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- How to achieve Retina display-worthy photos for the new iPad
- Review: Samsung UN46ES6500 HDTV has terrific features, so-so image quality
- Trial with Samsung reveals Apple's 7-inch iPad vision, 'Purple Project'
- Iterate 26: Simmons
- Editor's desk: Hold your iPhone dates close, your iCloud account closer
- Music Discovery Apps Featured in iPad App Store This Week
- Weekend iPad Wallpapers: Big Cat
- App Store Purchase Section Empty: Looks Like an Apple Server Issue & How To Get Around It
| How to achieve Retina display-worthy photos for the new iPad Posted: 06 Aug 2012 05:00 AM PDT  The new iPad's Retina display is stunning for photo exhibition. Photographer Derrick Story offers some tips to getting your photos ready for viewing. | ||
| Review: Samsung UN46ES6500 HDTV has terrific features, so-so image quality Posted: 06 Aug 2012 04:30 AM PDT  The easy-to-use Samsung UN46ES6500 offers an excellent selection of streaming content for a reasonable price, but we found the TV's image quality disappointing. | ||
| Trial with Samsung reveals Apple's 7-inch iPad vision, 'Purple Project' Posted: 05 Aug 2012 10:29 PM PDT  Among the testimony to come out of the Samsung-Apple trial last week: Apple considered developing a car or a camera after seeing the iPod's success, and in early 2011 one of its top executives recommended making a 7-inch iPad. | ||
| Posted: 05 Aug 2012 08:47 PM PDT
Marc, Rene, and Seth iterate through Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the Nexus 7, and Windows Phone 8, and interrogate Michael Simmons of Flexibits and Fantastical. This is Iterate!
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| Editor's desk: Hold your iPhone dates close, your iCloud account closer Posted: 05 Aug 2012 02:45 PM PDT
So, we had a bit of a week, didn't we? September 12
On Monday, iMore learning Apple would announce the next iPhone on Wednesday, September 12 and release it on Friday, September 21, along with the iPad mini, and perhaps more. That's later than the first four years, when new iPhones hit in the summer, but earlier than last year when the iPhone 4S didn't put in an appearance until October. It is, however, right around the time Apple used to announce the new iPod lineups, and put everything in place for the traditionally massive holiday quarter. And that certainly seems like the new sweet spot for the new iPhone. No doubt we'll have more on this over the next week, and the weeks leading up to the event. But in the meantime, iPhone and iPad mini aside, what other devices are you hoping to see updated next month? What's the best way to steal someone's password?
You ask for it. It's a cliche but it's true. We've talked recently about security and the importance of really strong passwords (and 1Password has a great guide to creating your own). But what do you do when it's not the password itself that's guessed or brute force attacked? What do you do when it's just given away? That's what happened to Wired's Mat Honan this week when a hacker apparently called up Apple Support and, using what's called a social engineering attack, conned them into resetting Honan's iCloud password and giving him access to Honan's account. What happened next was a nightmare, including Honan's iPhone, iPad, and Mac getting wiped, his Gmail, Twitter, and Gizmodo's twitter account getting hijacked, and his life turned absolutely upside down. There are several takeaways from this:
What happened to Honan was terrible, but if any good at all could come from it, it's a reminder for all of us to review our own security and backups practices and make improvements wherever possible. I'm using 1Password to generate strong, unique passwords for every site, and I lie like crazy when it comes to security questions. I also store almost my entire home directory on Dropbox for online backup, and use SuperDuper and a Time Capsule for local backup. How about you? 
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| Music Discovery Apps Featured in iPad App Store This Week Posted: 05 Aug 2012 01:24 PM PDT
Each week the iPad App Store has a few featured sections that highlight a particular category of apps. This week Music Discovery is one of these and it's a great looking group of apps that are highlighted. The Music Discovery Apps section is among those rotating at the top of the Featured are of the iPad App Store – and it includes 21 apps. It includes Band of the Day and Songza, two of our past picks for Best Free iPad App of the Week, as well as Pandora, TuneIn Radio, Shazam for iPad and a number of other very good apps. I'm always on the lookout for more ways to discover good new music, so it's great to see this category growing in the iPad App Store. I'm not sure Apple's own Podcasts app really deserves a place in this list, but maybe there are enough good music discovery podcasts featured to justify the pick. If you're fond of using the iPad to help you discover new music you may well want to give this week's featured section a look. There's also an Apps for Foodies section this week, just below the New and Noteworthy section. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us | ||
| Weekend iPad Wallpapers: Big Cat Posted: 05 Aug 2012 10:26 AM PDT
This weekend's featured iPad walllpaper is the spectacular White Siberian Tiger shot shown above on my iPad lock screen. I'm not usually a fan of animal photos as iPad wallpapers (other than photos of my big Labrador) but this one is just so striking I couldn't resist using it. Tigers are such majestic animals and this image is nothing short of captivating. It's from the ever-excellent Pimp Your Screen app. I've posted the image up to our iPad Insight Flickr group at its full iPad retina display size – so you can grab it there if you like it. I hope you'll also consider sharing some of your favorite iPad wallpapers and home screen looks to the group – and maybe we'll feature some of yours one of these weekends. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us | ||
| App Store Purchase Section Empty: Looks Like an Apple Server Issue & How To Get Around It Posted: 05 Aug 2012 09:52 AM PDT
Over the last week or so I've seen an odd, intermittent issue in the iPad App Store – where the Purchased section of the App Store appears to be empty. It shows no entries at all. A reader (Michael) has recently emailed about this and the issue has been reported in the Apple Discussion forums since around late May it looks like. As you can see in the screenshot above, the Purchased page didn't show any entries at all for me last night – despite the fact that I've purchased hundreds of iPad and iPhone apps. The two things I've discovered after looking at the issue a bit and reading several of the Apple discussion threads on it are: – This looks like it almost certainly an App Store / iTunes servers issue of some kind. It's not constant and I don't know of any user fixes for it, other than just wait for Apple's servers to resume normal service. For instance, last night my Purchased page was empty. I've done nothing at my side – no reboot of the iPad, no sign out / back in to the App Store, and this morning the Purchased page is showing items just as normal. – This is mostly a 'cosmetic' sort of issue. All the purchased apps records are still there. In fact, you can just tap on the main page area and an app's description entry will pop up. You can also use the Search bar and find your purchased apps and you'll see the standard cloud icon to reinstall them without paying. So the only thing lost when this issue crops up is the ability to browse through your past purchases. Hopefully Apple will get this issue resolved soon, as there are definitely quite a number of users experiencing it. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us |
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