Category: I-phone

Fortune Tech is reporting that another major magazine publisher has agreed to Apple’s terms for iTunes magazine subscriptions, increasing the grand total to … four.

Bloomberg Businessweek (free iPad app) joins Maxim, Elle, and Popular Science as the fourth magazine to provide subscriptions through iTunes. Most magazines publishers are unwilling to cede Apple 30% of the take of subscriptions, and have chosen to sell individual issues for the iPad instead. For many of the publishers, it’s not really the fact that they’ll only make 70% of the sales price of the magazine subscription; they’re more concerned that subscribers will not agree to share their personal information for market research purposes.

The app is free to download, at which time you can buy a subscription through in-app purchase. A subscription to Bloomberg Businessweek will sell for US$2.99 per month, the same price as a subscription to Elle. Popular Science weighs in at $14.99 annually, or $1.25 an issue.

Now that a respected business magazine has joined the small group of publishers that have decided that the iTunes model might actually work, we can only hope that some of the other magazine publishers may follow suit. Such heavyweights in the industry as Time, Inc. (Time and Sports Illustrated), Condé Nast (New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired), and Hearst (Cosmpolitan, Esquire) are still refusing to embrace the Apple model.

Bloomberg Businessweek is the latest iPad subscription magazine originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After some delay (we posted about the announcement in March) JBL has announced that the AirPlay-enabled On Air speaker dock is officially shipping to Best Buy and Apple Stores (see press release below). The system lets customers stream music from their AirPlay-enabled devices, like Macs, iPhones, iPod touches and iPads. It’s also pretty cool looking, in a Darth Vader-meets-radial-tire kind of way.

Other nifty features include a color LCD display, FM radio tuner and an alarm clock. Also fancy is the price; this bad girl will set you back US$349.99, so bring your wallet. If you do grab one, let us know how it goes. They look great.

[Via Engadget]

JBL ships AirPlay-enabled On Air speaker dock originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Enterprising software developer James Laird was looking to stream music without AirPlay. Since an appropriate AirPort Express emulator did not exist, Laird reverse-engineered the Airport Express private key and published an open source AirPort Express emulator called ShairPort as a result.

What does that mean? A commenter on Hacker News spells it out clearly:

Previously you could do this:
iTunes — stream to –> Apple Airport Express
3rd party software — stream to –> Apple Airport Express

Now you can do this:
iTunes — stream to –> 3rd party software/hardware

Laird has thrown the door open for software solutions. Now, you can stream music between Macs, to appropriately-configured consoles (like an Xbox), etc. ShairPort is built in Perl and C. Have fun, folks.

[Via MacRumors]

Apple AirPlay private key exposed, released originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Just the other day I was talking about more in-depth strategy games for iOS, and here’s one: Great Little War Game is a pretty deep tactical warfare game built specifically for Apple’s platform. It’s based on what’s essentially a hexagonal system and is very similar to Advance Wars for the DS, with cartoony little troops fighting little tactical battles. There are a few different types of units and goals to play with, and while the game’s technically a little off, the gameplay is extremely solid, with clean and clear controls and lots of strategies to use and learn.

The game’s model is interesting as well — there is a core campaign (and a lite version to check it out for free if you’d like), but there are also add-on packs with extra missions to play or voices to use for the characters if you’d rather have those. There’s no Game Center integration or multiplayer, unfortunately, but the core single-player strategy gameplay is what most fans of this type of game are looking for anyway. Great Little War Game definitely lives up to its name. It’s available on the App Store for an introductory price of US$0.99 for the standard iPhone version or $2.99 for the HD universal version for iPad and iPhone.

TUAW’s Daily App: Great Little War Game originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adobe’s been pretty focused on the mobile platform with its talk of tablet and smartphone publishing and integration of the iPad into the CS5.5 workflow, but that’s not all: Adobe’s visual effects package, After Effects, got some love, too.

After Effects CS5.5 will bring quite a few new features to the table. The headline act has to be Adobe’s new Warp Stabilizer, which as the name might suggest, will smooth over your shaky or bumpy camera movement or lock a steady shot automatically. Adobe showed off the impressive technology behind the Warp Stabilizer in a recent sneak peek, and as long as you can deal with frame cropping, it’ll make almost any dodgy handheld camera work look like it was shot on a dolly.

