Every Apple Store is an event. People waiting in queue for the whole night, discussing the latest Mac tips or Apple rumors together, Apple employees bringing them coffee and water to help them having a great experience. Even in queue. I would say, that is magical.
The good f0lks over at Bloc d’Apple en Català shot a great video of the latest Apple Store opening: La Maquinista in Barcelona, Spain.
Thanks everyone who entered our Terminology for iPhone and iPad giveaway. We also want to thank the Agile Tortoise developers for the promo codes they offered to MacStories readers. Read more
Homescreen.me is an invite-only great new service launched by the iXyr guys (the same folks behind Smoking Apples and Beautiful Pixels) which allows you to share your iOS homescreen.
Just take a screenshot, upload it (you can upload both via browser and email) and the service will automatically create a beautiful device-specific template. Take a look at my profile to get the hang of it. Read more
Just in case you were thinking about ditching your iPhone 4 for a brand new HTC with a physical keyboard and Android - hold on! You can get a sliding QWERTY thing on your magical iPhone 4, too.
I also wonder whether you could hold this whole thing wrong or not. Does it have worse reception if you lay your legs on it? Can you put another iPhone on it? That would be meta.
The only truth is you can’t buy this. But you can make it. Just ask Jony for the glass.
We reported many times in the past that businesses are jumping on the iPad. If you remember, Mercedes even decided to start using the iPad as a sales tool. Not to mention Forrester saying that iOS devices are ready for enterprise and Apple deploying even more Enterprise features in iOS 4.0 such as wireless app distribution (which I tested a few days ago, really works great) and better Entourage support.
Bohemian Coding is well known for pushing beautiful pixels and releasing great software, both for Mac and iOS. Fontcase is one of the best font management tools for the desktop. Review app, which Raj reviewed here, is turning out to be one of the most useful for designers and developers. Sketchpad was one of the first vector drawing apps to come out on the iPad months ago, and it’s still doing great in the charts. Pieter Omvlee, Bohemian Coding designer and dev, knows how to make great apps. Read more
Not too many people have gone hands-on with the new iPods, but I think I can make a safe bet as to whether this year’s stocking stuffer is going to be the iPod nano or the iPod touch.
People just can’t stop stuffing the iPhone 4 inside SLR cameras, can they? I don’t know if these hacks actually work or are mere geek material for posts, still I can’t help but think that they’re incredibly cool.
And the latest one we’re covering here could be the best we’ve ever found: someone really did create an iPhone 4 case out of a SLR Canon. They took out its internal parts, they re-assembled everything and stuffed the iPhone 4 inside. Could an iOS-like interface be the future of SLR cameras? I don’t know, but man - it’s great.
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