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The New Yorker, an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry published by Condé Nast, was released today for iPad. Read the editors’ note about the app.
What’s cool: A video with Jason Schwartzman (directed by Roman Coppola) demonstrating the app, and the use of the Digital Magazine Solution from Adobe. What’s not cool - $5 an issue; a printed subscription is way cheaper. Demo video after the break. Read more
As John Gruber reminds us, Gourmet is now only an iPad app.
Shenzen is a sub-provincial city in southern China, and it’s the city where Foxconn (the biggest Chinese manufacturer of hardware, the one Apple uses for all its products) has got one of its production bases. According to the latest report by website Shanzai.com (via Softpedia), word on the street is that Apple’s new iPad is basically ready and its design resembles more that of an iPhone 4, rather than the original iPad’s one. Read more
Pompeii is one of the most beautiful and historically rich archeological sites in the world. Scientists and researchers from all around the glober gather in Pompeii every week to study and analyze what that lost population left us. And to collect their notes and sketches they’re using iPads now; Apple thus decided to create a new webpage for scientists working in Pompeii with an iPad. Read more
Admit it, the iPhone in your pocket is like a Swiss Army Knife - it’s easy to carry and has a tool for almost every job; oh yeah, and it makes phone calls too. A ruler isn’t something you need all the time but oh-so-important when you do. So why not have an app that takes precise measurements? That’s where Ruler 2, by Andrew & Alexa, comes into play - its simple, easy to use and precise for not being an physical analog ruler. The UI elements are large, easy to read and retina display ready. The ruler has a great texture and looks very lifelike and the little cog wheels give the slider realistic movements. Read more
Check your iTunes Store updates - iHome+Sleep, “the social alarm clock app from the experts on alarm clocks”, was just updated to 2.0 - a large update and now a universal app. Read more
The iWork apps for iPad (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) were just updated to include support for “export to Office” features: you can now export documents to .xls, .ppt and .doc formats directly from your iPad. Other notable features in version 1.2include the ability to group and ungroup objects and CSV files in Numbers, the ability to copy documents between the app and iDisk or WebDAV server, word count in Pages. “Copy documents to iDisk” doesn’t exactly sound like “full MobileMe integration”, though.
Then there are the bug fixes and improvements. Lots of them, just take a look at the full changelogs below. Read more
This is one of the apps for iPad I was really looking forward to: Writer for iPad, developed by Information Architects. I knew that the guys over at @IA were working on a new iPad app that should “change” the way we write on the tablet, and based on the tweets I read from its beta testers (people like Om Malik and Aza Raskin) I figured Writer was set to be a great app.
It came out last night, and I’m downloading it right now as I’m writing this. Here’s why I’m excited, and why I think Writer could perfectly fit in (and improve) my writing workflow. Read more
The iPad is magical and revolutionary, sure, but it’s missing a few things. Apple seemed to neglect a stocks app, a weather app, and most importantly, a clock app. Luckily, the team at Spoon Juice and SourceBits have teamed up to create one of the best looking clock apps I’ve ever seen. Read more
