Hello iPhoto for iPad & iPhone interactively guides you through all the features of iPhoto. With over 200 screenshots, you’re going to get an in-depth look at iPhoto and so many cool and hidden features.
This is what I love about iBooks Author — interactivity and well designed books.
Variety:
Sony Pictures has tapped its Oscar-winning “Social Network” scribe Aaron Sorkin to adapt “Steve Jobs,” Walter Isaacson’s bestselling biography of the late Apple co-founder.Sorkin, who earned an Oscar for adapting Ben Mezrich’s Facebook tome “The Accidental Billionaires,” previously wrote “Moneyball” for the studio. His other feature credits include the politically-themed trio “Charlie Wilson’s War,” “The American President” and “A Few Good Men,” as well as “Malice.”
This announcement alone guarantees the movie will be better than anything Ashton Kutcher stars in.
The first five shots are from mockups as they evolved. The last screen shot is the shipping version — a screen shot from the app.
Reuters:
The service will allow passengers to send and receive text messages, emails and access the Internet on Virgin Atlantic’s new Airbus A330-300 planes flying between London and New York.The in-flight service is targeting business travelers and will be available in all cabins, although limited to six users at a time.
The guitar, handcrafted by Gibson Acoustic in Bozeman, Montana, is built with a top made from prized solid Adirondack red spruce and back and sides of solid mahogany. This special edition model is enhanced by a 1930s advanced X-bracing pattern made with scalloped spruce braces to attain optimal acoustic resonance. Together these woods and construction techniques provide a blend of depth, clarity, richness and warmth along with the power and projection that made the Southern Jumbo famous.
Jeff John Roberts for paidContent:
In a strongly worded opinion, US District Judge Denise Cote rejected requests by Apple and five book publishers to throw out a class action suit that accuses them of price-fixing.Citing ongoing state, federal and international antitrust investigations, Cote turned down arguments that Apple and the publishers had acted independently when they changed the pricing model for e-books.
Fascinating, I had no idea this book was even available. Thanks to Ian Hamilton for sending this to me.
For many users, the advent of smartphone technology has dramatically changed what they look for in a cell phone device. Two smartphones makers, Apple and Research in Motion (RIM), enter the ACSI with very different results. At 83, Apple (iPhone) leads the field by a long shot, while RIM (Blackberry) lags behind as the least satisfying at 69.“Companies with weak customer satisfaction often have weak stock performance,” notes Fornell. “RIM’s sales are slumping amid a bevy of problems, from hardware and software issues to server lapses that have caused email and messaging outages. Over the past year, share price for RIM has virtually collapsed.”At 83, Apple’s iPhone is a game changer when it comes to customer satisfaction. No other cell phone company has ever broken into the 80s. Apple’s nearest competitors this year are three companies tied at 75: Nokia (+3%) and ACSI newcomers LG and HTC.
So, Apple is on top and RIM sucks balls. Seems about right.
The 1440 Challenge is an awards program — totaling $75,000 — aimed at further developing the best new ideas that help people learn, improve, and share the life skills of self-awareness, authenticity, trust, and empathy. These relationship skills help people connect at deeper levels with themselves, each other, and their communities. By leveraging communication technology and social media, winning entries will accelerate the development of these skills in the areas of education, wellness, or the workplace.
Go collect your money people.
Mashable:
Grab some popcorn and your laptop. Facebook users on Wednesday night will be treated to a one-night only screening of the classic film Casablanca, which will be streamed from the film’s brand page.Casablanca — the winner of three Academy Awards in 1944 and often heralded as one of the best movies of all time (according to, among others, world-renowned film critic Roger Ebert) — will be complimentary streamed on Casablanca’s Facebook page on May 16 at 7:00 p.m. ET. Only one screening for each Facebook account is permitted.
I’m begging you – don’t do this. Rent the disc, sit in front of your TV on your comfy couch with a loved one and watch it. There’s no magic in watching this wonderful movie on your laptop.
PCWorld:
Apple has stopped calling the new iPad “4G-capable” after regulators cracked down on its U.S.-only capability to connect to high-speed LTE networks. Although it is still listed as being “4G LTE capable,” the new iPad is now called “Wi-Fi + Cellular” instead of “Wi-Fi + 4G” in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, and several parts of Asia.Apple’s labeling drew criticism from regulators in Australia because its advertisements misled regarding the device’s 4G connectivity, and Apple also got complaints from customers in Europe.
