Patently Apple has found out that Apple has filed two new trademark applications, and this time for a badge (or as the application reports, a “mark”) with the words “Made for iPhone” or “Made for iPad” on it.
New Apple’s motto? There’s a trademark for that.
Apple has been talking a lot about HTML5 and open technologies, so much that they even created a page for HTML5 iPad-ready websites and wrote a popular “blog post” about the problems of Flash as a closed platform and the need to support new standards.
But as you probably know, Apple doesn’t actually fully support HTML5 in its flagship browser, the desktop version of Safari. Indeed, Safari for Mac (and Windows) doesn’t have official and full support for many HTML5 specs like Geolocation API, Drag and Drop, Form Features and Inline SVG but according to this new email from Steve we received, all this stuff is coming.
The Nintendo geek in me can’t help but be excited with stuff like this. I mean, the iPad running a SNES emulator and controlled via a Wiimote?
Just check out the video after the break and if you haven’t, you should consider a jailbreak now.
There’s no doubt that the ABC Player application for the iPad is one of the best pieces of software on the App Store right now: you can have hundreds of episodes of popular shows streamed to your iPad for free, with some advertising here and there and an overall good looking app. It works over 3G and Wifi, all the Lost seasons and episodes are in there: basically, it’s awesome. And it turns out that ABC itself is pretty happy with the results as well.
Apple has just released a new beta of iPhone OS 4.0, and it’s available at developer.apple.com.
You can leave this page open and keep refreshing, as we’ll be updating it with all the details about this release. If you spot something new or bugs, feel free to share in the comments below.
Seriously, I had to close the Youtube page after the 5th time to stop laughing. A masterpiece.
[via EdibleApple]
Remember Byline? It was one of the first RSS readers for iPhone and it’s become a major hit in the App Store, granting developer Milo Bird a well deserved spot amongst the most successful devs of iPhone apps. But Byline is ready to go under a major update, labelled 3.0. which we’ve been able to test in its almost-final version.
Byline 3.0 will feature important UI changes and improvements, revamped sharing capabilities (like Twitter and Instapaper), extended support for gesture navigation and a lot of other fixes. I have to say that it really feels like a brand new app and, most of all, the new engine is fast. If you turn caching off, I’d say is as fast as Reeder’s one - but unlike Silvio Rizzi’s app it’s got a native interface which I’m sure will convince many users to try it out again.
Also, Byline 3.0 will be available for free for previous customers, and should be available in the App Store very soon. We’ve managed to take some screenshots of the current build. you can take a look after the break.
We can’t wait for Byline 3.0.
There’s been a lot of talking about Apple allowing widget-like applications for the iPad. Pretty much like Dashboard for Mac OS X, since the iPad was announced back in January developers wondered if it might be possible to develop and release simple widget apps and run them side-by-side with “normal” apps - again, just like you can do on the Mac.
Of course Apple banned this kind of apps, and devs were forced to drop their projects or find alternative solutions to make them available. But now the iPad is jailbroken, and what better service than Cydia to release stuff rejected by Apple?
So here comes Dashboard, a pixel-perfect rewrite of Dashboard.app for Mac, running on the iPad. You can install widgets through the built in browser (which opens the Apple.com page for widgets), delete them and, of course, use them. Too bad you can’t rearrange them with your fingers, but I bet an update is coming in a few days to fix this problem.
While it’s impressive, I don’t know if this Dashboard can be any useful. It takes a few seconds to show up, and you can’t look at a normal app, say Safari, and a widget at the same time, because the background is black and you can only see widgets on screen. So it’s a great programming achievement, but it needs a lot of work to be better integrated with the iPad environment. Let’s say it’s promising.
Check out the screenshots after the break.
Red Sweater has finally released the long awaited 3.0 update for its award winning blog application for Mac OS X MarsEdit, which adds a lot of features and improvement to an already excellent app to blog directly from your Mac desktop.
The new features include a new syntax highlighter for HTML editing, a media browser with support for iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom, support for WordPress’ pages and custom fields and a full featured WYSIWYG editor. You can read the 3.0 release notes here.
Mars Edit 3.0 requires Mac OS X 10.6 and it’s available at $39.95. A 30 day free trial is available as well. Check out the screenshots after the break, and go download the app. A great update.
