Posts tagged with "iPad"

The Washington Post App for iPad Now Available, Free Access Until February 2011

An official Washington Post app for iPad was approved earlier today, and it’s available for free in the App Store here. What’s so interesting about it? Just like the official New York Times app, full access is granted until February 2011 (NYT app grants fere full access until January 2011) for free. No need to submit payment information, but an existing washingtonpost.com account is already required.

You can also create an account in-app. After February 2011, the service will go paid (with a so-called “paywall”) and you’ll need to have a subscription to enjoy the contents of The Washington Post on the iPad. Read more

“There’s Always Ubuntu”→

“There’s Always Ubuntu”

Love them or hate them, this is something that Apple—more than any other company—fundamentally gets. They want a computing experience more like the appliance experience. If this vision “wins” that doesn’t mean there’s no place for geeks; there’s still a need for programmers and web developers and sysadmins and UI designers. But the computers that most of the public increasingly interfaces with will be computers that are not designed to be directly programmable.

And I’m pretty sure this vision will win. For the vast majority of users the model of the app console—think game console, but not just for games—is simply better. The iPad is an app console, and the Macs of next year will be, too. And the PCs of the year after that.

And just like with game consoles, geeks will always be able to tinker.

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You Too Can Have An iPad Origami

You know I’m not a case guy. I’m not a fan of sleeves either. Then I find most stands cheap and bulky. I like my iPad naked, all glass and aluminum black. It’s hard to come up with an accessory elegant enough to match Ive’s design skills. Some accessory makers, though, can get things quite right. Incase surely does.

Their latest product looks like a rather anonymous sleeve, until you put the iPad out and start folding the sleeve. Just like the old paper-folding art this thing’s name is inspired to, you can turn the Incase Origami Sleeve into a completely different thing with a few folds. You can turn it into a stand.

At $35 it ain’t exactly cheap – but it’s cool, right? You too can be an origami Apple geek now. [CrunchGear via Incase]

Which iPad Should I Get?→

Which iPad Should I Get?

As an iPad owner, general Apple-advocate and tech geek, I’ve been getting asked this question every few weeks since the iPad came out. The frequency is accelerating with the holidays drawing near, so I’m going to reproduce some of the analysis here that I’ve been sharing via email with friends and family.

Really good points in there. If you’re looking to buy an iPad this holiday season and you’re still on the edge for that 3G unit that cost a little more, but you happen you have a jailbroken iPhone – I can’t recommend MyWi enough. I basically have a 3G iPad thanks to that Cydia app.

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iPads Become Light Source for Professional Photoshoot

We’ve heard a lot of stories about the iPad being used in many original and innovative ways. So many of them, actually, that it’s not easy to remember all the photos, videos and stories detailing the iPad as a revolutionary device used for something else than it was originally meant to – a portable computer.

Today we take the iPad-related stories a step further with this video where photographer and filmmaker Jesse Rosten (hey, he’s the same guy behind iPad + Velcro, the video that even got featured by Apple) used an array of 9 iPads as a light source for a model photoshoot. With a light background at full brightness, the iPads managed to generate enough light to let Jesse shoot the great pictures you can see in the video below. Read more

Quake 3 Arena Coming To Jailbroken iPads Today

If you have a jailbroken iPad and happen to like first-person shooters, you must be happy to know that Quake 3 Arena is coming to the tablet in a glorious full-resolution version with high-res textures and on-screen controls.

Based on the original id Software game and the iPhone port released by Seth Kingsley in 2008, Quake 3 Arena for iPad has gone under a complete makeover thanks to Alexander Pick’s efforts, who squashed lots of bugs and turned the game in a full tablet-enjoyable experience. It can even run on non-jailbroken devices using a developer certificate and on a jailbroken iPad running iOS 4.2, with installation happening via manual APT, I guess.

The game can be played offline and online, levels can be added via iTunes file sharing and you can also drop high resolution texture files into it. We can’t wait. Additional info available on Paduser. [9to5 via Giz]

Why Developers Create Apps for iOS→

Why Developers Create Apps for iOS

Marco Arment:

The problem is that hardware manufacturers and tech journalists assume that the hardware just needs to exist, and developers will flock to it because it’s possible to write software for it. But that’s not why we’re making iPhone and iPad software, yet those are the basis for the theory.

We’re making iPhone software primarily for three reasons:

Dogfooding: We use iPhones ourselves.
Installed base: A ton of other people already have iPhones.
Profitability: There’s potentially a lot of money in iPhone apps.

With this in mind, think about the installed based of Macs.

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iPad Guesswork One Year Later→

iPad Guesswork One Year Later

The answer is just the same for the iPad. What is it for? Well, I use mine to browse the Internet, cook in the kitchen, play games, manage my finances, earn a living, entertain the children, look at photos and so on. In other words, it’s a computer and that’s how I use it. The novelty of its appearance, functioning and so on seems to require re-categorization or a some highly-specialized usage scenario. Of course in many ways my iPad is significancy different than my MacBook Pro, but in others it’s quite the same.

Here’s what I’m going to do this weekend: find old articles about “Apple’s tablet” speculations and see how many got it right.

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Simplepedia Is A Minimal Wikipedia Reader For Your iPad

I don’t know how I missed this in June. Maybe I was too busy shooting pictures with my iPhone 4. Remember when we first saw the Retina Display? Yeah, good times.

Simplepedia, developed by the same guy behind PDFMate, is a minimal and, well, simple Wikipedia reader for iPad. It comes with a standalone iPhone version, too, but I haven’t tried that one. On the iPad, the app can do two things: search for Wikipedia articles and save them for offline reading. That’s really it, folks. Read more