iPad By Davis: “Samsung confirms that it is also working on a smart watch to rival the rumored iWatch” plus 16 more |
- Samsung confirms that it is also working on a smart watch to rival the rumored iWatch
- Pocket Cycle for iPhone and iPad review
- How do you type on your iPhone: Hand position? [Poll]
- Google's latest Nexus 10 tablet ad vs. Apple's current iPad ads
- Facebook app updated so you can set your cover photo on the go!
- Surface Sales Estimates Are Bleak, Microsoft Thinks Better Marketing Will Save the Day
- iMore for iPhone app 2.0.1 bug fixes!
- Feedly for iPhone and iPad review
- Debug 10: Tammy Coron of Nickelfish and the iMore app
- Apple MapKit vs. Google Maps SDK: Which one is better for developers?
- Is Google Drive down for you?
- Simple Bracket helps you track March Madness 2013
- iCloud Tips: How To Create a Shared Photo Stream and Make It a Public Website
- How to quickly move recipients to different fields in Mail on iPhone and iPad
- Former Star Wars audio company THX sues Apple over speakers
- Deal of the Day: 51% off Seidio ACTIVE Case (with kickstand) for iPhone 5
- Monday Brief: Android craziness, BlackBerry madness and more!
| Samsung confirms that it is also working on a smart watch to rival the rumored iWatch Posted: 19 Mar 2013 01:30 AM PDT
That was all Lee Young Hee would say about the smart watch and he wouldn't give any more details on what functions the smart watch could perform or how much it would cost. It's obviously very early days and maybe Samsung are just reacting to the recent rumors over Apple's possible iWatch. We heard recently that Apple already has a team of over 100 designers working on the mystical iWatch device and again Bloomberg insist that it may arrive as soon as this year. Whatever happens, it looks like the next few years will see more wearable technology arriving to grab our attention. The choice appears to be between a smart device on your wrist or one on your glasses. Which do you prefer? Source: Bloomberg 
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| Pocket Cycle for iPhone and iPad review Posted: 18 Mar 2013 11:46 PM PDT Pocket Cycle for iPhone and iPad is an app designed to help women track their menstrual cycles and sync the information with their partner's device. It features a very simple interface that displays all the important dates related to your cycle in a simple color-coded dial. The main screen screen of Pocket Cycle is a dial with 28 colored dots (unless you changed your cycle length to something other than 28 days). Each dot represents a day in your cycle with the dot at the top center representing day 1. Red dots are period days, green dots are fertile days, the blue dot is ovulation day, and gray dots are "normal" days. The large dot represents the day you're currently at. If you need to adjust what day you are in your cycle , just spin the dial to the correct dot and tap save. You can also tap the button in the center of the dial to recalibrate. I really like the idea of simply turning the dial, however, this causes previous months to change to match the cycle length you've assigned. This is a huge flaw that needs to be addressed since most women don't have perfectly regular cycles. Past cycles need to be remained unchanged. Pocket Cycle includes a calendar that predicts your future cycles. This can be helpful for planning vacations and events if you want to avoid certain activities while on your period. Pocket Cycle also includes alarms for when your period and fertile days are expected to start and end, as well as reminders to take birth control. Pocket Cycle includes discrete text with these reminders, but you can also edit them to say anything you want. Pocket Cycle also allows you to add custom alarms. When syncing with a partner, Pocket Cycle doesn't simply keep the apps identical; it only keeps the dials in sync. Reminders are kept separate and a partner is not allowed to change a dial and recalibrate cycles; he can only view it. The good
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The bottom lineIf you're looking for a simple, visual way to share your cycle information with a partner, Pocket Cycle is a great choice. It's easy to use, looks nice, and saves you from having awkward conversations about where you are in your cycle.
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| How do you type on your iPhone: Hand position? [Poll] Posted: 18 Mar 2013 09:34 PM PDT For the first on this week's series of polls on keyboards and typing, we want to know whether you typically type on your iPhone with one hand or with two? Do you hold it and thumb away at the keyboard with the same hand? Do you hold it in your left and poke away at it with your right, or vice versa? Do you hold it in both hands and thumb away at it? If you use multiple methods, which one do you use most? Do you vary your grip when you want to type faster? Vote in the poll and let me know the details, and the reasons for doing it the way you do, in the comments. 
