iPad By Davis: “Gridditor for iPhone and iPad review” plus 4 more |
- Gridditor for iPhone and iPad review
- Apple issues support article to address purple light flare from iPhone 5 camera
- iOS 6 gripes: App Store search is now less usable
- You Can’t Gift an App from the iPad Anymore in iOS 6
- Best Free iPad App of the Week: Dictionary.com Dictionary & Thesaurus for iPad
| Gridditor for iPhone and iPad review Posted: 07 Oct 2012 01:42 AM PDT Gridditor is an iPhone and iPad app that lets layer multiple filters to your photos and displays them in a unique way. Gridditor will shows you four filters at a time, one in each direction (up, down, left, right), and the farther you move in any direction on the grid, the stronger the effect gets. The gird preview allows you to see the effect of applying multiple filters at once and the randomization of the filters shows you creative possibilities you may not have considered otherwise.
Gridditor includes 19 different filters and effects that you can choose from. The default filters are contrasty, bright, vibrant, and dark, but you can change the initial set to be any four filters that you want. You can also individually choose each filter each time. To get a closer look at what one of the versions of your photo looks like, just tap it to make it bigger. If you like how it looks and want to apply the effect, tap the checkmark. Gridditor will the consider this new version the original and randomly choose 4 more effects.
When you're done applying filters to your photo with Gridditor, You can share it to Facebook, Twitter, Mail, assign it to a contact, save to your Camera Roll, or open in another photo editing app. Gridditor's interface is particularly amazing on the iPad. On the iPhone, you can only see six square of the grid at at time, but on the iPad's big display, you can 12 of the 49 different versions of your photo at once.
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The conclusionThe screenshots for Gridditor really don't give it justice, so please be sure to watch the video above to see Gridditor in action. The grid interface, as opposed to just sliders, lets you compare different version of your photo side-by-side which ultimate speeds up the editing process, and with the randomization of filters combined with the interface, Gridditor will likely expose you to ideas that you would've never though of -- stretching your creativity. $0.99 - Download Now
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| Apple issues support article to address purple light flare from iPhone 5 camera Posted: 07 Oct 2012 12:23 AM PDT
The question is how come we didn't experience this particular problem with other iPhone models? There is a thread in the iMore forums with examples of the problem. If you are experiencing it, make sure to drop by and leave a comment or even a sample picture. Do you think Apple's resolution is acceptable given that we haven't experienced this problem with any other iPhone cameras in the past? The idea of shielding your lens with your hand while taking a picture seems a little bit clumsy to me. Thankfully, I can't seem to be able to reproduce the problem even when taking a photograph with a light source outside of the field of view, what about you? Source: Apple Support, Photograph: MarilynR 
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| iOS 6 gripes: App Store search is now less usable Posted: 06 Oct 2012 09:48 PM PDT
With iOS 6, Apple has totally changed the way search results appear in the on-device App Store app. Gone are the drab if informationally dense list views that let you see a large selection of apps at once and choose the one that caught your fancy. Now you get a card-based view (not dissimilar to Safari Pages) which functionally only shows you one app at a time. And that's not good. With the old App Store search, 5 results were immediately visible in the list view. With the new iOS 6 App Store search, 1 result is visible. If you're searching for something specific, like "Tweetbot", it won't mean much because the first result will likely be the right one, so you only need that first result. If you're searching for something more general, like a game made by Electronic Arts, but you can't remember the name, the degradation is severe. You're presented with 1 possibility instead of 5. That's an 80% loss in information density. Ironically, the new 16:9 aspect ration of the iPhone 5 would have allowed for even more search results in the list view, 6 in total. Instead, with the new iOS 6 App Store search, we still get 1. Only longer. That's an 83.33% loss in information density.
