sábado, 5 de enero de 2013

iPad By Davis: “Counterfeit Lightning cables and adaptors on route from China seized in Anchorage” plus 7 more

iPad By Davis: “Counterfeit Lightning cables and adaptors on route from China seized in Anchorage” plus 7 more

Counterfeit Lightning cables and adaptors on route from China seized in Anchorage

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 12:55 AM PST

Counterfeit Lightning cables and adaptors on route from China seized in Anchorage The U.S. Customs and Border protection (CBP) carried out a routine inspection in Anchorage earlier this week and uncovered a massive haul of counterfeit Apple accessories. The collection of accessories included mostly Apple's new Lightning USB cables and adapters. The counterfeit products had been flown in from China and were due to distributed around the United States.

Designed to look like iPhone 5 USB "lightning" connector cables and adapters, the products included fake Apple logos and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) trademark icons. But the knock-off logos weren't enough of a disguise. The items stood out as counterfeits, Frank Falcon, CBP spokesman said. They were packaged for retail sale in cardboard blister packs that were sub-standard compared to Apple's trademark white packaging.

Falcon said a manufacturer in China is responsible for the shipment. He noted that while it is "difficult to deal with a manufacturer in another country," the bust will "bring more scrutiny" to future shipments from the company.

The haul is believed to be worth in the region of $600,000; if the cables were to be sold at knocked down prices. The counterfeit products will now be destroyed by the CBS not only for the fact that they are copies but more importantly for safety issues. There is no way of knowing if the cables are safe to use or even work at all.

Source: Alaska Dispatch

Forums: Keeping your device safe from theft, 1080p vs 720p on the iPad mini

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 08:17 PM PST

Have a burning question about that feature you just can't figure out? Need help with setting things up? The iMore forums is the place to be for all things iOS.

You can head over there and join in the conversation, search for answers, or lend your expertise to other members of our community. Check out some of the threads below:

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How to change email accounts when composing a message on your iPhone and iPad

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 01:44 PM PST

How to change email accounts when composing a message on your iPhone and iPad

If you've got multiple email accounts set up on your iPhone or iPad, the Mail app will automatically reply from whatever account an email was sent to. But what about when you're composing a new email? If you've got one account you use more than others, you can set that as your default account for composing emails. If you ever want to send from another account, you can still do that too.

Follow along and we'll show you how.

How to set a default email account on your iPhone and iPad

  1. Launch the Settings app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
  2. Now tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendar.
  3. Scroll down the page quite a ways until you see an option for Default Account. Tap on it.
  4. Tap on the account you'd like to be the default account for composing mail.
  5. Tap the Home button to return to the Home screen. That's all there is to it. Your iPhone or iPad will now remember which account is the default for composing emails.

How to switch between emails accounts on your iPhone and iPad

  1. Launch the Mail app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
  2. Tap on the Compose button in the bottom right hand corner of the main mailbox screen.
  3. You'll see a section on the top that shows what account the email is currently coming from. Tap on it once and you'll notice the From section will now jump into it's own field.
  4. Tap on the From field one more time in order to change the email account you're sending from. You'll now see a ticker that allows you to switch between accounts. Simply tap on the one you'd like to choose.
  5. That's all there is to it. Your new mail message will now be sent from the account you've selected.

You'll also notice that if you've configured different email signatures for each account that the Mail app will automatically change the signature to correspond from the account you've chosen to end from.

Best mileage tracking app for iPhone

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 01:05 PM PST

Best mileage tracking app for iPhone

Your iPhone is always with you, and that makes it the perfect tool for tracking milage so you're ready when the time comes to claim your expenses or work on your taxes. But what's the perfect mileage tracking for the iPhone? Rather than have you waste your time (on free apps that don't work right) or your money (on paid apps that aren't worth the cash), iMore took a look at several popular mileage tracking apps in the App Store, and figured out which was the absolute best one.

It's Trip Cubby by App Cubby, and here's why...

Interface and design

Trip Cubby's main interface is designed to show you all your mileage at a quick glance. Upon launching the app you'll see a main screen that is populated with all the trips you have input into Trip Cubby. Along the top you have a search button, so if you have lots of entries, it is easy to find what you're looking for. In the upper right is where you tap in order to add a new trip.

