Category: I-phone

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While we already knew this, Software Usability Research Laboratory(SURL) has found out that 83.65 percent of iPad owners are happy with their iPad.

According to the study, which asked users to rate the user friendliness of the iPad 62% of the respondents stated that the iPad was excellent, while still 21% stated that they found the pad to be good. At the same time only 4 percent thought the usability of the iPad was “fair, and a meager 2 percent find it to be poor.

Another interesting fact about the iPad was that it has gained popularity in the US company boardrooms, with 52 percent of the respondents stating that they used the iPad at work. Furthermore more almost 92 percent of respomdendt stated that they have used their iPad to edit documents needed for their work?

What about you? Are you pleased with the iPad and do you use it for work or purely for personal use?

Welcome to another edition of the best resources in iOS development featuring the most popular resources on this website in the last two weeks.

I hope that everybody has had a great holiday season.  This list features an update to the popular ShareKit social sharing library, a graphing program for helping you create better designed Objective-C programs, a large collection of Cocos2D sample code and more.

Here are the resources:

1. Open Source ShareKit 2.0 Easy Social Sharing Library For iOS Apps Is Release – A new version popular library for social sharing on the iOS platform has been created combining features of many different forks, and correcting many bugs has been released.

2. Tool: Objective-C Dependency Graphing Script For Easily Improving Program Design – A script allowing you to create dependency graphs viewable in Graphviz and Omnigraffle which is great for identifying those occasions where you might be best to use notification and delegation rather than importing classes directly.

3. Over 90 iOS Source Code Examples (Many Using Cocos2D) – A listing containing many different Cocos2D examples including mainly small code samples and a few open source games.

4. Open Source: Library For Adding Easy Face Recognition To Your iOS App With The Free Face.Com API – A library that makes using the Face.com face recognition API easy allowing you to automatically tag identities for millions of faces, and get other interesting data about faces from within your pictures very quickly.

5. Open Source: Library For Easy Usage Of The FourSquare API In iOS Apps – A library that makes using the FourSquare API very simple with expected functionality such as check-ins, venue searching and adding photos.

6. Open Source: Great Looking Easy To Use Customizable Bar Gauge iOS UI Component – A great looking bar gauge component that you can totally customize the colors of, great for any app in which you’d like to use a bar gauge.

7. Open Source Libraries For Easily Adding Rotary Knob Controls In Your iOS Apps – A set of libraries that allow you to add in some great looking rotary knob controls with both a totally customized, or Garage Band type look.

8. Tutorial: Creating Universal iOS Frameworks With Xcode 4 (Make That Open Source Library Work With ARC!) – An up to date guide on creating Universal iOS Frameworks which is extremely useful if you want to get some open source libraries working with automatic reference counting.

9. Examples: How To Draw On Textures In Cocos2D, Perform Motion Blur, Get/Set Individual Pixels And More – A set of source code examples showing how to perform different special effects in Cocos2D and a special Cocos2D texture class that allows you to get and set individual pixels.

10. Tutorial: Securing iOS App Data – Using The Data Protection API, Keychain And Cryptography – An extensive tutorial covering how to secure data within iPhone and iPad apps.

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If you have that new iPhone you received for the holidays, you’re probably looking to load it up with some apps that will enhance your mobile experience. Let me suggest some of the best of the free apps. Of course, everyone will have their own list, but here are my 5 favorites that I think most new iPhone users will love to use and to show off their new iPhone.

If you’re a news junkie, by all means get Zite, newly released for the iPhone. It sets you up with news categories of interest to you, then learns what you like by keeping track of stories you click on. Over time, it gets smarter and smarter, so in essence it creates a personalized magazine for you. Their are other news readers and aggregators, but the presentation of stories in Zite and its ability to learn make it my first choice.

Glypmse is one of my very favorite apps, the kind of app I would pay for if it wasn’t free. While some of the location-tracking functionality it offers is covered by Apple’s iOS 5-only Find my Friends feature, Glympse is more flexible and cross-platform to boot.

With Glympse you send a message (email or SMS) to someone with information on your location; the link is set to expire when you want it to, so your friends can’t track you indefinitely as they can with FmF. Let’s say you are meeting someone for lunch. When they get your message, they click on the included link, and Glympse loads a map showing a moving pin (that’s you) along with your ETA. The person you are meeting doesn’t need an iPhone, just any web-capable device, including laptops. It’s a great service, and in practice I’ve found it to be super reliable.