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| Google's latest Nexus 10 tablet ad vs. Apple's current iPad ads Posted: 18 Mar 2013 09:21 PM PDT Google has released a new ad for their Samsung-built Nexus 10 tablet called "New Baby". It shows the kind of deft polish and product packaging Google's able to put together now -- far, far better stuff than the off-key, borderline creepy ads of the past, and almost Apple-calibur in its quality and content. It's close to the early iPad 2 ads in feel -- very human, very resonant, and very experiential. For their part, Apple has switched from experiential, Peter Coyote voiced spots to a lighter, funner, almost iPod-esque style for their latest ads, showing keywords and first- and third-party apps off at an almost blipvert pace. To be fair, Google still suffers from a daunting paucity of tablet-class apps, so they may simply not have much to show when it comes to big apps for the big screen, at least not anything approaching the tens of thousands of great tablet apps available for the iPad. To their credit, however, Google does show Nexus 10 features unavailable on the iPad, like multiple user accounts and multiple window environments. I don't know if they show them off well enough -- the glimpses are fleeting and the importance of the differentiation isn't always clear -- but they do show them off. These are often high-up on some pro-user/greek want lists, but every time they've been used as differentiation to compete with the iPad, they've failed. Hard. One line of thinking is that mainstream iPad customers don't want desktop-like experiences. The added complexity is actually off-putting, intimidating, confusing, or otherwise unwelcome on the even more personal post-PC. The other is that they simply haven't, to date, been made or marketed well. The Nexus 10 is made well, and if this ad is any indication, Google seems to have learned to market it better, so could we finally start to see if people really want more desktop-like tablets, or if part of the iPad's appeal is that it's decidedly not a desktop? Check out both Google's "New Baby" and Apple's latest "Together" spot below, as well as Apple's classic "We believe" and let me know what you think. Which type of ad to you prefer, and which feature set is more compellingly shown off? Source: Android Central 
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| Facebook app updated so you can set your cover photo on the go! Posted: 18 Mar 2013 05:40 PM PDT The Facebook app for iPhone and iPad has been updated to version 5.6 and the major new feature is simple yet convenient -- you can now set cover photos on the go, right from your iOS device. If that's not enough, Facebook has also reduced the amount of taps it takes to start a group message. To change your cover photo inside the Facebook iOS app, simply touch and hold the existing photo, and a slide-up menu will give you the option to take a new one, or select and existing photo from your Camera Roll. I tried it out on my account and it worked easily and quickly. If you give it a whirl, let me know how it works for you. You can grab the Facebook for iPhone and iPad app from the App Store.
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| Surface Sales Estimates Are Bleak, Microsoft Thinks Better Marketing Will Save the Day Posted: 18 Mar 2013 02:02 PM PDT Predictions and estimates offered last week for the early sales numbers for Microsoft's Surface tablet line don't paint a very pretty picture. They're pretty bleak in fact – especially considering how heavily hyped and marketed the Surface RT and Surface Pro have been. Here's some details from a Bloomberg story on this:
Based on Apple's last reported quarterly results it looks like more iPads are sold every week than the total number of Surface devices...         Related Stories
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| iMore for iPhone app 2.0.1 bug fixes! Posted: 18 Mar 2013 01:45 PM PDT Apple has just approved version 2.0.1 of the official iMore for iPhone app, and it's scintillating new features include... bug fixes and performance enhancements! We know some of you had trouble with sending in tips and posting comments, and both of those issues should now be fixed! Thanks for the patience! We're already planning 2.5 and 3.0, so if you have any additional bugs to report, or features to request, head on over to the iMore forum thread and let your voice be heard. If you're already using the iMore app, get the update now from the App Store. If you haven't tried it yet, download it now. (And then hurry up and enter our big iPhone giveaway contest!)
