iPad By Davis: “Aluminum choice being blamed for delays with iPhone 5 availability” plus 15 more |
- Aluminum choice being blamed for delays with iPhone 5 availability
- Letters with Pooh for iPhone and iPad review
- Iterate 31: Vermette
- Tweetglass for iPad review
- How to stop Verizon from anonymously tracking your iPhone usage
- iPad mini rumored to be wi-fi only, iPad 3 mark II rumored to be international LTE friendly
- How to replace a cracked screen on an iPhone 4S
- They don't come in Happy Meals, but Virginia Beach McDonald's is testing out iPads at the table
- Unsubstantiated change to unannounced iPad mini leads to unexpected production halt of unreleased case by unnamed manufacturer
- iMore Special Edition: Subscribe now via RSS or iTunes
- Cool Things: Project Hope Video on How the iPad Spreads Hope
- iPhone 5 Flash Dock puts a little light in the Lightning cable
- iPad in Education: Report Shows School Districts Doubling Down on Their iPad Rollouts
- Tweetglass is the new Quip: Same great Twitter app for iPad, now with even more features
- Deal of the Day: 34% off Clear-Coat Screen Protector for iPhone 5
- Apple begins shipping new iPods for mid-October delivery. Has yours shipped yet?
| Aluminum choice being blamed for delays with iPhone 5 availability Posted: 10 Oct 2012 01:14 AM PDT
Last week, it was rumored that a strike had taken place at Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory, the strike was supposedly called because workers were unhappy with being asked to work during holidays and overly strict demands on product quality without necessary training. Foxconn denied that the strike had ever taken place and that production was continuing as normal. It will be interesting to see how well the iPhone 5 wears over the next few months and if it is as easy to scratch and scuff as many are claiming; if it doesn't wear well then there will be a lot of unhappy customers. Apple prides itself on producing beautifully designed products that are functional as well as highly fashionable. If the iPhone 5 looks like it's been dragged through a hedge backwards after a few months of use then this will clearly be a problem for many. Source: Bloomberg 
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| Letters with Pooh for iPhone and iPad review Posted: 10 Oct 2012 12:48 AM PDT
Letters with Pooh is an educational app for the iPhone and iPad by Disney to help kids identify and write letters of the alphabet. Your kids will join Winnie Pooh on his quest for honey by tracing letters, collecting letter balloons, finding missing letters, and more. Letters with Pooh is very interactive and even lets you personalize the experience by allowing you to record all the leters of the alphabet in your voice.
Letters with Pooh begins with a quick little backstory about how Winnie the Pooh has a rumbly in his tummy and that instead of focusing on his busy day ahead, he will first let his rumbly tummy lead the way. Each chapter will progress through Pooh's story, making the whole experience more interesting for young learners. The first chapter teaches about the basics of tracing and has you trace simple shapes like lines and circles in a way that directly helps Winnie the Pooh during the story.
In the second chapter, Pooh needs balloons to reach a beehive for honey. To help him, you must trace letters -- each letter you trace gives Pooh another balloon. Letters with Pooh does not require you to get the tracing job perfect in order to progress which is great for early learners who will probably struggle with staying in the lines. At the end of each letter tracing, a word that starts with that letter will be said and a picture associated with that word will be displayed. You then have the option to record your own voice saying the name of the letter.
As you progress through the letters, the game will periodically check in with Winnie the Pooh to see if he needs more balloons. Each time, Pooh says he needs to get a little bit higher and is floating off the ground with a growing handful of balloons that slowly brings him higher off the ground with more balloons. Once you've successfully traced all the letters, Winnie the Pooh will get high enough to reach the honey.
In the last chapter of Letters with Pooh, Winnie the Pooh must help Tigger find the letters that have fallen out of his book, Piglet with his paint-by-letters picture, and Owl with catching letters. As you progress through the game, you'll hear the narrator congratulate you on earning more stickers that can be used in the Stickers section of Letters with Pooh. The section is all about having fun and includes stickers for characters and letters.
