only about 1400 mAh of power, and can only trickle out about 650 mA of output current. The Mophie Juice Pack Air my iPhone is currently wearing only has a 1500 mAh battery in its lovely red shell.
The Gum Plus probably received its name because it looks like a large silver piece of gum. The battery pack comes with two cables -- a USB to Dock Connector cable and a USB to mini-USB cable for charging the pack. This worked great; I was able to use the standard Apple iPhone AC Adapter to charge the Gum Plus, so I wouldn't have to carry yet another power brick with me on trips. The Gum Plus comes with a little carrying bag so it won't get scratched, and it has five green LEDs that are used to let you know the current capacity of the battery and when the device is charging your toys.
So, just how long will 4400 mAh of power last? JustMobile says that you'd be able to get an extra 38 hours of talk, 90 hours of music, or 26 hours of video on your iPhone before you'd need to plug the Gum Plus back into the wall. Can it charge an iPad? Although it's not certified to do so, my iPad responded happily to the Gum Plus and I was able to watch it go from a 71% charge up to 100% in about an hour and still have power to spare.
The Gum Plus won a prestigious red dot design award for 2010, an honor it shares with the Apple Magic Mouse, the iMac, and the iPad. We'll be giving away our review Gum Plus, so be sure to look for that giveaway post in the near future. Check out a short Gum Plus video from JustMobile on the next page.
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Переслать - Photojojo provides a convenient telephoto lens for iPhone
The iPhone makes a great at-the-ready camera. Those of us appropriately sidearmed with an iPhone usually keep it easy to grab, which makes it the perfect device to yank from our pocket and snap a few pictures. And while the digital zoom is an awesome feature, it has limitations, and usually ends up killing the final photo quality. So you're stuck with the convenience of your iPhone versus its inevitable limitations as a camera.
Photojojo has a solution. The iPhone Telephoto Lens screws onto an included iPhone case, allowing you to get up to 8x the normal amount of zoom. The lens fits in your pocket when you're not using it, so it's not like you're hauling around a huge accessory to go with your iPhone. Even better, the iPhone Telephoto Lens comes with a tripod. As most professional photographers will tell you, using a tripod is the single best way to improve your photographs.
The lens package is available for both the iPhone 3/3GS and iPhone 4. For $35, you get the lens, a case, and a tripod. It's a pretty good deal to help improve your iPhone pictures.
[Via Cnet]Photojojo provides a convenient telephoto lens for iPhone originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Enterprise iPad adoption up to 80 percent in Fortune 100
Apple critics repeatedly say the iPad is a media consumption device, and not really fit for the heavy lifting in the enterprise environment. But think again folks, because the iPad is working itself into some of the the largest companies in the world.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that 65% of the the Fortune 100 have either deployed or have pilots running with the iPad already. Meanwhile, Network World puts the number in the Fortune 100 as 80%, and cites companies taking the iPad in like Dupont, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo. Company IT mangers like the increased security that comes with iOS 4, especially the application level encryption. And being able to remotely wipe the device is another plus.
I don't think Apple intended the iPad as a solution for big business, but increasingly it's finding a way in anyway. Happily for Apple, Microsoft seems so far to have fumbled on delivering a tablet-ready OS. After promises in 2009 that tablets would be a top priority in 2010, nothing has been delivered. Meanwhile Blackberry, HP and Android have moved ahead with products or nearly-ready products to challenge the iPad. Is your company or business using iPads? Let us know your experiences in comments.
[via Network World]
Enterprise iPad adoption up to 80 percent in Fortune 100 originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - The Daily trial extended to the end of February
Several TUAW readers have noticed that the trial version of The Daily has been extended through February 28. When the app debuted on February 2, Verizon announced that it was sponsoring a two-week free trial. This also brought forth the rumor of the public release of iOS 4.3 within that time frame. It's been nearly two weeks, but it hasn't happened.
