iPad By Davis: “‘jOBS’ biopic with Ashton Kutcher delayed and no new date announced” plus 13 more |
- ‘jOBS’ biopic with Ashton Kutcher delayed and no new date announced
- Repix for iPhone and iPad review
- Save 15% on ALL iPhone and iPad Accessories in our St. Patrick's Day Sale!
- Incredimail for iPad review
- CloudMagic for iPad: Blazing Fast Search for All Your Cloud Data
- ZAGGKeys PROfolio+ iPad Keyboard Cases Now Available in Leather
- Fodor's City Guides for iPhone and iPad review
- How to disable iMessage alerts for people that aren't in your contacts
- Mailbox acquired by Dropbox
- Former Apple retail SVP John Browett speaks about his time at Apple
- How To Turn Off In App Purchases on the iPad / iOS
- Photo Transfer App – Proving Why It’s a Great iPad App this Week
- Samsung's Galaxy S4
- Deal of the Day: 50% off Seidio SURFACE Case for iPhone 5
| ‘jOBS’ biopic with Ashton Kutcher delayed and no new date announced Posted: 16 Mar 2013 12:38 AM PDT
The reason for the delay appears to be lack of time to prepare the films marketing and create a buzz around the film before its release. As soon as we hear more on a new release date, we will let you know. The movie which stars Ashton Kutcher in the role of Steve Jobs and Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak covers only a small part of the Apple and Jobs story from 1971-2001. Source: Deadline 
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| Repix for iPhone and iPad review Posted: 16 Mar 2013 12:24 AM PDT Repix is an art photography app for iPhone and iPad by Sumoing that offers a unique experience of mixing painting with photo editing. Instead of simply adding filters, Repix includes a bunch effects that you can paint and mix and match onto specific areas of your photos. Repix comes loaded with a sample photo of flowers that you can play with to learn how to use the app. You can also load any photo from your Camera Roll, Photo Stream, or Facebook. Unfortunately, you cannot access photos stored in other albums on your iPad. Along the bottom of the screen, you will find all the brushes available in Repix. To use them, simply make a selection and paint with your finger. The brush size is static, but zooming in and out of the photo will adjust its relative size to the photograph, allowing you to make fine adjustments or more broad edits. At the top of the screen is an icon that gives you access to more traditional editing: crop, brightness, contrast, saturation, vibrance, temperature, and vignetting. To apply the edits, you simply swipe your finger left or right across the screen to adjust its intensity. Repix comes stocked with many brushes for free. Additional brush packs are available as in-app purchases for $1.99 each, or $4.99 for the Master's Collection. The good
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The bottom lineRepix is an awesome app for lovers of art and photography. It's extremely easy and intuitive to use. I'm no artist by any means and cannot really give Repix justice, but for those of you who are, I'm sure you can create some beautiful artwork with it. If you do, please share your work in our Photography Forum; we'd love to see it!
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| Save 15% on ALL iPhone and iPad Accessories in our St. Patrick's Day Sale! Posted: 15 Mar 2013 07:12 PM PDT Saint Patrick's Day falls on a Sunday this year, so we're going to celebrate all weekend long here at iMore with a iMore Store sale!! Until Sunday, Midnight PST, you can save 15% on ALL iPhone and iPad accessories by using coupon code shamrocks at checkout. 
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| Posted: 15 Mar 2013 03:40 PM PDT Incredimail is a visual email client for iPad that displays your email as a collage of snippets of text and photos from your messages. With Incredimail, you can see more of your emails at first glance and easily flip through your messages. Incredimail offers full IMAP and iCloud support and features a unified inbox. You can also choose to look at individual accounts from the sidebar. When browsing through your email, they are displayed as a collage of boxes that contain previews of your messages. If you've connected your Facebook account and you have an email from someone who is also on Facebook (same email account that the user has registered with Facebook), then their profile image will appear. Incredimail will also display photos in message previews. When you tap on an email, it'll open up full-screen with options to reply, forward, star, or mark as unread. If the email is part of a conversation, then a preview of just those emails will display first. In addition to email, Inredimail also has a photo inbox. This inbox currently only supports Facebook, but they have promised to add more services in the future (hopefully Instagram!). From the Photo Inbox, you can view images posted by your friends, like them, and share to Twitter. The good
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The bottom lineIncredimail isn't powerhouse mail client; rather, it's for those times you want to take your time and browse through your email. If you get a lot of photos, links, and attachments, the visual layout of Incredimail is a great way to enjoy your email. I have chosen not to add any of my work email addresses to Incredimail and love to use to catch up on those fun emails I put off to look at when I have time and to browse through Facebook photos.
