iPad By Davis: “MObile Nations Movember Week 4 Update: Mo Money, Mo Power!” plus 5 more |
- MObile Nations Movember Week 4 Update: Mo Money, Mo Power!
- iMore show. Jim Dalrymple. Tonight. 6pm PT / 9pm ET. Be here.
- Editor's desk: Debugged, Ad hoc'ed, and inspired
- Weekend iPad Wallpapers: Grey Glow & Simple Color Backgrounds
- iPad Paintings Shared at Our Flickr Group
- iPhone and iPad once again lead web usage metrics, this time for Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales
| MObile Nations Movember Week 4 Update: Mo Money, Mo Power! Posted: 25 Nov 2012 08:53 PM PST Mobile Nations Network Movember Funds Raised so far: $11,330 (USD)  The MO-bile Nations crew in the 'Peg eating deep fried chicken. Great for 'stache growth!
WE DID IT! Movember isn't quite over, but we've already surpassed our Mobile Nations Network goal of raising over $10,000 for the cause. Mo-Mazing! We have witnessed some great fundraising efforts across the team, and special props go out to Canada's Mike Whitton for raising over $1500 and Australia's Daniel Kollehn for raising over $600. Great effort. HUGE thanks to everybody that has contributed! If you haven't donated yet, you still have time. The only thing better than meeting our goal is blowing right past it! And we'll love you forever if you donate. Donations can be made easily over the web. Simply jump over to our Mobile Nations Network page, click on the name of any of the individuals listed as part of the network, and hit the donate button. All funds donated to an individual will pass through to the network total. This is our fourth Movember update for the month, and we have one more to come once the month is over. We'll report back with our final pledge totals and a final gallery of all the moustaches we've grown out. Keep reading for more on Movember and to see some great photos from the team!
What is Movember?
Week 4 Photos from the MO-bile Nations Movember NetworkClick on the names to jump over to the user's page on Movember.com for more photos and to donate!
Props to all the Mo Bros for posting their mugs to the web for a good cause (and props to all the Mo Sistas for supporting their men). Be sure to visit our Mobile Nations Movember Network page for more photos from all our team members. You can click through to any team member's name to see their Mo Space pages and to donate to them. All donations made to individuals show up in the Mobile Nations Network totals. Note to Mobile Nations Movember participants: THE END OF THE MONTH IS ALMOST HERE. Be sure to update your Mo Space with updates, photos and videos. And send us an email at movember@mobilenations.com with your favorite photos and other details. When November is over, do a final photo with your fully grown 'mo before you shave it down. And send in those photos with your details. We'll be putting together a slide show video of all the moustache beauty. We want to tell your story and help spread the the Mo Love! 
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| iMore show. Jim Dalrymple. Tonight. 6pm PT / 9pm ET. Be here. Posted: 25 Nov 2012 04:45 PM PST
Jim Dalrymple, the editor-in-chief of The Loop joins me tonight to talk about all the latest iPhone, iPad, and Apple news. Join us LIVE at 6pm PT, 9pm ET. Set an alarm. Bookmark this page. Be here. 
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| Editor's desk: Debugged, Ad hoc'ed, and inspired Posted: 25 Nov 2012 02:36 PM PST
It's Thanksgiving weekend in the south, below The Wall, and while I'm busy still waiting on my iPad mini + LTE to ship, getting my snow tires on, and writing a bunch of l our 2012 gift guides, I know many of you are still in turkey-fed, Black Friday-fueled fevers, so I'll keep it short-ish and simply pass along an update on our Mobile Nations podcasts, going into the new fall season. The Wednesday iMore show is still on hiatus. I'm spending a couple of hours every Tuesday talking Apple news with Leo Laporte and the crew on MacBreak Weekly and repeating that on Wednesday nights just doesn't seem fresh and exciting. I really miss the live chatroom community, however, so we'll be doing something interesting to tie that back in, and sooner rather than later. Meanwhile the Sunday iMore show will continue to be a mix of special guests and iMore regulars, and will continue to vary from product reviews to deep dives on industry-spanning issues. But we've also got some new shows like Debug and Ad hoc, and new series on shows like ZEN and TECH, and I can't wait for you to hear them. Debug
Debug is a new podcast I'm doing with the inestimable Guy English of Kicking Bear and Çingleton fame. It focuses on developers, iPhone, iPad, Mac, and gaming in particular, but we'll likely touch on all platforms at some point, as well as the business behind making apps and services. We'll be recording every two weeks, alternating with Iterate, which focuses on development, and while we'll mostly be doing interviews with developers, we'll also mix it up with round tables and other formats occasionally. The first episode, featuring Loren Brichter of Apple, Tweetie, and Letterpress, is already available and we'll be recording the second episode this week. If you're a developer, there's lots of great stuff about targeting Game Center API, re-writing UIKit in OpenGL, and the business model for in-app purchases. If you're not a developer, there are some gems in there about the future of Springboard (and backboard) and where iOS might be going in 2013. Ad Hoc
There's another new podcast I'm a part of that's... different. It has no real name, no fixed schedule, and no set subject. Basically, we get a group of geeks together and we talk about geeky things. Anyone on the show is welcome to record it and release into whatever feed(s) they like. Yes, it's "openy". Along with the aforementioned Guy English, we've already recorded an episode with Dan Moren, Matt Drance, Dave Wiskus, on the future of Star Wars and what we hope to see -- and not to see -- now that Disney owns Lucasfilm. You can find it in 5by5's After Dark feed, as an ancillary to Jason Snell's excellent The Incomparable podcast. I've also put it up in a new feed, where I'll also add future episodes, called Ad hoc. ZEN and TECH
As much as I love doing the iMore show, MacBreak Weekly, Iterate, Debug, Ad hoc, and all the other shows, I'm honored to be a part of ZEN and TECH -- it's absolutely the most important show on our network, and one of the most important shows on any network. Because it's not about coding or interfaces, news or events. It's about us as human beings, and how we relate to the world and technology around us. ZEN and TECH is like hacking our own OS. It's very literally made me a better person, and based on the feedback we've been getting, I'm far from alone. Over the course of the last couple months, Georgia has been doing a special series on parenting. If you're a parent, or you have friends and family who are facing challenges with parenting, please share the links below. And if you're not a parent, we're still mixing it up -- the latest episode is on anger management.
