iPad By Davis: “ProCollage for iPhone review: combine your photos into beautiful collages” plus 11 more |
- ProCollage for iPhone review: combine your photos into beautiful collages
- Chrome Browser iPad App Updated – Adds Print Options & More
- Chrome for iOS updated with fullscreen mode for iPhone and printing support
- Apple says iMessage and FaceTime down for some users
- Iterate 44: Mark Kawano and evangelizing experience
- AirPlay Multitasking: All iPad Video Apps Should Have This
- Competitors who aren't Apple lodge antitrust complaint against Google in Europe
- My Recipe Book 3.0 review: keep your cooking recipes synced between iPhone and iPad
- How to invert screen colors on iPhone and iPad
- Deal of the Day: 37% off Incipio Lexington Hard Shell Folio Case for iPad mini
- WhatsApp claims rumors of its Google death have been greatly exaggerated
- Ron Johnson's ouster from JC Penny leads to speculation about a potential Apple Retail return
| ProCollage for iPhone review: combine your photos into beautiful collages Posted: 09 Apr 2013 02:03 PM PDT
ProCollage for iPhone is a photography app that gives you the ability to create beautiful collages featuring your photos. I know, there's a million collage apps in the Apps Store, but ProCollage offers some unique features like a FreeStyle mode and panoramic strips of images.
Something so simple as adding photos to a collage is one of my favorite features of ProCollage. Instead of choosing a photo for each spot in the collage, you simply choose all the photos you want to use at once and ProCollage adds them all for you. If you want to swap their locations, you just drag the photos around to the desired spots. And if you want to change just one photo, you can do that too.
Like most collage-making apps, ProCollage has different templates to choose from for up to nine photos in a single collage. These templates are available in 1:1, 2:3, 3:4, 3:2, and 4:3 ratios and you can change the color/pattern of the background and the roundness of the corners. You can also slide the dividers around to customize the collage to be exactly how you want. In addition to traditional storyboard collages, you can also create FreeStyle and panoramic collages with ProCollage. For the FreeStyle collages, there are many different backgrounds to choose from as well as some templates. You can also arrange and size the photos exactly how you want and disregard the templates.
The panoramic collages are simply vertical and horizontal photo strips. ProCollage allows you to share your creations to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and any other app that supports photos. There are three exporting sizes available, the largest being 1800x1800 or 900px on shortest side of panoramic collages. The good
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The bottom lineProCollage is a great collage app for iPhone. If you're looking for a simple app to quickly create collages, definitely give ProCollage a try.
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| Chrome Browser iPad App Updated – Adds Print Options & More Posted: 09 Apr 2013 01:00 PM PDT
The Chrome browser app for iPad and iPhone has been updated today, to Version 26.0.1410.50 (thanks Google for all the hilarity with these update numbers). Here's the full change list for this new version:
The last two items are the most notable for iPad users I would think – though I have to admit I have not yet figured out how to use the saving page as PDF to Google Drive. Have any of you installed this Chrome update yet? If so, can you fill me in on how to make the save page as PDF feature work? © patrickj for ...         Related Stories
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| Chrome for iOS updated with fullscreen mode for iPhone and printing support Posted: 09 Apr 2013 01:48 PM PDT
Google Chrome for iOS has been updated with some new enhancements, including fullscreen mode, printing, and the normal stability improvements and bug fixes. iPhone users can activate the new fullscreen mode by scrolling down through a page, causing the toolbar to disappear. The toolbar will reappear when you scroll back up. Fullscreen mode does not appear to be available for the iPad at this time. Users can now print from both the iPad and iPhone versions of Chrome using either Google Cloud Print or AirPrint. Simply tap the menu in Chrome and select "Print..." and you will be given a list of options. If you select Google Could Print, in addition to being given a list of available printers, you will also have the option to save the page to your Google Drive as a PDF. Do you use Chrome on iOS? If so, grab the update and tell us what you think of the new features.
