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Speaking onstage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco Monday evening, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said that Apple was a corporate mentor to the company.

“Those guys [at Apple] are an amazing partner for us. When they think about products and enhancing products they think about editing them. [At Twitter] we’re going to offer simplicity in a world of complexity… they’re a corporate mentor to us.”

The comments were spurred when Costolo was asked about how the iOS 5 Twitter integration was working out for the company so far. That integration could well be the most important move Twitter has made in the last year. On October 12th, the day iOS 5 was released, Costolo said that Twitter saw new user signups from iOS devices more than triple. “The iOS integration is going to be absolutely huge for us,” Costolo said. “It’s going to be even better than we thought it would be.”

[via Gigaom]

Twitter CEO calls Apple a “corporate mentor” originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Speaking onstage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco Monday evening, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said that Apple was a corporate mentor to the company.

“Those guys [at Apple] are an amazing partner for us. When they think about products and enhancing products they think about editing them. [At Twitter] we’re going to offer simplicity in a world of complexity… they’re a corporate mentor to us.”

The comments were spurred when Costolo was asked about how the iOS 5 Twitter integration was working out for the company so far. That integration could well be the most important move Twitter has made in the last year. On October 12th, the day iOS 5 was released, Costolo said that Twitter saw new user signups from iOS devices more than triple. “The iOS integration is going to be absolutely huge for us,” Costolo said. “It’s going to be even better than we thought it would be.”

[via Gigaom]

Twitter CEO calls Apple a “corporate mentor” originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You’ll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what’s happening in the Apple world.

You can listen to today’s Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires Flash) or the non-Flash link below. To subscribe to the podcast for daily listening through iTunes, click here.

No Flash? Click here to listen.

Daily Update for October 18, 2011 originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You’ll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what’s happening in the Apple world.

You can listen to today’s Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires Flash) or the non-Flash link below. To subscribe to the podcast for daily listening through iTunes, click here.

No Flash? Click here to listen.

Daily Update for October 18, 2011 originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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BeeDoc’s Easy Timeline is an app that any reader who enjoy tracking events might find interesting. The app allows you to easily create interactive timelines to chart any number of things. After launching the app, select a look for your timeline from built-in themes, then the type. You can choose between three different types of timelines: Date & Times lets you create historical timelines based on dates, such as March 5, 1789; Geological Scale lets you create timelines which track events that span thousands or millions of years; and Quantities lets you create a timeline that tracks anything that can be numbered, such as “Week 34.”

After choosing the settings, you can enter events onto it. For each event, you can choose a start and/or end date, a custom name, notes, photos, videos, or audio, web links and tags. After you’ve created data points for your timeline you can continue to format it by choosing font and text sizes, background images, dateline options and more.

But what’s really cool about Easy Timeline is how you can view your creation. You can print it or email it to friends, but the killer interactive feature is a 3D-view of the timeline that lets you advance through an event at a time.

When I showed Easy Timeline to my brother, a elementary school teacher, he immediately saw the educational benefit and said it would be useful to create historical timelines of subjects he was teaching, such as the American Revolution. I have used the software to create two timelines for a novel, one which tracks events as they happen in the book and one which tracks the book’s events in chronological order. A councilor friend of mine said she could see a great benefit of the app in tracking the events of a patient’s life.

Easy Timeline is $19.99 in the Mac App Store. BeeDoc’s also offers a professional version of the software, Timeline 3D, which has more advanced options, such as automatic data imports (from iCal, Aperture, Basecamp, etc), cinematic timelines, and advanced publishing options. Timeline 3D, which unfortunately isn’t on the Mac App Store, can be bought from BeeDoc’s site for $69.99. You can check out the differences between the two Timeline apps here.

Daily Mac App: Easy Timeline originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You’ll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what’s happening in the Apple world.

You can listen to today’s Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires Flash) or the non-Flash link below. To subscribe to the podcast for daily listening through iTunes, click here.

No Flash? Click here to listen.