Cards also make the interface considerably slower. The old App Store search was easy to flick through, and since only the icons had any visual weighting, it was highly glance-able. If you were looking for something specific, it was incredibly fast. Admittedly, if you weren't sure what you were looking for, discoverability wasn't great, but the addition of a screenshot to the card view in iOS 6 App Store search doesn't improve that drastically. It just makes for another highly weighted interface element to visually parse. In other words, it looks better but doesn't work better. To get an idea of how badly the metaphor works for search in the App Store, all we have to do is extrapolate it to Google search.
If anything Apple should be exploring metaphors like this for the fast app switcher, where the visualization of content makes sense. Here it just borders on the absurd. (And, ironically, iOS 6 still provides a list view in the purchased tab, where the card view would be especially frustrating, but that section lacks the search/filter system that helps make list views manageable. So how could Apple fix it? An option to toggle between new-style card view and old-style list view could be a compromise. Apple could also simply present the list view in portrait mode and the card view in landscape mode, where at least more than one app could be seen at a time. That would also match the behavior seen in the Music app with CoverFlow.
Taking it one step further, Apple could implement the portrait interface they use for app categories and present a few horizontal list views. The first could present search results filtered by keyword relevance, the second by rating, the third by how many "friends" have the app, the fourth by recency of release, etc. So, for example, a search for "Twitter" could result with the official Twitter for iPhone app showing up first for relevancy, Tweetbot first for overall rating, and Flurry for most recent. While that could add complexity, it could also service different interests -- "I just want a Twitter app" vs. "What Twitter app are my friends using?" vs. "I want to try a different Twitter app, which are the newest?" If Apple's going to use the mixed vertical and horizontally scrolling pages anyway, they might as well use it to enhance sorting.
The iOS 6 App Store did not come gently into this world. The betas were fraught with strange behavior, some of which did not get fixed prior to release. The combination of vertical and horizontal scrolling elements through the app can be quirky and off-putting to navigate. Purchased lists sometimes don't display and when they do, the scrolling and touch events are janky. Search algorithms, reportedly now using technology from Apple's Chomp acquisition, have changed repeatedly. For an app so important to Apple, developers, and users, it's a pain, and it's something that needs some considered, usability-focused attention from Apple. And soon. 
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| You Can’t Gift an App from the iPad Anymore in iOS 6 Posted: 06 Oct 2012 01:29 PM PDT
iOS 6 brings over 200 new features to the iPad and other iDevices. It also takes away some notable things – Google Maps and YouTube just to name two high-profile takeaways. The new version of the iPad operating system also takes away a number of features in the iPad App Store. One of those I've just noticed today is the ability to gift an app to someone. You used to be able to do this, and I find it a very handy feature – as it's often the quickest way for me to get an interesting new app onto my daughter's iPad. Sadly, for now you can't do this on the iPad, or any iOS device, in iOS 6 – as confirmed in this Apple support document. I hope that this feature will be coming back in iOS 6, and it's notable that the wording in the support document states that this feature is currently not available. Also, as you can see in the screenshot above, there's a vacant space in the Share popover where a gifting button could slot in. (...) © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us
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| Best Free iPad App of the Week: Dictionary.com Dictionary & Thesaurus for iPad Posted: 06 Oct 2012 07:45 AM PDT
One of the best things about using an iPad is all the great apps that we can run on it. There are excellent apps for just about any purpose you can think of. Better still, there are lots of great free apps for the iPad. Our Best Free iPad App of the Week posts highlight these apps. This week's pick is Dictionary.com Dictionary & Thesaurus for iPad – which I'll just refer to as Dictionary.com from here on. As the name just might give away this is a combined dictionary and thesaurus app with its content pulled from dictionary.com and thesaurus.com. It's an award-winning and popular app, packed with over 2 million definitions, synonyms and antonyms – and a very useful resource to have around, especially if you have any students in your household. (...) © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us
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Apple has issued a support article to address the mounting concern over the strange purple light being found on numerous photographs taken with the iPhone 5's camera. The problem shows on the photographs as a purple flare on the edge of a picture or as an actual purple spot in the main frame of the picture. Apple's support article addresses these issues and claims there is nothing to worry about.
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