The bottom menu in Trip Cubby isn't overly complicated and only consists of a few items such as toggling between paid, unpaid, and all trips. You can also refresh Trip Cubby if you've got syncing enabled by tapping on the bottom right sync icon. The only other icon in the bottom menu is the settings icon off to the left.

The settings panel is where you'll set up syncing and edit data entry settings such as what mileage should be reimbursed as. You can also change some basic number bad settings and what tabs are visible for trip detail. If you'd like to change the presets for deduction rates, you can also do that here.

When comparing Trip Cubby to other apps such as TripLog and Milog, the subtle interface differences just makes Trip Cubby much more enjoyable to use. Any time you want to store a lot of numerical data in one place, it's very easy for the interface to get confusing. TripLog and Milog are two examples of this.

Launching Triplog, you're presented with an overly cluttered screen that asks you a lot of questions, all at one time. Given the information is easy to fill out and save, the more a developer puts on a screen, the more overwhelming it becomes to users. This is very much the case with TripLog.

Milog has a much better interface than TripLog, which makes it easier to use. Much like Trip Cubby, you'll have a basic menu in which most of your information is aggregated in the middle of. You can tap on the plus sign in the upper right hand corner to add a new log or use the bottom menu to access items such as new logs, reports, browse by month, or edit settings.

The one area that Trip Cubby really trumps most other mileage tracker apps are the built-in graphs. While on the main screen, you can tilt the phone to the side in order to view nicely laid out graphs that breakdowns of what kind of expenses you have, what items are paid vs. unpaid, and a complete mileage graph. You can then break these sections down further by choosing time increments such as by weeks, months, years, and all data.

This is a great user interface implementation that allows you to view lots of data very quickly without having to weed through reports and entries.

The only downside is that Trip Cubby hasn't yet been updated to support the new 4-inch, 16:9 display of the iPhone 5. That doesn't change it's usability, but it would be nice to have.

Tracking mileage

To actually track mileage within Trip Cubby just tap the plus sign in the upper right hand corner. From here you'll be able to fill out details. At the top you'll notice a frequent trips section. This is where you can add common trips to that list so you can access them and repeat them again later without having to fill everything in again.

Outside of just entering standard mileage into Trip Cubby, you can also sort them by tags and purpose. This makes it easy to find things later on. If you only want to see what mileage you spent traveling for advertising reasons, you can do so. You can also name a destination. Underneath that you will enter your odometer reading and Trip Cubby will automatically figure out the mileage for you. The settings panel allows you to toggle on and off tenths of miles in case you don't need those or your employer doesn't allow it.

Trip Cubby touts being IRS compliant as one of their features. This means that the rates inside the app should be IRS accepted rates for those types of deductions. I did, however, realize that the rate for business travel was a little off. Trip Cubby has it pre-programmed as $0.55 per mile while the IRS will actually accept $0.555 per mile for the tax year of 2012. This is very easily remedied by popping into settings and adding one extra digit onto the default allowance for business mileage. It isn't a huge difference but if you drive a lot for work, every penny helps.

TripLog is easy enough to figure out when it comes to inputting mileage data but from there, it gets hair. Sorting through that data later and viewing entries or editing them gets a little messy. Once you've entered something into TripLog it will automatically add it to the bottom of the already cluttered screen. Tapping on the blue arrow next to already entered data will bring you to the actual trip log.

TripLog also doesn't support entering custom reimbursement amounts. It will only keep track of straight mileage and any expenses such as tolls that you incur. If you like to know what you're owed, you're out of luck. Trip Cubby not only allows you to customize what you get reimbursed for mileage, it calculates it for you and lets you easily see what you're owed and what you still need to be reimbursed for.

Milog is a little better than TripLog and lets you set rates for mileage but doesn't include any by default. You'll need to add them every time or choose from a rate that you've already used at some point. For some, this may not be a bad thing since you'll probably use the same rate a good majority of the time.