Daily Update for October 18, 2011 originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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BeeDoc’s Easy Timeline is an app that any reader who enjoy tracking events might find interesting. The app allows you to easily create interactive timelines to chart any number of things. After launching the app, select a look for your timeline from built-in themes, then the type. You can choose between three different types of timelines: Date & Times lets you create historical timelines based on dates, such as March 5, 1789; Geological Scale lets you create timelines which track events that span thousands or millions of years; and Quantities lets you create a timeline that tracks anything that can be numbered, such as “Week 34.”

After choosing the settings, you can enter events onto it. For each event, you can choose a start and/or end date, a custom name, notes, photos, videos, or audio, web links and tags. After you’ve created data points for your timeline you can continue to format it by choosing font and text sizes, background images, dateline options and more.

But what’s really cool about Easy Timeline is how you can view your creation. You can print it or email it to friends, but the killer interactive feature is a 3D-view of the timeline that lets you advance through an event at a time.

When I showed Easy Timeline to my brother, a elementary school teacher, he immediately saw the educational benefit and said it would be useful to create historical timelines of subjects he was teaching, such as the American Revolution. I have used the software to create two timelines for a novel, one which tracks events as they happen in the book and one which tracks the book’s events in chronological order. A councilor friend of mine said she could see a great benefit of the app in tracking the events of a patient’s life.

Easy Timeline is $19.99 in the Mac App Store. BeeDoc’s also offers a professional version of the software, Timeline 3D, which has more advanced options, such as automatic data imports (from iCal, Aperture, Basecamp, etc), cinematic timelines, and advanced publishing options. Timeline 3D, which unfortunately isn’t on the Mac App Store, can be bought from BeeDoc’s site for $69.99. You can check out the differences between the two Timeline apps here.

Daily Mac App: Easy Timeline originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sears will soon outfit its employees in 450 stores with iPads and iPod touch devices. Sears sales associates will use the devices to help customers find product information, check inventory, and make purchases without having to be tethered to a cash register. Sears will also offer free Wi-Fi to customers so they can use their own smartphone devices in the store.

Sears is following in the footsteps of other retailers like Nordstrom, Home Depot and Urban Outfitters which have announced plans to roll out iOS devices in their stores. Lowes has also announced it’ll give out 42,000 iPhones to its employees which will be used to ring up purchases and pull down product information.

Even small retailers are shelling out cash to adopt this technology. Clothing retailer Pacific Sun has plans to roll out 300 iPads now and 600 more by next year. The clothing retailer predicts each device will let its employees handle five additional transactions each day, an uptick in sales that’ll quickly pay for the devices.

Sears to give iPads, iPods to employees in 450 stores originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sears will soon outfit its employees in 450 stores with iPads and iPod touch devices. Sears sales associates will use the devices to help customers find product information, check inventory, and make purchases without having to be tethered to a cash register. Sears will also offer free Wi-Fi to customers so they can use their own smartphone devices in the store.

Sears is following in the footsteps of other retailers like Nordstrom, Home Depot and Urban Outfitters which have announced plans to roll out iOS devices in their stores. Lowes has also announced it’ll give out 42,000 iPhones to its employees which will be used to ring up purchases and pull down product information.

Even small retailers are shelling out cash to adopt this technology. Clothing retailer Pacific Sun has plans to roll out 300 iPads now and 600 more by next year. The clothing retailer predicts each device will let its employees handle five additional transactions each day, an uptick in sales that’ll quickly pay for the devices.

Sears to give iPads, iPods to employees in 450 stores originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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BeeDoc’s Easy Timeline is an app that any reader who enjoy tracking events might find interesting. The app allows you to easily create interactive timelines to chart any number of things. After launching the app, select a look for your timeline from built-in themes, then the type. You can choose between three different types of timelines: Date & Times lets you create historical timelines based on dates, such as March 5, 1789; Geological Scale lets you create timelines which track events that span thousands or millions of years; and Quantities lets you create a timeline that tracks anything that can be numbered, such as “Week 34.”

