Category: I-phone

You could probably get several very nice iPad cases for US$299, providing a different look for every day of the week. Or, if you need to be radically mobile and self-sufficient with your tablet computing, you might be interested in Voltaic Systems’ new Spark case — a solar-powered hard shell model with enough power to charge your iPad wherever the sun shines.

Voltaic designed the Spark to pair neatly with Apple’s tablet, with a 1:1 charge to use time ratio (a full charge for the iPad requires 10 hours of light on the panels). Rather than charging devices directly, the solar panels top off an included battery; it’s designed to provide a full iPad charge, and sports both standard-power and high-power USB ports for multiple devices.

Obviously, a specialty case such as the Spark isn’t for every iPad owner or usage model. For those who do need auxiliary power or extended off-the-grid operations, though — field researchers, surveyors, engineers, park rangers, etc. — it could be just the thing.

Our video interview with Voltaic’s Jeff Crystal is below.

Video: Power your iPad from the sun with Voltaic’s Spark case originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The day is nearly here — Apple released the first GM Seed of Mac OS X Lion to developers just minutes ago. Developers and those running the beta must log into the Dev Center to get their Mac App Store redemption code and download the latest version. The build number of the GM seed is 11A511.

In addition to the main OS seed, Lion Server GM Seed and Xcode 4.1 DP 7 are both out as well. Developers who need to use Xcode should update to the latest build after installing the GM seed of the OS.

We will update this post as more information is received.

Lion GM Seed released to developers originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The day is nearly here — Apple released the first GM Seed of Mac OS X Lion to developers just minutes ago. Developers and those running the beta must log into the Dev Center to get their Mac App Store redemption code and download the latest version. The build number of the GM seed is 11A511.

In addition to the main OS seed, Lion Server GM Seed and Xcode 4.1 DP 7 are both out as well. Developers who need to use Xcode should update to the latest build after installing the GM seed of the OS.

We will update this post as more information is received.

Lion GM Seed released to developers originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The day is nearly here — Apple released the first GM Seed of Mac OS X Lion to developers just minutes ago. Developers and those running the beta must log into the Dev Center to get their Mac App Store redemption code and download the latest version. The build number of the GM seed is 11A511.

In addition to the main OS seed, Lion Server GM Seed and Xcode 4.1 DP 7 are both out as well. Developers who need to use Xcode should update to the latest build after installing the GM seed of the OS.

We will update this post as more information is received.

Lion GM Seed released to developers originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple released its session videos from WWDC and many people are having problems watching them. Apparently, Apple is limiting playback to Safari on the Mac. If you try to watch the videos on an alternative browser, even on a Mac machine, you receive the stern warning that “You need to use Safari on the Mac to view this video.

We have no idea why Apple has this policy. Both the keynote and session videos are encoded in H.264 so they’re in a format supported by a variety of platforms. The easiest workaround for this problem though is iTunes. All these videos can be watched from the media software without worrying about which OS or browser you are using.

[Via Electronista]

WWDC 2011 videos reportedly not working in some browsers originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You could probably get several very nice iPad cases for US$299, providing a different look for every day of the week. Or, if you need to be radically mobile and self-sufficient with your tablet computing, you might be interested in Voltaic Systems’ new Spark case — a solar-powered hard shell model with enough power to charge your iPad wherever the sun shines.

Voltaic designed the Spark to pair neatly with Apple’s tablet, with a 1:1 charge to use time ratio (a full charge for the iPad requires 10 hours of light on the panels). Rather than charging devices directly, the solar panels top off an included battery; it’s designed to provide a full iPad charge, and sports both standard-power and high-power USB ports for multiple devices.

Obviously, a specialty case such as the Spark isn’t for every iPad owner or usage model. For those who do need auxiliary power or extended off-the-grid operations, though — field researchers, surveyors, engineers, park rangers, etc. — it could be just the thing.

Our video interview with Voltaic’s Jeff Crystal is below.

Video: Power your iPad from the sun with Voltaic’s Spark case originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You could probably get several very nice iPad cases for US$299, providing a different look for every day of the week. Or, if you need to be radically mobile and self-sufficient with your tablet computing, you might be interested in Voltaic Systems’ new Spark case — a solar-powered hard shell model with enough power to charge your iPad wherever the sun shines.

Voltaic designed the Spark to pair neatly with Apple’s tablet, with a 1:1 charge to use time ratio (a full charge for the iPad requires 10 hours of light on the panels). Rather than charging devices directly, the solar panels top off an included battery; it’s designed to provide a full iPad charge, and sports both standard-power and high-power USB ports for multiple devices.

Obviously, a specialty case such as the Spark isn’t for every iPad owner or usage model. For those who do need auxiliary power or extended off-the-grid operations, though — field researchers, surveyors, engineers, park rangers, etc. — it could be just the thing.

Our video interview with Voltaic’s Jeff Crystal is below.

Video: Power your iPad from the sun with Voltaic’s Spark case originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You could probably get several very nice iPad cases for US$299, providing a different look for every day of the week. Or, if you need to be radically mobile and self-sufficient with your tablet computing, you might be interested in Voltaic Systems’ new Spark case — a solar-powered hard shell model with enough power to charge your iPad wherever the sun shines.