At the end of the day, Trip Cubby just makes it easier to track mileage and know your position with reimbursement by simply opening the app and glancing.

Viewing statistics

Trip Cubby allows you to easily view statistics in a few different ones. The most obvious is what you're owned for mileage and expenses. You can see this data quickly and easily by just opening Trip Cubby. The main screen shows you a brief overview of your logs. Along the bottom you can toggle between paid, unpaid, and all entries. This makes it super easy to filter out what you're owed for so you can export it for reimbursement.

My favorite feature of Trip Cubby, and what really sets it apart from all other mileage tracking apps, is the graphing features. While on the main menu you can rotate your iPhone sideways in order to view graphical statistics on your mileage, expenses, and more. There are several breakdowns so you can track trends. If you're trying to figure out what times of the year you tend to travel most whether that's to predict how much you'll be spending on mileage or another reason, Trip Cubby makes that task super simple.

The first graph you see in Trip Cubby is a deduction graph. This graph breaks out all your deductions over different periods of time. Each deduction type will get its own section on the chart represented by a different color. The next graph will show you how many paid entries you have versus unpaid entries. Again, both will be represented by a different color.

The last graph, and probably the most useful for most, is a mileage tracker graph. Here you can see a plotted graph that shows what mileage you incurred in the time periods specified. Trip Cubby currently gives you the option to choose between all data, 1 year, 6 months, 3 months, 1 month, and 1 week. It's a pretty decent breakdown and will be perfectly acceptable for most people's needs.

Mile tracking apps such as TripLog and Milog just don't give as useful of information as Trip Cubby does when it comes to tracking statistics. In some cases, certain mileage tracking apps don't give you any statistics tracking.

Expense reports and exporting

If you have the need to track mileage and expenses, you probably have a need to pass those off to someone for reimbursement or to have records for your accountant come tax time. Trip Cubby is perfect for this. To create an expense report, tap on the search icon in the upper left hand corner. From here you can search by keywords, tags, or any other data you'd like. You can also toggle between paid and unpaid. Once you've aggregated all the data you'd like to include in the report, tapping the export button in the upper right hand corner will automatically create an already formatted email.

The receiver of the expense report will see a plain text version of your report that lays out your odometer readings, mileage, and rates. They'll also automatically get a .csv attached to the email in case they'd like to keep track in Excel or import it into an existing mileage tracking report.

TripLog also supports exporting but the format is not nearly as clean or organized as what Trip Cubby offers. Milog is another story and does offer a much better exporting system which much better search constraints than TripLog. Milog will also attach a .csv file to the email for Excel use.

While Milog creates equally as good exports as Trip Cubby, it's not in any way better than Trip Cubby. There are still other features of Trip Cubby that make it a better buy than both Milog and TripLog.

The bottom line

There are tons of mileage and expense tracking apps to choose from in the App Store. Over the years, we've taken a look at our fair share and we've still found Trip Cubby to be the best possible solution for tracking mileage and expenses.

While mileage tracking apps such as TripLog/1040 and Milog get the job done, they don't do it as well as Trip Cubby does. Not only does Trip Cubby provide a complete package, but a beautiful one as well.

If you want the best app for reporting mileage and expenses, get App Cubby's Trip Cubby.

Marvel Comics Unlimited tests iPad friend beta

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 12:45 PM PST

Marvel Comics Unlimited is a Netflix-like service that lets you subscribe to and consume huge quantities of catalog titles. Like Netflix, it isn't the new stuff, and the old stuff is rife with content gaps, but unlike Netflix, until now Marvel Comics Unlimited was locked into Adobe's Flash player, and that meant it couldn't work on the iPad. iBooks (pictured above), Kindle, and the ComiXology apps have all been options, though single purchase a la carte ones. That's starting to change, however, with a new, iPad-compatible version of the player now being offered as a beta to subscribers. Jason Snell of Macworld took it for a test-drive:

I found more than 300 issues of the 500-plus issue run of Uncanny X-Men, including the very first issues and the Byrne-Claremont run, but not my beloved Paul Smith issues (#154 to #166 are MIA), and most of the recent issues. You can search the catalog by character, series, event, or release date, so I was able to select "House of M" and see all the books in that event, not just the core eight-issue miniseries.