So why has the trial been extended? Leave us your thoughts in the comments below. I think it has less to do with the public release of iOS 4.3 and more with the fact that so many people are becoming disenchanted with The Daily that the publishers want more of a chance to prove themselves before people delete it -- and the potential revenue -- off their iPads completely.
[via MacRumors]
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Переслать - GoodReader for iOS update now provides Auto Sync
GoodReader, the popular document reader for iOS devices, has been updated to include auto syncing with iDisk, Dropbox, SugarSync or any WebDAV or FTP server. Users are now able to download documents and/or entire folders full of documents and mark them to automatically synchronize across all remote servers, making sure that anyone with access sees only the most up-to-date document versions. Supported document types include .pdf, .txt, .doc, html, images, audio/video files and even those from iWork '08 and '09.
Good.iWare president Yuri Selukoff said that "this entire update to GoodReader is dedicated to the 'Live on the cloud' idea" and I'm so thankful for that. I have been using GoodReader on my iPhone for quite some time now and it has definitely helped me out of many a jam when working remotely on documents with co-workers. It's also popular with the TUAW staff here, as our own Victor Agreda, Jr. named it as one of the top five apps on his iPad and Erica Sadun included it on her list of iPad apps to the rescue.
Interested in giving GoodReader a try on your iOS device? There are two different versions in the App Store, both priced at US$2.99 -- GoodReader v.3.2.3 for iPhone/iPod touch and GoodReader v.3.3.0 for iPad. Good.iWare says that v.3.3.1 for iPhone/iPod touch is in Apple's review as of this writing, so we should expect to see an update in the App Store any day now.GoodReader for iOS update now provides Auto Sync originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Aza Raskin shares Jef Raskin's 1981 memo on the genesis of the Macintosh
If you don't already know Jef Raskin's name, you should spend some time getting to know his work. His son, Aza Raskin, turned out to be a bit of a prodigy, eventually doing important and amazing work at Mozilla in the Labs department. Aza's latest endeavor is a company called Massive Health. His dad, Jef, was a true visionary in user experience and wrote a book called the Humane Interface, a must-read if you design interfaces for human beings. Oh, and Jef is largely credited with this whole "Macintosh" thing, often called the "father" of the Mac, even though he opposed the use of a mouse!
So if you're steeped in Mac lore it's a wonderful thing to see his son Aza posting Mac origin-story documents with the man's comments inline. Jef was quite opinionated, and it's worth reading reading comments he added to "Macintosh Project Genesis and History" -- a document he wrote in 1981. Read the story of the document, excerpts and the full thing at Fast Co.Design or check out the full thing with Jef's handwritten notes on the next page (sorry, a Flash embed from Scribd so it won't work on iOS).
The document makes clear why Apple chose to rigidly control the hardware in the Macintosh platform and sheds some light on key design considerations. The integrated monitor, for example, made it much easier to design a standard user interface, legible fonts and maintain consistency througout the OS and 3rd-party applications. Aza notes that Android currently suffers from similar issues the Apple II line suffered from then: fragmentation. Although it's weird to think about now, I do remember radical display differences when going from my Apple II to my Laser 128 to my dad's Apple //c. Also, a standard set of hardware made everything from manuals to marketing easier. As the guy behind many manuals at Apple, Jef understood how good that would be. But the marketing? To quote Raskin: "The secret of mass marketing of software is having a very large and extremely uniform hardware/software base." I think anyone can understand how that fits into the current iOS strategy at Apple.
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Переслать - Debunked: Amazon book listings suggest Mac OS X Lion ship date
TUAW readers know from past articles that Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" is expected to ship sometime this summer -- Apple told us that during the Back to the Mac event on October 20, 2010. Now MacNN has noted that listings for Lion books in the UK Amazon bookstore may indicate a possible ship date for the next generation of Mac OS X.
The post notes that several books are showing a July 28 ship date, with others targeted for August 5 and August 28. As much as I'd like to believe that we're going to see a mid-summer release of Lion, I can tell you from personal experience that these dates are pure conjecture.