Voltaic designed the Spark to pair neatly with Apple’s tablet, with a 1:1 charge to use time ratio (a full charge for the iPad requires 10 hours of light on the panels). Rather than charging devices directly, the solar panels top off an included battery; it’s designed to provide a full iPad charge, and sports both standard-power and high-power USB ports for multiple devices.

Obviously, a specialty case such as the Spark isn’t for every iPad owner or usage model. For those who do need auxiliary power or extended off-the-grid operations, though — field researchers, surveyors, engineers, park rangers, etc. — it could be just the thing.

Our video interview with Voltaic’s Jeff Crystal is below.

Video: Power your iPad from the sun with Voltaic’s Spark case originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple released its session videos from WWDC and many people are having problems watching them. Apparently, Apple is limiting playback to Safari on the Mac. If you try to watch the videos on an alternative browser, even on a Mac machine, you receive the stern warning that “You need to use Safari on the Mac to view this video.

We have no idea why Apple has this policy. Both the keynote and session videos are encoded in H.264 so they’re in a format supported by a variety of platforms. The easiest workaround for this problem though is iTunes. All these videos can be watched from the media software without worrying about which OS or browser you are using.

[Via Electronista]

WWDC 2011 videos reportedly not working in some browsers originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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To start off this new series of daily apps, I thought I’d pick something close to home — an app by TUAW’s own Erica Sadun. The free, ad-supported app is called Sadun’s Collage, and it produces fun photographic collages of pictures taken with the cameras in your iPad 2.

Sadun’s Collage is very intuitive to use. When you launch the app for the first time, you see a corkboard with a live image frame on it, as well as a group of buttons that are at the top of the screen. The buttons fade out, but are summoned back with a tap on the corkboard. To take a photo with Sadun’s Collage, you tap on the live image frame. Once the photo is “pinned” to your corkboard, you move it by sliding it around with your fingers, use the pinch gesture to make it bigger or smaller, and rotate it by twisting it clockwise or counterclockwise with two fingers. Every photo has a white Polaroid-like frame, and displays shadows for a feeling of depth as you layer the images.

To take another photo — there doesn’t seem to be a limit to how many you can place on the corkboard — just tap on the corkboard and then tap the + button that appears in the toolbar. If you’ve been snapping photos of your friends with the rear-facing camera but want to add your face to the board, there’s a button for toggling between the cameras.

You’re not stuck with just the cork background; there are also slate, marble, sandstone, and limestone to use as backgrounds. Once you’ve captured, sized, and placed images on the background, a tap on a “photo” button sends the collage (sans advertising) to your iPad photo library. Another button opens a blank email with the collage attached for sending to friends.

Any individual image on a collage may be removed by tapping on it to display a minus sign (-), and then tapping the minus sign to confirm the deletion. If you decide to erase the entire collage and start over, a tap on the “recycle” button offers up a clean slate to start with.

I asked Erica why the app doesn’t let you place images from your iPad photo library into the collage. Her response was that the app is designed for spontaneous fun with groups of people more than after-the-fact collage creation. It’s also possible that the standard iOS photo browser was omitted because it tends to be a bit slow and is a memory hog, but that’s just my opinion.

While you’re hanging around at a picnic, hiking in the mountains, or waiting for the fireworks to start over the Independence Day holiday in the U.S. this weekend, be sure to download Sadun’s Collage, have a little fun passing around the iPad 2, and enjoy those holiday memories in a clever photo collage that you created.

TUAW’s Daily iPad App: Sadun’s Collage originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple released its session videos from WWDC and many people are having problems watching them. Apparently, Apple is limiting playback to Safari on the Mac. If you try to watch the videos on an alternative browser, even on a Mac machine, you receive the stern warning that “You need to use Safari on the Mac to view this video.

We have no idea why Apple has this policy. Both the keynote and session videos are encoded in H.264 so they’re in a format supported by a variety of platforms. The easiest workaround for this problem though is iTunes. All these videos can be watched from the media software without worrying about which OS or browser you are using.

[Via Electronista]

WWDC 2011 videos reportedly not working in some browsers originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple released its session videos from WWDC and many people are having problems watching them. Apparently, Apple is limiting playback to Safari on the Mac. If you try to watch the videos on an alternative browser, even on a Mac machine, you receive the stern warning that “You need to use Safari on the Mac to view this video.

We have no idea why Apple has this policy. Both the keynote and session videos are encoded in H.264 so they’re in a format supported by a variety of platforms. The easiest workaround for this problem though is iTunes. All these videos can be watched from the media software without worrying about which OS or browser you are using.

[Via Electronista]

WWDC 2011 videos reportedly not working in some browsers originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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To start off this new series of daily apps, I thought I’d pick something close to home — an app by TUAW’s own Erica Sadun. The free, ad-supported app is called Sadun’s Collage, and it produces fun photographic collages of pictures taken with the cameras in your iPad 2.