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The conclusionLetters with Pooh is an excellent alphabet learning app for iPhone and iPad. Disney did a great job with its design by making it interactive, fun, and by including the voices of the characters from Winnie the Pooh. If you have a child who's learning his/her alphabet and loves Winnie the Pooh, you can't go wrong with Letters with Pooh. $1.99 - Download Now
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| Posted: 09 Oct 2012 09:46 PM PDT
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| Posted: 09 Oct 2012 04:52 PM PDT
Tweetglass, the Twitter client formally known as Quip, is a an iPad Twitter app that focuses on automatically streamlining and condensing your timeline, especially when it comes to conversations. It was recently updated with streaming over Wi-Fi, list support, read-later support, performance improvements, and more.
Tweetglass features a very nice dark-themed UI that has a greater emphasis on looks than it does information density. Avatars are displayed very big with speech bubbles containing the tweets. It looks really great, but it does come at the cost of only displaying 4-5 tweets at a time in landscape orientation, six in portrait. But the extra space between tweets isn't just for looks, it actually serves a very important purpose. For tweets that are part of a conversation, the avatars of the users that have participated in the conversation appear in the space below the tweet. It's an awesome visual cue. When you tap on a tweet that's part of a conversation, the small avatars below the tweet will move below the tweet and display their replies, in order, nested underneath the main tweet.
I absolutely love this approach to Twitter conversations. Many Twitter apps will display the conversations in order, but Tweetglass does it much more elegantly without changing screens. I would love to see Glasshouse apps take this idea a little further and display the replies at various nesting levels. This would make following conversations even easier.
In addition to the traditional tabs that you'll find in any Twitter client, Tweetglass also includes a tab for conversations, one for retweets, and another for photos. The conversation and retweet tabs only show tweets that are part of a conversation or that have been retweeted.
Similarly, the photos tab in Tweetglass only shows tweets that contain photos, but instead of displaying the tweets, it displays a grid of the photos. Tapping on a photo will enlarge it and display its associated tweet below it with options to view the conversation, mark as a favorite, reply, share, or reply. The design of this tab is visually nice, but the scrolling does tend to suffer since the large thumbnails sometimes have difficulty loading fast enough.
The direct messages tab takes a similar visual approach and instead of displaying a list of all the users you have direct messages with, it displays their avatars with little icons that indicate how many messages you have with that user. Because the avatars here are much smaller than the photo thumbnails in the photos tab, scrolling is a lot smoother. The good
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The bottom lineI'm a huge fan of Tweetglass and it's unique spin on a Twitter application. It's a fresh approach to a popular genre of apps and I applaud Glasshouse Apps for creating such a beauty. Tweetglass is not meant to be a primary Twitter client, but one that you browse through when you want to sit back and enjoy catching up on conversations, photos, and links from people who interest you. $0.99 - Download now
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| How to stop Verizon from anonymously tracking your iPhone usage Posted: 09 Oct 2012 03:36 PM PDT
Verizon collects a ton of usage and behavioral data on their customers, anonymizes it and then leverages it for marketing and partner programs. If you just signed up with Verizon, say to get a new iPhone 5, you have 30 days to opt-out of the data collection. Bryan J Clark posted about it earlier on app.net:
While Verizon is hardly the only company to engage in customer analytics, because they have access to your cell phone data, they have access to far more, and more personal data than almost any other company. If you're the kind of person who turns off Google web tracking and flips your Facebook privacy settings to maximum, you'll almost certainly want to kill Verizon's snooping as well. You might also want to drop them and the government oversight organizations of your choice a little letter telling them any such data collection would be better offered as opt-in than hidden as opt-out. Update: Matthew Panzarino of The Next Web dove into Verizon's privacy options. If you weren't encouraged to turn it all off, all now, read what he found and you will be. Source: www.vzw.com/myprivacy via Bryan J Clark and Ben Brooks 
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| iPad mini rumored to be wi-fi only, iPad 3 mark II rumored to be international LTE friendly Posted: 09 Oct 2012 03:23 PM PDT