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| CloudMagic for iPad: Blazing Fast Search for All Your Cloud Data Posted: 15 Mar 2013 02:24 PM PDT Search on the iPad is one of those subjects I don't think about much, except of course when I really need to find an email or document – and then my thoughts generally just extend to being disappointed with incomplete results or the need to search in multiple places, because just about all my essential data is held in various separate cloud services. The CloudMagic app offers a fantastic solution for finding data very easily on the iPad – across a great range of cloud services. It supports iCloud, Dropbox, Evernote, Gmail, Google Contacts and Calendar, Google Drive, Google Apps, Box, SkyDrive, Exchange, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, Office 365 and quite a few more popular services. Oh, and did I mention that it's ridiculously fast too? It is – it starts showing results as you type and it returns full, categorized results just about instantly when you finish entering a search...         Related Stories
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| ZAGGKeys PROfolio+ iPad Keyboard Cases Now Available in Leather Posted: 15 Mar 2013 01:00 PM PDT This will make a lot of iPad keyboard case fans happy. ZAGG has announced that their ZAGGKeys PROfolio+ iPad keyboard cases now come in leather. ZAGG"s keyboard cases have already proved popular with iPad users, and deservedly so – they generally offer the best keyboards in my opinion. I've used ZAGG keyboard cases with my iPad 2 and iPad 3 and liked them a lot. The only thing that prevented me from getting very frequent use out of them was that I disliked the hard, rigid cases. I actually detached the keyboard on my last one, and only use it outside the case these days. I've noticed that quite a few other people felt the same about the ZAGG iPad keyboard cases – love the keyboard, don't love the case. These new leather models look like they may well change that sentiment very quickly. Here are some of the notable features for the new ZAGGKeys PROfolio+ keyboard cases for...  Related Stories
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| Fodor's City Guides for iPhone and iPad review Posted: 15 Mar 2013 12:50 PM PDT Fodor's City Guides for iPhone and iPad makes it not only fun to browse and learn about different cities in the world, it can also help you plan your next trip there. You'll get information such as what attractions are popular and what ones are less known but worth checking out. You can also view current weather conditions and exchange rates in featured cities. The premise of Fodor's City Guides is to feature select cities around the world at any given time. Instead of giving you minimal information about a location, Fodor's focuses on giving you the most valuable about the few areas. When planning a trip, wandering off the beaten path and finding local diners, attractions, and hangouts can be hard since you're typically constrained by time. This is where Fodor's City Guides can be an extremely handy planning tool. The cities currently features are Austin, New York, Paris, Barcelona, London, Rome, and San Francisco. After launching the app you can tap the download button in order to download the data on any of the featured cities you'd like to learn more about. There isn't any cost to download the guides in-app either. Once the data has loaded, you can tap into that location. Here is where you'll find a navigation menu along the bottom along with beautiful imagery filling most of the screen. The navigation allows you to view sections for an overview of that location, things to do, booking, and favorites. The overview tab will give you a brief history of that location and some general information on it. You'll notice that each menu also has a submenu that allows you to drill down to even more information. You'll also see the current weather in some sections as well as what the current currency exchange rates are based on that country and your current location. Under the bookings tab, Fodor's partners with various sites such as Expedia and others to let you view events and book them all in one place. The thing that really makes Fodor's City Guides stand out is the attention to detail and the breakouts of the areas they feature. Everything to neighborhoods to less known places to stay and visit are listed. You will also get access to transit maps so you can literally plan out an entire trip before even booking it. The good
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The bottom lineIf you're thinking about traveling soon or just want to learn more about other places in the world, Fodor's City Guide is a free resource that can help you do just that. While there aren't a lot of cities featured at a time, it's for good reason. Fodor's focuses on providing quality information about the areas they feature instead of diluted vague information that may or may not be of assistance during travel. Considering the iPhone version fits right in your pocket, Fodor's is a great resource to use while on vacation for the transit and neighborhood maps alone.