Continue reading After Effects CS5.5 to add Warp Stabilizer, 3D effects and more

After Effects CS5.5 to add Warp Stabilizer, 3D effects and more originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adobe plans to demonstrate three iPad apps designed to work in conjunction with the forthcoming Adobe CS 5.5 update. Rather than representing a standalone implementation of Photoshop running on the iPad (as demoed earlier this month), these apps are more like enhancements to the existing toolsets running in Adobe CS on a PC or Mac.

One program, Nav, allows users to use the iPad to switch between tools or opened photos on the main computer running Photoshop. A second app called Eazel works as a finger-painting app that can send anything generated on the iPad directly to the PC or Mac. A third app called Adobe Color Lava is essentially a high-tech version of a traditional painter’s palette.

While none of these apps are as ambitious as a full-fledged iOS version of Photoshop, they’re intriguing steps in that direction. All three apps demonstrate that Adobe is interested in the future of the iPad, and they show a sort of “outside the box” approach to apps on the iPad, utilizing the tablet as an accessory to a standard computer rather than thinking of it as a computer in its own right. Adobe is also introducing a Photoshop Touch SDK that will allow third-party developers to come up with even more ways to integrate the iPad with a full instance of Photoshop running on a PC or Mac.

All three apps are expected to hit the App Store around the same time as the Adobe CS 5.5 update, currently scheduled to debut on May 3, and they’ll cost between US$1.99 and $4.99 each. CNET has brief reviews of all three apps to give you an idea of what you’re in for when they debut on the App Store.

Adobe adds three Photoshop-centric iPad apps to lineup originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adobe has announced a mid-cycle update to its Creative Suite, dubbed Adobe CS 5.5. As CNET notes, Adobe CS 5.5 doesn’t provide significant updates for Photoshop, Illustrator or Fireworks, but what has been updated in Adobe’s Creative Suite seems particularly focused on smartphone platforms. Adobe says the CS update is focused on “enabling designers and developers to target popular and emerging smartphone and tablet platforms,” and provides “substantive advances to HTML5, Flash authoring, digital publishing and video tools as well as new capabilities that kick-start the integration of tablets into creative workflows.”

According to Adobe, the company plans to change up its development cycle for Creative Suite, offering “milestone” upgrades every 24 months and (presumably yearly) mid-cycle releases like CS 5.5 providing relatively smaller advances of the feature set.

Perhaps more significantly, Adobe has also introduced subscription-based pricing for its Creative Suite, with monthly pricing schemes including Photoshop for US$35 per month, Adobe Design Premium CS 5.5 for $95 per month, and Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection for $129 per month. Naturally, you can also pay for the suite all in one go, but it’ll cost you anywhere from $1299 up to $2599 for the Master Collection.

Adobe devotes a rather significant portion of its CS 5.5 press release to discussing the state of Flash on mobile devices, claiming that “more than 200 million” tablets and smartphones will run Flash Player and/or Flash-based applications by the end of this year. CNET characterizes Adobe’s mobile development tools as “inching closer to build once, output many.” We’ll just have to wait and see how both of those claims play out.

Adobe announces Creative Suite 5.5 with optional subscription-based pricing originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 01:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When it comes to smartphone cases that can stand up to almost anything, OtterBox pretty much defined the market. Starting with the multi-layer Defender Series and then moving on to the more sleek Commuter Series, Colorado-based OtterBox has always made iPhone cases that can stand up to a lot of abuse. However, for some iPhone owners the rather bulky design of the previous cases left a lot to be desired.

OtterBox industrial designer Adam Wibby took his inspiration for the new Reflex Series (US$44.95) from the world of automobile design, where a “crush zone” is sacrificed to reduce the impact on the passengers within a vehicle. Taking this idea through design and testing, Wibby and the OtterBox team found that they could build very thin hardshell cases with a shock-absorbing “reflex zone” made of a more flexible silicone material.

As the design was fine-tuned, the team did a Finite Element Analysis to test the shock-absorbing properties. The analysis showed about a threefold reduction in the shock of a drop, and Wibby notes in the video accompanying this post that an iPhone in a Reflex case will actually bounce.

The Reflex case adds very little weight; my electronic postal scale showed that it weighed in at 0.9 oz (about 26 grams), which brings the total weight of iPhone 4 and Reflex case up to about 5.8 oz (about 164 grams).