Tango does what Apple’s FaceTime won’t do, which is to allow you to video conference with another cellphone using 3G (FaceTime requires WiFi). Tango has added clients for Android and Windows Phone, so it’s a great way to visually keep in touch with friends. I even tried it with a friend touring China and it worked. An update last week allows you to leave video mail for your Tango buddies.

For more intellectual pursuits, try the recently released TED app. It’s a collection of great talks from people in the arts, literature and the sciences. The app has been updated to work with Airplay, so you can stream the audio to another device like an Apple TV 2. I try to watch a TED talk at least once a week, and it’s always a treat.

Finally, for pure fun, try Action Movie FX. From the creators of the new Mission: Impossible movie, you can add rather impressive special effects to your own movies. With the free version you can add a missile strike or a car crash to your own video. It looks great, and the price is exactly right. Reviews are glowing. There are some other modules you can buy, like a tornado or helicopter crash, but I was fine with the free effects. It’s more fun than you should be allowed to have for free.

Enjoy that new iPhone. These free apps should help get you started. I’ll add one bonus free app to the mix. Don’t forget the free TUAW iPhone app to help you keep up with the latest and greatest Apple news. Happy Holidays!

New iPhone? Try these must-have free apps originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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During December and January, The Unofficial Apple Weblog is soliciting your nominations and votes for the best products for Mac, iPhone/iPod touch, and iPad. We’ll start with nominations in a category, and then tally your votes for the top-nominated products a few days later. The winner in each category receives the highly-coveted title of TUAW Best of 2011.

After a Christmas Day respite in the TUAW Best of 2011 nomination process, we’re back in business. In the next category for the TUAW Best of 2011 awards, we want to know what you consider your favorite iPad photo and/or video app.

While the iPad 2 isn’t the best mobile camera unless you want to look and feel like a complete dork holding it up to shoot photos or capture video, it is a wonderful device for editing your images.

Snapseed (US$4.99) is a relatively new photo editing app that won the iPad App of the Year award in its category in Apple’s App Store Rewind 2011 awards. For iPad video editing, Apple’s own iMovie ($4.99) is an extremely popular and easy to use app.

Pocket Pixels has had a winner for several years with Color Splash for iPad ($1.99), while the Master Your DSLR Camera app ($9.99) uses a multimedia approach to teach you how to make the most of your Digital SLR camera. Serious photographers may want to get a Newsstand subscription to Popular Photography magazine (free for the app, most issues $2.99).

It’s up to you to tell TUAW about your favorite iPad photo and video apps. Leave your nomination in the comments below. Voting will start soon!

Nominations close at 11:59 PM ET on December 28, 2011.

Nominate your favorite iPad photo and video apps for TUAW’s Best of 2011 originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There are a ton of great games to buy and play from the App Store today if you happen to have found an iOS device under your tree this past weekend. Infinity Blade 2 is one of the best you’ll find, with high-end graphics, tight gameplay, and a whole bunch of fun features that really build on the last popular game in the series. Whether you’re a Blade newbie or a veteran, Chair Entertainment has released some tips for the game that will really help you roll through the generations.

Some of them are very straightforward (no kidding — you need to parry in the same direction for it to work?) but some of the tips are things you might not have picked up otherwise. I didn’t know that parrying with Heavy weapons gives a block charge back, or that a parry in general will open up more combo moves than just a standard dodge or block against an attack.

It’s also worth looking through the rest of the official Infinity Blade blog. There are some cool developer interviews, some other solid gameplay tips, and more Infinity Blade news to read. This is definitely one of the best games on the platform, and having tips like this will really help you explore all that it has to offer.

[via App Advice]

Infinity Blade 2 tips from Chair Entertainment originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Boxee project has come a long way from its humble origins as a fork of the Xbox Media Center, bringing easy video playback and a couch-to-screen UI to the Mac, then later to Windows and Ubuntu, and now to the company’s own dedicated Boxee Box hardware (soon to support live broadcast TV). There’s a solid ecosystem of app developers making themselves at home with Boxee.

The company is releasing version 1.5 of its desktop app for Mac, Windows and Ubuntu this week, featuring many of the improvements that will be appearing in the Boxee Box firmware early next year, but there’s a caveat. This will be the final release of Boxee’s desktop build; future development efforts will be focused on the Boxee Box hardware and on tablets like the iPad. The 1.5 version will be available for download on Boxee’s site through the end of January 2012, which gives the Boxee team a bit of time to take down the “roll your own” section on the Boxee site.

For Mac HTPC devotees who will now be looking for a Boxee alternative, the Plex project is also partially built atop XBMC, along with a proprietary server component; there’s even a Plex iOS app available so you can watch on iPad. Of course, the parent XBMC app is still going strong, and a beta build of version 11.0 Eden came out just last week. Both Plex and XBMC are also now supporting jailbroken Apple TVs for playback. Plex requires an Intel Mac running 10.6 or higher, while XBMC continues to support PowerPC Macs along with Intel models.