After choosing the settings, you can enter events onto it. For each event, you can choose a start and/or end date, a custom name, notes, photos, videos, or audio, web links and tags. After you’ve created data points for your timeline you can continue to format it by choosing font and text sizes, background images, dateline options and more.

But what’s really cool about Easy Timeline is how you can view your creation. You can print it or email it to friends, but the killer interactive feature is a 3D-view of the timeline that lets you advance through an event at a time.

When I showed Easy Timeline to my brother, a elementary school teacher, he immediately saw the educational benefit and said it would be useful to create historical timelines of subjects he was teaching, such as the American Revolution. I have used the software to create two timelines for a novel, one which tracks events as they happen in the book and one which tracks the book’s events in chronological order. A councilor friend of mine said she could see a great benefit of the app in tracking the events of a patient’s life.

Easy Timeline is $19.99 in the Mac App Store. BeeDoc’s also offers a professional version of the software, Timeline 3D, which has more advanced options, such as automatic data imports (from iCal, Aperture, Basecamp, etc), cinematic timelines, and advanced publishing options. Timeline 3D, which unfortunately isn’t on the Mac App Store, can be bought from BeeDoc’s site for $69.99. You can check out the differences between the two Timeline apps here.

Daily Mac App: Easy Timeline originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When we began hearing about Apple’s iCloud, a lot of the TUAW staffers thought the same thing — why doesn’t Apple just buy Dropbox? After all, it works the way that a lot of Apple fans think cloud storage should intuitively work. Well, a story by Forbes staffer Victoria Barret spills the beans on a story we never knew about until now: Apple did try to buy Dropbox in late 2009.

There’s a great story that will be in the November 7 issue of Forbes talking about the startup story of the latest Silicon Valley success, and how in December 2009 Steve Jobs invited Dropbox co-founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi to a meeting in Cupertino. Jobs made a pitch to buy the company, which Houston promptly nixed. Jobs then “told them he was going after their market,” while Houston “peppered him with questions.”

We all know the outcome, with iCloud having gone live this last week as a would-be competitor to Dropbox. But Dropbox has done rather well, with 50 million users, one new user signing up each second, and revenues expected to hit $240 million for the year despite the fact that 96% of users don’t pay a thing for the service. The company was recently valued at $4 billion, and raised $250 million in capital to grow Dropbox into an Internet powerhouse.

Houston’s not too worried about the competition from iCloud and Google’s rumored Drive product. The company recently signed an agreement with HTC to add Dropbox as the default cloud storage service for its Android phones, is planning on signing up six more phone firms soon, and is looking at working with PC and TV makers next.

We’ll see what happens over the next few years with Dropbox, and whether or not Houston’s decision to turn down Jobs in 2009 was a smart move or regrettable choice. Check out the video below for a taste of the Forbes article on Dropbox and the Apple connection.

Forbes: Apple tried to buy Dropbox originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When we began hearing about Apple’s iCloud, a lot of the TUAW staffers thought the same thing — why doesn’t Apple just buy Dropbox? After all, it works the way that a lot of Apple fans think cloud storage should intuitively work. Well, a story by Forbes staffer Victoria Barret spills the beans on a story we never knew about until now: Apple did try to buy Dropbox in late 2009.

There’s a great story that will be in the November 7 issue of Forbes talking about the startup story of the latest Silicon Valley success, and how in December 2009 Steve Jobs invited Dropbox co-founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi to a meeting in Cupertino. Jobs made a pitch to buy the company, which Houston promptly nixed. Jobs then “told them he was going after their market,” while Houston “peppered him with questions.”

We all know the outcome, with iCloud having gone live this last week as a would-be competitor to Dropbox. But Dropbox has done rather well, with 50 million users, one new user signing up each second, and revenues expected to hit $240 million for the year despite the fact that 96% of users don’t pay a thing for the service. The company was recently valued at $4 billion, and raised $250 million in capital to grow Dropbox into an Internet powerhouse.

Houston’s not too worried about the competition from iCloud and Google’s rumored Drive product. The company recently signed an agreement with HTC to add Dropbox as the default cloud storage service for its Android phones, is planning on signing up six more phone firms soon, and is looking at working with PC and TV makers next.

