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We have seen examples of art applied to the iPad before: remember the iPad light paintings ? I’m not afraid to call that “art”: with the technology of today and the creativity of real artists, it is possible to come up with modern implementations of old art forms.
Today’s video shows what it’s possible to do with static images on an iPad and a transparent overlay sheet. The result is mind-blowing, especially the last animation. Check out the video below, then share. It’s incredible.
The iPad is a mainstream success that keeps on giving. With almost 10 millions units already sold (or so they say) and more than 30.000 apps in the iPad App Store, people are sure loving the tablet. We also heard it’s pretty successful in enterprise and business: large corporations are already deploying iPads, which makes me wonder about what’s going to happen with the new enterprise features that’ll come with iOS 4.2 in November.
This is an interesting story about an app I found in the App Store two days ago. Just like every night before I go to sleep, I opened AppShopper to take a quick look at new apps that could be worth a mention on MacStories. I’ve been looking for new great iPad apps recently, but universal ones are, of course, more than welcome.
So I stumbled upon this new application with a nice looking icon called “Reader Mode” which, supposedly, enabled you to browse the web and switch to a text-only view (for long articles with the tap of a button). It was universal and priced at $0.99. I bought it. Read more
It’s not too early to start speculating about the next generation iPad which, hey, should be announced in 4 months. According to Mission Repair website, this could be the enclosure of the “iPad 2”, with dual dock connectors:
On the internet, some words are often overlooked. When something becomes “popular” or even a “trend”, the original concept is abused and misinterpreted. It happened with “interface”, it happened with “geek” and “hipster”, it’s happening with “curation”.
Curation: “The act of curating, of organizing and maintaining a collection of artworks or artifacts”
Curation #2: “The manual updating of information in a database”
With Apple’s “curated” App Store platform, geeks and casual users have started using the term “curation” in their parlance to refer to a collection of items regulated by terms and strict rules. With 250.000 applications and stories of rejections, curation suddenly became an internet-wide topic of interest for the everyday iPhone user. This is not what curation is all about. Read more
Some interesting numbers for this slow Tuesday morning: according to the predictions by many analysts contacted by CNN’s Fortune, Apple has sold roughly 8.25 million iPad units so far. Bernstein Research analyst Colin McGranahan told the CNBC yesterday that the iPad has the fastest adoption rate ever, even faster than the DVD player in 1997. Read more
MarkdownMail is an excellent application by Secondgear Software (which we previewed here) that allows you to write in Markdown and export via email in perfectly formatted HTML code. The iPhone version featured a great icon, a polished UI, a basic yet powerful feature set. Read more
Iʼm a web developer. I live and breath HTML and CSS. I have never, ever, seen anything as cool or as useful as CSS3Machine ($6.99 in the App Store). Given that CSS3 is full of these obscure and verbose (especially the webkit specific stuff) keyframes and gradient background stuff that nobody ever has time to memorize, having a tool that does it all for you with a visual interface is a godsend. Read more
