iPad By Davis: “Amazon taking the fight to iTunes on the Desktop with new Cloud Player client” plus 19 more |
- Amazon taking the fight to iTunes on the Desktop with new Cloud Player client
- Want to see the Facebook's beta icon? Check out the latest update!
- Lemon Wallet for iPhone review: Create Passbook cards for your entire wallet and much more
- 1Password 4 updated with strong password generator in the browser, new sharing options
- Notable New iPad Apps: Write for Dropbox
- Time for touchscreen Macs? Hell no!
- Twitterrific updates with Readability and Droplr support, bug fixes
- Want to listen to Daft Punk's Random Access Memories before it's released? There's an iTunes for that!
- T-Mobile US raises down payment price of iPhone 5 to $149 very, very quietly
- Soundcloud updated to let users sign in, share with Google+
- Google brings storage for Gmail, Drive, and G+ storage into harmony, users get 15GB to store whatever they want
- How to highlight and notate books and PDFs with iBooks for iPhone and iPad
- Photographer Peter Belanger talks on shooting for Apple
- Flipboard Updated – New Profile Pages, New Magazine Features & More
- Tweak your snapshots with PicShop HD, free for a limited time on iPhone and iPad
- Flipboard update lets you track the stats of your magazines, find content from friends faster
- Deal of the Day: 52% off the BodyGuardz UltraTough Clear Full Body for iPhone 5
- Monday Brief: The Nokia Lumia 928, a Galaxy S4 vs HTC One camera shootout, BlackBerry Live, and more!
- Ready for gigabit on your phone? Samsung announces 5G mmWave networking on track for 2020
- Bill Gates talks about his last visit with Steve Jobs, and a cancelled dinner!
| Amazon taking the fight to iTunes on the Desktop with new Cloud Player client Posted: 14 May 2013 02:28 AM PDT Amazon's Cloud Player has been around for a while now, but the only way to access it in a desktop environment has been via the web browser. Now though, Amazon has announced a full desktop client for Cloud Player, and takes the fight to iTunes in doing so. Initially only available for Windows users, Mac users are told to "stay tuned" as a version for the Mac is coming sometime down the line. Having a full desktop client of course means that Cloud Player users can download their music to their computers to listen to while not connected. On the face of it, the Cloud Player desktop app looks pretty interesting. It promises to automatically add all your iTunes and Windows Media Player music so you have all your music in one place, without the user having to go and fetch it. Continuing on from that, it promises to keep your library up to date every time you buy music -- even from iTunes -- or rip a CD, automatically adding it to Cloud Player. If you prefer to use iTunes, no problem, export your music from Cloud Player to play over there. Amazon promises a great experience using Cloud Player on the desktop, and there's no doubts that iTunes attracts its critics. While we haven't tried it out yet, we'll be looking forward to putting the Mac version through its paces when it drops. If anyone's tried out the Windows version yet, be sure to share your experiences with us. How does it compare to iTunes for you? Source: Amazon 
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| Want to see the Facebook's beta icon? Check out the latest update! Posted: 13 May 2013 08:11 PM PDT Facebook for iPhone and iPad has updated with a new photo viewer button that lets you save, share, or set the photo as your profile pictures. Editing a place you're checking into on the iPhone has also been improved, and Events should load faster, now. But that's not the most interesting thing about this update... The most interesting thing about this update, to me, is actually the fact that Facebook has once again let the beta version of one of their icons slip out to the general public. Just like with Facebook Messenger back in March they likely forgot to swap in the release icon before uploading the final build to the App Store. While some people complained about the beta icon being ugly (on Twitter, ironically) immediately after it was released, I'll admit… I kind of like it! I'm not a fan of the border, but I think the blueprint looks is neat. Call me crazy. What do you think? Do you wish the beta version was the official icon for the iPhone and iPad app?