The iPad mini may debut as a Wi-Fi only device, and the iPad 3 revision iMore revealed back in August may be compatible with International LTE frequencies, just like the iPhone 5. This according to [the Guardian]'s(http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/09/ipad-mini-wifi-uk-4g) Charles Arthur:
Both the original and new 7-inch Kindle Fire and the Nexus 7, the primary competition for the rumored iPad mini, lack a cellular option. Apple has also thus far resisted including cellular connectivity in the iPod touch line. The original iPad was announced with both Wi-Fi and 3G, but the 3G version took an extra month to be released. The suggestion seems to be that Apple would use cellular as a way to push buyers towards the bigger iPad. However, not having cellular on a tablet device, even a mini-sized one, would be incredibly annoying. So, hopefully, at worst we'll be looking at a staggered release like the original iPad, and at best the same old $130 up-sell as the rest of the iPad line. Given what we've heard about the size of the iPad mini, a cellular version of the device would be vary attractive to those who want something bigger than their phone with them when they're out and about. It would also give Apple's smaller tablet a distinct advantage over competition from Amazon and Google. The Guardian also repeats rumors iMore has been hearing since August, namely that the iPad 3 will be refreshed at the same time. iMore has already mentioned the Lightning connector, new, cooler internals, and potential LTE chipset update, but the Guardian adds that such an LTE update would also allow the new iPad 3 to work on international LTE frequencies, like Europe. (The current iPad 3 only offers North American LTE.) Would lack of cellular on an iPad 3 be a deal-breaker for anyone? Source: The Guardian 
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| How to replace a cracked screen on an iPhone 4S Posted: 09 Oct 2012 02:22 PM PDT
If you've cracked the screen on your iPhone 4S and didn't opt for AppleCare+ or insurance through your carrier, you can DIY repair the screen yourself. While it isn't the easiest repair to perform, it's definitely doable with the right parts and tools. And we'll walk you through it every step of the way. Disclaimer: As with any repair, neither iMore nor The Pod Drop can be held responsible for any damage you may do to your device. It's also worth considering that opening up your device to perform any repair or modification can and will void your Apple warranty. If you don't feel comfortable opening your device, don't. Use extreme care and caution when performing a repair on any device. Not comfortable with DIY repair? Leave it to the prosIf you aren't comfortable performing a DIY repair on your own, don't. It is possible to cause more damage or run into issues you aren't ready for. In this case, it's probably better to either pay the money for a replacement device from Apple or use a local or mail-in service that will handle the repair and any issues that may arise for you. The Pod Drop has many locations in the midwest and is a rapidly growing company. You can check for a Pod Drop location near you, mail it in, or use another third party repair service. For more information on mail-in repairs or possible Pod Drop locations near you, you can visit their website. If you are comfortable with repairing your own device, put your ninja pants on and keep reading! What you'll need to DIY replace a broken iPhone 4S screenPXLFIX recommends using only quality and genuine parts from a reputable supplier like eTech Parts. They have quality parts, tools, and much more for all your repair needs. You will find links to the specific parts you'll need for this repair in the list below.
Video walkthroughWhile the video walkthrough is pretty detailed, we still recommend using it in correlation with the written steps below. Power off your iPhone 4S
Before performing any repair you should always power off your device before opening it up. Remove the back plate
   Remove the battery and grounding clip
     Remove the top logic board shields
   Unclip the top logic board cables & remove the rear-facing camera
Using your spudger or pry tool carefully disconnect all the cables at the top of the logic board. There are seven cables total. One of the cables lies underneath the bottom most cable so you'll need to disconnect the cable over it before folding it back and revealing the shorter cable underneath.
Once you unclip the seven cables, you can lift the rear-facing camera directly out of the iPhone. It was only connected by one cable. Disconnect the dock connector
  Pry up the Wi-Fi antenna
 Remove the SIM card and tray
Using a SIM removal tool or a bent paper clip, eject the SIM tray and set it, and the SIM card aside. Remove the logic board
 Remove the loud speaker assembly
  Remove the vibrator assembly
The vibrator assembly is only held down with a bit of adhesive. Use your pry tool or metal spatula tool in order to loosen the adhesive and remove the vibrator assembly. Just make sure you are careful not to bend it. Remove the digitizer and LCD assemblyFor this section, we highly recommend watching the teardown video above as it will show you the technique for removing the display that will best compliment the written steps much better than pictures can.
