Archive for February, 2011
February 2nd, 2011 at 9:34 AM EST | by inu846W
Editor’s note: This article was reposted from macobserver.com.
The New York Times is previewed its News.me iPad news reader app and service on Wednesday. The service will offer a more social network style to presenting the news, and doesn’t have an official launch date yet.
The New York Times intros News.me
News.me will cull articles for display based on articles that are being read by the people you follow on Twitter, along with content from bit.ly links. Tapping bit.ly for content isn’t a surprise since the company helping the NYT build the News.me app and service, betaworks, is also the company that runs the bit.ly URL shortener.
TechCrunch has been testing News.me and said the service has a Flipboard feel. Unlike Flipboard, which is working on an ad-based revenue model, News.me will be sold as a subscription service without ads.
The NYT announcement comes only hours ahead of News Corps’ launch event for The Daily — its iPad-exclusive daily news publication. The Daily is expected to cost subscribers US$0.99 a day and will include original content from its own staff of writers.
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February 2nd, 2011 at 9:12 AM EST | by inu846W
Editor’s note: This article was reposted from tuaw.com.
Sometimes the most important things you see at Macworld Expo are the things that you don’t like. For example, there were a lot of iPad case manufacturers who were showing off their take on case + keyboard combos. A lot of these cases use an awkward "chiclet"-type keyboard that, in my opinion, is worse than no keyboard at all. In an attempt to keep the cases relatively small, most of the manufacturers are using tiny keyboards that are difficult to use.
When I returned from this year’s Expo, I was curious to see what goodies I had received from vendors during the week I was in San Francisco. One of the boxes contained a review sample of a new iPad keyboard case from CaseGoods, LLC called the TypeCase. What makes this keyboard case different from the rest? Two things — the quality of both the leather case and the keyboard.
Leather case
To start with, the cases are made of leather — either standard leather or exotics. You’ve got a choice of black or tan in the standard leather, brown or black "croc texture" leather, a bright red "lizard texture" and black horsehair. All of the cases use a magnetic closure to keep the cover closed while in transit, and there’s a leather kickstand in the back for propping the iPad in an upright position. The leather finish was quite nice, and the stiffness should protect the iPad from accidental drops and bumps.
Gallery: TypeCase Keyboard Case for iPad
The keyboard
The keyboard CaseGoods uses is wonderful. The keys are exactly the same size and in the same places as those on Apple’s Wireless Keyboard, although the keyboard is a bit thicker to accommodate a 350 mAh Lithium polymer battery pack. That pack charges in about 3 hours, and CaseGoods claims it will provide around 50 hours of typing. The keyboard charges via an included USB cable, and there’s a green LED to indicate charging status. A red LED is used to indicate pairing status and also to let you know when the keyboard’s battery needs charging, and a blue LED indicates when power is turned on.
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February 1st, 2011 at 8:04 PM EST | by inu846W
Editor’s note: This article was reposted from macrumors.com.
iFixYouri and 9to5Mac have posted photos of what is said to be the new iPad 2 screen.
At this point, we cannot tell if the resolution is higher (or "Retina") but it is definitely higher quality in terms of its build. The iPad 2’s display is also lighter, and over a mm thinner than the current iPad’s display with a smaller surrounding frame.
No other details (such as resolution) have been revealed, but the slightly thinner screen agrees with previous analyst reports that claim that the iPad 2’s screen will be 30-35% thinner as well as offering an anti-reflective coating for better outdoor usage.
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February 1st, 2011 at 5:51 PM EST | by inu846W
Editor’s note: This article was reposted from pcmag.com.
The world will finally see what the hype is around News Corp.’s iPad-only newspaper, The Daily, when it’s unveiled Wednesday morning at a press event at New York’s Guggenheim Museum. But a select will get a preview tonight at an intimate cocktail party at CEO Rupert Murdoch’s apartment.
Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to see the product that Apple and News Corp are said to have developed together. But there’s a lot of buzz floating around the Web about what the publication will actually look like.
The Daily is a new frontier for News Corp. The media empire historically purchases a publication and goes in and restructures, as it did with The Wall Street Journal. By contrast, Murdoch starts from scratch with The Daily. He’s nabbed respected journalists from publications like Forbes and the New Yorker to create original content spanning a broad base of topics including news, arts, sports, entertainment, and opinion.
For all the talk that The Daily is cutting edge, it walks a thin line between something that is both modern and old-fashioned, All Things D’s Peter Kafka said. News Corp. owns All Things D, but Kafka said he hasn’t gotten an invitation to Murdoch’s preview and doesn’t expect to receive one.
The Daily will have a lot of the bells and whistles that are now generally associated with publications on the iPad, such as audio and video. It’s also been reported that it would include 3D video, but Kafka said it’s not there yet.
Although The Daily has a Web site, the focus is most definitely on the app. The site will have just a small sampling of content included in the app, but probably less than 10 percent.
Theoretically, The Daily will probably feel pretty similar to a traditional newspaper. It will have six sections of original content delivered once daily. It will even have a crossword. With the iPad-friendly features that a lot of users have come to expect, there isn’t much that would separate The Daily from consumer magazines on the iPad, except that it’s delivered each day rather than each month.
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February 1st, 2011 at 4:57 PM EST | by inu846W
Editor’s note: This article was reposted from cultofmac.com.
Ever had a sudden hankering to crank out a few Real Racing HD laps on your iPad while river rafting? Yeah, neither have I (although that might have something to do with the fact that I’ve never been river rafting). But if the itch ever struck, it’d probably be best if the iPad was vacuum-sealed in a tablet-sized, waterproof DryCASE; luckily the company just added the tablet-sized version to their line at Macworld. The cases start at under $60 and includes a headphones/mic jack.
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February 1st, 2011 at 12:10 PM EST | by inu846W
Editor’s note: This article was reposted from macworld.com.
Ancestry.com‘s iPhone app—which lets you carry your family tree around in your pocket—has been updated with new features that include iPad optimization.
The idea is that the iPad app contains a bunch of companion content — polls, trivia, character bios, video, photos, etc. — that is delivered at specific times in an episode using special syncing technology from Nielsen.
The company’s newly universal app, Ancestry 2.0, debuted Monday. In addition to its revamping for the iPad, the app features a new interactive family tree viewer to help users visualize family relationships, as well as the ability to view supporting historical documents.
The app does require an Ancestry.com account to work. The site offers a 14-day free trial, but memberships can cost $89 for six months of access to the site. The fees pay for access to more than century’s worth of Census, immigration, Social Security, and military records data that help users piece together the puzzles of their family history.
The Ancestry app itself is free and compatible with any device running iOS 3.1 or later.
iPad News Source: macworld.com
App Store: Free
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