Continue reading OtterBox Reflex Series case for iPhone 4: First look

OtterBox Reflex Series case for iPhone 4: First look originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As we reported in February of 2010, Walter Isaacson, former managing editor of Time magazine, has been working on an authorized biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs for some time. Over at Apple 2.0/Fortune, Phil Elmer-DeWitt reports that iSteve: The Book of Jobs has been completed and will be published in early 2012.

It may be surprising that someone as intensely protective of his privacy as Steve Jobs would authorize anyone to tell his life story. After reading Elmer-DeWitt’s profile of Isaacson, though, it’s a little clearer why Jobs has finally opened up. Isaacson’s résumé is very impressive indeed, as are his biography subjects to date: Benjamin Franklin, Henry Kissinger and Albert Einstein.

There’s a one-degree-of-separation TUAW connection to Isaacson, as it happens. Our lead editor Mike Rose was in charge of new media at Entertainment Weekly in the mid-1990s when Isaacson was running Time Inc.’s Pathfinder web portal for the company’s magazine titles, and they worked together on occasion. Mike says he doubts that Walter will see fit to send him advance galleys of the Jobs biography for old times’ sake, but it never hurts to ask.

With Isaacson behind the project and Jobs as its subject, iSteve sounds like it should be a fascinating read. For an alternate take on the choice of Isaacson as the official iBiographer, see Michael Wolff’s piece here.

Authorized Steve Jobs biography due in early 2012 originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s Sunday night, and that means talkcast time! This week, as the NAB convention kicks off in Las Vegas, we look ahead to the highly-anticipated next step in pro video editing from Apple. Yes, the rumor mill around Final Cut Pro is percolating with extreme prejudice, so there’s no better time to bring in our editor friends and colleagues (including our own Chris White) to talk about what we can expect and what we might wish for in the next FCP/FCS version. Our special guest tonight is John Foster of KnowTech.tv.

We’ll also tackle the news of the week plus your questions and comments — and if there’s time afterward, there’s always the TUAWTF aftershow (never recorded, often regretted).

To participate on TalkShoe, you can use the browser-only client, the embedded Facebook app, or download the classic TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for maximum fun, you should call in. For the web UI, just click the TalkShoe Web button on our profile page at 4 HI/7 PDT/10 PM EDT Sunday. To call in on regular phone or VoIP lines (yay for free cell phone weekend minutes!): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 — during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *8.

If you’ve got a headset or microphone handy on your Mac, you can connect via the free Blink or X-Lite SIP clients; basic instructions are here (if you like Blink, the pro version is available in the Mac App Store). Talk to you tonight.

Talkcast tonight, 10 PM ET: Pro video preview from NAB originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This is the “AddTwoTextField” example. I am going to show you the how to add two text field values. In this app you can add the value of two different textfields and print it in another textfield.

Step 1: Open the Xcode and create a new Xcode project using View base application template. Give the application name “AddTwoTextField”. As shown in the figure below:

Step 2: Expand classes and notice Interface Builder created the AddTwoTextFieldViewController.h and AddTwoTextFieldViewController.m class for you. Expand Resources and notice the template generated a separate nib, TwotextFieldViewController.xib.

Step 3: Open the AddTwoTextFieldViewController.h file and we have to add

For displaying the textfields mention IBAction and to perform the given action make the following changes in the file.

Step 4: Double click the AddTwoTextFieldViewController.xib file and after that make the following changes.
A) Open the view window, first drag the Round Rect Button from the library and place it to the view window and select the button.

B) Open the view window, and drag the TextField from the library and place it to the view window.

Step 5: Open the AddTwoTextFieldViewController.m file and make the following changes in the file.

Step 6: Now build and run the code and view the Output in the Simulator.

You can download source code from here AddTwoTextField

It’s Sunday night, and that means talkcast time! This week, as the NAB convention kicks off in Las Vegas, we look ahead to the highly-anticipated next step in pro video editing from Apple. Yes, the rumor mill around Final Cut Pro is percolating with extreme prejudice, so there’s no better time to bring in our editor friends & colleagues (including our own Chris White) to talk about what we can expect and what we might wish for in the next FCP/FCS version.

We’ll also tackle the news of the week plus your questions and comments — and if there’s time afterward, there’s always the TUAWTF aftershow (never recorded, often regretted).

To participate on TalkShoe, you can use the browser-only client, the embedded Facebook app, or download the classic TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for maximum fun, you should call in. For the web UI, just click the TalkShoe Web button on our profile page at 4 HI/7 PDT/10 PM EDT Sunday. To call in on regular phone or VoIP lines (yay for free cell phone weekend minutes!): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 — during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *8.