Steve Wildstrom:
But based on what I heard from an admittedly limited sample in Seattle, that’s not where real peoples’ concerns lie. Their worries about online privacy are less corporate and much more personal and intimate. Privacy concerns are real, but the policy responses can seem like solutions in search of problems.
I think this sums up my feelings pretty well. Privacy is a personal issue and one that we sometimes give up freely for a small reward.
In case you’re not familiar with Glassboard, here’s the deal: what Pair is to the bedroom, and Path is to the rec room, Glassboard is to the board room. (Hence “board” in the name. “Glass” refers to your phone’s screen.)In other words, it’s great for teams (whether co-workers or not). It uses the same statuses, comments, and sharing that we’re all used to from social networks — except that Glassboard is private.
Nice looking new version from Brent Simmons and Sepia Labs.
Mat Honan for Gizmodo:
This is the story of a wonderful idea. Something that had never been done before, a moment of change that shaped the Internet we know today. This is the story of Flickr. And how Yahoo bought it and murdered it and screwed itself out of relevance along the way.
And thus begins and impressively long and detailed accounting of photo sharing service Flickr’s rise and fall. As a long-time Flickr user, I’ve been really disappointed with how Yahoo has mismanaged it. It’s great to see Mat Honan deconstruct the situation and explain it for exactly what it is.
Lots of respect for Stephen, his family and the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Matthew Handrahan for GamesIndustry International:
According to a report in the Providence Journal, Lincoln Chaffee, Governor of Rhode Island, has been meeting with representatives from the 38 Studios over the last few days in an effort to “protect” the $75 million incentive the state offered to lure the company away from its Massachusetts headquarters.Precise details of the meetings are still secret, though Chaffee has admitted that he is working under a “tight time-frame” to “keep 38 Studios solvent.”
38 Studios was created by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, and had been headquartered in Massachusetts until it was lured away by incentives offered by neighboring Rhode Island. It’s been in business for six years, but the company’s first game was only released earlier this year: “Kingdoms of Amalur” is an action RPG for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
If you’re still poking along with Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard,” Apple has finally gotten around to offering a Flashback Removal Security Update you might want to download.
Flashback is OS X malware which was first discovered late in 2011. It made headlines again in April when a Russian antivirus software developer discovered a new variant of it that exploited an unpatched vulnerability in Java. Apple has since closed the hole and provided a Flashback removal tool for newer versions of Mac OS X, but this will help the few remaining users still working with 10.5 to make themselves more secure.
Laura Hazard Owen writing for paidContent:
New York, the District of Columbia and fifteen other states have joined the e-book pricing class action suit against Apple, Macmillan and Penguin, bringing the total number of states involved so far to 31 (if you include DC and Puerto Rico). The amended complaint, released Friday, reveals details that were previously redacted, including an e-mail from Steve Jobs.
Your CallingVault number is a real phone number capable of receiving SMS/MMS messages and calls from any phone. The people you give your number to do not have to be CallingVault members to reach you.We believe that software should be fun and easy to use, and that we should strive to empower users through intuitive design. We believe that privacy is a right and that we should do everything we can to protect it. And we believe that you – not advertisers – should be in control of your data.
This will be fun to watch.
During the Games an aircraft carrier will dock on the Thames. Surface-to-air missile systems will scan the skies. Unmanned drones, thankfully without lethal missiles, will loiter above the gleaming stadiums and opening and closing ceremonies. RAF Typhoon Eurofighters will fly from RAF Northolt. A thousand armed US diplomatic and FBI agents and 55 dog teams will patrol an Olympic zone partitioned off from the wider city by an 11-mile, £80m, 5,000-volt electric fence.
Good times.
[Via Jim Coudal]
We began the Perian project over 6 years ago. We wanted to simplify viewing your content. Our team has attained that goal and with that in mind, Perian will be retired soon. Our stewardship has been a blast but it’s time for all of us to move on.
Perian allows you to play a variety of audio and video formats on your Mac. I’ve been using it for years and it’s still on every Mac I own. Thanks to the Perian team for your years of hard work.
Joshua Gross:
Today, TheNextWeb took a little bit of that away from me by basically plagiarizing my post (pic), being sneaky about it, and defending it.