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| How to disable iMessage alerts for people that aren't in your contacts Posted: 15 Mar 2013 11:57 AM PDT If you use iMessage frequently for both work and personal, there may come times when you don't want to be disturbed by messages from people you don't know. iMessage gives you the ability to disable alerts from people that aren't in your Contacts app. You'll still receive the messages, you just won't receive audible alerts for messages from people you don't know. This is how to change your settings:
That's it. You'll now only receive alerts for messages from people you have in your contacts. It is worth noting though that this feature only works for iMessage alerts. If someone not using iMessage sends you a regular text, you'll still receive it and get an alert. 
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| Posted: 15 Mar 2013 10:53 AM PDT New email app Mailbox, which was launched by Orchestra last month, has been acquired by Dropbox. In a post on the company's blog, the Mailbox team said that this acquisition was about accelerating growth for Mailbox.
Orchestra was adamant that Mailbox would not be going away, and that this move was primarily about scaling to meet demand as fast as possible. With the Dropbox team behind Mailbox, those still waiting in line to use the app could see that wait decrease dramatically. This acquisition might allow the Orchestra team to improve on and expand the app sooner rather than later. So... what do you think? Will Dropbox make for a better Mailbox, or are you over Mailbox already? Source: Mailbox 
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| Former Apple retail SVP John Browett speaks about his time at Apple Posted: 15 Mar 2013 09:46 AM PDT Former Apple retail head John Browett has spoken about his brief time at the company. Speaking at the Retail Week Live conference, Browett praised Apple and it's culture, saying that ultimately, he wasn't a good fit:
Browett, now the CEO of Monsoon Accessorize, said that he had learned a lot about what kind of person he is to work with, and that working at Apple had been a humbling experience, making him a nicer person. Hopefully Browett actually did learn something, as he was dismissed after six months on the job. Browett's short tenure at Apple notable for major staffing missteps and PR gaffs that ultimately led to his leaving the company in November. Apple has yet to find anyone to replace Browett, with the retail team reporting directly to CEO Tim Cook in the meantime. Source: Retail Week Live, via MacRumors 
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| How To Turn Off In App Purchases on the iPad / iOS Posted: 15 Mar 2013 09:21 AM PDT Recently there's been plenty of news coverage of young kids running up ridiculous bills on their parents' credit cards when playing what they thought were free games on the iPad or iPhone. In fact they were playing 'freemium' games – games that are free to install but offer numerous In-App purchase options that can quickly rack up charges into the hundreds and even thousands of dollars. Often these In-App purchases allow the player to advance more quickly within a game or to have access to better and more advanced features. So they're very appealing, especially for youngsters who don't really understand or think about how the charges incurred may mount up. I've experienced this first-hand with my daughter a few years back and heard from countless friends and acquaintances when they've had similar experiences. There's an easy way to put a stop to this on the iPad...  Related Stories
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| Photo Transfer App – Proving Why It’s a Great iPad App this Week Posted: 15 Mar 2013 08:29 AM PDT Photo Transfer app has been a big favorite of mine on the iPad and iPhone for a long while. I reviewed it back in 2011 and included it in our list of the Best iPad Apps of 2012. As I wrote about recently, this week I traded up to a bigger – 64GB – iPad mini. Switching over from my 'old' iPad mini to the brand new one was relatively easy due to using iCloud restore to put back settings and apps. It wasn't as smooth as usual in that respect though – because my 'old' iPad mini was jailbroken and there was an iOS version issue when choosing which iCloud backups I could use for my restore. I won't recount that whole long story here, but the gist is that I had to use a backup from a couple months back to restore with. On the apps front I just had to do some manual installs to match things up all the way. When it came to my Camera Roll things were pretty badly out of whack...  Related Stories