If you’ve got a headset or microphone handy on your Mac, you can connect via the free Blink or X-Lite SIP clients; basic instructions are here (if you like Blink, the pro version is available in the Mac App Store). Talk to you tonight.

Talkcast tonight, 10pm ET: Pro video preview from NAB originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The LA Times says Apple has slowly begun hiring more lobbyists in Washington, D.C. to protect its interests as it has grown from a niche player to one of the tech sector’s biggest powerhouses. Apple has traditionally placed little reliance on lobbyists, but in February of this year, Apple contracted the services of the high-powered Washington lobbying firm of Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock.

The move comes as Apple has grown from a company worth $2.5 billion in 2003 to a behemoth with $300 billion in market capitalization, and from $37.5 billion in sales in FY2008 to $65.2 billion in FY2010. Accordingly, the company has tripled its lobbying expenses in that time to $1.6 million. The move for more pull in Washington comes as Apple is increasingly coming under the microscope of antitrust issues, primarily regarding the iTunes Music Store, the App Store, and the iBooks Store. [Apple’s lobbying expenditures are quite small in comparison to US cell carrier partners AT&T and Verizon; each telco spent more than $15 million on lobbying in 2010. The highest lobbying bill for an individual corporation belonged to Pacific Gas & Electric last year, which spent more than $45 million. -Ed.]

Last year a clause in Apple’s iOS SDK spurred an an antitrust investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice over anticompetitive measures regarding the banning of the porting of software originally written for Adobe’s Flash, Sun’s Java or Microsoft’s Silverlight/Mono to the iPhone OS. Also just last month Steve Jobs was ordered to give a deposition relating to monopolistic behavior over the iPod and the iTunes Store back in 2004.

Besides Apple, Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock represents other powerful companies, including the NFL Players Association, BP America, UnitedHealth Group, and the Recording Industry Association of America.

Apple hired lobbying firm in February originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple has taken a lot of flak about the seemingly arbitrary rejection of apps in the App Store. Often small developers who have had their apps rejected cry foul stating that Apple would never reject apps from bigger publishers. Earlier this week, however, Apple showed that even big publishers aren’t immune to Apple’s ban hammer.

PopCap, publisher of megahits like Plants vs. Zombies, submitted an app called Unpleasant Horse. The game’s objective is to jump a Pegasus-like horse from cloud to cloud. If you miss a cloud, the horse falls to the earth and is chewed up in a meat grinder. The app was prompty rejected by Apple. In response to the rejection, PopCap tweeted “WTF? Apple rejected Unpleasant Horse cuz of ‘mature content?’ We thought horses dying in meat grinders was wholesome family entertainment!”

But as the New York Times points out, the tweet was later removed and PopCap has stated that they will appeal the ruling and submit the app again with a higher age rating. It’s unknown what rating the game was originally submitted with, but the rejection of Unpleasant Horse goes to show you that Apple’s acceptance or rejection of an app, while sometimes seeming arbitrary, at least affects large and small developers alike.

“Unpleasant Horse” shows Apple isn’t afraid to reject big developers originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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“I would also end with Henry Ford: ‘If I asked people what they wanted, they’d tell me they wanted a faster horse.’ So, Apple is very good at going their own way and figuring out where things will be. They may not ask you what you want. They are going to tell you, ‘We’re going to invent something different.’ And that’s kind of my take away from it. I was very impressed, it was awesome and look out, I believe they say it will be available in Spring 2011. So, that goes all the way up to June 20th. So, that’s what I know, that’s what I can say, and if there’s anyone from Apple out there, I hope you don’t sue me.”

I’ve worked with my fair share of video editors over the years and if there’s one truth about them it’s that they are very picky people. If a current editing suite works for them there’s no reason to reinvent the wheel. But reinventing the wheel seems to be exactly what Apple has done with this next Final Cut and the fact that so many video editors are heaping extraordinary praise on it has me salivating just to get a glimpse of the next version of Apple’s powerhouse video editing suite.

For those of you into editing, watch the entire video after the break. There’s a lot of good talk about the future of video editing — and some speculation on where Apple wants to lead it.

[via MacRumors]

Continue reading More talk that the next Final Cut Pro will be the best thing since sliced bread

More talk that the next Final Cut Pro will be the best thing since sliced bread originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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