Archive for September 2011
Adobe keynote coincides with Apple’s ‘Let’s talk iPhone’ event
Adobe is planning to hold a keynote on Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 10 a.m. Pacific, the same date and time of Apple’s highly-anticipated press event, where the company is expected to announce a next-generation iPhone.
Apple is far along in negotiations to obtain international cloud-music licenses from record companies and publishers, a new report claims, and may secure a deal in time to announce it at the company’s iPhone event on Oct. 4.
AT&T plans to raise insurance costs for iPhone users and begin to throttle the top 5 percent of its data users as it prepares for the launch of Apple’s fifth-generation handset.
Apple releases minor update to iBooks
Apple has pushed out a small update to its iBooks app.
The official release notes only state that iBooks 1.3.1 includes a number of important stability and performance improvements, but we’ve heard reports that it also significantly boosts iBooks’ performance on iOS 5, which is expected to be unveiled in full at next Tuesday’s Apple media event.
iBooks is a universal app and a free download.
Apple releases minor update to iBooks originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Related Posts:Can you put “Find My Iphone” on a lost ipod touch 4g without having it.?
Question by Jesstin: Can you put “Find My Iphone” on a lost ipod touch 4g without having it.? Ok i lost my ipod touch at the gym ( i have a passcode lock on it). I never got around to putting mobile me on it so i dnt know how to find it. Any suggestions on how to recover my ipod touch 4g maybe call it with facetime or something ?
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Answer by ScσττRΛSC³As far as putting apps on an iPod touch without the iPod touch, simple answer no. Calling it through FaceTime, probably but of course you’d need either a Mac with FaceTime installed or another iPod touch 4G or iPhone 4 do to that.
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Related Posts:Samsung offers Apple a deal to allow Galaxy Tab 10.1 launch in Australia
In hopes of launching its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia next week, Samsung has offered Apple a mystery deal that the iPhone maker admitted has favorable benefits to both sides.
Amazon is said to be considering a purchase of Palm, the smartphone maker now owned by Hewlett-Packard, and its webOS mobile operating system.
As Apple is rumored to discontinue its aging hard-drive-based iPod classic, the company has removed a section from the iTunes Store devoted to click-wheel games.
iPhone 101: Using iOS accessibility to make text larger
Welcome to iPhone 101, the series that explains the basics of iPhone operation. This time, its making tiny text easier to read using the accessibility features in iOS.
Following Stevie Wonder’s high praise of the accessibility features found in iOS, we thought we’d take a closer look at some of the features available to make using the iPhone a whole lot easier for those who are visually impaired.
One of the first places to start, when wanting to make what’s on your iPhone easier to read, is to make the text larger in four of iOS’s major apps: Mail, Calender, Contacts and Notes. To access this feature go to Settings > General > Accessibility. From there you want to tap Large Text and select the text size that best suits your needs. The selection is from off to a rather large 56pt. The text size you select will determine the standard text size for all the text found in those apps.
Unfortunately, this feature doesn’t reach across the entire OS, nor does it affect third-party apps. However, most well developed third-party apps will have a setting to edit the size of the text in the app, this feature is usually found in the settings of the app.
You can also apply the Large Text feature to the iPad too by following the same instructions.
iPhone 101: Using iOS accessibility to make text larger originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Related Posts:Foxconn may produce Amazon 10.1″ tablet after having passed on Kindle Fire
After passing on orders for the new Kindle Fire from Amazon, Foxconn Electronics is believed to have won the contract to produce the Internet retailer’s rumored 10.1-inch tablet and could begin shipping the device from factories by the end of the year, according to a new report.
An alleged photo of AT&T’s inventory system was leaked Thursday, revealing the arrival of iPhone 5 cases ahead of the Apple device’s anticipated unveiling next week.
Amazon’s new Kindle Fire won’t compete with Apple’s iPad 2, and isn’t even a lock to become the second-most-popular tablet on the market, one Wall Street analyst believes.
iOS game revenue survey: 50% of App Store games make less than $3k
Developer Owen Goss (the mind behind Landformer and Baby’s Musical Hands) has spent the last few weeks or so putting together a really comprehensive survey on revenue for iOS games and apps, all based on answers from 252 actual iOS developers. He’s shared the results on his blog, and they’re pretty fascinating. Unfortunately, as he states early on, this is a pretty informal survey, with a self-selected sample group that’s on its honor to answer truthfully (and some of the questions, Goss admits, may not have been completely clear).