The response by The Next Web is terrible.
What bothers me about this situation is that it’s not an isolated incident — it’s the norm. Writers take the majority of another person’s story, put a link to the original story somewhere at the bottom and call it their own. Worse yet, some sites don’t even link to the original story in the text, they list it after the story as a “Source Link.”
These types of things are only meant to do one thing — keep pageviews for yourself. If the original story is so good you want to use it as the basis for your story, then you need to do two things: 1. Name the publication and link prominently 2. Add something to the story.
Update: TNW’s CEO posted his thoughts on the situation. It’s in a Google Doc and not posted to the Web site, which seems odd to me. I also added some more of my thoughts.
Elektronista.dk last month about a Dell Computer event in Europe that featured misogynistic media personality Mads Christensen:
After the break Mads Christensen shares with us his whole “show” about the bitchy women who want to steal the power in politics, boards and the home. “Science” he calls it and mentions that all the great inventions come from men. “We can thank women for the rolling pin,” he adds. And then the moderator of the day finishes of by asking all (men) in the room to promise him that they will go home and say, “shut up bitch!”.
Molly Wood at CNet weighs in with her own thoughts about the underrespresentation of women in tech, and how incidents like this don’t help:
There’s not only a persistent absence of women in the fastest-growing economic sector in the world, there are toxic and dangerous attitudes that make that sector persistently unwelcome for women.
Wood managed to get an official statement out of Dell disavowing the incident and attempting to distance itself, which read in part, “We can tell you that the moderator’s attempted humor does not reflect Dell’s values, or its strong record on and commitment to diversity and equal opportunity.” Click the link for details.
Update: The conference was last month.
Ben Brooks:
A widely adopted, seamless, fast, robust iCloud is the greatest threat to Apple’s competitors — and this time around I think Apple knows it.
iCloud is becoming the center of everything Apple wants to do with its devices, whether it’s a Mac, iPhone, iPad or Apple TV.
John Gruber:
So the reason Apple TV doesn’t show up in Freewheel’s data is because it doesn’t show any ad-backed video. Freewheel’s data isn’t about online video watching — it’s specifically about ad-backed online video watching.
I don’t understand how people can draw conclusions from data like this. Gruber gets it right.
Eric Slivka:
The new features, expected to be announced at Apple’s world-wide developer conference beginning June 11, will allow iCloud users to share sets of photos with other iCloud users and to comment on them, these people said. Currently, users can only store one set of photos in iCloud through a feature called Photo Stream, which is designed to sync those photos to other Apple devices, not share them.
The original story is at WSJ, but that story is for subscribers only, so enjoy it at Mac Rumors.
This statement was taken out of context by the magazine – Apple did not invite or solicit Kaspersky Lab’s assistance in analyzing the Mac OS X platform.
In other words, we lied and got caught.
You gotta hand it to the folks at G-Form – they’re always looking for an interesting and unique way to test the durability of their cases. Now they’ve enlisted the help of Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas to test the toughness of their iPhone cases.
Thomas gamely steps into the net as G-Form’s own Dave slapshots several iPhones in G-Form cases at him. Thomas gloves the final shot and answers the call on the intact iPhone. (G-Form is based in Providence, RI, which may explain their choice of Thomas.)
G-Form’s previous publicity stunts include dropping its iPad case (with an iPad inside) from an airplane – it came out unscathed. They’ve even dropped an iPad from the edge of space before (a 100,000 foot drop) – don’t argue about terminal velocity, it was still a neat gimmick.
G-Form makes a line of protective cases for iOS devices and other electronics; they also manufacture sports padding out of the same “RPT” material.
Harry McCracken for Time.com:
But the thing is, Digitimes isn’t just wrong some of the time. When it comes to the big Apple stories, it’s wrong most of the time. Sometimes wildly so. It’s reported that its sources had said that Apple was going to release MacBooks with AMD processors, iMacs with touch screens, iPhones with built-in projectors and iPads with OLED displays. Those products, and others mentioned in Digitimes articles, never showed up.
McCracken looked at 25 Digitimes predictions about Apple. Sixteen of them turned out to be wildly off base.
I completely agree with Harry’s assessment: journalists writing about Apple need to take a much more critical view of what Digitimes says until it’s independently verified.