We’ll see what happens over the next few years with Dropbox, and whether or not Houston’s decision to turn down Jobs in 2009 was a smart move or regrettable choice. Check out the video below for a taste of the Forbes article on Dropbox and the Apple connection.

Forbes: Apple tried to buy Dropbox originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sears will soon outfit its employees in 450 stores with iPads and iPod touch devices. Sears sales associates will use the devices to help customers find product information, check inventory, and make purchases without having to be tethered to a cash register. Sears will also offer free Wi-Fi to customers so they can use their own smartphone devices in the store.

Sears is following in the footsteps of other retailers like Nordstrom, Home Depot and Urban Outfitters which have announced plans to roll out iOS devices in their stores. Lowes has also announced it’ll give out 42,000 iPhones to its employees which will be used to ring up purchases and pull down product information.

Even small retailers are shelling out cash to adopt this technology. Clothing retailer Pacific Sun has plans to roll out 300 iPads now and 600 more by next year. The clothing retailer predicts each device will let its employees handle five additional transactions each day, an uptick in sales that’ll quickly pay for the devices.

Sears to give iPads, iPods to employees in 450 stores originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apparent Corporation today announced Doxie Go, a new member of their portable scanner family and the first to allow scanning without a computer.

The US$199 scanner won’t ship until late November, but there are plenty of reasons to get excited about Doxie Go. To start with, the scanner no longer requires a computer. If you’re on the run somewhere and need a quick scan of a document, you can grab it and store it on the Doxie Go. The device has a 600-page memory, and you can use USB flash drives or SD cards for more storage. The scanner can grab a full color page in less than 8 seconds.

Once you’re returned to the vicinity of your Mac or PC, Doxie Go plugs into your computer and synchronizes the scans. Yeah, it’s not “really” wireless, since you’ll still need to connect it to something via USB to retrieve and use the scans.

When you’re ready to sync, Doxie Go launches the Doxie 2.0 software (included) and your documents, receipts, or photos are moved to your computer. In December, Apparent will release a $39 accessory for transferring scanned documents to your iPad or iPhone. If you use an SD card to store your Doxie scans, you can also use the Apple Camera Connection Kit to move those scans to your iOS devices.

The Doxie 2.0 software can create searchable PDFs through the included ABBYY OCR capability, and sync to Evernote, Dropbox, Google Docs, and other cloud services. Scanned items can be “stapled” together to combine them for a specific purpose. Check out the press release below for more information.

Doxie Go cuts the wires, scans to Mac, iPad, and iPhone originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apparent Corporation today announced Doxie Go, a new member of their portable scanner family and the first to allow scanning without a computer.

The US$199 scanner won’t ship until late November, but there are plenty of reasons to get excited about Doxie Go. To start with, the scanner no longer requires a computer. If you’re on the run somewhere and need a quick scan of a document, you can grab it and store it on the Doxie Go. The device has a 600-page memory, and you can use USB flash drives or SD cards for more storage. The scanner can grab a full color page in less than 8 seconds.

Once you’re returned to the vicinity of your Mac or PC, Doxie Go plugs into your computer and synchronizes the scans. Yeah, it’s not “really” wireless, since you’ll still need to connect it to something via USB to retrieve and use the scans.

When you’re ready to sync, Doxie Go launches the Doxie 2.0 software (included) and your documents, receipts, or photos are moved to your computer. In December, Apparent will release a $39 accessory for transferring scanned documents to your iPad or iPhone. If you use an SD card to store your Doxie scans, you can also use the Apple Camera Connection Kit to move those scans to your iOS devices.

The Doxie 2.0 software can create searchable PDFs through the included ABBYY OCR capability, and sync to Evernote, Dropbox, Google Docs, and other cloud services. Scanned items can be “stapled” together to combine them for a specific purpose. Check out the press release below for more information.

Doxie Go cuts the wires, scans to Mac, iPad, and iPhone originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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