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| Apple says iMessage and FaceTime down for some users Posted: 09 Apr 2013 01:36 PM PDT
iMessage and Facetime are both down for some users. According to Apple, the outage started just a little after 3 PM Eastern Time. There is not yet an ETA on when the issues will be resolved. For more information, check Apple's system status page. Are Facetime and iMessage out for you? Source: Apple 
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| Iterate 44: Mark Kawano and evangelizing experience Posted: 09 Apr 2013 11:15 AM PDT
Mark Kawano, former user experience evangelist at Apple, talks to Marc and Rene about working at Adobe on Photoshop, at Frog on client work, at Apple on Aperture and iPhoto, on presenting your ideas, how best to beta test, and about the proper time and place for everything from hamburgers and basements to flats and textures. GuestsHostsFeedbackYell at us on Twitter via the above accounts. Loudly. 
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| AirPlay Multitasking: All iPad Video Apps Should Have This Posted: 09 Apr 2013 08:24 AM PDT
Last night I noticed a friend's mention on Google+ that the HBO Go app now supports AirPlay Multitasking. As in, you can be streaming your HBO content from your iPad to a big TV via Apple TV and at the same time switch away from the HBO Go app and do other things on the iPad. This could also be referred to as the ability for AirPlay, with full audio AND video, to work in the background. I'm not an HBO subscriber – but seeing this feature added to their app made me curious about how many iPad video apps support it. My quick round of testing today shows that only about 50% of video apps for iPad support AirPlay Multitasking – with full video. This is a relatively small sample of course, but I tested 16 video apps out on my iPad 3 and iPad mini and found that the following apps do not support AirPlay Multitasking: Epic Rap Battles of History, Frequency, Watchup, CNN, History,...  Related Stories
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| Competitors who aren't Apple lodge antitrust complaint against Google in Europe Posted: 09 Apr 2013 08:40 AM PDT
Google competitors -- no, not including Apple -- have lodged an antitrust complaint against the company with the European Union. Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, and others, all under the name Fairsearch Europe, have alleged that Google is using Android's dominant market position to provide an advantage for Google apps. According to the New York Times, Fairsearch is alleging that Google is muscling their OEM partners into giving Google's apps prominent placement:
Fairsearch, which probably shouldn't be confused with something actually fair -- calls Google's free distribution of Android "predatory" because companies like Microsoft, which sells licenses to OEMs, have a hard time making their money back when they're competing with Google. Essentially they're accusing Google of dumping, but with software instead of hardware. The prominence of Google's apps on Android phones puts others at a disadvantage. It's a bit funny for Microsoft to be complaining about this, seeing as they were penelized for essentially this same practice with regards to web browsers on Windows. What a difference a half a decade makes. Google is already under investigation by the European Commission for similar potential antitrust violations, using its dominant position in web search to push its web app ecosystem. Android itself is facing scrutiny as well, separately from either the web search or Fairsearch complaints. We've seen what happened to Microsoft post-anti-trust. iOS users remain huge Google services users, even as iPhones and iPads compete with Android devices. What's you take? Is Google crossing any lines? And would this help Apple or just set them up as the next potential target? Source: The New York Times, via Android Central 
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| My Recipe Book 3.0 review: keep your cooking recipes synced between iPhone and iPad Posted: 09 Apr 2013 08:11 AM PDT
My Recipe Book is a cooking app that lets you store and organize recipes you find into one convenient location -- your iPhone or iPad. With the new KitchenSync introduced in My Recipe Book 3.0, you can actually now store all those recipes on as many devices as you want.
One of the biggest new features of My Recipe Book is that it's now universal for iPhone and iPad (previously iPad only). This makes it much easier to use your shopping list while in the grocery store or share a new recipe with your friend while out and about. Another improvement to My Recipe Book is to its Easy Import system. This awesome feature lets you find recipes on the popular cooking websites (epicurious, MyRecipes, CookingLight, Food Network, etc) and quickly import them into My Recipe Book. It's now incredibly easy to use and more reliable.
My Recipe Book also includes a shopping list. From any recipe, you can select which ingredients you want to add to your list. A great feature of the list is that not only are the ingredients added, but the exact amount needed is also included.
