There’s no shortage of applications to access Wikipedia on our iPads, Articles and Wikipanion being those that I can think of right now. Still, the Cooliris team thought that they could make things better, different: pretty much like Flipboard turns your social stream in a magazine, they decided to turn Wikipedia into a magazine.
How Safari on iPad Should Have Been [Concept]
I browse a lot of websites with my iPad. At the end of each day, I sit down, relax and open my favorite websites using Safari. Could Safari on the tablet be better though? Yes. If you look closer, Safari on iPad is pretty similar to the desktop version: you have buttons, a chrome, a standard way of interacting with webpages.
So the Arc90 guys thought about this and came up with a genius concept of how Safari on the iPad should have been like.
Motorola Makes Fun of iPhone 4, Again - Droid Fans Laugh At Apple
It seems like the latest trend in the smartphone advertising scene is to make fun of Apple by designing banners containing supposedly funny and enjoyable quotes about reception, cases, bars and whatever it is that makes you think about the iPhone 4.
Samsung did it a few days ago. Motorola is doing it again. Droid-Life laughs at Apple, because Motorola decided to run this ad. Makes sense?
Check out the popular banner and alleged smart description of the product below. Oh, and here’s video of the Droid X, too.
DIY iPhone Macro Lens
You have taken some beautiful photos with your iPhone 4 so far. You own dozens of apps that help you taking better pictures, with different styles and effects to make them even better.
Maybe it’s time to consider making your own iPhone Macro Lens. Follow all the steps on Instructables, and please report back if you manage to get some actual good photos out of this.
Should You Consider an iMac or a Mac Pro?
Yesterday Apple launched new iMacs, a new Mac Pro, a new Cinema Display and…a Battery Charger. Yes, it was a great day. And yes, many “pro” users still don’t know whether they should out their works in the hands of a Mac Pro beast or just go with an iMac by choosing the highest configuration. I mean, those are powerful machines, right?
Let Marco Arment tell you what you should do.
Next-Gen iPod Touch Spotted In The Wild, Again
I really don’t know what’s wrong with these people losing prototypes. I mean, are they actually losing them, or intentionally dropping them to see them end up on blogs and secretly rejoice for what they did? We’ll never know.
Pano, Now Fully iPhone 4 Compatible
Pano was one of the applications I used the most on my old iPhone 3GS: it’s an awesome photography application that lets you take a series of pictures to build a panoramic view. It’s simple and produces stunning results.
Too bad that as I got the iPhone 4 I tried to install Pano, take some a picture and…it crashed. I tried again, and it kept crashing. Something was wrong with the iPhone 4 camera, I figured. Now, I’ve just noticed an update for Pano in iTunes, which fixes those camera incompatibilities and makes the app fully compatible with the new device.
Awesome news. Pano is available at $2.99 in the App Store.
Magic Trackpad Hands-On [Video]
Courtesy of 9to5mac, a video with some first impressions of the new “magical” device from Apple. It looks good. But it’ll look even better next to my new iMac in a few weeks.
iPad Owners Are “Selfish Elites”
According to a new study the psychological profile of iPad owners can be summed up as “selfish elites” while have-not critics are “independent geeks.”
Consumer research firm MyType conducted the study, in which opinions of 20,000 people were analyzed between March and May. The firm’s conclusion was that iPad owners tend to be wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated and disproportionately interested in business and finance, while they scored terribly in the areas of altruism and kindness. In other words, “selfish elites.”
“As a mainstream, closed-platform device whose major claim to fame is ease of use and sex appeal, the iPad is everything that they are not.”
I’m dying to know how these studies actually work. The more I think about it, the more I picture “experts” trying to extort information from scared iPad users inside Apple’s anechoic chambers.