Fellow TUAW blogger Michael Grothaus and I recently signed a contract to write a Lion book that is scheduled for August 2011. Does that mean that we know the ship date of Lion? Hell no, and neither do any of the other authors who I've talked to about their Lion titles.
Most publishers want to build buzz about upcoming books and also get placeholders into online bookstores as soon as they can. To do this, publishers work with the authors to come up with a best-guess date, knowing that the operating system and book may not come out until later. As it is, the most any of us know at this point is that Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will ship between June 22 and September 23, 2011 -- that's summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Considering that we don't even know when the first betas of Lion are going to be sent out to developers, it's entirely premature to come up with a ship date for the OS or books about Lion.
With any luck at all, we'll see the first beta of Lion at WWDC 2011, which many Apple pundits believe is scheduled for June 5 - 9. After that, the OS will go through numerous revisions as developers find bugs, and during that period is when most of the Lion authors are going to be scrambling to get their books written. As for July 28, August 5, or August 28 release dates? I seriously doubt it.
Debunked: Amazon book listings suggest Mac OS X Lion ship date originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Verizon data limitations not unique to iPhone
There's a video up at 9to5 Mac which demonstrates how iPhones on Verizon and AT&T handle conference calling differently. Specifically, the CDMA-based Verizon phone is unable to jump between calls like the AT&T iPhone can.
The user began by placing a call on both phones. Once connected, a second call was initiated. The AT&T phone let the user move between calls easily, placing the non-active call on hold. Finally, each call could be terminated individually.
Meanwhile, the Verizon phone did not let the user jump between calls, and pressing the End button terminated both calls at once. We noticed that the user in the video didn't hit the Merge Calls button on either phone, even though it was available on both.
This is not a "limitation in the software" as 9to5 guessed, but a limitation of CDMA. The AT&T phone uses Cellular Radio and the GSM Data Radio to put each call on a unique channel. Since CDMA can't handle voice and data simultaneously, you're out of luck. The issue isn't unique to the iPhone, but the technology behind the Verizon flavor. In fact, here's how Apple summarizes the issue:
"On a CDMA model, you can't switch between calls if the second call was outgoing, but you can merge the calls. If you end the second call or the merged call, both calls are terminated."
Many home users won't be troubled by the limitation but business users might be. Enterprise customers considering a purchase will want to keep this in mind.
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Переслать - Valentine's Day iPhone apps for the woman who bore your children
You love her. You admire her. You have given her the gift of children. (For the purposes of this post, they will be considered a gift. A loving gift. A blessing, even.) You share a home, a past, and a future.
It's Valentine's Day. Now what?
So, first the obvious. No amount of chocolate or roses are going to make the kid's sniffles go away, the dog walk herself, or the laundry folded and put away magically.
If you're thinking about making her day special, just buying an app just isn't going to do it, especially apps that involve farts or beer. Get real, people. Large quantities of time to herself, along with her friends, at a day spa is thinking in the right direction.
But if you're determined to go tech, here are a few ways to give your minivan-bound true love the gift of iPhone.Continue reading Valentine's Day iPhone apps for the woman who bore your children
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Переслать - Apple to become Samsung's biggest customer
A report from the Wall Street Journal suggests Apple is about to become Samsung's biggest customer in a deal estimated to be worth US$7.8 billion. As part of its purchase, Apple will be securing LCD displays, NAND flash memory and mobile chipsets from the Korean manufacturer. Each of these components will be used to build Apple's popular iPad and iPhone.
Samsung is not the only parts supplier to receive a big check from Apple. An earlier rumor from iSuppli suggests Apple has invested $3.9 billion in pre-payments to LG display, Sharp and Toshiba Mobile display for LCD technology related to its iOS devices. Instead of direct unit supplies, this latter investment was to help build out factories and increase production of LCDs for upcoming products.
