SmartPhoneMedic has posted a video on Youtube showing the iPhone 4G LCD screen and metal case you’ve probably already seen in some bar in California. Well, at this point I wouldn’t doubt that the final model will look something like this - rounded corners are gone, metal plate and all. We’ll find out in a month.
Check out the video after the break.
If you live in Germany or followed the news yesterday, you may have noticed that the iPad in Germany comes at €15 more than Italy and France, where it’s priced at €499 for the 16GB Wifi model. If you want to purchase the same iPad in Germany, you’ll have to pay €514.
Why? Because of a new tax Germany has put on computers. But what’s interesting is that Steve Jobs has a response for that. German website Fscklog reports on an email from Steve to a German Apple fan who emailed el Jobso asking about this price thing. His response?
“Blame your government.
Germany just added a new copyright levy for computers.”
So yeah, blame your government. But don’t ask Steve, he’s kinda busy making some Gianduia now.
Servers are kind of like warehouses. It’s where you temporarily store product for later use. Simple concept right? With our warehouse metaphor intact, we have two products in the Mac world that want your undivided attention. First we have Transmit 4, an incredibly sexy can-do-it-all FTP client by Panic which in everyone’s eyes, is the current pinnacle of perfection. Depicted by a storage truck, Transmit promises to deliver your data.
But when a truck backs into the warehouse, its work is done. For it is the forklift that loads and unloads the truck’s contents. Forklift, currently in it’s first public beta as version 2.0, makes a strong statement. BinaryNights promises that no matter how strong the competition, they’ll always have the fastest speeds. So does that hold true? And how do Forklift’s features compare to Transmit’s? And ultimately, will this little workhorse outdo the truck that has captured the Mac world? Hold on to your trucker caps people - this is going to be fun.
Remember Flash? Yeah, that weird guy Steve Jobs is so mad at, the little kid from Adobe that has taken over the web in the past years and that now is in serious trouble. Well, it seems like Steve wants to beat the guy using chocolate, some Gianduia to be exact.
Twitter clients are like word processors and spreadsheets in the ’90s: they’re everywhere, on every device for every operating system. Whether you want to access your Twitter stream, check upon your friends’ location or just tweet the song you’re listening to - you can. If the App Store’s unofficial motto is “there’s an app for that”, Twitter could seriously use a “there’s a client for that” pitch someday.
And it’s not like developers haven’t spotted the gold mine in there: I know some guys who made serious money out of it and hell, Twitter has even acquired Tweetie from Atebits to make sure to deliver the best Twitter experience on the iPhone. You know, Loren’s app is simply the best client around and people were confused of going into the App Store, search for Twitter and download Echofon in exchange. It wasn’t exactly the best scenario for Twitter, and so instead of go developing their own software, they bought the king. As you can guess, this move made many 3rd party developers worried that they wouldn’t be able to keep up with the platform anymore: really, developing and selling a client for Twitter when it’s Twitter itself that has the best app around, renamed “Twitter for iPhone”, and gives it away for free in the App Store? It’s been difficult for many devs to accept the news and keep working on their stuff, and I’m not blaming them. But you know, I think that sometimes it’s all about offering different point of views: having the official client as competitor doesn’t necessarily mean you have to give up.
Let’s talk about the iPad now. What about Twitter clients on the iPad? There aren’t too many of them, and most of them are crap sold at $2.99. Fortunately, the Iconfactory has shown us once again what being great developers mean, and they released Twitterrific for iPad on day one and, as you may have read, it’s one of the best Twitter apps for iPad around. Not because it’s just better than the others (of course it is) but because it’s a really great piece of software on its own, period. There’s another developer though, who firmly believed in his creation and released a client on day one: Andrew Stone, the mind behind Twittelator. Twittelator for iPad (previously known as Twittelator Pad) was highly criticized for its “original” user interface and design choices, but Andrew kept working hard on the app, refined the experience and I now I have to say, Twittelator for iPad really is one of the best Twitter apps for iPad.
The best one, maybe? Keep on reading to find out.
Oh boy. These are always the rumors that set me off. Forget my rant against Flash, the issue about the Verizon iPhone is always a bothersome one. And it’s not because I care what networks the iPhone is on (I would prefer it was everywhere), but because people think the coming of the iPhone to Verizon is going to usher in a golden era of network usability - to which I disagree (if all the AT&T users jumped on Verizon, Verizon’s not going to fare any better). But that’s for another post. For now, we’ve got rumors. And those of you on Verizon who can take advantage of upgrades and all that fancy jazz, you might be happy to hear that the iPhone might be finally coming to Verizon in CDMA (and maybe) LTE fashion this summer. Maybe. Kinda.
Of all the utilities I have installed on my iPhone, one of the most used is iCurrency Pad, which I reviewed some months ago here. It’s a great looking converter app that helps me in converting USD to Euros and vice versa, with exchange rates updated in real time and nice graphs that give me a brief overview of what’s changed between the two currencies over time.The app is useful and beautiful, but it only converts, you know, money and since I bought my iPad I began looking for some new app that would allow me to convert multiple measures in a single interface, possibly as great looking as iCurrency’s one.
Fortunately, I found the perfect app for me: GlobeConvert Pro.
Anthony Soohoo of CBS.com has confirmed that the company will start serving iPad-compatible HTML5 video streaming through their official website by this fall. This is great news, and CBS is clearly seeing the iPad as the platform to invest on, together with other networks such as the ABC (which has developed a native app for it) or the CW network, which has an iPad ready website.
“It’s still early days, but Soohoo expects CBS to deploy more and more video that is iPad-ready, until it reaches content parity with what’s available on the website through a PC.
As for why CBS decided to go with a web video strategy, rather than an app strategy, Soohoo said, “When we were looking at the iPad as a separate device, it had a lot more similarities to a PC in our mind… So for us, we wanted to make sure that video was available through HTML5 on the iPad first.”
We posted a screenshot a few hours ago, and now Winterboard for iPad is finally available in Cydia.
All you have to do is search for Winterboard in Cydia, install it and reboot the device. If you experience weird problems with the springboard looking like a huge iPod Touch, just respring using SBSettings. There aren’t iPad-specific themes available yet, but you can play with the existing ones and see which ones play fine with the iPad UI. Of course, expect some native iPad Winterboard themes coming soon in Cydia.
Check out the screenshots after the break.