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| Feedly for iPhone and iPad review Posted: 18 Mar 2013 01:29 PM PDT There are lots of RSS apps available in the App Store for both iPhone and iPad. Feedly may be one of many, but it's one of the most popular for a reason. Everything from how you maneuver through feeds to it's bright and bold interface is done extremely well. Swiping actions and being able to quickly mark things as read are added bonuses. Then again, looks aren't always everything. Upon taking a closer look, looks aren't the only thing Feedly has going for it. When you first launch Feedly, you can start adding feeds manually or you can sign into your existing Google Reader account. Before you get too concerned, Feedly will switch over to their own Normany service when Google Reader is discontinued. You'll just need to make sure you import your feeds to Feedly or some other client before that happens. If you've already got your stuff on Feedly, it'll be a seamless transition that you won't even notice. Feedly ties in with many services including Pocket, Instapaper, and bit.ly. You can pop into settings once and enter your info and Feedly will remember it for future use. You can also save items to read later within app too so if you're just skimming articles and want to remember to read something later, tapping the bookmark icon will save it in the read later section of the navigation menu. As far as marking articles as read, you can do this by using swipe gestures. A long swipe will mark everything on that page as read while a short swipe will mark just that one article as read. If you accidentally mark something a swipe in the opposite direction will mark the article or whole page as unread again. Feedly uses a feature called stacks which allows you to quick swipe through pages but if you prefer scrolling through lists of articles better, you can switch it in the settings menu. There are several view options in Feedly including tile view, list view, and more. You can toggle and personalize them inside each feed as you see fit. The only thing I'd really like to see is an app wide setting to change the view. If it's there, I missed it and I looked quite hard. The good thing is at least Feedly remembers the views you set so it stays that way. So if you like list view, you'll only need to tell each feed to display that way one time. As far as searching for feeds and finding new content, the search bar stays static in the upper right hand corner through pretty much every screen. From here you can pull in tons of topics and read feeds inside those topics. One of the neatest features about Feedly is the today and latest sections. If you don't feel like drilling down into specific feeds or categories, these sections allow you to browse quickly so you keep up with news that's recent and popular. You'll notice a Feedly rating symbolized by a heart next to articles in your feed. This number is aggregating the amount of Facebook likes or shares and Google +1's that story is getting. Feedly says their own special formula is added in as well. The higher the rating, the more popular the story is across the web. The good
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The bottom lineThe most important part of a great RSS app is the ability to read things easily and Feedly definitely provides that. The interface isn't boring but it isn't too busy either. The different view options cater to almost any audience and how they prefer to read. The ability to change themes and fonts is also a great feature of a good RSS app since not everyone likes to the same kinds of fonts. Feedly has taken this into consideration when choosing their fonts and it's obvious. Whether you're looking to find something to replace Google Reader or just want a beautiful RSS app for iPhone or iPad, Feedly will cater to both purposes and is sure to impress. And considering it's free, you've really got nothing to lose.
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| Debug 10: Tammy Coron of Nickelfish and the iMore app Posted: 18 Mar 2013 01:17 PM PDT Tammy Coron of Nickelfish talks with Guy and Rene about coding (and re-coding!) the iMore app, the TRS-80 and text adventures, computers in schools, teaching kids to code, and surviving the zombie apocalypse. Show notesGuestsHostsFeedbackYell at us via the Twitter accounts above (or the same names on ADN). Loudly. 
