iPad By Davis: “We need you! Come work for Mobile Nations!” plus 19 more |
- We need you! Come work for Mobile Nations!
- On the eve of Samsung's Galaxy S4 event, Apple's Phil Schiller repeats that Android is fragmented, lacks integration, offers poor experience
- Fandango Movies for iPad Updated – Adds Filters & More
- Just like iOS at Apple, the new head of Android at Google isn't a mobile guy
- Moko Slim Fit for iPad mini Contest – Winner
- Smaller carriers band together to push for legal phone unlocking
- Readdle releases new, free Calendars app, renames premium app Calendars+
- CaptureAudio for iPhone review
- Paper wipes out the iPad, le Trèfle edition
- Craftsy for iPhone and iPad review
- What’s on Your iPad: Roxanne Wilson
- My New iPad mini is BIGGER
- How to limit targeted ad tracking on iPhone and iPad
- Chrome for iPad Updated – Fixes Startup Crashes
- Configuration profile warning reminds us not to carelessly tap and install things on our iPhones and iPads
- (Sponsor) FX Photo Studio HD – Stunning Photo Effects
- Deal of the Day: 43% off Incipio Smart Feather Hard Case for iPad 4th gen and The new iPad
- Discover delicious food around you with Forkly for iPhone
- MacBreak Weekly 341: Drop it Like it's Hot
- Petting Zoo for iPhone and iPad review
| We need you! Come work for Mobile Nations! Posted: 13 Mar 2013 04:15 PM PDT
Kevin has made himself Employee of the Month for six years straight and we've finally had enough. We need new blood to spice things up a bit. Before we start a bigger process of recruitment we want to reach out to you, our community, first. We have two positions open right now that we need help filling and since we love our community SO MUCH we're giving you the head start before reaching outside. Do you have what it takes to oust Kevin from the Employee of the Month plaque? Are you the right person for the job or do you know someone that would be? Right now we are looking for a Medium to Senior PHP developer, ideally with Drupal experience, and a Junior to Medium Web Designer with CSS skills. Ideally you are based in the US or Canada. Miami, NYC, LA or Winnipeg are a plus but not necessary as we are a virtual team. Email hireme@mobilenations.com with a short introduction, why you would be suited for the job, why you want to work for Mobile Nations and your Resume. We will not be able to respond to everyone individually but rest assured we'll be looking at every single email. Good luck! David Lundblad 
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| Posted: 13 Mar 2013 03:21 PM PDT
Tomorrow Samsung will announce the Galaxy S4 -- I know this because I'll be in New York, playing Jimmy Olsen to Phil Nickinson's Clark Kent and otherwise helping out with Android Central's coverage -- and as if on cue, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, Phil Schiller, has popped up to send some jabs Android's way. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal's Ian Sherr and Jessica E. Lessin, Schiller hit the usual targets of fragmentation, lack of integration, and poor user experience:
Schiller did add that, according to Apple's own research, four times as many people switched from Android to iPhone during Q4 quarter as the other way around. Again, that's Apple's research, so weigh it accordingly. Other than that, it's pretty much what Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, has said numerous times before during quarterly conference calls, and Steve Jobs before him. In other words, nothing new. Not even the timing. Everyone likes to hijack their competition's news cycles. It's part of the C-level job description. And everyone gets made fun of for doing it. Likewise part of the job description. So amen or make that fun if you like. Personally, I'd rather let the phones and tablets both companies field this year do the talking for them. Source: Wall Street Journal 
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| Fandango Movies for iPad Updated – Adds Filters & More Posted: 13 Mar 2013 02:11 PM PDT
The excellent Fandango Movies app for iPad and iPhone has been updated this week, to Version 5.5.1. The nicest new feature for the iPad version is the addition of filters. We can now filter movies by genre and age ratings. That's quite handy for finding the right movie quickly. The headline feature of the update – a new 'Spotlight' section – is iPhone only for now. It looks very good on my iPhone 4S – but I think it will look even better when it (hopefully) comes to the iPad in a future update. Here are the remaining two items on the list of changes in the 5.5.1 update: • Passbook ticket has been enhanced for easier scanning! Fandango is a must-have app for movie fans – and was one of our picks in our list of the Best iPad Apps of 2012. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2013. | Permalink | ...         Related Stories
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| Just like iOS at Apple, the new head of Android at Google isn't a mobile guy Posted: 13 Mar 2013 02:36 PM PDT
Google has just announced that Andy Rubin, the founder and head of Android, is stepping down, and will be replaced by Sundar Pichai, the head of ChromeOS. Larry Page broke the news on the official Google blog:
This marks just the latest transition in what's been transformative few months in platform management. Late last year [Apple let senior vice president of iOS, Scott Forstall go and handed mobile over to then head of OS X, now head of all software, Craig Federghi. Shortly thereafter, Microsoft let Windows head Steven Sinofsky go. Prior to that, they let the architects of their devices division, Robbie Bach and J. Allard go. The Apple parallel is the closest, of course. We don't know the whole story behind either shuffle -- you can read Rubin's letter to Android partners at the Wall Street Journal -- but in both cases, for all intents and purposes the head of mobile was replaced by the head of desktop, and the divisions will now continue under their unified leaderships. Let me repeat that part -- in an era when mobile is increasingly first, the biggest mobile operating systems on the planet have been given over to desktop guys to run. Make of that what you will. Source: official Google blog via Android Central 