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| Posted: 15 Mar 2013 07:35 AM PDT Last night I had the pleasure of attending Samsung's Unpacked Event, Part 1, and watching them pitch the next generation of their phenomenally successful smartphone line -- the Galaxy S4. It was held at Radio City Music Hall, with a simultaneous party at Times Square. And it was an impressive debut, though not one without some important caveats. Android Central's Phil Nickinson and Andrew Vacca and I went to Radio City, Martin Reich took Times Square. Earlier in the day I spent some time with the HTC One. I've owned several HTC devices, including the Treo Pro, G1, and Nexus One. They make, in my opinion, the best hardware outside of Apple, and the HTC One gives Apple a run for its money. Unibody aluminum with a gorgeous 1080p LCD display and gutsy 4mp, 2 micro shooter on the back, it's a bit big for me personally, but I'm sorely tempted to buy one anyway. Their Sense 5 version of Android is controversial -- some like it, others don't -- and it looks nice enough, though tends to hide as much as it helps. Either way, it set my expectations for Android-based devices in 2013, and what Samsung was competing with. LG, makers of the Nexus 4 and Optimus series of Android-based phones made the event interesting by placing their own, prominently 4-branded billboards, above Samsung's in Times Square. HTC doesn't have anywhere near the budget of their far more diversified Korean competitors, so they decided to troll the Samsung lineup instead, handing out hot chocolate and chips to the cold, hungry media and guests. Apple, by contrast, had Phil Schiller talk some smack to the papers (sadly, one fairly major point of which would later turn out to be grossly inaccurate). That by way of pointing out how important this event was not only for Samsung, but how important Samsung has become for their competition -- and that their competition, more than ever, is as much other Android-based manufacturers as it is Apple. Radio City Music Hall was an impressive venue and Samsung made the most of it. No simple executive or string of executives in jeans and shirts presenting in front of a keynote deck. After a brief introduction of the "Galaxy S4: Life Companion" by Samsung mobile head JK Shin, they had broadway actor Will Chase team up with their head of product marketing, Ryan Biden, and they put on a show. The actor would introduce a narrative and the product guy would explain what features were involved and how they worked, often with the aid of a performance to show it in real-world, if contrived situation. It was, in general, a fantastic idea and much more interesting than BlackBerry's painful CEO + tech demo guy team-ups at events past. To get it out of the way, yes the show itself was cheesy and sexist. There were, indeed, few stereos left untyped by the end. It was clearly meant to be something out of mid 20th century broadway, where such things were common, but we're no longer in that time, and Radio City aside, were weren't in that context. Samsung is still awkward in their approach to modern, mainstream marketing. They have smart people on their team, however, and they desperately need to listen to them more. In the end, the more cockamamy elements did nothing to help their message, and only distracted from it. Next year, how about Cirque du Soleil? The Galaxy S4 hardware is a feat of engineering. It manages, in the same footprint as last year's Galaxy S3, to pack in a 5-inch 1080p display, massive 2600mAh (user-swappable) battery, SD-card storage expansion, and additional sensors like IR for entertainment console control, and temperature and humidity sensors. Unfortunately, the display is still OLED-based, and the casing still Hasbro-style plastic. If you hold a Galaxy S4 in one hand and an HTC One or iPhone 5 in the other, the difference in material quality is stupefying. Everything is a compromise, and Samsung seems to have chosen to add more features while sacrificing material quality to keep the price down -- though OLED is pure stubbornness at this point, given its seemingly insolvable problems -- but I think I could have lived with slightly fewer bells and whistles at this point if it meant a better casing. I use my phone more than anything else in my life. It should feel great all the time. One area Samsung didn't skimp on was radio support. It has everything you can imagine, including the blisteringly fast 802.11ac Wi-Fi. It also has a big.LITTLE processor that's essentially 2x quad-core, switching between the lighter and heavier cores depending on what it's doing. However, that octocore chip will only be found in some versions. In other markets -- for a variety of carrier-related issues -- they'll use a Qualcomm chipset instead. So, stacked but ultimately not premium-packed hardware. Software was even more interesting. I should preface this by saying that I believe it wasn't finished yet, so what you see in the videos may well be much more polished by the time it ships. Also, while some have complained Samsung didn't mention Android enough during the show, as Phil Nickinson has repeatedly said, Android is essentially an embedded OS at this point. How often does Apple mention their UNIX foundation? (Samsung mentioned Android twice, once for their government Android-based KNOX security feature, and once on the spec slide showing the version to be Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean). That has disadvantages as well. Samsung has so completely paved over Android with their own stuff that, come Google I/O, if a new version of Android is announced, it will take Samsung a long time to release an update that includes the new version for the Galaxy S4. For mainstream users, it won't matter. They bought a Samsung phone, not a Nexus. For geeks, if you want the latest and the greatest from Google, stick to Nexus. For people who just like to point out that