In the past, securing an ample supply of NAND Flash memory was a problem for Apple and the industry at large. During the early boom of the iPhone, NAND flash memory supply was seriously constrained due to the demand of the iPhone. Both Samsung and Hynix, the #1 and #3 memory manufacturers in 2009 struggled to meet Apple's growing orders. At one point, Samsung was thought to have set aside its entire supply of NAND chips for the Cupertino company.Apple to become Samsung's biggest customer originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Square has billboard in Times Square, still slowly delivering card readers
If you've been reading TUAW for any length of time, you've probably seen our posts about Square. This startup had the idea to develop a free credit card reader that could be used with an iPhone (later expanded to many phone models) or iPad, and provide a card authorization service with low enough rates that basically anyone in the U.S. could accept credit cards.
The service works very well; I've moved from a traditional credit card authorization service to Square, and I'm saving money in the process. However, an informal Twitter poll showed that there are still a number of people (including our very own Dave Caolo) who are still patiently waiting for their readers over a year after signing up. Not good.
That's apparently not keeping the company from shouting from the rooftops about how great their product is. The company received funding from a supporter to install a huge multi-panel billboard in New York's Times Square showing how anyone can accept credit cards with the Square reader and iPhone app. They've also teamed up with fashion designer Vivienne Tam to come out with a limited-edition high fashion card reader.
We're happy to see that you're going places, Square -- just be sure to keep sending out those card readers to all those people who are still waiting.
Square has billboard in Times Square, still slowly delivering card readers originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Apple working on major revamp of MobileMe, could be free
On the eve of the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, the Wall Street Journal online tech section ran a short post discussing a new, less-expensive iPhone that is apparently in the works (and all but confirmed by the Wall Street Journal). The timing of the post was impeccable -- by "leaking" this information on Sunday, the WSJ and Apple ensured that the iPhone will be the major topic of discussion at MWC without Apple having to exhibit or even attend the conference.
In order to achieve a low price point that would make iPhones even more ubiquitous than they already are, the post speculated that MobileMe would become a free service that purchasers could use to contain their music, photos, and videos. The result? The new iPhone wouldn't need as much storage to hold all of those memories and tunes, so the price would drop.
According to sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal, the new MobileMe service could make it to iOS devices by June depending on the outcome of licensing talks. WIth the new service, your iPhone or iPad would have access to your iTunes library wirelessly. No syncing to your Mac or PC would be required, nor would you need to have massive amounts of memory to store the music and video files locally. To paraphrase the Microsoft ads that are currently making the rounds, "To the cloud!"
The Journal went on to say that the service would probably be backwards-compatible with the iPhone 4. As with all rumors, remember that despite the source, this may be well-meaning fiction. We'll see for sure as 2011 progresses. In the meantime, what do you think about a free MobileMe? Do you think it will happen this year? Leave a comment below.
Apple working on major revamp of MobileMe, could be free originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - The TabGrip Stand for the iPad, a decent stand with a major problem
At Macworld 2011, I was shown the TabGrip (US$39.99), which looked and felt like a great iPad stand; I didn't realize that it had a major problem until I got it home and installed it. It's a stand that works in either landscape or portrait orientation. It consists of four riveted hard plastic sides connected by a soft and pliable rubber backing that allows you to stretch it so that each side snaps onto each of the four sides of the iPad.
The four riveted sides contain a hinged foot that allows you to stand your iPad just about any way you'd like. It is very uncomfortable on your lap, but it's meant to be stood on a table, so no problem there. The feet don't lock, so you really can't exert too much pressure on it before the feet slide down, but it's really not meant for use in that manner. For typing or viewing, the feet are sturdy enough.
With the feet folded against the iPad, holding it feels great. It seems to make the iPad more rigid and adds very little weight. When you hold it, it makes the unit feel very sturdy, and the rubberized grips feel just about perfect. Holding the iPad by the top and sides can add a lot to gaming or just about anything else, and since it doesn't block any of the screen, the TabGrip adds a bit of well designed lightweight heft in any position. The grips are of a size that won't let the iPad touch the ground, either from the front or back, since they are slightly thicker than the tablet.