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| Moko Slim Fit for iPad mini Contest – Winner Posted: 13 Mar 2013 01:54 PM PDT
Thanks to everyone who took part in this latest contest. Good to see that many of you appreciate what a nice case the Moko Slim Fit for iPad mini is. Our lucky winner is: David Sands. David – congratulations, and please keep an eye on our Inbox and spam folders – as I've already emailed you asking for your shipping details. More contests are on the way soon. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2013. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us  Related Stories
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| Smaller carriers band together to push for legal phone unlocking Posted: 13 Mar 2013 01:40 PM PDT
Regional and rural carriers are allying to back legislative efforts that would legalize cell phone unlocking. The ban on unlocking cell phones came into effect earlier this year and prevents customers from unlocking their phones for use on another carrier. According to Bloomberg:
Apple has been working on making deals with an increasing number of these regional carriers, which often offer lower prices on plans than the larger national operators, but many still lack access to major devices. Unlocking is the only way these carriers get devices like the iPhone, and with customers now forced to pay a higher premium in order to get an unlocked phone, it's more difficult than ever to attract new users. By backing these legislative efforts, these carriers hope to make it easier for customers to make the switch if they want to. Have you unlocked your iPhone to move to a smaller carrier? We're you thinking about it before the ban? Source: Bloomberg 
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| Readdle releases new, free Calendars app, renames premium app Calendars+ Posted: 13 Mar 2013 11:52 AM PDT
Readdle has updated their popular Calendars app for iPhone and iPad, and renamed it Calendars+. That's because they're also introducing an all new, all free version under the original Calendars name. The free version of Calendars has the same slick interface, Google sync, and other features. Calendar+ has even more features, including recurring events, task management, invitations, and multiple reminders. I'm not a huge fan of the free app model. I'd rather pay for great apps so developers can afford to make more apps, but Denys Zhadanov of Readdle tells me they're hoping users of the free Calendars app graduate to the for-pay Calendars+.
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| CaptureAudio for iPhone review Posted: 13 Mar 2013 10:53 AM PDT
CaptureAudio by the makers of CaptureNotes is a beautiful new voice memos app for iPhone that lets you organize your recordings into binders and notebooks. You can also flag important moments during a recording that you can quickly jump to during playback.
CaptureAudio features three main tabs: Binders, Notebooks, and Recording. The tabs represent hierarchy system that goes left to right. All recordings are in a Notebook and all Notebooks are in a Binder. For example, you may have a school binder filled with notebooks for each subject. The notebooks are where you store your recordings.
The big microphone button in the bottom of the toolbar launches the recording screen. It features big circular dials and a big timer at the top. The outermost ring of the circle is a bunch of icons that represent flags (test item, group project, research, etc), and the next ring can be rotated to point the marker to a flag. To set the flag, just tap the big Flag button. These spots in your recording are quickly accessible during playback.
CaptureAudio includes two flag groups: one for business and one for education. A flag group is a group of 8 icons that will be available to you while recording audio. There are 85 available icons that you can create your own flag groups with. The organizational idea of using binders and notebooks is great, but I'm not a fan of the tabular implementation. It feels awkward. I feel like each tab should be something new, but instead they are a subset of the tab to its left. Once you get used to it, it's not bad, but I believe you shouldn't have to 'get used to' an app; it should come natural. The good
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The bottom lineAlthough I'm not a huge fan of how folders are organized into tabs, CaptureAudio is still great app for voice recording. The ability to easily tag while recording is a huge convenience and will been appreciated by students and business people who like to record classes, meetings, interviews and more. $1.99 - Download now 
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| Paper wipes out the iPad, le Trèfle edition Posted: 13 Mar 2013 10:50 AM PDT Spoiler: In some cases, paper still wipes out the iPad. Or... something. Forget it. Just watch. Source: Le Trèfle via YouTube 
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| Craftsy for iPhone and iPad review Posted: 13 Mar 2013 10:49 AM PDT
Craftsy for iPhone and iPad is an app that allows you to learn new crafts and fine tune current ones with video guides on everything from quilting, cake decorating, stitching, food crafts, jewelry making, and more. The idea is that you find a craft or topic that interests you and then you enroll in that course. You'll then have access to video content and instructions including what you'll need for as long as you want, whenever you want. Once you sign in to Craftsy, you'll have access to all the guides and how to's currently offered. Some classes are free while others you'll have to buy via an in-app purchase. The iPhone version has a pullout navigation menu on the left hand side that will show you all the categories you have to pick from, the enrolled classes you've already subscribed to, and more. The iPad version is a little different but operates in pretty much the same way. The only difference is the navigation which is all located on the main page via a horizontal scroll bar.
