iPad By Davis: “Looking back: The 2010 WWDC keynote: iPhone 4, iOS 4, iBooks and more!” plus 6 more |
- Looking back: The 2010 WWDC keynote: iPhone 4, iOS 4, iBooks and more!
- Whisper for App.net features wicked fast messaging complete with push, photo sharing, location info, and more
- Best Free iPad App of the Week: Comedy Central’s CC: Stand-Up
- Apps of the week: On/Off, Anomaly 2, Yahoo! Weather and more!
- How to easily encrypt external drives in OS X Mountain Lion
- iPad Art: Hello Summer
- CNN for iPad Updated: Redesigned Home Screen & More
| Looking back: The 2010 WWDC keynote: iPhone 4, iOS 4, iBooks and more! Posted: 08 Jun 2013 05:22 PM PDT Continuing the look back at previous WWDC keynotes as we eagerly await the 2013 conference getting underway, today it's on to 2010. Earlier in the year Apple had launched the iPad, and already shown off version 4.0 of the iPhone OS, but at WWDC iOS was officially termed for the first time. We also got another new iPhone and the launch of iBooks for the iPhone. The iPhone 4 was the big ticket item. A massive redesign on the 3GS, the iPhone 4 came to town clad in glass front and back. Packing the new A4 chip underneath, one of the standout features was the Retina Display. Seen for the first time on the iPhone 4, it packed 4 times as many pixels into the same 3.5-inch display, and looked better than anything else we'd ever seen on a mobile device. The camera was uprated to 5MP on the back, and for the first time Apple included a front facing camera to make use of the new Facetime video calling feature. Alongside the new 16 and 32GB iPhone 4, Apple also used the event to announce an 8GB iPhone 3GS. Apple had held a special software event for the iPhone earlier in the year, but it was at WWDC that the name was changed to iOS for the first time. iPhone, iPad, iOS. There was talk of apps too, with the announcement of iBooks launching for the iPhone having already been available on the iPad, and Apple's plans to introduce iMovie for iOS. Another year, and another great keynote from WWDC. Sit back and relax, and share your favorites with us in the comments below. 
| ||||||
| Posted: 08 Jun 2013 11:40 AM PDT
Whisper for iPhone is a new messaging service that takes advantage of the App.net API in order to bring super fast messages over any network complete with push notifications. For times when services like iMessage and regular SMS messaging fail, it's always good to have a backup, and Whisper is a super exceptional one that's packed with useful features. If you use ADN on a regular basis, you're probably already aware that one of the coolest parts is that they encourage developers to build amazing apps based on the service, which is pretty much the opposite of Twitter's take on third party clients these days. Not only can you text message over any internet connection like you can with iMessage, but it supports discrete photo and location sharing, stickers, and more. The location sharing portion of Whisper makes it easy to give directions either by walking or driving to a friend without having to leave the app or copy and paste address information. iMessage can be a bag of hurt at times with messages hanging up or not sending over Apple's servers. With apps like Whisper available now and BBM coming this summer for both iPhone and Android, Apple's got their work cut out for them if they'd like to keep people hooked on iMessage. Particularly when it comes to stability and feature set. A lot of us here at iMore are hoping for some iMessage updates in iOS 7. We should find out on Monday whether or not that'll be happening. In the mean time, if you're traveling to WWDC this year, it probably isn't a bad idea to have a backup plan for when communications go down in flames. It's not a matter of if, but more like when as anyone who has ever attended in the past painfully knows. Whisper makes a great alternative if you and your colleagues have ADN. The best part? It's fast, and it's free. If you don't have an App.net account yet, you can sign up and follow iMore here.