But there’s still some interesting info in here. The majority of the developers polled are working independently, and a surprising amount of them, exactly 50%, are working on their own as a one-person shop. And while some developers have made a lot of money on the store (the average lifetime earnings is actually around $ 165k), most developers don’t make more than a few thousand dollars. 50% of developers polled in Goss’ survey have made less than $ 3,000 in all of their app sales. The median game, too, made less than $ 1000, though of course there were some games that made much less and much more.
Goss also found a few other interesting stats, like the fact that most developers tend to make more revenue as they release more games (which is logical — of course devs get better at making, marketing, and selling games as they get more experienced at it). If you’re a developer, an aspiring dev, or just interested in how the iOS dev grind goes, you’ll want to read through the results of the survey.
iOS game revenue survey: 50% of App Store games make less than $ 3k originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Xtrafolio is a useful, yet a bit pricey, portfolio app
Continuing from Monday’s review of Portfolio for iPad, today we’re taking a look at Xtrafolio. Then, on Friday, we’ll do a head-to-head comparison of the apps and whether the built-in Photos app is the best choice after all. We’ll also summarize a few more options our readers gave us after Monday’s review.
InterfaceXtrafolio starts out with a flowchart indicating how a portfolio is made and provides the very important shortcut of making sure to tap the bottom left and right corners at the same time to bring up settings. In the settings view, all the options are anchored in a menu on the left.
After the first time setting up the app, a logo page will be visible when it’s launched. If you don’t have a logo, you get a blank screen. To access your portfolio, single-tap the initial screen. The options are layered in different sections and go into a good bit of detail about what you can do with the app. Since the options are all in one location, it makes it easier to jump back and forth between different sections of the portfolio.
Gallery: Xtrafolio
You can add media to Xtrafolio from the iPad, iTunes or via Dropbox. Xtrafolio will accept images, videos and PDFs. Instead of galleries with different portfolios, you can subdivide a single portfolio is subdivided into categories, then folders within that category. It’s useful for when you specialize in different things. In my case, I set up Xtrafolio for my newspaper design work and comics writing. Within the categories, you can drag around files to customize the order. However, there is no tagging and no ability to edit the file name.
While there are a lot of customizations, it’s fairy basic when it comes to presenting the portfolios. You can set up a sideshow with basic transition styles and enable high-resolution images. For some reason, song selection only works in portrait mode. Captions are available, but they’re hard to read. One really nice feature is that you can enable a watermark so no one tries to rip off your work if you email it out. You can also set stuff back to default with a single tap if you’re unhappy with your selections.
Xtrafolio has a single layer of passcode security, and this is to prevent people from accessing settings. You also can’t enter settings while browsing a portfolio. You can add a basic resume and set it as your info page, which is a good way of showing a client right off the bat what you can do. There’s a save stage option where Xtrafolio can return to the same position where you were if you close out of the app.
Xtrafolio is $ 16.99 in the App Store, which is a bit pricey for this category. With its feature set, I’d price it more around $ 14.99. Like Portfolio for iPad, it’s well-recommended for the amount of options it has, even though it doesn’t have quite as many importing options or tagging features.
Xtrafolio is a useful, yet a bit pricey, portfolio app originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Related Posts:T-Mobile sides with Samsung in Apple patent infringement case
On the heels of Verizon coming out in support of Samsung in Apple’s patent lawsuit against the South Korean electronics maker, T-Mobile has submitted a brief opposing a proposed preliminary injunction against the company’s smartphones and tablets.
Samsung and Google are partnering up for an event on Oct. 11 that will showcase “what’s new from Android” and will likely launch the Nexus Prime, the first phone running Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich,” just one week after Apple unveils its next-generation iPhone.
Two new studies have revealed rising interest in Apples forthcoming iPhone 5 from North American and UK mobile users at the expense of rival mobile platforms from Google and Research in Motion.