Transfer the Home button, speaker mesh, & camera hold to the new digitizer & LCD assemblyIf the assembly you ordered did not come with a Home button, camera hold, or speaker assembly already attached, you'll need to remove those pieces and place them onto the new assembly. The Home button is only held on with a rubber gasket with a bit of adhesive. Carefully pry it up and transfer it. The camera hold and speaker mesh are the same and can easily be transferred as well. Use a bit of double sided adhesive if you need to. Reassemble your iPhone 4STo reassemble your iPhone 4S, you can either follow all these directions in exact reverse order or view our reassembly video guide above which will walk you through how to reassemble it from screen to turning it back on and testing it. And ...done!Now that you've completely reassembled your iPhone 4S you can go ahead and hold down the power button in order to turn it back on. After it boots up, test the new assembly by dialing some numbers, using the keyboard, and looking for dead pixels. Then place a test call, check vibrator functionality, and do an all around test to make sure all of the components you had to remove and replace are in good working order. If everything is back in working order, pat yourself on the back. This isn't an easy repair to perform and if you were successful, you've now unlocked the ninja DIY'er achievement! Want to know how to perform another type of iPhone repair or modification? Send me suggestions to ally@imore.com. For questions or to inquire about mail-in repairs through The Pod Drop, you can follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook or e-mail us directly! Additional resources: 
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| They don't come in Happy Meals, but Virginia Beach McDonald's is testing out iPads at the table Posted: 09 Oct 2012 02:13 PM PDT
The newest McDonald's in Virginia Beach, Va., has mounted iPads to their tables so customers can enjoy some magical and revolutionary fun while they feast on fast food. Hugh Fard, the owner of the Viriginia Beach establishment, came by the idea from a French company that has implemented a similar feature in 20 of their own locations across Europe. While some content is blocked, such as YouTube, the The Virginian-Pilot says customers seem to love it:
It's a bid by Fard to keep McDonald's relevant in the face of increasing competition from other chains such as Starbucks and Panera, which are often seen as more modern and trendy establishments. While McDonald's has no immediate plans to take the program company-wide, they are watching the Virginia Beach location closely, and may decide to on their own implementation after six to eight months. Whether this will attract a similar mobile worker crowd as Starbucks only time will tell. Are you a McDonald's customer, and do you like the sound of this program? What other establishments would you like to see iPads in? Let us know below in the comments. Source: The Virginian-Pilot, via: CNET 
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| Posted: 09 Oct 2012 12:48 PM PDT
If everything we've heard to date holds true, Apple will be announcing the iPad mini sometime this month. But while Apple has yet to so much as schedule an event, manufacturers are already racing to get iPad mini accessories ready to launch alongside it. Now Macotakara reports some of them may have raced too hastily.
Accessory makers require a high level precision, down to 0.2mm of tolerance to make form-fitting cases. So if there's even a minor change it could require new molds and new manufacturing runs. Which is part of the danger when you try to leap to market based on parts and leaks for otherwise not-yet-existing products. Since Apple won't be changing the iPad mini case from a rounded rectangle to a triangle or pentagram anytime soon, however, there likely hasn't been any sort of change that will matter to consumers. Nor would a consumer ever be aware of one anyway. As to larger manufacturing issues, those rumors are passed around literally every time Apple has a new product release on the horizon. That makes it difficult to sort the real from the really fake. Because Apple seldom pre-announces products or product features months in advance, however, if there ever is a problem or a showstopper, it can be factored internally and timelines can be adjusted accordingly. Then events can be announced, press releases dropped, and products launched. Until then, it's interesting inside baseball chatter to be sure, and part of the grand pre-release rumor roller-coaster to be certain, but it's not anything to worry about beyond that. Unless they decide to make it horseshoe shaped... Source: Macotakara 
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| iMore Special Edition: Subscribe now via RSS or iTunes Posted: 09 Oct 2012 11:21 AM PDT
A couple of months ago we decided to relaunch iMore's Sunday show, but with a decidedly different twist. Instead of artificially dividing up Apple's increasingly interconnected, if cyclical, product lines into separate shows, or merely doubling up on the Wednesday iMore show format, we wanted to try something more audacious. We wanted to invite on some of the best and brightest minds in tech media and analysis and go deeper than the headlines. We wanted to explore Apple and its competitors, and the way media treats (and sometimes mistreats) them. We wanted to delve into strategies, challenge perceptions, and try to provide nuance, context, and perspective beyond what a sound bite or pull quote allows. And, based on our guests so far, I think we've gotten off to a great start. If you haven't listened or watched already, I invite you to try it out:
If you enjoy the iMore Special Edition, please take a moment to subscribe to our new, dedicated feeds, and if you use iTunes, to leave a review and a rating. Launching (or relaunching) a new show is a lot of work, and your reviews and ratings are a huge help. If you've done all of the above, we really appreciate it. Let us know what you think, what guests you'd like to see in the future, and what topics you'd like us to tackle. Nothing Apple or media related is off the table, so let's raise the bar and pants some quarterbacks. 
