Pulse is a promising news reading app for the iPad which we’ve reviewed a few weeks ago. It’s developed by two college students, and it’s become a major hit in the App Store selling more than 35.000 copies. And when Steve Jobs mentions you in a WWDC keynote, you know you must have done something good with your app.
Pulse Removed from the App Store, NYT and Boston.com Lawyers Rejoice
Adobe Teams Up with Greystripe to Deliver Flash Ads as HTML5
Adobe has decided that delivering HTML5 ads to mobile devices might be a good business, after all. That’s why they’ve teamed up with Greystripe, which is developing an interesting solution to transcode Flash to HTML5 on the fly for iOS, Android and “mobile web”.
Check out the press release after the break. [via Engadget]
A First Overview and Roundup of Safari Extensions
One of the most important features of Safari 5 is support for extensions: it’s what Safari users had been wanting for a very long time, and it’s a big deal. It’s a big deal for users who want to customize their browser the way they want, it’s a huge deal for developers who may start to charge for full-featured extensions in the future. Just think about Twitter clients or RSS apps living inside the browser.
Safari 5 has been available for 12 hours now, and some developers have already released their first extensions. Obviously these extensions are far from being “complete” and “full-featured”, but still it’s worth taking a look at them, as they’re giving us a glimpse at what devs might offer in a few weeks.
Apple Posts WWDC Keynote Full Video Online
Apple has published the full video of yesterday’s keynote here. This is the Quicktime version that will stream the movie to your computer, we’re still waiting for the high resolution version to become available through Apple Keynotes on iTunes.
Thoughts on Safari 5
Apple has rolled out Safari 5 and I have to say, it feels faster indeed. A lot of work has been put into making Javascript faster, and you can see the difference from Safari 4. Loading a rich web application such as Zootool takes a few seconds less than before, which is a great thing.
I haven’t noticed that 3% difference from Google Chrome, but thing is - Safari feels snappier overall, it’s not just about the Javascript engine. And it’s native. Tabs behave just like you’re used to, close buttons are there in the right place, inline dictionary is what is meant to be. If Chrome could have convinced many users like me to switch because of extensions (I did), I am proud to come back to Safari now that it’s got extensions as well. And they’re based on web standards, which once again proves how much Apple cares about promoting them, and not just about building a “walled garden”.
iTunes 9.2 Beta, iOS GM Seed, Xcode 3.2.3 Available to Developers
Apple has updated the online developer portal and released a beta of iTunes 9.2 (which we spotted on Apple.com earlier today) and iOS GM Seed.
New features of iTunes 9.2 include support for iPhone 4 sync, iBooks 1.1 support (iPhone and PDFs), possibility to organize icons in folders using iTunes, faster backups and other performance improvements. Seems like a good update.
Available at developer.apple.com.
Microsoft Webcam Works with iPad
Sweet mother of Ballmer, what do we have here? Someone has mated a Microsoft webcam to an iPad? But not just any someone – Engadget reports that PhotoFast took a Microsoft LifeCam and made the perfect match ever. For those with the webcam blues, your iPad can have one too. Photo after the break.
iPhone 4 Pixel Density
Engadget has posted another hands-on video of the iPhone 4, this time trying to show the enhanced pixel density of the new device. While they say that you have to try it first-hand to really see the difference, the video embedded after the break gives you a glimpse at the incredibly improved quality of 4’s display. Read more
Cisco Licensing “iOS” Trademark to Apple
As Steve Jobs announced that “iPhone OS” was being renamed “iOS”, a lot of you wondered how exactly was Apple thinking of doing it considering that Cisco retained the name “IOS” for many years. Simple: they found an agreement and went for it. Cisco is licensing the “iOS” name to Apple, and that’s it.
On other hand, Apple has acquired the name “FaceTime” from a less known company which is now forced to change its name.
Ah, power of Cupertino lawyers.