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| Lemon Wallet for iPhone review: Create Passbook cards for your entire wallet and much more Posted: 13 May 2013 04:05 PM PDT Lemon Wallet for iPhone is basically a virtual wallet similar to Passbook but picks up where it lacks. For instance, you can easily create Passbook cards with Lemon Wallet for any credit card, identification card, or rewards card regardless of whether or not that actual merchant supports Passbook. Lemon Wallet also has add-on paid features that allow you to track transactions and report a lost or stolen wallet for easy card replacement options. Upon launching Lemon Wallet, you'll be asked to sign up for a Lemon account. The process is quick and easy and relatively painless. You can pop into the settings portion of Lemon Wallet to fill out the rest of your information whenever you'd like but to create an account, you're really only required to enter your email address and verify it. Simple enough. To add cards, simply tap the camera icon and select the type of card you'd like to add. The camera app will populate and then ask you to snap a photo of the front and back of your card (or receipt). From there you'll be asked to enter some information including the name as it is on the card, expiration, and to confirm the card number. Lemon Wallet will automatically pull in numbers on credit cards but ask you to verify the image scan worked. For things such as driver's licenses, while you can store them and create digital copies for Passbook import, you'll need to manually enter them in since the format varies from state to state and country to country. You can also take photos of receipts and store them within Lemon Wallet as well which makes for an easy way to track business expenses on the go. Just snap a picture and enter the date and amount. To add any card already in your Lemon Wallet to Passbook, just tap into the card and then tap on the menu option button in the upper right hand corner. This is where you'll have the option to add Lemon Wallet to your Passbook app. The interesting part of Lemon Wallet is actually its add-on service, Lemon Wallet PLUS. For either $4.99/month or $39.99/year you'll get premium services that include active account monitoring, enhanced security with an additional passcode lock, card expiration alerts, and lost wallet services. If you ever lose your physical wallet, Lemon Wallet says you can cancel and replace your cards with basically a button tap. I haven't personally utilized this service as my wallet isn't lost, but I'd be interested to hear if anyone has, and how the experience was. As far as viewing transactions with a premium plan, Lemon Wallet PLUS has the ability to tie in with BillGuard, one of our favorite Passbook compatible services in order to monitor transactions and alert you of any fraudulent activity that may be happening on any of the accounts you have linked. If you aren't sure about picking up Lemon Wallet PLUS right off the bat, you can try it for free for 15 days. The good
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The bottom lineWhile Passbook does a good job of storing cards for merchants that have supported the service, it's still lacking. Lemon Wallet can somewhat bridge that gap and allow you to finally track all your cards and information in one place. Whether you use Lemon Wallet exclusively or use it as a middleman to Passbook, it does what it says it does, and it does it well.
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| 1Password 4 updated with strong password generator in the browser, new sharing options Posted: 13 May 2013 02:39 PM PDT 1Password 4 for iPhone and iPad has gotten a major updated today, with big changes and additions to the browser, sharing, and search, among others. 1Browser, the in-app browser that allows users to take advantage of 1Password features like auto-fill, has added 1Passwords strong password generator for the iPad version. AgileBits says that this feature is also on its way to the iPhone eventually. Quick access to all of your logins has also been added to the browser, and you can now auto-submit after you auto-fill your login information if you wish. URLs on your clipboard will now be detected by 1Password, which will prompt you to open them in the browser. There are also new sharing options. Users can now share from Vault Mode via email and SMS. Emails can either be sent encrypted or in plain text. The recipient will see an "Add to 1Password" link, allowing you to send them items like shared login information and secure notes. Anyone with a copy of 1Password for iOS can open this link so delete it when you're finished, and exercise common sense security practices. Search has also been improved with support for login items and expanding your search across multiple fields. There have also been improvements to Dropbox sync and translations, as well as the addition of Greek language support. The update is available now, so 1Password 4 users, go grab it, and tell us what you think of the changes.
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| Notable New iPad Apps: Write for Dropbox Posted: 13 May 2013 02:19 PM PDT
Last week Write for Dropbox, iPad edition hit the App Store. It's another good text editor app for the iPad, with Dropbox sync and strong Markdown support.The app's full title in the App Store is Write for Dropbox – A Beautiful Note Taking App (iPad Edition) – but I'm just going to refer to it as Write from here on in this post. To say that this app is feature-packed would be an understatement. Here's its App Store feature list:
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| Time for touchscreen Macs? Hell no! Posted: 13 May 2013 01:42 PM PDT With the advent of Windows 8, several PC manufacturers have introduced notebook computers that also operate as tablets - the screens separate or fold over so you can touch, swipe and gesture on your laptop the same way you would a full blown tablet. That's led to a predictable question: When will we see a touch-enabled Mac? My hope is that day will never come. There are better ways to interact with your Mac than to touch the screen. Leave your touching to the iPad. In point of fact, touchscreen Macs have been around for a very long time. Touch panel developers like Troll Touch produce modified Macs that incorporate touch displays. These are especially useful in special environments like where the Mac is controlling machinery, acting as a Point Of Sale (POS) terminal like a cash register, or working in a kiosk setting. Modbook (née Axiotron) makes the Modbook Pro, a heavily modified MacBook Pro laptop that acts as a tablet that's controlled using a stylus - the company understands its market is limited; its offers options like Adobe Creative Suite 6, understanding its key demographic is artists who want to draw, illustrate and design. I don't think the Mac, on its own, is ready for prime time as touch screen device. All the things that make touch displays great for special purpose environments make them equally horrible as general purpose devices. The Mac operating system, as it's currently conceived, is heavily optimized still for input via traditional means like keyboards and mice or trackpads. Even Troll Touch's own promotional videos show that things like entering text are awkward at best, on a surface that's positioned perpendicular to a desk surface. What's more, assistive technologies are already built in to OS X help users who find conventional methods difficult. And speech recognition for dictation and command execution is here today, which makes many think that it's only a matter of time before Apple integrates Siri or a Siri-like product into Macs. Leap Motion offers another important clue about how the future of user interaction might look on the Mac. This company is developing gesture-based technology that enables you to wave your hands in front of the computer to interact with it. Perhaps it's a little too Kinect-like, but it gives you a sense of alternatives to getting your greasy fingerprints all over your computer screen. Apple has clearly been interested in touch displays for a very long time, but it went in a very different direction from Microsoft. Instead of bolting on a touch interface for its desktop operating system, as Microsoft did with the Metro UI and Windows 8, Apple created an entirely separate business for itself. iOS and OS X share some common underpinnings, and Apple has, on occasion, borrowed from one for the other, but iOS is fundamentally an operating system and a user interface that was designed specifically for a touch-driven environment. The results speak for themselves: Macs continue to sell in large quantities, and while the whole PC market is collapsing, Apple's sales of Macs has been markedly better than the industry average. And the iPhone and iPad continue to do very well in their respective markets. Microsoft, meanwhile, has been excoriated for releasing an operating system that has changes that no one really wants. I can't completely rule out a day when Apple would produce a touchscreen Mac. But we'll have to get much closer to a convergence of OS X and iOS than we're at now, or than we're likely to see in the near future. In the interim, count on touchscreen Macs appealing only to a very small niche. 
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| Twitterrific updates with Readability and Droplr support, bug fixes Posted: 13 May 2013 12:48 PM PDT Twitterrific for iPhone and iPad has been update with support for Readability and Droplr as a bookmarking and image service, respectively, along with other improvements and bugfixes. These include fixes for notifications and VoiceOver issues. The indicators for timelines are now more responsive, and login data for a third-party service will now be deleted if a user ever disables it. A larger font has also been added to the iPad version. Among the bug fixes, some VoiceOver problems have been solved, including an issue that caused VoiceOver to continually announce the new tweet count. Clearing push notification badges is now more reliable. Mentions and replies will also no longer be counted more than once.
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| Posted: 13 May 2013 12:45 PM PDT Daft Punk are back, and their fans could not be happier. Well, until now, that is. The latest creation from the legendary pairing, Random Access Memories, is their first full studio album since 2005 and is due for general release on May 21. But, waiting sucks, so iTunes has come up big by allowing fans to stream the new album in its entirety before it's released. Every, single, track. All you need to do is head on over to the Daft Punk landing page in iTunes on your computer. The first single from the album, Get Lucky, has enjoyed massive success. Breaking Spotify streaming records and flying to the top of the iTunes download chart after release. The new record comes in at 74 minutes long, so clear your evening, load up iTunes and let us know what you think of it. Source: iTunes 
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| T-Mobile US raises down payment price of iPhone 5 to $149 very, very quietly Posted: 13 May 2013 12:27 PM PDT T-Mobile US has quietly raised the minimum down payment on the iPhone 5 from $99 to $149. When announcing iPhone availability at the end of March, little a word said about the fact that the initial $99 price tag for the 16GB iPhone 5 was a limited time promotional offer. According to TmoNews, this increase also impacts the 32GB and 64GB models.
While this is still the lowest upfront price of any of the carriers, if feels slightly deceptive. T-Mobile didn't really talk about this at all during their announcement, and potential customers, still on other carriers and waiting for their contracts to run out, will undoubtedly be slightly disappointed. On that note, if you're look to switch before your current contract runs out, T-Mobile's iPhone trade-in program is still in full swing. Source: TmoNews 
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| Soundcloud updated to let users sign in, share with Google+ Posted: 13 May 2013 11:10 AM PDT Soundcloud has received an update that adds integration with Google+. Users can now sign into SoundCloud using their Google+ login credentials, as well as share what they're listening to with their circles. Users could previously sign up using Facebook or an email address. This update also restores the AirPlay icon to the app, making streaming to AirPlay-enabled devices easier.
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| Posted: 13 May 2013 11:10 AM PDT Google is unifying storage across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos. Users will receive 15GB to use as they see fit, rather than walling storage off between services. Google stated on their blog that they have also updated their Drive storage page to reflect the change and make it easier to purchase additional storage.
Additionally, Google Apps users will get 30GB of unified storage. Google also announced that the $2.49-per-month 25GB storage tier will be discontinued, meaning that in order to get more storage, users must pay $4.99 for 100GB. If you post a lot of photos, keep all of your email, or rely on Google Drive for cloud storage, then Google just made things a lot easier for you. It's similar to something iCloud does, though Apple doesn't count your Photo Stream against your iCloud storage, and you can't save them there permanently if you take a lot of photos. The unification is expected to roll out over the next couple of weeks, so if might be a little while before anyone sees it. Source: Google Drive blog, Google Enterprise blog 
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| How to highlight and notate books and PDFs with iBooks for iPhone and iPad Posted: 13 May 2013 10:51 AM PDT iBooks is a great way to keep your books and PDFs organized all in one, easy to access, place. Whether you have books to read for liesure or store textbooks and other informational material, iBooks natively gives you the ability to notate and highlight content whenever you'd like for reference later. Here's how:
How to highlight content in a book or PDF with iBooks
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| Photographer Peter Belanger talks on shooting for Apple Posted: 13 May 2013 09:34 AM PDT Peter Balanger is the photographer behind all the gorgeous iPhone and iPhone photos that Apple uses for marketing. The folks at The Verge had the opportunity to interview Peter about his creative process:
Peter is not an exclusive photographer for Apple, but also photographs for other big names like eBay, Nike, and Pixar. In the video above, he shares the process for creating a cover for Macworld magazine. It's fascinating to see the layering process in action. For the photography enthusiasts, Peter's camera of choice is the Canon 5D Mark III, and his base lens is the 24-70mm f/2.8. The entire interview is a great read, so make sure you check it out. Source: The Verge 
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| Flipboard Updated – New Profile Pages, New Magazine Features & More Posted: 13 May 2013 09:34 AM PDT Flipboard, the superb news magazine for iPad and iOS, has been updated again today – adding new profile pages, new features for its recently added roll your own magazines, and more.Today's update is to Version 2.0.2 – here's the full change list for it: -Get a window onto your readership and curation activity with new profile pages. Flipboard only just added the ability to create your own magazines within the app less than two months ago. It's very cool to see...  Related Stories
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| Tweak your snapshots with PicShop HD, free for a limited time on iPhone and iPad Posted: 13 May 2013 08:55 AM PDT Everyone has their favorite photo editing app on their iOS device, but thanks to esDot Development Studio you can now try another. PicShop HD for iPhone and iPad is now free to download from the App Store for a limited time. PicShop HD supports images up to 8MP in resolution, perfect for your iPhone 5. PicShop HD combines more traditional photo editing techniques such as cropping, straightening, and adjusting brightness and contrast, with filters, frames, and even drawing effects and memes should you so wish. There's enough tools on board to have a serious play around with your snapshots, which you can load directly from the Camera Roll, take a new shot and use that, or even import your photos from Facebook to tinker with. Once you're done editing, you get a choice of size to save the image at, or direct sharing to Twitter, Email or Facebook. The UI is well designed and straight forward to use, if a little un-interesting to look at. But it has it where it counts, and is well worth a look while it's on special. Let us know how you find it, and how it compares to your own favorite photo editing apps.
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| Flipboard update lets you track the stats of your magazines, find content from friends faster Posted: 13 May 2013 08:11 AM PDT Flipboard has been updated, adding several improvements, with new profile pages, easier sharing, and the ability to save images directly to your Camera Roll. Profile pages now give you statistics on the magazines you create, such as how many articles you have, as well as the number of readers. They also show you your magazines and the articles in them, allowing you to manage your existing content directly from your page. It's also easier to discover content by the people you follow, not just on Flipboard but also the social networks connected to it. Open the Content Guide and under you name you'll see a new section, Friends, which contains a new content section, Flips by Friends. This section contains not only content from magazines that you have subscribed to, but also content shared to Flipboard by those you follow through various social media outlets. There were a number of smaller tweaks as well. Sharing has become a little easier with the redesigned sharing menu. The new menu allows easier access to sharing options, while now allowing users to share articles and magazines through SMS. You can now also save images to your Camera Roll. When viewing an image item, like something from Instagram, for example, tap the share menu and hit the 'Save to Camera Roll' button. Finally, Flipboard now has improved navigation for Google Reader folders. The update is now available on the App Store.
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Posted: 13 May 2013 05:56 AM PDT
Ready for gigabit on your phone? Samsung announces 5G mmWave networking on track for 2020
Posted: 13 May 2013 05:41 AM PDT
While some places are still waiting to get their 4G LTE, Samsung has announced they're already working on making 100Mbps cellular internet obsolete with 5G mmWave, a technology that promises to bring gigabit to our phones and tablets. According to Samsung:
5G mobile communications technology is the next generation of the existing 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network technology. 5G will be capable of providing a ubiquitous Gbps experience to subscribers anywhere and offers data transmission speeds of up to several tens of Gbps per base station.
Gigabit isn't even common on Wi-Fi yet, and Samsung is only aiming to have their 5G tech commercialized by 2020, so no one start holding their breath just yet. A lot of work still needs to get done -- getting phone-sized, power efficient radios made, getting the spectrum for it to run on, making sure it doesn't melt our gadgets into hot, bubbling puddles, you know, the usual stuff -- but it's nice to see it's underway.
Can't wait to download Avengers 3 in 30 seconds on my iPhone 9! How about you?
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Bill Gates talks about his last visit with Steve Jobs, and a cancelled dinner!
Posted: 13 May 2013 03:32 AM PDT
Bill Gates was recently interviewed for television, and while the main focus was the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the late Steve Jobs also got a mention. I don't want to spoil it for you, but in the clip above from CBS News' 60 Minutes, Gates emotionally talks about his last visit with Jobs, and how they talked about how education hasn't really been improved by technology yet.
The visit was also the subject of an interview with Walter Issacson for the Steve Jobs Biography. Gates also recalls how Jobs was engrossed in the construction of his super-yacht, Venus, and how he looked forward to spending time upon it.
And, on the subject of a cancelled dinner invitation that had been extended to Jobs, he called up Gates and said to his secretary:
"If he wants to know why, just tell him I'm an @$$#0!3"
Apologies in advanced for the Flash-only embed. Blame CBS, that's all they provided. Give it a watch if you can, and be sure to share your thoughts with us.
Source: CBS News
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