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| Apple MapKit vs. Google Maps SDK: Which one is better for developers? Posted: 18 Mar 2013 12:21 PM PDT In the post-iOS 6 world, developers now have a choice of using Apple's new MapKit to embed map tiles and location services in their app, or to use Google's newly separate Google Maps SDK along with Google's tiles and location services. Both have strengths and weaknesses, including design and data quality. To compare and contrast Apple and Google's offering, and after speaking with developers, Michael Grothaus at FastCompany reports:
The gist seems to be that Apple's MapKit is easier to implement and offers better integration into iOS. However, the data quality can be problematic to the extent that it fuels bad reviews on the App Store. So, if data quality is urgently important, or you require features beyond MapKit, Google's Maps SDK could be worth switching to. However, developers are limited to 100,000 API requests by users per day. That might sound like a lot, but each user action might make several API requests at once, eating into a developer's daily quota. Additionally, unlike MapKit, the current Google Maps SDK doesn't allow for overlays and gradient polylines, which apps like Armstrong's Plane Finder uses to show the altitude of flights. Where Google's SDK does stand out is its search capabilities, which Armstrong says beats Apple's hands down. No easy answers to complex questions, unfortunately, but there's a wealth of information contained in the feature so check it out, and if you're working with maps in your app, let us know which service fits better with your apps, and why. Source: FastCompany 
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| Posted: 18 Mar 2013 09:01 AM PDT Both iMore and Mobile Nations live on Google services, and we've been having problems all day. Specifically, it feels like Google Drive has been stuck at 1mph all day. Google has acknowledged that Google Drive is experiencing issues this morning. A "significant subset of users is said to be having issues connecting to the service via the web. The iOS apps appear to be working fine despite the issue. Google has said that they are addressing the problem, and they will update users soon. As of yet, there are no details on when a fix for the issue can be expected. And no, we're not going to give Google a hard time over this, at least not year. Every service goes down. Every. Service. iCloud has had more than it's fair share of hiccups over the last year as well. What we will do is offer to get out and push, if that helps, and ask you -- how's Google working for you today? Any problems with Drive? With Google+? With anything else? Source: Google 
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| Simple Bracket helps you track March Madness 2013 Posted: 18 Mar 2013 09:54 AM PDT Simple Bracket is an iPhone app by Studio Neat for filling in brackets for March Madness and competing with your friends and family. What makes Simple Bracket special is it's easy-to-use interface and sophisticated scoring system. The folks at Studio Neat partnered up with mathematician Dr. Ted Gooley, to implement what they claim to be the "most statically sound bracket scoring method available today." Simple bracket also awards achievements and badges for certain outcomes, like winning a game by a buzzer beater. Unfortunately, Simple Bracket requires a Twitter account to use, but if you're ok with that and a big March Madness fan, you should pick this one up!
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| iCloud Tips: How To Create a Shared Photo Stream and Make It a Public Website Posted: 18 Mar 2013 09:20 AM PDT Photo Stream is one of the cool features that are part of Apple's iCloud service. Shared Photo Streams are one of the best things about Photo Stream. A shared Photo Stream, as the name would imply, lets you easily and almost instantly share a particular set of photos with family and friends. Even better is this little extra feature in shared photo streams: the ability to make a shared Photo Stream a public website. And it's very easy to do. Here's how: – Open the Settings app on your iPad (or iPhone), scroll down in the left sidebar, and tap on the 'Photos & Camera' section
– Make sure that both My Photo Stream and Shared Photo Streams are turned On – as shown in the screenshot above. – If you haven't created any photo streams yet, it's easy to do so. Just open the Photos app, select an album (Camera Roll for instance), and ta[p the 'Edit'...  Related Stories
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| How to quickly move recipients to different fields in Mail on iPhone and iPad Posted: 18 Mar 2013 09:01 AM PDT If you send a lot of emails on your iPhone or iPad that go to different people, you may want to blind copy some users, or all of them for that matter, so they don't see each other's email addresses. Regardless of the reason, if you forget there isn't a need to delete the email and re-enter it in the appropriate field. iOS actually gives you the ability to move them pretty seamlessly. Here's how.
That's all there is to it. This is a great tool for times when you need to blind copy someone and accidentally but an address in the wrong field. Try it out and let us know how it works for you! 
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| Former Star Wars audio company THX sues Apple over speakers Posted: 18 Mar 2013 07:21 AM PDT THX, the audio company founded by George Lucas to ensure the audio quality of the Star Wars films, has filed a patent infringement suit against Apple for the speakers used on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Independent since 2001, THX holds a 2008 patent for a sound-boosting speaker. Karen Gullo & Joel Rosenblatt of Bloomberg report:
The suit was filed in San Jose, California and seems to target the speakers Apple has employed along the thin bottom edges of their mobile and all-in-one Mac devices. And... that's about all there is to report right now. Apple gets hit with lawsuits all the time, and this one will probably get more attention than other, similarly sizes suits because, Star Wars headlines. Other than that, the story probably won't be unusual -- money will change hands either in a settlement before trial or as a result of verdict after long, oft-appealed court battles. If and when a deal is reached, or Bobba Fett shows up, we'll update. Source: Bloomberg 
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| Deal of the Day: 51% off Seidio ACTIVE Case (with kickstand) for iPhone 5 Posted: 18 Mar 2013 06:41 AM PDT | ||||||
It should come as no real surprise to be honest that Samsung has let it be known that it is currently working on a smart watch and has been for some time now. The news comes from 
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