If you subscribe to a course on your iPhone, it will sync to your Craftsy account and be available on your iPad as well. Tapping on any course you've enrolled in will bring up the overview screen. From here you can view the different sections of the lesson as well as forward and go back to any sections you'd like to watch again. Once you've paid for a class, you aren't limited to how many times you can watch or view that course. There is also a section within Craftsy that shows you course materials and what you'll need to complete all the lessons. This is a good place to start if you've enrolled in a course that requires a lot of supplies to be purchased. You can easily make a list or just pull up the materials list while shopping at your local craft store for easy reference. Craftsy also gives you the option to share any lesson on Twitter, Facebook, or via email so if you stumble across something that you think a friend would find interesting, sharing it with them is only a tap away.
For the most part, how detailed and broken down lessons are will really depend on how much time the creator put into that lesson. This is one thing I'd watch for before actually enrolling in a paid course. All classes have a free video preview and a biography on the author that is worth taking a look at before committing to a purchase. Craftsy also gives you the ability to accumulate points in order to earn free classes. Things such as completing a profile, buying courses, and some other random tasks can earn you points that you can use to buy courses. The good
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The bottom lineIf you enjoy the kinds of crafts that Craftsy features, it's a great find. While the paid classes can range from $10 all the way up to $40, it may be worth it to those who would rather learn on their own than paying for classes they'll have to attend regularly. Craftsy will be most ideal for people who like to learn at their own pace and don't want to be responsible for attending a course regularly. Busy individuals who can't commit to a craft class will find even more value in having courses and guides at their fingertips when it's convenient for them.
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| What’s on Your iPad: Roxanne Wilson Posted: 13 Mar 2013 10:03 AM PDT
What's on Your iPad? A simple question but one that leads to some fascinating answers. This is another installment of our occasional series of What's on Your iPad posts. I enjoy these a lot because I love seeing how people put their iPads to use – and I find them a great resource for discovering new apps. Today's answers are provided by Roxanne Wilson. Roxanne is that rare person who seems to fit more into a typical day than most people fit into a week. I met her when we were both among the first 10 people in line for the iPad 2 a couple years ago outside our local Apple store here in Austin. We had several hours to talk about everything iPad and all sorts of other topics. The time flew by and it's my favorite ever Apple line experience. I've followed Roxanne's blog ever since and I'm very happy she took some time to do this post with me. Here's a little more profile...  Related Stories
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| Posted: 13 Mar 2013 09:02 AM PDT
I bought a new iPad mini yesterday. That's after I just bought one last November on launch day for the new smaller iPad – and knowing of course that we'll see a new iPad mini at some point this year, which will in some way or other be much better than the one I just bought. Sounds a bit crazy right? Well, there's actually a simple, good reason for the purchase. As I spoke about in my review of the iPad mini, the newest, smallest iPad won me over just about immediately. I knew very early on that the wonderful lightness and form factor of the iPad mini more than compensated for the lack of retina display for me. Now that I've owned the iPad mini for a little over four months, a couple of things have become very clear to me: – The iPad mini is by far and away my most used device. I'd say the usage breakdown for me between the iPad 3 and the iPad mini is about 80-20 in...  Comments
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| How to limit targeted ad tracking on iPhone and iPad Posted: 13 Mar 2013 08:41 AM PDT
iOS gives advertisers the option to serve up targeted ads based on your likes and dislikes. This is done by giving your device a unique advertising identifier that provides useful information to marketers about your habits and likes. Some people don't like this behavior and while you can't completely stop targeted ads from happening, your iPhone and iPad do give you the ability to limit ad tracking. Here's how.