Android's licensed business model, one which enjoys a lot of diversity, also results in slower updates for Android-based phones, have at it. Back to unpacked. Most of the event, through a series of those fourth-wall breaking, often taste-challenging skits I mentioned earlier, was dedicated to front facing user features. A ton of them. It reminded me a little of older iOS events when new features would be announced at an almost machine-gun lined pace. It was a little hard to keep up with, and almost impossible to keep track of, given how many branded terms were used in quick procession. But it was something to see. Some of the more interesting stuff included picture-in-picture photography and video chatting. Essentially you can include an insert of yourself from the front-facing camera on photos taken with the rear-facing camera. You can do the same for chats, and even screenshare. You can also record a few seconds of audio and combine it to a picture, a feature I've often longed for when covering trade shows -- attached voice notes to jog my memory later. There's even a drama shot mode, where a burst of images are taken and then auto-composited into something akin to those multi-exposure sports posters you sometimes see in bars, or used to erase extraneous people or objects from the background. That last one I'd like to see in iOS. You can also do device-to-device Wi-Fi direct sharing. For example, if you have 2 people, you can share a song and make it stereo using both of your devices as speakers. If you have 5 or more people, you can make it surround sound. I don't know how often it would actually be useful, but the idea is delightfully geek. Voice features got a big boost with a new translation assistant that can convert your English text, for example, to Italian audio, and someone else's spoken Italian response back to English for you to read. 8 languages will be available at launch. That's something I'd love to see integrated into Apple's Siri Air Gestures -- which I'm guessing is some mix of hypersensitive capacitance and Kinect style camera monitoring? -- let you do things like trigger pop up menus or swipe between views without touching the screen. I like the idea for winter, when I'm wearing gloves, or if I'm eating and want to flip pages without getting any food on the display. However, I don't have great coordination and hitting a hard target like a screen is much easier than trying to hover or wave just right. Fitts' law and all that. The biggest problem with Air Gestures, at least that I could tell, is that they're not really system-level features, so they only work in some apps that expressly enable. They work in Samsung Mail, but not Gmail, and they work in Flipboard, but not many other 3rd party apps. To make something habitual, it needs to be everywhere. Samsung also showed off a bunch of accessories, including an fitness band, scale, and blood pressure monitor. They were Samsung branded, and if they were also Samsung manufactured, it shows an advantage that Samsung's massive business model provides them. Not many companies make as much stuff as Samsung does, which means their potential for cross-integration is enormous. Scales, fridges, etc. are just the beginning. Smart worlds await. That's just some of it. There was a dizzying amount of other features as well. If you're interested in a break down of most of them, Phil Nickinson and I recorded an Android Central Podcast immediately after Unpacked. Again, everything is a compromise, and throwing so many new features at the wall means, like every years, only a few are likely to really stick.Quantity is never as important as quality or coherency. Just like random words are harder to remember than well-told stories, feature blitzes often result in things most people don't use most of the time. However, I'm happy Samsung is doing it, if only so that they can be tried out, and the good ideas can be distilled faster. Apple usually waits, usually focuses, and it results in great experience, but Samsung is providing balance through sheer audacity. As someone who loves technology, I appreciate the difference in approaches, and the balance. The only real software negative for me wasn't a new one and remains a huge one -- user interface. Samsung's TouchWiz still lacks a consistently good design language. At best it's usable but utilitarian. There's little unified about their icons, and little appealing about their apps. Given the half-billion dollars they reportedly spent on advertising last year, it's hard to imagine they couldn't have spared a fraction of that amount to hire and empower a world-class design team. I'm not talking about cool effects, mind you. Samsung has those in spades. Fast, fluid animation, ripples, glows, the whole bit. That's all frosting, though. They need tastier cake. All told it was an impressive event for Samsung, and the Galaxy S4 looks like a great phone. Some are, sarcastically, calling it a Galaxy S3S, a throwback to Apple's tick-tock S-style updates. It's probably more than that, but let's be realistic -- there's a limit to how far, how fast, we can take phones now. They're already almost all great. Now everyone is trying to make them better. Later this year it'll be Apple's turn. 
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