When I held it in the TabGrip booth, I immediately noticed that it felt perfect and didn't let your fingers slide around due to the texture of the grips. In short -- I was quite impressed and thought that it was a great design that really improved the user experience of holding or standing an iPad any way you could imagine. At least until I got it home and installed it.Continue reading The TabGrip Stand for the iPad, a decent stand with a major problem
The TabGrip Stand for the iPad, a decent stand with a major problem originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Did Motorola's agency 'borrow' Super Bowl ad concept?
Motorola is in hot water over its Apple-inspired Super Bowl advertisement for its upcoming XOOM tablet. The video ad features a world of drones dressed in white hoodies who are eternally plugged into white earbuds. Of course, the one character breaking the trend is the one with a Motorola XOOM tablet who is able to free both himself and a female friend from this mindless, solitary existence.
This idea of disconnecting from a connected world is a theme that dominates a popular Indie film produced by Mike Sarrow. The filmmmaker asserts his Do Not Disconnect film has been submitted to several Indie film festivals and the plot and concept of his production has been known for several years. In an interview with Cnet, he says, "We're really disappointed that Motorola and the Anomaly New York ad agency have made their Super Bowl ad 'Empower the People' with an identical concept." Sarrow is not seeking attribution from Motorola, just recognition from the public regarding the true roots of this concept.
The videos, including Apple's classic 1984 ad, are available after the break for you to view and compare. Has Motorola borrowed from Sarrow's film or is Apple the inspiration for this ad?
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Did Motorola's agency 'borrow' Super Bowl ad concept? originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Samsung pairs up against iPad with 10.1" Galaxy tablet
Samsung already boasts of having the most successful Android tablet on the market with its 7-inch Galaxy Tab and now the Korean manufacturer is coming after the iPad with its recently announced Galaxy Tab 10.1. As the name implies, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a 10-inch (1280x800) tablet with a dual-core 1 GHz Orion processor from Samsung and 16 or 32 GB of storage. The tablet also includes a rear-facing 8-megapixel camera capable of 1080P recording and a front-facing 2-megapixel camera. Powered by Android 3.0 honeycomb, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 can connect wirelessly via WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n and HSPA+ at speeds up to 21 Mbps.
If you remove the operating system from the equation, the hardware specs on this upcoming tablet exceed that of the current generation iPad. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 and other Honeycomb tablets like the Motorola XOOM include dual-cameras, a dual-core processor, and in some cases 1080P video recording and playback. Hardware is only part of the equation, though, and iOS offers many advantages over Android 3.0, not the least of which is an app store filled with applications designed specifically for Apple's tablet device.
Of course, we would be remiss if we did not mention the rumored Apple iPad 2 in this tablet comparison. The next generation iPad is expected to be announced in the upcoming months and its hardware specs may up the ante for tablets devices once again. If you had a US$1000 to burn, what would you do? Grab one of these hot, new Android tablets or wait for Apple to trump them all with the iPad 2?Samsung pairs up against iPad with 10.1" Galaxy tablet originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - TUAW's Daily App: Rayman 2: The Great EscapeFor a few different reasons (the recent Verizon iPhone release probably being the primary one), Valentine's Day has become another holiday for big sales on the App Store. We covered quite a few titles on sale last week, and of those, Rayman 2 is the one I'll recommend today. It's a port of an old Ubisoft title, so the controls aren't quite perfect, but it's an excellent platformer, and if you've never played through this game but like the genre, you should definitely give it a shot. There's no Game Center integration or any extra features, but if you just want to explore your way solo through the 45 different levels, the game is great.
Plus, for Valentine's Day, it's only US 99 cents on the App Store, along with a bunch of other EA, Gameloft, Capcom, Sega and other developers' titles. Even if you don't have a big date planned tonight, odds are you'll find something on the App Store that you'll love.TUAW's Daily App: Rayman 2: The Great Escape originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - iPro Aviator pilot's kneeboard: Great in cockpit, car or classroom
The big iPad and flight tech story this weekend involved chart vendor Jeppesen and charter operator Executive Jet Management. The companies received authorization from the FAA to use iPads running the Jeppesen Mobile TC App for iPad as an electronic flight bag, replacing the traditional leather pilot's bag full of paper charts.