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| Cool Things: Project Hope Video on How the iPad Spreads Hope Posted: 09 Oct 2012 10:45 AM PDT Project HOPE sends volunteer physicians, nurses, physical therapists, pharmacists and others. to a number of countries around the world. This commercial came out of a larger documentary film series – the director asked volunteers what they brought with them on missions (which can last weeks or months on end). Many volunteers told us that the first thing they pack is their iPad. Project HOPE told me a little more on this:
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| iPhone 5 Flash Dock puts a little light in the Lightning cable Posted: 09 Oct 2012 09:58 AM PDT Apple decided not to make a dock for the iPhone 5, leaving that potential market wide open to third party accessory makers. iPhone5mod is hoping to fill that particular void with the Flash Lightning Dock for iPhone 5. Not only does it include an Apple-like white dock, but an optional Lightning cable that actually glows.
You can check out the video above, and if you like what you see, head on over to the website below for ordering info. Source: iPhone5mod
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| iPad in Education: Report Shows School Districts Doubling Down on Their iPad Rollouts Posted: 09 Oct 2012 09:17 AM PDT
It looks like the iPad's impact in the education arena in the US is continuing to grow. A recent report by Fox Business cites some of the impressive numbers for the iPad in the education market and also some evidence of increasing momentum for Apple's tablet. Here are some of the things that caught my attention in the report: – As we already knew from Apple's financial results announcement, iPad sales are on the rise while PC sales are falling.
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| Tweetglass is the new Quip: Same great Twitter app for iPad, now with even more features Posted: 09 Oct 2012 08:29 AM PDT
Due to some unfortunate legal drama, the highly conversational Twitter app formerly known as Quip is now known as Tweetglass, and it's been given a 1.1 update and some new features to go along with the new name.
I use Tweetglass the way I used to use personal RSS -- to sit down with, coffee in hand, and just read interesting conversations and enjoy interesting pictures and links from the people that interest me. It's not my on-the-go, get-things done Twitter client, it's my leave-me-alone-for-a-few-minutes, just-relax Twitter client. And priced at just $0.99, it's an incredible value. (It's plastered and painted by Glasshouse apps, how could it not be?) Tweetglass is also one of those niche apps, like Birdhouse and Reportage before it, that really show the value of Twitter when great developers are allowed to create great new approaches to the service. Unfortunately, Twitter seems intent on quadrant-ing and token-ing just these kinds of apps to death, so please join me in bugging @glasshouseapps to get Netglass up and running as fast as possible... $0.99 - Download now
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| Deal of the Day: 34% off Clear-Coat Screen Protector for iPhone 5 Posted: 09 Oct 2012 06:39 AM PDT |
The decision to go with aluminum in the latest 
By contrast, PC shipments in the education market reportedly fell 13.9% during the same period.
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Apple begins shipping new iPods for mid-October delivery. Has yours shipped yet?
Posted: 09 Oct 2012 05:55 AM PDT
Introduced at the iPhone 5 event last month but not scheduled for released until October, Apple has just begun sending out shipping notifications for new iPod touch and iPod nano orders. Many of our readers, and yours truly, received texts and emails this morning with the details. Mine are set to arrive in here in Canada in just under a week, on Oct. 15.
The new iPod touch has the same amazing 4-inch, 16:9 in-cell display as the iPhone 5, along with an even thinner design and a new Loop wrist strap I'm really going to have try before extolling or condemning. The new iPod nano drops the previous, watch-friendly shape for a Nokia-style rectangle with a power button and rounded Home screen icons.
If you received your new iPod touch or iPod nano shipping notification, let us know when it's scheduled to arrive, or jump into out iPod touch 5 Forum and track along with us.
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