The Winter Festival Of Artisanal Software
I told haters to shut up two months ago.
The MobileMe Gallery app (which I previously covered back in February here) allows you to check on your MobileMe photo galleries using a beautiful user interface with a couple of neat features up its sleeve. Apple just updated the app to include a native iPad version (the app is now universal, and of course free), full iOS 4 fast app switching support, Retina Display graphics.
You can also view your friends’ galleries without the need of having a MobileMe account, which is pretty cool. The app is free and available here, check out the screenshots below. Read more
Our good friend Arron Hirst, who regularly blogs over at RazorianFly, has been working on something very cool recently. If you follow the guy (you should), then you know that he released an interesting set of iPhone wallpapers in the past, known by the absurdly awesome names of Zumoki, Uberkis, Folzi and Klarion. Now, those wallpapers have been turned into adhesive skins for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad which you can check out over at Hirst’s new project, iSkinza. Read more
Since nobody seems to care about the lack of a decent blogging app for iPad, I decided to come out with my own post about it. I’ve been thinking about this for months now (since April, the day after I got my iPad), and while I thought I could maybe find the time to look for an iOS developer and start my own “team of two” to develop the app, I just don’t want to wait anymore. So developers, here’s what I - and hundreds of other bloggers using an iPad - need. Read more
Following yesterday’s post about the must-have Mac apps I install every time I have to play with a new installation of OS X, I thought it would be interesting to talk about my iPad setup as well.
Of course the iPad is a different machine from MacBooks: not just because it’s an entirely new kind of computing machine, the concept of “OS installation” itself is radically different. On OS X, installation is a clunky process that can take up to several minutes at best; as for the transition from an OS to another, OS X doesn’t come with the simple Backup / Restore system iOS has. Sure you have Time Machine and Migration Assistant, but those tools aren’t as consumer-friendly as iOS and iTunes.
Speaking of which, that’s exactly what makes iOS different: iOS devices live inside iTunes. iTunes handles the updates, backups, restores, fresh installations and applications. For these reasons, installing apps on an iPad running a fresh new OS is a different story then OS X. Most users have never messed with restore and betas, so they never really had to deal with “starting anew all over again”. I did, and here are the apps I install every single time my iPad needs to be synchronized for the first time. My must-haves. Read more
I think many of you have been looking for a simple yet powerful app for iPad to read PDF documents. I’m not talking about super-featured apps such as GoodReader or FastPDF: something simple, elegant and that does just one thing - read PDF files. Read more
So you thought Hexxeh was joking about Chromium OS running on the iPad. Some of you even commented on his blog pointing out the usual story of EXIF data and Photoshop. Well guess what, he wasn’t joking. Chromium OS on the iPad seems to be real, and this time we have a video to see in action.
The video is pretty short and doesn’t show much, but from what we can see the build looks a little bit laggy - but working. Touch sensitivity is (kinda) working, and he even tries to install a Spotify extension in the browser. Check it out below, and hit Hexxeh’s original post (continually updating) here. Read more
That’s bad news for developers who are running betas, but it makes sense for Apple to ship a feature when everyone can access it. I guess the Apple TV will get 4.2 in November as well, together with all the other iOS devices.