Sadun’s Collage is very intuitive to use. When you launch the app for the first time, you see a corkboard with a live image frame on it, as well as a group of buttons that are at the top of the screen. The buttons fade out, but are summoned back with a tap on the corkboard. To take a photo with Sadun’s Collage, you tap on the live image frame. Once the photo is “pinned” to your corkboard, you move it by sliding it around with your fingers, use the pinch gesture to make it bigger or smaller, and rotate it by twisting it clockwise or counterclockwise with two fingers. Every photo has a white Polaroid-like frame, and displays shadows for a feeling of depth as you layer the images.

To take another photo — there doesn’t seem to be a limit to how many you can place on the corkboard — just tap on the corkboard and then tap the + button that appears in the toolbar. If you’ve been snapping photos of your friends with the rear-facing camera but want to add your face to the board, there’s a button for toggling between the cameras.

You’re not stuck with just the cork background; there are also slate, marble, sandstone, and limestone to use as backgrounds. Once you’ve captured, sized, and placed images on the background, a tap on a “photo” button sends the collage (sans advertising) to your iPad photo library. Another button opens a blank email with the collage attached for sending to friends.

Any individual image on a collage may be removed by tapping on it to display a minus sign (-), and then tapping the minus sign to confirm the deletion. If you decide to erase the entire collage and start over, a tap on the “recycle” button offers up a clean slate to start with.

I asked Erica why the app doesn’t let you place images from your iPad photo library into the collage. Her response was that the app is designed for spontaneous fun with groups of people more than after-the-fact collage creation. It’s also possible that the standard iOS photo browser was omitted because it tends to be a bit slow and is a memory hog, but that’s just my opinion.

While you’re hanging around at a picnic, hiking in the mountains, or waiting for the fireworks to start over the Independence Day holiday in the U.S. this weekend, be sure to download Sadun’s Collage, have a little fun passing around the iPad 2, and enjoy those holiday memories in a clever photo collage that you created.

TUAW’s Daily iPad App: Sadun’s Collage originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We all know that Apple’s iOS devices are popular. Surveys and analyst predictions place Apple at or near the top in the smartphone, tablet and media player market. That’s great for headlines, but what does it mean for Apple’s bottom line?

Horace Dediu of Asymco did some fancy figuring and calculated that the annual revenue for each iOS owner is US$150. This is based on 180 million current iOS users with 200 million iOS devices. Given the astronomical growth of the iOS platform, this installed user base could quickly climb to 500 million users, a lofty figure that would provide Apple with $74 billion per year in recurring revenue.

Mac sales are also climbing and could easily reach 100 million active users who generate $24 billion a year in revenue. Combine the Mac users with the iOS users and Apple could pull in a cool $95 billion per year in revenues from OS X and iOS devices alone.

These numbers are a conservative estimate as Dediu does not factor in sales from iTunes, iPods, accessories and software. It also assumes a very generous 3.5 year life span for iOS devices and 5.5 years for Mac hardware.

Annual revenue per iOS user estimated at $150 originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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To start off this new series of daily apps, I thought I’d pick something close to home — an app by TUAW’s own Erica Sadun. The free, ad-supported app is called Sadun’s Collage, and it produces fun photographic collages of pictures taken with the cameras in your iPad 2.

Sadun’s Collage is very intuitive to use. When you launch the app for the first time, you see a corkboard with a live image frame on it, as well as a group of buttons that are at the top of the screen. The buttons fade out, but are summoned back with a tap on the corkboard. To take a photo with Sadun’s Collage, you tap on the live image frame. Once the photo is “pinned” to your corkboard, you move it by sliding it around with your fingers, use the pinch gesture to make it bigger or smaller, and rotate it by twisting it clockwise or counterclockwise with two fingers. Every photo has a white Polaroid-like frame, and displays shadows for a feeling of depth as you layer the images.

To take another photo — there doesn’t seem to be a limit to how many you can place on the corkboard — just tap on the corkboard and then tap the + button that appears in the toolbar. If you’ve been snapping photos of your friends with the rear-facing camera but want to add your face to the board, there’s a button for toggling between the cameras.

You’re not stuck with just the cork background; there are also slate, marble, sandstone, and limestone to use as backgrounds. Once you’ve captured, sized, and placed images on the background, a tap on a “photo” button sends the collage (sans advertising) to your iPad photo library. Another button opens a blank email with the collage attached for sending to friends.

Any individual image on a collage may be removed by tapping on it to display a minus sign (-), and then tapping the minus sign to confirm the deletion. If you decide to erase the entire collage and start over, a tap on the “recycle” button offers up a clean slate to start with.

I asked Erica why the app doesn’t let you place images from your iPad photo library into the collage. Her response was that the app is designed for spontaneous fun with groups of people more than after-the-fact collage creation. It’s also possible that the standard iOS photo browser was omitted because it tends to be a bit slow and is a memory hog, but that’s just my opinion.

While you’re hanging around at a picnic, hiking in the mountains, or waiting for the fireworks to start over the Independence Day holiday in the U.S. this weekend, be sure to download Sadun’s Collage, have a little fun passing around the iPad 2, and enjoy those holiday memories in a clever photo collage that you created.

TUAW’s Daily iPad App: Sadun’s Collage originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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