[via GigaOm]

Boxee Mac media player reaches end-of-life with new version originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As you can tell from our quiet start this morning, it’s a slow day around the TUAW HQ — most of us are still in the holiday mood, and with much of the United States off work today anyway, things aren’t too crazy. But we’re still here, and while some of us are buried under snow, we can still at least remember that somewhere on Earth, there are sunny skies and tropical breezes.

In fact, you can see both in the video posted below, which was shot by a band called Passion Pit, completely on an iPad 2 and an iPhone 4. The team used the ReelMoments app (and presumably the official Camera app as well) to shoot all of the footage, and then edited it together with iMovie on the iPad. It’s well done — I wouldn’t say it’s super groundbreaking (we’ve seen music videos put together like this before), but there is some really good stuff in there. That last shot is especially great, and, if you are like us and working today after the holiday, might remind you that at least someone’s on vacation this afternoon.

Music video created with iPad and iPhone originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After years of developing mobile tools for its own platform, Microsoft has finally released a series of apps for the iPad including Lync, OneNote and Kinectimals. Hands down, the most anticipated of the bunch is OneNote, Microsoft’s popular desktop app for taking and organizing notes. It’s the premier solution for the desktop, but, unfortunately, it falls short on the Apple tablet.

The app pulls OneNote documents down from SkyDrive and lets you both view and edit the documents on your iPad. Unfortunately, most of the document formatting is not available on the iPad. I had some beautiful OneNote documents with colorful text, tags, tables and different-sized fonts. You can see an example document below and compare it to the iPad version above. When I viewed the documents on the iPad, tags were missing, and all the text appeared in a small, bland, black font. Even worse, tables were formatted as images and not editable.

Creating new OneNote documents is also very limited on the iPad. You can’t create new notebooks or pages; you’re only allowed to add new notes. Notebook security is also an issue as you can’t view notes or add notes to a notebook that has a password.

Overall, OneNote for the iPad is disappointing. I was hoping for additional editing options and better support for some of the basic attributes of a document. It’s not like these features can’t be edited on a mobile device. Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system supports OneNote document editing and it gives you excellent access to most of the document properties.

If you only need an app to view plain OneNote documents, you may want to download and try OneNote for the iPad. It’s free and it does let you view simple documents. Syncing on the iPad also works well, and changes were uploaded almost immediately. Reliable syncing, though, doesn’t make up for an app that’s only half as capable as it should be. If you want to try OneNote for the iPad, you can grab it for free from the iOS App Store.

Daily iPad app: OneNote for the iPad originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you — the readers — and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We’ll be announcing the winner in just a few days. Vote early and often!

TUAW is asking for your votes for the best iPad case of 2011.

Very few iPad owners seem to keep their devices “naked,” instead choosing to wrap them in a case of some sort. Much to my surprise, all of the cases were folio type cases, with the “book style” case being the most popular.

Our nominees for this are the Twelve South BookBook for iPad (US$69.99), the Portenzo cases (Customized, Composition, Italian Bonded Leather and Premium Genuine Leather — $59.95 to $124.95 depending on model, options not included), San Francisco’s own DODOcase ($59.95), the Bear Motion folio ($59.95 MSRP), and the Zaggfolio keyboard case ($99.99).

And now, let the voting begin! The results will be announced on December 29, 2011.

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TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best iPad case originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you just got a new iPhone for Christmas, there’s one handy utility app that you might want to purchase right away. It’s 1Password for iPhone (sale priced at US$5.99) from Agile Bits Solutions, and it was named the best iPhone utility app in reader voting in TUAW’s Best of 2011 awards.

The app is a favorite of the TUAW staff, and it’s obvious from the voting that 1Password is used faithfully by many of our readers as well — the app pulled in 49.7 percent of the votes, thoroughly trouncing the other nominees in this category. It actually comes in two flavors — the iPhone-only version linked to above, and the universal 1Password Pro (currently on sale for $8.99) that synchronizes with 1Password on Mac and iPad.

Apple had the runner-up in this category. Find My iPhone (free), an amazing app that has reunited many lost or stolen iPhones with their owners, nabbed 32.3 percent of the votes.

Congratulations to Agile Bits for their win, and thanks to all of the TUAW readers who took part in the nomination and voting process for the utility category in the Best of 2011.

1Password: The best iPhone utility app in TUAW’s Best of 2011 originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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