| ||||||
| Best Free iPad App of the Week: Comedy Central’s CC: Stand-Up Posted: 08 Jun 2013 10:23 AM PDT
Great apps and a huge selection of great apps are a big part of what makes the iPad such an amazing device. There are excellent apps for just about any purpose you can think of – from serious productivity to pure entertainment. 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 CC: Stand-Up by Comedy Central – which offers free access to Comedy Central's huge library of stand-up from top comedians. Some of the featured comedians include Louis CK, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Aziz Ansari, Patton Oswalt, Chris Hardwick from Talking Dead, Mitch Hedberg, and plenty more. These are the app's main sections: - The CHANNEL is the ultimate place to sit back and laugh, get hours of the best stand-up without interruption. Like TV but better. No need to fight grandma for the remote.         Related Stories
This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||||||
| Apps of the week: On/Off, Anomaly 2, Yahoo! Weather and more! Posted: 08 Jun 2013 10:12 AM PDT
Each week, the writers and editors here at iMore select some of our favorite apps for iOS and OS X, and share them with you, our fantastic readers. This week, we've got a great selection of games for you -- it is Talk Mobile gaming week after all -- along with a weather app, and a photo editor. Here's what we've been using this week. Kingdom Rush Frontiers HD - Joseph Keller
Just last week I was telling you all about Kingdom Rush, and this week marked the launch of its sequel, Kingdom Rush Frontiers. Frontiers takes you across deserts, underground, and through the jungle, battling enemies with a variety of towers. Gameplay is much like the original: you set up soldier, mage, archer and artillery towers in order to halt the progress of your enemies through the given level. But Frontiers adds new towers, a stable full of new heroes, and interesting new enemies. Speaking of enemies, while the original Kingdom Rush mostly featured goblins, spiders and the like charging towards their goal from obvious entry points, now your foes will also climb up and down walls, rise from the water, or cut new paths through jungle. Kingdom Rush Frontiers for iPad is a worthy sequel to the original, and you can pick it up on the App Store for $4.99.
On/Off - Simon Sage
On/Off is a polished puzzle game with a flat UI and a unique concept. Players are presented with a new grid of squares every level, each with their own little color. You can scroll these rows and columns two ways, and have the colors wrap around from the other side. The goal is to match up colored squares with the appropriately marked edges somewhere on the grid. This can get difficult when you start bumping into black squares, which stop you from scrolling past an edge on a row. The number of slides you need to solve a puzzle are counted, and if you're feeling stuck, you can buy your way past a level with in-app purchases. I'm on a flat kick these days, and I find the simple sound effects very nice.
Anomaly 2 for Mac - Peter Cohen
11 bit studios turned the venerable "tower defense" strategy game genre on its head with the release of Anomaly: Warzone Earth, which put you in charge of a team of human soldiers making their way through a turret-strewn battlefield manned by alien invaders. Now they're back with a sequel, Anomaly 2. Anomaly 2 continues from where we left off: Earth has now been overrun by alien machines, and mankind is on the verge of extinction. Humans search the wasted landscape for food and supplies. You command a convoy that has to thread its way through the hostile terrain. But Anomaly 2 adds a number of improvements over the original: your troops can morph into war mechs with specialized abilities. You can create a battle squad using a variety of different tactical combinations to find the right one to win each round. What's more, Anomaly 2 adds multiplayer gaming: You can either play as the towers and destroy the humans, or lead the humans to destroy the towers.
Yahoo Weather - Ally Kazmucha
I'm super picky about weather apps and go through them probably almost as much as I do Twitter clients. A few weeks ago one of my friends on Twitter posted a photo of weather in their area and I was intrigued by the new design of Yahoo weather. Not only is it clean and simple to read, it's absolutely gorgeous. It also filters in photos from Flickr of the area you're currently in, a neat little addition. While Accuweather is still my go to app for extensive weather info, Yahoo Weather is what I now use just to check conditions and short term forecasts. It's simply much more enjoyable to look at than most other weather apps out there.
PicLab - Chris Parsons
Although there is a ton of apps in the App Store that can ad text and filters to your images, the one app I've grown fond of using is PicLab thanks to its simplicity and offerings. PicLab includes around 30 fonts with more available through in-app purchase, 10 different filters you can make use of and all the fine grain photo tuning you'd expect in a photo editing app like brightness, saturation, exposure and more. Overall, it's just a great simple app that gets the job done. I do however feel I should note that while the app is free to download, it does watermark your images with the PicLab logo unless you throw down $0.99 for the in-app logo removal purchase.
