A supercharged clipboard manager for Apple devices with on-device intelligence, iCloud sync, and text expansion.
The Boy Genius Report just got a pretty interesting scoop concerning iTunes cloud services. Laid out:
1.) Streaming music and movies from Apple’s servers to your computers, devices, etc.
2.) Streaming music and movies from your home computers to your other computers, remote devices, etc.
3.) Wireless iTunes syncing with devices
I’m very excited for all three. I was trying to pick one, but all three are just too awesome.
Pulse is an innovative and great looking visual news reader for iPad, which has quickly become one of the most popular apps in the App Store - even after Steve Jobs praised it and the New York Times managed to force Apple to temporarily remove it.
The Alphonso Labs developers decided they wanted to do things bigger though, so they started working on an iPhone version of Pulse - Pulse Mini.
So what exactly is Firefox Home? It’s your Firefox history, bookmarks, and open tabs right on your iPhone. So between sessions and saved goodies on your Mac and Windows versions of Firefox, you can take it with you via Mozilla’s newest iPhone app. Pretty cool huh? But keep in mind this isn’t a true sync: things only get pushed one way to the iPhone. Still, it’s pretty nifty if you want to take everything with you. Oh, and it was just submitted to be approved or denied by the overlords at Apple headquarters.
So what do you do when you can’t hold a device as advertised? Like any good American, we sue. Three class-action complaints were filed in the states of California, Maryland, and Texas; AppleInsider reports, “Apple has been accused of violation of the Federal Communications Act, three counts of products liability related to negligence, defect in design and breach of implied warranty, intentional and negligent misrepresentation, fraud by concealment, unfair business practices and more.”
Steve Jobs is pretty awesome when it comes to handling customer emails. I admit I might be more prone to send something long winded and terse back to my most brash adversaries, but Jobs is always as cool as a cucumber. Fortunately it’s not a journalist this time, but instead some dude getting worked up over the iPhone 4’s antenna issues.
But this dude had a youtube video which an Apple engineer saw. So the engineer contacted ‘Tom’ (as Boy Genius names him -later called out as Jason Buford), and as with everyone else, Tom was told the antenna problem was a non-issue. The most arrogant trollish rage ensues in the emails, but Steve Jobs himself eventually intervenes with a confident nerve and appropriate demeanor.
Cisco might have their Cius (a new fangled Android tablet that docks into - wait for it - a corded telephone hub), but such vaporware might not be able to make a dent once the iPad takes hold in corporate America. David Hornik of August Capital writes, “Where once they carried Palm Pilots, now they hold an iPad under their arm. iPad is the new cool toy.”
9 to 5 Mac comments,
For business users, at least, the iPad is a more discreet computing device than a laptop, but offer all the bits and pieces that may be required: calendar? Got it. Email? Right here. Browsing? Yep. Output presentations to Keynote to a video projector using the iPad? Sure can. Play Civilization for hours while the rest of them speak the usual garbage? Of course. It just works.
Business users admit it’s difficult to type on the iPad, but they could always use an application like SoundPaper to supplement text with audio from their meetings. But let’s hear it from you guys: are any of you corporate go-getters replacing your laptops with iPads? Let us know in the comments.
[via 9 to 5 Mac]
I reviewed Snowtape for iPhone back in March, and since then I kept the app on my iPhone, until iOS 4 came out a few weeks ago. Why? Because when I installed the new OS and tried Pandora Radio, I couldn’t go back to listen to music in streaming without multitasking support. So I deleted it and thought “Well, let’s wait for an update”.
Lucky me, and update was already awaiting for Apple’s approval in the App Store. The new version of Snowtape comes with iOS 4 multitasking support: you can now listen to music when the app is paused (like Pandora) and go back to where you left off thanks to fast app switching. It works great, and it’s still available at $1.99 here.
Remember the original iPad arcade cabinet we talked about some weeks ago? Yes, the one made of cardboard. This time there’s a video of another working unit, which looks more “professional” than the other one.
Someone, please make this happen at a consumer level. It’s great.
I have to say, I love these parodies.
