Wi-Fi Sync, the utility available in the Cydia Store at $9.99 that allows you wirelessly sync your devices using iTunes, is now iPad compatible. The latest 1.1 introduced support for the new device, which can now be configured to sync apps / info / music without the need to plug in.
If you still haven’t, check out the preview video of Wi-Fi Sync after the break and go download it in Cydia.
John Nack, former Adobe Photoshop Product Manager, has published a new entry on his personal weblog, asking if you’d like to be able to view .PSD files on the iPad.
“I periodically hear requests for the ability to view Photoshop PSD files on devices like the iPad (for example, browsing files that one has synced via Dropbox).
This is obviously a capability that Adobe could build. The question of course is whether we should build it (as opposed, say, to building something else).”
Sure that would be a great option for web designers on the go, that are now forced to export files to .pdf to preview them to clients. Would you like to have this feature? Go comment.
With the iPad slowly becoming available in 9 more countries, Apple has decided to give a much needed new look to the App Store categories.
Overall, single categories now look just like the homepage of the App Store, with “What’s Hot” and “New & Noteworthy” sections and a couple of banners here and there. Charts for free and paid apps are both listed on the right, but the big refresh has been given to the “all apps” section: just like on the iPad you can change between sort by “featured” and “name”, while the whole list has a switch to browse free / paid applications. It’s easier to understand and very useful.
Well done, Apple. Take a look at a sample screenshot of the iPad productivity category after the break.
Can you imagine if two college students reinvented the way you consume news on your iPad? Think about a small project, with no big budget and a couple of good ideas: that’s how great products usually come to life, right?
Now let’s face it, if you read news on the iPad you either do it using a Google Reader client or a website-specific application such as the New York Times one. Me too, I have downloaded some apps from the App Store to enjoy the single website experience they provide and installed the latest beta of Reeder (check out our exclusive preview here) to catch up with Google Reader.
Now let’s try something different, shall we? Meet Pulse for iPad.
Justin Williams (@justin) developer at Second Gear, has written a very insightful piece about switching to Android. Must read.
“After a week of using Android, I’m conflicted. If you had asked me last Wednesday what phone i’d be using a week from now I’d without a doubt say the iPhone. Now that we’re here, however, I am sticking with Android until the new iPhone ships. Widgets, home screen customization, background processes and the notification system are things that I’ve grown incredibly fond of and would miss if I went back to the iPhone today.”
[via Daring Fireball]
The Wired iPad application has sold very well in the first 24 hours of availability in the App Store. Executives of Wired have announced that the app has sold 24.000 copies, for around $80.000 of revenue in just one day.
Also from Wired.com:
“In press briefings before they released their app, Wired and Condé Nast executives emphasized that more and better features would be rolled out in the immediate coming months — including the leveraging of iPad functionality not tapped in the June issue — as part of a continuing R&D process.”
We can’t wait.
If you think about it, there’s no way to easily share content between a Mac, an iPhone and an iPad. I’m not talking about documents and songs - you can use iTunes for that - I’m talking about web content, the stuff you stumble upon every single day on the internet. Articles, images, videos, quotes - where are they when you change your device? They are tied to each machine’s local storage and browser, and there’s no way to keep everything in sync. When you change your machine, content is lost.
So one would think the cloud is the perfect solution to this, and indeed it is. If I could manage to browse the web on my Mac, close the browser and find the same links, the same videos, the same anything again on the iPad screen - I’d be a happy man. I want to be able to browse and save content, have it organized and backed up, then synced to all my other devices.
GotProject is a new web application developed by a University of Colorado student that, through a clipper bookmarklet, allows you to save any kind of web content you like and access it later no matter the device you’re using. Cool thing is, it works excpetionally well on the iPad - touch gestures included.
When asked about Apple’s market cap milestone, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said:
“I will make more profits and certainly there is no technology company in the planet which is as profitable as we are. Stock markets will take care of the rest.
We are executing very well. That’s going to lead to great products and great success.
It’s a long game and we have good competitors… We, too, are very good competitors.”
Still no word about Microsoft’s real plans about mobile devices though. Because the Kins are not a plan, right?
According to the New York Post, several media companies including Time Warner and NBC Universal told Apple that they won’t adopt HTML5 for iPad playback and that they will stick with Flash. As sources report, “such a reformatting would be expensive and not worth it because Flash dominates the Web.”
The New York Post goes even further and reports:
“In addition, one media executive pointed out that Apple’s ability to dictate terms to the media giants will be weakened further by Google TV, a software product that enables viewers to watch online video on their big-screen TVs.”
I’d wait until this fall season to see what’s going to happen with media companies and their playback offers. If the iPad will turn out to be a bigger success than the iPhone, of course they will jump on the HTML5 wagon.