One of the caveats of using the iPad is that it must be secured and visible during all phases of flight. The usual way for pilots to keep charts and notes at hand is to use a kneeboard, which is essentially a clipboard strapped to the pilot's leg so that it can stay in place and be easily readable. Last year, shortly after the iPad hit the market, TUAW ran a post about an aluminum iPad kneeboard called the iPro. Now Atlanta Flight, the company that developed the iPro, has come out with a less expensive version called the iPro Aviator.
The new model is US$79.95; it's currently available in black, and a navy blue version should be out next month. While this is designed for pilots, I found (while using a review unit) that this is useful for students in classrooms, and for passengers in cars. Read on for a short review of the iPro Aviator Kneeboard.
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iPro Aviator pilot's kneeboard: Great in cockpit, car or classroom originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Wall Street Journal backs up "iPhone nano" rumor
We may be in for quite the shakeup of the iOS world if Ethan Smith's new article in the Wall Street Journal has any weight to it. Smith makes some pretty bold claims about a new, less-expensive iPhone, which he states has an edge-to-edge screen and weighs quite a bit less than the current iPhone 4.
This lines up pretty well with a lot of the "iPhone nano" rumors that we've been seeing for years, and it's certainly intriguing to see the Wall Street Journal putting its stamp on the story.
Presumably, this smaller iPhone would behave more like a data "access point" than a place to store all of your music, movies and books. Those, says Smith, could be managed by Apple's MobileMe service (which would be turning into a free cloud computing service alongside the launch of the new phone), therefore eliminating the need for large amounts of storage space on the actual device. How well this would work is a topic still up for debate, but you know how it goes: Apple always finds a way.
I suppose we'll just have to wait and see what Jobs (or Cook) has up his sleeve in the coming months. The WSJ article hints at a summer release for both the micro phone and the revamped MobileMe service.Wall Street Journal backs up "iPhone nano" rumor originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Talkcast tonight, 7 PM PST/10 PM EST: The WTF Nokia!? Edition
Here we go again! Tonight's recording will probably have a bit of a stern talking to for Nokia, and a reasonable dose of the rest of the week's news. Also, don't forget that Kelly hosting equals aftershow!
Your calls and questions help us make the show the best it can be, otherwise I'm just talking to myself! To participate on TalkShoe, you can use the browser-only client, the embedded Facebook app, or download the classic TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for maximum fun, you should call in.
For the web UI, just click the Talkshoe Web button on our profile page at 4 HI/7 PDT/10 PM EDT Sunday. To call in on regular phone or VoIP lines (yay for free cell phone weekend minutes!): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 -- during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *8.
If you've got a headset or microphone handy on your Mac, you can connect via the free Gizmo or X-Lite SIP clients; basic instructions are here. Talk to you tonight!
Talkcast tonight, 7 PM PST/10 PM EST: The WTF Nokia!? Edition originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Apple is Barron's most respected company for second year running
In what should be no surprise to anyone who follows the tech sector, Apple has been named Barron's most respected company for the second year running. Barron's annual most respected list is compiled from a survey of money managers who can recommend any company in the world for the top honors.
Not only did Apple make those money managers a huge amount of cash last year (the stock went up almost 60 percent in 2010), but Apple also took top honors because the company had the technical, creative and marketing skills to finally shape a viable consumer market, with iPad, for a technology that's existed in some form since before the turn of the century (tablets).
Besides the iPad and the soaring stock price, in 2010 Apple introduced the iPhone 4, redesigned the iPod nano and MacBook Air, hit the 10 billionth iTunes song download early in the year and introduced a new Apple TV. And that was just the big stuff. Check out the cool video after the break that showcases some of the other reasons Apple was probably chosen as Barron's most respected company in 2010. Matter of fact, Apple had such a high-flying year, we could almost forgive Ping.Continue reading Apple is Barron's most respected company for second year running
Apple is Barron's most respected company for second year running originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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