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
Has Apple Really Sold 8.25 Million iPads So Far?
Dayta Comes Back With A Rich 2.0 Version
Dayta is a full-featured data tracking application for iPhone that was developed by Sahil Lavingia during the One Week App event, in which he managed to successfully create the app from scratch and submit to Apple’s approval. We covered the app here. Read more
MarkdownMail 2.0: iPad Version, Posterous and Tumblr Support, Drafts
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
An Impressive iPhone Newspaper Ad [Video]
A few agencies get mobile advertising just right, and a very few companies seem to understand that you need a good iPhone app to let people engage with your product. Most companies think that pushing a web application wrapped in an iPhone app out in the App Store is enough; Belgium-based insurance company AXA is different.
Not only AXA was the first insurance company to deploy a good iPhone application, now they also realized an impressive interactive ad that requires users to point the iPhone over a blank spot on a newspaper and watch the magic happen. Seriously, just take a look at the video below. It may be a gimmick and it may not be so informative, but it catches your attention; it kind of forces you to stare at that video for a minute.
Sintek Denies iMac Touch Rumors
A few days ago tech news website Digitimes reported that, according to their sources, Sintek Productions had already sent Apple some sample of a 20-inch capacitive touch screen to use in a future iteration of the iMac. Digitimes claimed:
Sintek Photronics has reportedly sent samples of projected capacitive touch panels to Apple to be incorporated in the latest iMac all-in-one (AIO) PC, according to industry sources.
The new iMac is rumored to have a good vertical and horizontal viewing angle, and its projected capacitive touch panel will adopt a one-glass solution, which integrates the touch sensor and cover glass, to reduce thickness and weight.
CSS3Machine: Create Amazing CSS On Your iPad
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
“Curated” Doesn’t Necessarily Mean “Secure”→
“Curated” Doesn’t Necessarily Mean “Secure”
With absolutely no slight intended towards Apple or its App Store Reviewers, it is, in practice, impossible for Apple to guarantee that a user’s data won’t get sent from any application that Apple has approved. In fact, the curated nature of the iOS App Store makes Apple’s approach less secure in many ways, as the tools used to detect the breaches in security on Android would not be approved on the iOD App Store currently, so iPhone users don’t have as simple a way to detect if their phones are sharing their personal information.
All YOUR UDID ARE BELONG TO US…
Ahh, the most famous ‘hacker’ meme on the planet. If you don’t know what this refers to, wikipedia can explain it.
SNL iPhone App Parody - Rescue Dogs 911
In case anyone missed the last episode of Saturday Night Live, they showed a ‘Digital Short’ about a man (Andy Samberg) who’s house is being robbed. He grabs his iPhone 4, can’t talk so he uses a 911 app and gets… just watch the video, it’s hilarious! The video is courtesy of Hulu and NBC (US viewing only). “This new phone app has few kinks, but it’s still useful.” Read more