Tangent: DragonStorm
This isn't about a podcast, but about an old project. 20 years ago I took a summer off and wrote and illustrated a pen-and-paper role-playing game called DragonStorm. I never did much with it, and since then it's been locked on old Amiga floppy disks, but I found a printout and scanned it. I've been really inspired lately by Dave Wiskus returning to his music, Daniel Pasco, restoring an amp, and Derek Kessler doing a pretty damn impressive project all his own, and because of that inspiration I decided to share the full PDF in the iMore forums. It's not great, but it's mine, and I've decided I'm going to carve out a little time to do some more side projects in the near future. If there's anything you used to do, something that inspired you and gave you pleasure, that let you enjoy the exuberance of creation, be it writing, music, art, dance, or anything else, consider getting back into it and sharing it. It's what makes us not only live, but thrive. 
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| Weekend iPad Wallpapers: Grey Glow & Simple Color Backgrounds Posted: 25 Nov 2012 09:41 AM PST
This weekend's iPad wallpaper choices are more simple, single-color backgrounds. There's a lot to be said for simple backgrounds as iPad wallpaper – especially in terms of keeping the app icons strong and easy to identify on home screens. My three choices this week start with the very deep, dark green image shown above. This one and all the choices this week are uploads from Brett Jordan (no relation) to our iPad Insight Flickr group.Brett is by far and away the most prolific contributor to the group, and I 'm very grateful for all of his sharing. Hit the break for a couple more of this style walls … (...) © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us         Related Stories
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| iPad Paintings Shared at Our Flickr Group Posted: 25 Nov 2012 08:55 AM PST
I have to say I'm really enjoying our iPad Insight Flickr group. The level of activity is growing all the time, and the quality of the contributions is excellent. The vast majority of the images uploaded to the group are iPad wallpapers, but recently there is also a good amount of art created on iPads being shared. I'm a huge fan of iPad and iPhone art. I even run a little website devoted to just iPad and iPhone art: http://ipadandiphoneart.com/. I've not had time to keep it updated for a long while now, but plan to revive it soon. In the meantime, today I'm happy to share some of the iPad paintings uploaded to our Flickr group recently. At the top of this post is an untitled painting by bharat.rao which I'm just going to call Lighthouse. I love the colors in this image and find it very striking. (...) © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us  Related Stories
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| iPhone and iPad once again lead web usage metrics, this time for Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales Posted: 25 Nov 2012 06:27 AM PST
Continuing the confusing trend of Android dominating in market share but iOS continuing to lead -- by huge margin -- in mobile web usage share, both Apple's iPhone and the iPad reportedly eclipsed Google's Android in Thanksgiving and Black Friday online shopping use over the last few days. This according to IBM Digital Analytics Benchmarks:
We've seen this again and again, iOS web usage reports that dwarf the competition. Tablets, of course, are understandable. Apple is the market leader. The iPhone, however, while often the best selling phone in many markets, doesn't outsell all other phones -- or all Android phones -- combined in the market. So what explains the discrepancy? Do people upgrading from feature phones to a cheap or big screen Android simply keep using it as a feature phone and not bother with things like web browsers? Is the web browsing experience on Android somehow less discoverable or enjoyable? Do expert users simply not care to use the web? None of those explanations make sense. Chrome on Android is easy to find and easy to use. So why aren't Android users using it? Maybe that's the wrong question. Maybe the right question is why are iPhone and iPad users using the web so much? What is it about Apple's products that make using the web so much more discoverable and enjoyable? 
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