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| Chrome for iPad Updated – Fixes Startup Crashes Posted: 13 Mar 2013 07:55 AM PDT
Chrome for iPad and iPhone was updated again yesterday – to Version 25.0.1364.124. The changes in this update are covered in a single line – in fact their description almost takes up less space than the goofy version number:
I posted recently on how the previous update to Chrome seemed to render the app unusable on my jailbroken iPad mini. It just continually crashed back to the home screen. Everyone I spoke to online with a jailbroken iOS device had the same issue. This update does as it says on the box. No more crashes and Chrome runs normally again on my iPad mini that remains jailbroken. Is anyone still seeing crash issues after this update to Chrome? © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2013. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us  Related Stories
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| Posted: 13 Mar 2013 08:06 AM PDT
Configuration profiles can be installed on the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad in order to help Apple diagnose things like battery life problems and to change settings for certain types of network access, among other things. Unfortunately, like many empowered conveniences, they bring with them theoretical security concerns. Namely, bad guys could make a malicious profile and try to trick us into installing it so they can do us harm. Skycure -- a security vendor, keep in mind -- reports:
Matthew Panzarino of The Next Web went through a demo:
To be clear, like any human engineering attack we -- the user -- has to install the malicious profile. It's not dissimilar to Phishing attacks or web popups on Windows or Mac PCs that claim account problems or promise free movies, porn, gadgets, or other scare tactics/enticements to get us to click/tap and install them on our systems. That's because they're not allowed installing themselves, we have to inject them ourselves. For configuration profiles, you need to tap a link to initiate the install, then confirm the install in a modal pop-up dialog. In some cases, if you have a Passcode set, it might ask for that as well. Two user actions required, maybe three. The certificate also shows what it is going to do. For example, Panzarino's showed VPN settings. That means all his traffic would be sent through someone else's Virtual Private Network. If you're not sure what something means, Google and places like the iMore forums are your friend. So, just like with desktop web browsers, we have to be careful what we click/tap on. The same advice always applies, be it in real life or virtual systems. Don't talk to strange configuration profiles. Don't take candy from them and don't help them find lost pets. In other words, don't be panicked, but absolutely be careful. Hit the link below for more on how this works and what you need to look out for. Source: Skycure, The Next Web Update: Nick Arnott pointed out I was conflating configuration and provisioning profiles in the article, and that provisioning profiles -- the kind developers issue for ad hoc/beta apps -- likely aren't susceptible to this type of attack. 
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| (Sponsor) FX Photo Studio HD – Stunning Photo Effects Posted: 13 Mar 2013 07:31 AM PDT
Jam-packed with 194 photo effects, filters and frames, FX Photo Studio HD can easily turn pictures into analog snaps from 80s, oil art paintings, sketches, futuristic 3D shots, vintage or colorsplash masterpieces & more. Newly updated for iOS 6, iPad mini and Retina Display, the app makes up one of the most powerful software for editing photos you can find on the iPad. You can apply stunning effects with a tap, mix filters and create your own artistic presets. The best time to try FX Photo Studio HD is now while it's still on a sweet sale ($2.99 -> $1.99). App Store Link: http://bit.ly/XnqEoD © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2013. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us  Related Stories
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| Deal of the Day: 43% off Incipio Smart Feather Hard Case for iPad 4th gen and The new iPad Posted: 13 Mar 2013 07:24 AM PDT | ||||||
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Discover delicious food around you with Forkly for iPhone
Posted: 12 Mar 2013 10:40 PM PDT
Forkly is a beautiful social food discovery app that will help you find a delicious meal the next time you're out and about. It features a few different feeds so that you can browse your options by what's nearby, what your friends recommend, or something more specific. When you find something that looks good, you can mark it as something you want, so that you can easily look it up when you're hungry and ready to try something new.
The interface of Forkly is simply gorgeous and features mouthwatering photos shared by other users. For each shared item, you can "want" it, leave a comment, and see who else is interested in trying it out. You can also share to your favorite social network, email, or Messages.
Forkly is one of those apps that gets better with more users, so tell you friends, rate some of your favorite restaurants and dishes, and let us know what you think!
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MacBreak Weekly 341: Drop it Like it's Hot
Posted: 12 Mar 2013 10:22 PM PDT
Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Alex Lindsay and I talk iPhone 5S rumors, is Apple maps getting better, Apple debuts 2013 as top US smartphone maker, and more.
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Petting Zoo for iPhone and iPad review
Posted: 12 Mar 2013 09:59 PM PDT
Petting Zoo by Christoph Niemann is a fun little interactive picture book for iPhone and iPad. Each page of the book features hand-drawn animations that interact with your touch.
The first page begins with a pencil drawing a hat that has a rabbit come out of it. Though you can't tell visually, the rabbit is pinned by its ears and feet, so when you swipe up, down, left, and right, the rabbit's body will stretch over in the respective direction Tapping him once will stretch him backwards and then bounce forward. The animations are great, especially considering they were hand-drawn.
When you advance to the next page, the rabbit morphs into a dog house and a long, skinny dachshund walks out of it. Using gestures, you can tie him in a knot and even make him breakdance.
As you turn the pages, the drawings morph from one zoo animal to another. There are 21 different animals and all of them respond to your touch.
The good
- Thousands of frames of hand-drawn animation
- Playful, musical sounds for each animal
- Fun for all ages, from infants to adults
The bad
- No complaints
The bottom line
Petting Zoo is an awesome kids book that even parents will enjoy. My two-year-old daughter thinks it's hilariously fun.
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