On the iPad, you can also edit your recipes, add notes, use multiple timers, and add your own custom recipes. Another awesome feature of My Recipe Book is the ability to automatically convert the serving size of a recipe without having to do any of the math yourself. Simply pick a multiplier (like twice as many than the original recipe) and My Recipe Book will do the rest! The good
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The bottom lineMy Recipe Book is an excellent cooking app for those who like to discover new recipes online. Being able to quickly import recipes from all the popular cooking websites, edit them, and even add your own, makes My Recipe Book a must-have for every cook. The new addition of KitchenSync is the cherry on top to an already awesome app. Do you have any favorite recipes that you found online? Please share them in the comments below!
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| How to invert screen colors on iPhone and iPad Posted: 09 Apr 2013 07:03 AM PDT
For certain individuals that are visually impaired, inverting the colors of the iPhone and iPad screen may make it easier to read, particularly for users who are colorblind or partially colorblind. This is actually a built in accessibility option for all iPhones and iPads. So whether you yourself are visually impaired or you know someone who is, it could make reading text and viewing content within iOS much easier. Here's how:
You'll notice the screen colors will now invert and somewhat resemble a photo negative. This can make it easier for those with certain visual impairments to pick out content and navigate easier. You can pop back into Settings at any time to disable it if you'd like to later on. 
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| Deal of the Day: 37% off Incipio Lexington Hard Shell Folio Case for iPad mini Posted: 09 Apr 2013 06:53 AM PDT | ||||||
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WhatsApp claims rumors of its Google death have been greatly exaggerated
Posted: 09 Apr 2013 06:26 AM PDT
Over the weakened rumors ran rampant that popular cross-platform messaging service WhatsApp was in Google's cross-hairs, and that a buyout might be imminent. Not so, says WhatsApp's head of business development, Neeraj Arora. According to Liz Gannes of AllThingsD:
[WhatsApp] is not holding sales talks with Google.
Google has bought, and in some cases killed, popular services before, and likely will again. WhatsApp has been the subject of buyout rumors before, including by Facebook (who ultimately bought their competitor, Beluga), and likely will again. In an increasingly connected world, a cross-platform communication service is valuable, and Whatsapp becoming to GTalk what Sparrow became to Gmail or Snapseed became to whatever Google finally does with photos, certainly isn't inconceivable.
Mega corporations, including Apple, buying independent software and services companies, sometimes for talent or technology rather than current products, sometimes just to reduce competitive pressures, is why we can't always have and keep nice internet things.
Of course, a relatively low-level denial means almost nothing in a world where CEO's tell us they're not doing something right up until the moment they do it. So keep your rumor drawer ever-so-slightly ajar for the next few weeks. And in the meantime, let me know -- do you care if Google, or someone else, buys WhatsApp?
Source: AllThingsD
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Ron Johnson's ouster from JC Penny leads to speculation about a potential Apple Retail return
Posted: 09 Apr 2013 05:59 AM PDT
Ron Johnson, who helped Apple and Steve Jobs establish their retail presence and make Apple Stores among the most successful commercial venues of the modern era, has been unceremoniously dumped as CEO of JC Penny. Johnson, who left Apple in 2011, had been working on applying some of that Apple Retail magic to the clothing business, but results to date had been less than spectacular. In a prepared statement, JC Penny announced they were replacing Johnson with former CEO Mike Ullman.
Apple, for their part, hasn't had much success replacing Johnson as head of retail either. Their first attempt, John Browett, wasn't a good fit, and they haven't made a second attempt yet. That's led to some speculation about Johnson rejoining Apple and reclaiming their retail division.
While everything from the famed second coming of Steve Jobs, to Ullman himself at JC Penny, to any number of hollywood movies have romanticize the idea of the great return, and Apple does reportedly have a policy in place to encourage rank-and-file returns, if or how that could or would apply at the executive level and under these circumstances, is uncertain. Johnson doesn't seem to have burned any bridges at Apple, but he didn't exactly set the world on fire at JC Penny either. Would the negative perception of his performance elsewhere tarnish the positive perception of his work at Apple? "Apple-is-doomed" headliners would almost certainly have a field day with it, but Apple itself is remarkably pragmatic and results-focused.
It's a different time. They're in different places. But they're both single again... Any chance they could make magic a second time around?
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