It wasn't polished or perfect yet, but the potential seems to be there. Of course, a native app would be even met (why not excelsior that, Marvel?) Check out the rest of Jason's preview to see where they are and how far they still have to go. Then let me know, would you drop $10 a month or $60 a year for all-you can eat Marvel comics?

Source: Macworld

How To Update iPad OS Software When You Don’t See Software Update in the Settings App

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 09:59 AM PST

Keeping the iOS (operating system) software up to date on your iPad is nearly always a good idea. Each major update to iOS (those that are .0 updates) brings a wealth of impressive new features to the iPad. The 'point updates' (5.1 or 6.0.2 for example) tend to offer important bug fixes, security patches, and [...]

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How the Safari browser started life as Alexander and hid itself from the world

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 06:25 AM PST

Don Melton, who was originally tasked by Scott Forstall to create WebKit and the Safari browser for OS X, and later WebKit of iOS, has retired from his job as engineering director of internet technologies, and begun writing. One of his writing projects is a blog, and two of his recent posts shed some light on the people and events behind Safari.

In When I first heard the name "Safari", Melton discusses the project name, Alexander, how they jokingly referred to it as iBrowse, and how it ultimately came to be named.

During the Summer of '02, Steve Jobs and the Apple management team realized that we were going to pull this off — we could actually ship a Web browser by the end of the year. And at one particularly good Human Interface design session, discussion turned to what we were going to call this — thing.

In keeping Safari a secret, Melton talks about how his team had to hide Safari's user agent string, so the project could remain a secret until Steve Jobs announced it at Macworld 2003.

For much of the time we spent developing Safari — long before it was called by that name — it pretended to be Microsoft Internet Explorer. Specifically, Internet Explorer for Mac, which Apple had provided with the OS since 1998. Less than six months before Safari debuted, it started pretending to be a Mozilla browser.

Both stories are delightful and add an enormous amount of color and humanity to a technology iPhone, iPad, and Mac users use every day. Give them a read.

Source: donmelton.com, thanks @SrikarDR

AL13 aerospace grade aluminum bumper arrives on Kickstarter, protect your iPhone without spoiling its looks

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:09 AM PST

AL13 aerospace grade aluminum bumper arrives on Kickstarter, protect your iPhone without spoiling its looksWe have seen many different bumper designs for the iPhone but we have never seen one as thin and simplistic as this one. The AL13 is currently seeking pledges on Kickstarter and looks to offer protection for your iPhone without adding much bulk or spoiling its beautiful design either. The AL13 is made from aerospace grade aluminum and slides onto your iPhone without the need for screws or catches to hold it in place.

We designed AL13 for iPhone users like us who were searching for something to protect their phone without changing it into some strange-looking object that has no resemblance to the phone they bought in the first place.

AL13 is crafted from the finest materials and designed to protect your iPhone from bumps, knocks and scratches while seamlessly blending with its form. It's tough and functional, yet so thin and light you'll forget it's there.

The AL13 has a soft rubber lining that acts as a shock absorber which will minimize the impact or your iPhone should you drop it. It also comes with a screen protector made from polyurethane which offers anti-scratch and anti-glare protection. The way the bumper fits to your iPhone is the most interesting part of the AL13. The back just slides on and locks into place without the need for any unsightly screws or clips.

The AL13 needs help through Kickstarter to become a reality; it is currently sitting at just over $18k and needs to reach over $20k to reach its funding target. Not much further to go and it still has 40 days left too. If you like the look of the AL13 you can be one of the first to get one, once they go into manufacturing. A pledge of $45 or more will get you one and they will come in a choice of colors from black, red or silver. There is even a special offer Kickstarter green variant available for those that would like to pledge a bit extra.

The design and function of the AL13 does look like it will offer a very minimalistic but strong way of protecting your iPhone without losing its good looks. One thing to take into account however is the signal loss when using this type of metal bumper. Tests show that it may reduce your signal strength by around 5-10%.

What do you think of the AL13 aluminum bumper?

Source: Kickstarter
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