Final Cut Pro X - Rene Ritchie
A lot of people have given Apple a lot of grief over Final Cut Pro X, and fair enough. For traditionalists used to a traditional non-linear video editor, FCP X was probably confusing, confounding, and consternating, and the new approach likely made up nothing for the loss of features. But once again that reminds us that Apple doesn't focus on the small, high-end niche. They focus on the masses, and FCP X really does make better editing more accessible to more people than anything that's come before. Case in point: Yesterday I needed to edit a 3-camera shoot into our very first Talk Mobile podcast. I've never done that before, and anticipated hours of work, trial, failure, and eventual success-enough in my future. Instead, Martin Reisch showed me how to make a multiangle clip, FCP X lined everything up automagically, and I spent a short time getting better than expected results. It was so easy I was up and running with an entirely new (for me) process and workflow within 5 minutes, and the video was edited in less time than it took YouTube to upload it. And the price -- and ability to install on all my Macs, thanks to the Mac App Store -- just can't be beat.
Fix it Felix Jr - Richard Devine
I can't say I'm playing this because I've seen Wreck it Ralph; because I haven't. I am playing it though after seeing a child playing it on an iPad and thinking to myself that it looked like fun. And it is. Fix it Felix Jr is the official game from the movie, but unlike the Wreck it Ralph game, it's isolated on its own, and is a free download. It's a little old school style game where you have to climb a building fixing the windows that have been smashed. It's a perfect casual, mobile game. Pick it up, play it for a little while, put it down, and do it all over again. It's hard not to love it!
| ||||||
| How to easily encrypt external drives in OS X Mountain Lion Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:49 AM PDT
OS X has long let you encrypt external drives, and even your Mac HD. Mountain Lion has actually made it even easier to encrypt external disks with just a few clicks. It's sometimes a good idea to do so on items such as backup disks. This way, if they ever fall into the wrong hands, no one should be able to access your data without the password you have set to decrypt it. If you aren't sure how to encrypt your data, follow along and we'll show you how.
That's all there is to it. Your Mac will now start encrypting the disk that you've chosen. This process could take quite some time depending on how much data you've got stored on it. Right clicking will show you if the disk is still encrypting. As a side note, anytime you connect this external drive, you'll be asked for the password you set up unless you save it in your Mac keychain. Just be careful not to save this password to any Macs that you don't want to always have access to the drive when connected. 
| ||||||
| Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:28 AM PDT
Today's featured iPad art is a double-dose of images that will make you want to head for the nearest beach right away. Here in Austin, Texas we've already reached the time of year where temperatures are at the 'touch the steering wheel, burn the flesh off your hand' level – so a beach sounds awfully good to me. The painting above certainly doesn't make the beach any less appealing. It's titled 'Amanda' and is the work of Pilar Humada. It's hard not to find that image just captivating. The woman and the location look equally beautiful and peaceful. OK, maybe not absolutely equal, but close.
Here's one more lovely summer painting from Pilar Humada:
This one is titled 'Seascape'. I love the light and warmth in this piece. It looks like a perfect spot. Both paintings were done freehand using the Ibis Paint app. Check out Pilar's Flickr photostream for more... This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||||||
| CNN for iPad Updated: Redesigned Home Screen & More Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:04 AM PDT
The CNN iPad app has been updated this week, to Version 1.8.4. The most notable change in this update is a redesign of the app's home screen, in an effort to make it easier to read and to find top stories. There are now sections available in a left sidebar that can be toggled visible or hidden with just a quick tap or swipe. Sections include Top Stories, Featured, US, World, Politics, Money, Tech, and more. There are also new sections with video clips from CNN shows including Anderson Cooper 360. Here's one more funny item on this update's change list – no love for the James Earl Jones sound effect added in another recent update: • We've listened to your feedback on the 'This is CNN' welcome greeting and have made changes to the feature. It is now turned off by default. You can turn it on when you launch the app for the first time or at any time by visiting the Profile...  Related Stories
This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||||||
| You are subscribed to email updates from iPad By Davis To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario