martes, 7 de mayo de 2013

iPad By Davis: “Facebook Messenger update adds cute stickers and brings back swipe to delete” plus 19 more

iPad By Davis: “Facebook Messenger update adds cute stickers and brings back swipe to delete” plus 19 more

Facebook Messenger update adds cute stickers and brings back swipe to delete

Posted: 07 May 2013 02:49 AM PDT

Facebook has pushed out an update to their Messenger application for iPhone and iPod Touch, that adds some new cuteness and brings back functionality that once was lost.

The latest version of Messenger has the popular -- and sometimes very cute looking -- stickers included, as they are in the main Facebook application. Facebook does say though, that the stickers will be available to everyone over the next few weeks. So, if you don't see them just yet, there's no need to panic.

Also included in this update is the re-appearance of the popular, and incredibly useful, swipe-to-delete feature. This is back 'by popular request' and rightly so. Most would question why something such as this would be taken away in the first place.

The update is live now in the App Store, so go grab it and start sending all your friends those adorable little kitty stickers!

    

Are you jealous of BlackBerry 10? [Poll]

Posted: 06 May 2013 10:04 PM PDT

Are you jealous of BlackBerry 10? [Poll]

Our friends over at CrackBerry highlighted a forum thread today where a BlackBerry 10 user claimed their iPhone-totting friends were jealous of all the shiny new features that phone had to offer. I've been using a BlackBerry Z10 for over a month now, and while I like a lot of the ideas BlackBerry is testing out in their new OS, I'm not in the least bit inclined to switch over yet, and I'm not sure jealousy has reared its ugly head even once.

The gesture navigation, even if less discoverable, is great once you get the hang of it, as are features like peek, where you can glimpse messages without transitioning completely into them, and the hub where all communications are aggregated. It really does feel like webOS all grown up, now sporting a suit and a tie. But there are still the types of quirks you'd expect to find in any new operating system, which need smoothing out and polishing up, and not only are a lot of major apps still missing, I can't find any of the apps I use every day on any platform outside iOS (looking at you Twitterrific, Tweetbot, Launch Center Pro, Fantastical, Drafts, Elements, etc.)

But I'm curious, if you've had a chance to see or try out BlackBerry 10, have you felt the least bit jealous? iOS is now the oldest platform in mobile, and BlackBerry 10 the newest, does that tempt you in any way? Or are you too busy enjoying what's still the best interface, app, and content experience to have even noticed BB10 yet?

Vote in the poll up top and let me know the details in the comments below!

    

Want to see some of the new features coming to Photoshop CC and the rest of the Creative Cloud? Here are the videos!

Posted: 06 May 2013 05:15 PM PDT

Earlier today Adobe announced that they were axing their old Creative Suite apps and going all-in on Creative Cloud. As part of that initiative, they've released a series of videos starting with the one above that tries to dispel common myths associated with Creative Cloud. Others address how Creative Cloud will help various professionals, like designers, web pros, and video editors, as well showcasing some of the new features and technologies coming our way this June in apps like Photoshop CC. And I'd be remiss if I didn't point out the incredibly Mac-centric nature of the videos. But then, who could blame them? Here's what we've got...

  • Photoshop CC includes a new Smart Sharpen, new upsampling, re-editable rounded rectangles (yes!) and multiple path editing, better matched Mac and Windows anti-aliasing, and 3D engine for painting on models and flattened textures.
  • The designers video talks about various apps like Photoshop and Illustrator, as well as Muse, and shows off Kuler for iPhone being used to capture color palettes while you're out and about. Illustrator gets new character-based font manipulations, as well as TypeKit access. InDesign 64bit support will help with large files, and its more consistent interface will help with cross-Cloud suite familiarity. Muse will let clients make minor design changes in the browser, and parallax support will let you make trendy websites like the cool kids made last year.
  • The web pros video talks about both visual and code view editing. Illustrator is getting the same CSS extraction feature Photoshop got last year. Dreamweaver CC gets better, live CSS editing. Site definitions are now sync-able as well, and responsive site design has been made easier. CSS and HTML5 based animation is now better supported in Edge Animate. Phone Gap is used for cross-platform app web-based app development. Edge Reflow uses the WebKit engine to let you visually design web pages in CSS. In addition to TypeKit, Adobe Edge Web Fonts are accessible. Edge Code rounds out the offering. It's a new app for making and editing CSS, HTML, and JavaScript in code view.
  • Video editors can get started with Adobe Story Plus, where you can write scripts collaboratively, set shooting schedules, and get ready for production. Premiere can link Story Plus dialog with the spoken words from ingested video. Adobe Premiere Pro is making it easier to switch platforms with key remapping and project import. After Effects is getting Photoshop-like refined edge tolls for rotoscoping. There's also better third party integration for 3D objects. The new color grading options are also now available in After Effects, and all settings sync via the Creative Cloud.

I've been a Creative Cloud user since the service launched, and I like it quite a bit. There does seem to be way to many separate apps -- I started drifting and eventually lost consciousness as they rattled off all of them -- and a lot of round-tripping involved in the workflows, but I'll save final judgement on that until they ship.

In the meantime, watch the videos that interest you and let me know, will you be going to the Cloud? And if so, which features make it most compelling for you?

    

The Sims 4 headed to Mac, PC in 2014

Posted: 06 May 2013 03:44 PM PDT

Electronic Arts announced Monday that The Sims 4 is currently in development and will be released in 2014. It's coming to both OS X and Windows.

The Sims turns 13 this year. The game, originally developed by Maxis, took the SimCity concept and moved it inside the house: players affect the behavior and interaction of individual simulated people called Sims. It's been an extraordinarily popular franchise, generating a number of spinoffs, three major releases and seemingly countless add-on packs that extend gameplay. EA claims The Sims is the most successful simulation game ever, with more than 150 million copies sold worldwide.

EA is cagey about what to expect in the new version, though the company said the game will include "new and intuitive tools" with sharing abilities. If you're concerned about a repeat of EA's rocky release of recently rebooted SimCity game and its requirement for a persistent online connection in order to work, the company notes that The Sims 4 is a "single-player offline experience."

    

Popcap finally, kinda announces when Plants vs. Zombies 2 will ship!

Posted: 06 May 2013 03:04 PM PDT

Popcap, makers of Plants vs. Zombies among a dizzying array of other amazing mobile games, has started narrowing down the launch window for the highly anticipated sequel to PvZ. According to the Plants vs. Zombies Facebook page, we're looking at:

July 2013

Yup, that's all there is so far. A month without a day. It's more than we had, but nowhere nearly all that we want.

They did make the amusing video up top to help hold us over, but seriously...

HURRY UP AND SHIP ALREADY!

    

Price Drops: All of Spinlight’s Educational iPad Games on Sale for 99 Cents This Week

Posted: 06 May 2013 01:26 PM PDT

End-of-SchoolMegaSale

Spinlight's End-of School Mega Sale has all of their educational games for iPad and iPhone on sale for just 99 cents.

I posted just a few days ago about the excellent Geography Drive USA app that's a part of this sale. Spinlight makes a number of other popular and award-winning iPad apps for kids from ages 1-12+. And now they've got all of these on sale at 99 cents, down up to 75% on some of the titles.

In addition to marking the approaching end of the school year, Spinlight has another admirable reason for running this sale:

… And second, we're doing it for a reason. We want to make great apps for kids — and to make them insanely affordable for kids, parents and schools. But to do that, we have to see the volume it takes to be profitable at a lower price point. So we're conducting a big experiment to see how low we can go. And we're inviting you along for...

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With exclusive focus on Creative Cloud, Adobe readies new iOS apps and... a mighty stylus

Posted: 06 May 2013 01:01 PM PDT

Adobe ditches Creative Suite, goes all-in on Creative Cloud, and readies an all-new Kuler app for iOS, and a "Project Mighty" stylus

Adobe Systems Inc. opened its five-day Max conference in Los Angeles, CA this morning with a bang: the company announced that it's the end of the development road for its Creative Suite (CS) software. From here on out, the company is focusing exclusively on its Creative Cloud service, and has rebranded new versions of its applications with the CC moniker to denote the change. New apps will roll out on June 17, 2013. What's more, the company has a couple of new iOS apps in development.

It was only last year that Adobe rolled out Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud, its subscription-based service that provides access to all of the applications included in CS6 for $50 per month. Adobe recently announced that more than half a million customers have subscribed to Creative Cloud. And with so much development on Creative Cloud applications and services, Adobe senior VP David Wadhwani said the company planned no further development for Creative Suite applications, though the company will continue to sell and support the software, offering bug fixes and compatibility updates as necessary.

To help facilitate migration to Creative Cloud, Adobe's offering a special reduced rate for CS6 customers of $20 per month for the first year. (Adobe also offers a reduced rate for customers who own CS3-CS5.) Adobe has posted details online about its focus on Creative Cloud.

One of Adobe's central concepts with its focus on Creative Cloud is fully integrated collaboration. The company leveraged Macs and iPads throughout its presentation, showing various features and functionalities that are linked to cloud software and services, and Adobe says the integration goes for Windows and Android products as well. Adobe has also integrated Behance with Creative Cloud. Behance is a digital portfolio service of sorts Adobe acquired late in 2012 that enables creative professionals to show off their work to other members online.

During a two-hour keynote that featured a parade of Adobe executives, the company introduced key new features in applications like Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator and others. Photoshop CC sports Adobe Camera Raw 8 support, for example, with new capabilities like an advanced Healing brush that no longer forces a circular brush, Radial Gradient and Upright, a perspective correction tool. Illustrator sports "bitmap brushes," which enable you to turn bitmapped images into brushes without creating distortion on endpoints with detail, and a Touch Type tool optimized for Windows 8 tablets and touch-based computers. After Effects now bundles Maxon Cinema 4D Lite and improves workflow, enabling users to more easily integrate 3D rendered elements into their scenes.

Other announcements include the availability of 175 font families via TypeKit, suitable for desktop installation (many more are available for Web-only use), a redesigned Kuler color palette generation tool (with a version that runs on the iPhone); and a preview of an iOS app for Creative Cloud that lets you view project files and invite people to share or view content.

In a call with iMore after the keynote, Adobe senior director of product marketing for Creative Cloud Scott Morris said that the Kuler app should appear on the App Store at or before the release of new Creative Cloud apps; the other app is in development, but its release is further down the road.

Adobe also gave a sneak peek at its first two hardware projects: "Project Mighty," a Bluetooth LE-equipped stylus that enables you to draw shapes on your tablet (demonstrated on iPads) with cloud connectivity that remembers setting and content; and "Project Napoleon," a short ruler (get it? Short ruler?) that helps you draw shapes on a tablet including lines, angles and arcs. Both projects are early in development, so Adobe offered no details about pricing or availability.

The company capped off the keynote with a sneak peek at Project Context, a special project Adobe is working on with Wired magazine to bring magazine layout into the modern age using large touch screen displays and desks, with a lot of Minority Report-style interaction with on-screen objects.

    

Apple reportedly having trouble signing new carriers, high subsidies an issue

Posted: 06 May 2013 12:29 PM PDT

Apple having trouble signing new carriers, high subsidies an issue

With potentially billions of customers on the line, Apple is reportedly having trouble negotiating with wireless providers in emerging markets like Russia and China, and in established markets like Japan. The carriers are, apparently, holding out for better terms from Apple than those currently enjoyed by carriers in United States under the subsidy model. Bloomberg reports:

China Mobile Ltd. (941), the world's biggest phone company, and NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437), Japan's largest mobile carrier, are among providers that haven't agreed to carry the iPhone, citing the high costs of subsidies needed to make the device affordable or other terms they find unacceptable. The slowdown in adding new partners is contributing to stagnating iPhone sales growth, giving Samsung-led competitors a potential advantage and putting pressure on Apple to deliver a cheaper device or make other margin-threatening concessions

Without the largest carriers in these countries on board, Apple will always be at a disadvantage to rivals like Samsung, which sells to nearly every carrier on the planet. As the competition between the two continues to rage, Apple will need to be where Samsung is, and that may require a change in tactics.

Since the debut of the iPhone, Apple has relied on customer demand in order to push carriers into the deals that Apple wants. But now that they are hearing no from major carriers, they may need to find a new tactic, including lower subsidies. That will either mean lower margins for Apple, or the much-rumored less expensive iPhone.

So, who do you think will blink, Apple or the carriers?

Source: Bloomberg

    

Google Drive for Mac adds right-click sharing options

Posted: 06 May 2013 12:04 PM PDT

Google has announced the roll out of a small, yet fantastically useful update to their Drive app for the Mac. Since Google Drive has been borne from Google Docs, collaboration and sharing documents and files is at its core. The update rolling out to the desktop app has better sharing in mind, with the addition of a right-click share menu. Files will naturally have to already be in your Google Drive folder, but quick sharing is sure to be appreciated by power users.

Clicking on the share menu brings up the box we see here. You get your link, privacy settings, people to share with and who can edit the file you're sharing. Simple, fast, effective. Google Drive still falls short for many of more established competitors such as Dropbox, but as time goes on Google continues to make it a little bit better with every update.

The new sharing menu is beginning to hit users now, and will continue rolling out over the next few days. Does this add something that you were lacking in Google Drive? Let us know in the comments below.

Source: +Google Drive

    

Toy Defense 2 hits the App Store, WW2 tower defense with toy soldiers

Posted: 06 May 2013 11:01 AM PDT

The original Toy Defense launched back in Spring 2012, offering a WW1 based tower defense game where all the fighting was conducted by toy soldiers. Fast forward 12 months and developers Melesta Games are back with a sequel -- Toy Defense 2. It's still tower defense, it's still toy soldiers, but we're in a new period of history. This time out, we're in WW2.

The 'Theaters of War' range from the French battleground of Normandy, through to the North African deserts. Actual battles from WW2 are recreated, so you and your toy soldiers can take part in Operation Overlord or the Battle of Stalingrad. Riflemen, airplanes, anti-aircraft guns, all are in your arsenal as you fight to keep out the enemy forces. As you dispose of said enemies, you earn money, which you get to spend upgrading your own armed forces.

The graphics in Toy Defense 2 are really nice. Environments are colorful, everything looks fun, and never does it feel like a chore to look at. The controls are blissfully simple, and it's a real pick-up-and-play kind of game. Available for iPhone and iPod Touch, there's also a HD version for iPad available. Both versions come in free and paid varieties, and as is often the way the paid version comes with more stuff to play with. We're going to play around with this one for a while, but for now, you can grab a copy from the download links below.

    

Reduce for iPhone and iPad review: Automatically, perfectly resize your photos for the web

Posted: 06 May 2013 10:20 AM PDT

Reduce for iPhone and iPad review: Batch resize your photos optimized for the web

Reduce is an iPhone and iPad app that lets you batch resize your photos and images to be optimized for the web. You simply select the photos you wish to resize, set the dimensions and file size limit, and Reduce will batch-process them for you and drop them into a new album in the Photos app.

When choosing the sizing options for your photos, Reduce lets you set the number of pixels for width, height, longest side, or shortest side. You can also set the max file size or jpeg quality as well as automatically sharpen the images to avoid softness that is often associated with resizing.

If you'd like to add a simple text watermark to your image, Reduce lets you do that as well. You can choose the font type and size, location, border and more for your watermark. And if you plan to use Reduce for multiple purposes, say two different blogs, you can create presets to quickly apply the settings that are appropriate for your intended use.

Once you've got all the settings how you want, you simply hit Start and Reduce gets to work. It processes all your images and drops them into a new folder in the Photos app that you can then use with any other app.

The good

  • Batch-process multiple images
  • Resize the image to a specific dimension
  • Auto-detection of the needed jpeg quality for a given file size
  • Alternatively use a fixed jpeg quality
  • Optionally sharpen the image to avoid softness caused by the resizing
  • Choose if you want to remove EXIF data like GPS position or the used camera settings
  • Add a watermark or description to your photos
  • Use a border to separate your photos from the background

The bad

  • Reduce integrates with your photo albums, but the albums are not named

The bottom line

Reduce is a fantastic tool for bloggers who regularly use their iPhone or iPad to share photos to their website. Correctly sizing photos has always been one of the annoying aspects of blogging with my iOS device, but now it's easy with Reduce!

    

Bill Gates Says iPad Users Are Frustrated Because They Can’t Type, Create Documents, Use Office

Posted: 06 May 2013 10:11 AM PDT

Gates on Frustrated iPad users

Bill Gates has shared some thoughts on the iPad again, during a CNBC interview – this time claiming that lots of iPad users are frustrated at their lack of ability to do things like type or create documents.

At about the 7:45 mark of this video clip at 9to5Mac, Gates talks about how with Windows 8 Microsoft is trying to gain share in a market that's been dominated by the 'iPad type device' and says:

… but a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type, they can't create documents, they don't have Office there. So we're providing them with something with the benefits they've seen that have made that a big category without giving up what they expect in a PC.

Really? People used to talk a lot about Steve Jobs and a 'reality distortion field' – I'd say that the Delusion Bubble that Gates and Microsoft seem to live in is just as powerful. iPad users...

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iMore show 348: Extensively awesome

Posted: 06 May 2013 09:14 AM PDT

Christina Warren of Mashable joins Rene to talk about big-ass phones, Samsung vs. Apple, iOS 7 wish lists, and Retina iMac and MacBook Pro wants.

Show notes

Pending.

Guests

Hosts

Credits

You can reach all of us on Twitter @iMore, or you can email us at podcast@imore.com or just leave us a comment below.

For all our podcasts -- audio and video -- including the iMore show, ZEN and TECH, Iterate, Debug, Ad hoc, and more, see MobileNations.com/shows

iMore show 340: Nerd Talking

    


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Best iPad apps for comic book lovers

Posted: 06 May 2013 10:03 AM PDT

Best iPad apps for comic book lovers

All the apps you need to enjoy the latest issues, your favorite collections, Marvel's entire back catalog, and all your existing PDF, CBR, and CBZ comics on your iPad

The iPad is the best thing that ever happened to comic books, especially on the big, beautiful, 9.7-inch Retina iPad screen. Every page comes to life and every panel just pops. Combine that with the convenience of digital delivery, and even the iPad mini has the ability to hold an entire comic book library in your hand. That's almost every adventure of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, of the Fantastic Four, Avengers, and X-Men, and of indie titles every bit as good if not anywhere nearly as well known. Comic books on the iPad are every fan's dream, but which are the very best iPad apps for realizing that dream? Follow on to find out, true believer!

Comics by comiXology

Comics by comiXology lets you buy the latest comics as soon as they come out

Comics by comiXology is how you get current comic book issues on your iPad. They offer a library of over 30,000 titles -- and growing -- from publishers including Marvel, DC, Image, IDW, Disney, and more -- pretty much every major with the galling exception of Dark Horse-as-in-Buffy-Season-9. You can buy right from within the Comics app, which makes for a great experience -- impulse shoppers be warned! -- and with a free comiXology account, you can easily sync your purchases across devices.

comiXology also makes the individual, dedicated Marvel, DC, Image, etc. apps, but since Comics has them all, it's the one-stop shop, the newsstand reborn for the digital era. All we need now is an analog to subscriptions, where we can pay one price and get every new issue served right up to our iPads hot off the presses...

Marvel Unlimited

Marvel Unlimited gives you subscription access to most of Marvel's might back catalog

Marvel Unlimited is a subscription service like Netflix. That means you don't get current content, but you do get 70 years and 13,000 issues of back catalog comics -- Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America, Thor, Wolverine, the Avengers, the X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc. -- right on your iPad. The interface isn't great, at least not yet, but the content here really is king. I've lost many a night already to the works of Peter David, John Byrne, Art Adams, Chris Claremont, Frank Miller, et. al. and I imagine losing many, many more.

DC Comics really needs to get their version of this up and running faster than a speeding bullet...

Note: You can't subscribe within the app, so if you want to use the Marvel Unlimited service, make sure you head on over to Marvel.com and sign up.

iBooks/Kindle

iBooks and Kindle are great for collected comic works

iBooks and Kindle are general purpose readers, but both Apple's iBookstore and Amazon's Kindle Store have an excellent selection of what used to be called trade paperbacks -- collections of individual issues that form a cohesive story-arc. If you don't want to buy or read each comic as it comes out, or navigate through tons of back catalog to find specific stories, buying them as books is the simplest, most coherent way of doing it.

With iBooks, you can buy directly within the app. With Amazon, you can buy via Amazon.com and download to the Kindle app.

Why include both iBooks and Kindle, why not pick a best, or just pick one and stick with it? Sadly, both sometimes have books the other one lacks, or have them in geographies the other doesn't, or has it at a lower price. Right now, to get as many comics as you want, you have to use both of them, even if it does split your collection and is otherwise less than ideal.

Comic Zeal

Comic Zeal lets you load up all your PDF, CBR, CBZ, and other already owned digital comics

if you already have your comics in a digital format -- especially if you bought those massive Marvel DVDs containing all the early issues of Avengers, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, X-Men, etc. in PDF -- Comic Zeal should be your go-to reader. You can sync PDF, CBR/RAR, or CBZ/ZIP files straight over to Comic Zeal from iTunes via file sharing if you absolutely have to, and with Wi-Fi sync it's easier than ever. I just drop mine into Dropbox, hit the Dropbox app on iPad, download them, hit the action button, and tell Dropbox to open them in Comic Zeal.

It would be nice if Comic Zeal could hook into Dropbox (and other online storage pools) directly, eliminating a step. Here's hoping we get that in the future.

Your best comic book apps for iPad?

Those are my picks for best iPad apps for comic book lovers. With them, you can get the latest issues right when they come out, access Marvel's enormous back catalog of titles, buy the trade paperbacks for the stories you love most, and even load up your existing digital comics and take them with you anywhere. It's the workflow that just works for me... but what about you? Any apps I'm missing out on? Any you'd recommend more? Let me know! And, of course... Excelsior!

    

Apple reaches number 6 on Fortune 500 list

Posted: 06 May 2013 09:49 AM PDT

Apple reaches number 6 on Fortune 500 list

Fortune has released a new version of their annual Fortune 500 list, and Apple has jumped eleven places since last year, moving from seventeen to six on the list. Fortune noted that while Apple continues to grow, they have hit some rough spots in the last year, especially in public perception.

Apple is bigger than ever -- the company cracked the Fortune 10 this year. But it's a high-pressure job, being king of the hill. At Apple's press event this past October, it maintained more than disrupted with its software upgrades and iPad mini announcement. Also, this past year has seen a lot of CEO Tim Cook having to apologize -- once in September for the failure of Apple's maps app, and then to Chinese consumers this April for slow repair services -- this in a market that Cook said this past January would be Apple's largest. Still, when every executive wants to invent the iPod of __, Apple remains an innovation icon.

Apple's place on the list came after it was announced that they made $156.2 billion in revenue in 2012, though that still puts them behind Walmart, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Phillips 66, and Berkshire Hathaway. However, their profits were second only to those of ExxonMobile.

Apple did have its share of PR issues in 2012, like the fact that Maps was heavily criticized for issues with data accuracy, particularly outside the United States. But 2012 was also a big year for Apple with other products. The MacBook Pro with Retina display, the iPhone 5, the biggest change to the iPhone form factor since its introduction, the iPad with Retina Display, two of them, in fact, and the iPad mini. On their recent financial results call, CEO Tim Cook expressed his excitement for the next year, teasing new product categories. What these new categories are, perhaps a watch or a television, Cook wouldn't say, but if Apple has a lot to be excited about this year, then so do we.

Source: Fortune

    

Gmail for iPad Updated: Now Lets You Open Links in Google Maps, Chrome, YouTube

Posted: 06 May 2013 08:47 AM PDT

Gmail on iPad mini dock

The Gmail app for iPad and iPhone has been updated today, and added the ability to open links directly in 3 leading Google apps: Google Maps, Chrome, and YouTube.

Today's update is Version 2.2.7182 of the Gmail iPad app. Here's the short but very sweet change list for it:

- YouTube, Google Maps and Chrome links go directly to the app instead of the mobile web, if installed. You can turn this off using the in-app settings.
- Added support for signing out of a single account instead of having to sign out of all accounts at once.

You can turn on or off the option to use each of the 3 Google apps in the app's settings with just a quick tap. The default has them all on.

Gmail Use Google Apps

This is great news for users of iOS and GMail – since Apple still does not allow us to choose our default web browser or Maps app.

The new version is available now – here's the ...

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How to delete books and PDFs from iBooks for iPhone and iPad

Posted: 06 May 2013 08:20 AM PDT

How to delete books and PDFs from iBooks for iPhone and iPad

iBooks is a great way to download books and PDFs straight to your iPhone and iPad as well as manage them. If you frequently read or download titles that you don't plan on reading again, you can always delete them to remove some clutter from your virtual bookshelves.

Here's how:

  1. Launch the iBooks app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
  2. Go into the collection or section you'd like to delete PDFs or books from.
  3. Tap on the Edit button in the upper left hand corner.
  4. Tap on the titles of the books or PDFs you'd like to delete.
  5. Now tap the Delete button at the top towards the right.
  6. You'll be asked to confirm once more that you'd like to delete the selections from your iBooks library. Tap on Delete one more time to confirm.

That's it. The selected titles are now removed from your iBooks library. If you ever want to re-download a book that you've purchased, you can do so by visiting the iBookstore again and reinstalling it.

    

Gmail app update sends links to Chrome, Google Maps, and YouTube

Posted: 06 May 2013 08:23 AM PDT

Gmail app update enables opening of links in Chrome, Google Maps, and YouTube

For all of the threaded messages and label tagging goodness that is the 2.x version of the Gmail for iOS app, for those that have wanted to live the Google life on their iOS device it's been a little tough going. There are a lot of Google iOS apps out there, including such stalwarts as the Chrome browser, Google Maps, and the new YouTube app. But up until today, tapping a link in Gmail would open that link up in Safari or Apple Maps.

While Safari and Apple Maps are fine apps and all, there's a cross-platform appeal to using Google's services. If that happens to appeal to you, then you'll be pleased to learn that today the Gmail iOS app was updated to version 2.2.7182, enabling cross-app launching into Google's apps (if you have them installed, that is). Regular old links will open in Chrome, addresses will shuttle you over to Google Maps, and links to YouTube will open up, well, that video in YouTube. The three redirects can be individually enabled or disabled if you'd prefer to use Apple Maps and Safari instead.

    

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Posted: 06 May 2013 07:35 AM PDT

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Fitbit Flex now shipping for $99.95, syncs with iPhone 4S and iPhone 5

Posted: 06 May 2013 07:33 AM PDT

Fitbit needs little introduction, and the latest in their line of wearable fitness devices, the Fitbit Flex, is now shipping for $99.95. First seen back at CES in January, the Flex has been a little while coming to market but now it's here.

The Flex is a wristband device, capable of syncing to the Fitbit iOS app via Bluetooth 4.0 on the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 5. Like previous Fitbit devices, the Flex will track steps taken, distance covered and calories burned as well as the newly tracked active minutes. This stat tracks how many moderate-intensity cardio activity minutes you have per day. The Flex also tracks your sleep patterns as with some previous devices, and includes a Silent Wake alarm designed to wake you up with vibrations. So, you don't have to wake up your partner when you get up for work. And they'll thank you for that.

The Fitbit Flex is available now from Fitbit.com and major U.S. retailers for $99.95. The iOS app is a free download from the App Store.

Source: Fitbit (BusinessWire)

    
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