Tag: ipad

The latest version of the iBooks Author Application has been released by Apple, Inc.   iBooks Author is Apple’s home grown application which allows users to produce and publish text books for the iPad and to sell them in the iTunes Book Store.  Version 1.1 of the iBooks Author application includes The iBooks Author Application has been enhanced to take advantage of the Retina Display on the New iPad Includes a number of performance and stability improvements You can download the…

The latest iPad television spot is now available online.  The ad for the latest rendition of the iPad touts the new display and the colors and density of the display.  While the TV spot lacks any real details of the machine, it does highlight the capabilities of the machine, it is more meant to entice people to go look at the machine, following the card sent out to the press in showing “something to See and to Touch”. The Apple…

Apple Inc. has released the latest version of their iPhone Operating System iOS version 5.1.  The latest release of iOS includes the following fixes and enhancements: Japanese language support for Siri (availability may be limited during initial rollout) Photos can now be deleted from Photo Stream Camera shortcut now always visible on Lock Screen for iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch (4th generation) Camera face detection now highlights all detected faces Redesigned Camera app for iPad Genius…

Tim Cook took the stage today in San Francisco and quickly worked through a number of stats, finally introducing Japanese Siri and then the new upgraded Apple TV.  However, that was not the highlight.  The iPad 3 came up on the screen, sleeker, and smoother, with Retina Display and Quad Core Graphics with the Apple 5X CPU.   The machine comes with a 5 megapixel camera and has 1080P Video Recording.   It has standard voice dictation and is  4G LTE next…

Spectre Media announced that they will be introducing a new iOS based Starship Troopers game, done in cooperation with the movie house, Sony Pictures.   The game will be announced at the Game Developers Conderence going on this week in San Francisco, Ca.   The game will be released sometime later this summer with the timing of the release coinciding with the release of the new Starship Troopers movie also due out this year. This will be the dirst time the Starship…

In 2011, Apple opened a temporary Apple Store at the South By Southwest Interacive Festival, a gathering of social media, music and other media types.   The iPad 2 was released on March 2nd just as the festival was beginning and Apple made out handily.  However, Apple is confirming  that there will be  no such temporary store at this years SXSW event. This year’s South By Southwest Interactive Festival is due to start on March 9th and go until March 18th. …

Apple has finally announced that a user in China was the winner of the Apple Inc. sponsored prize for downloading the 25 billionth iTunes App.  The user, one Chunli Fu of Qungdao, China downloaded the free Disney app, “Where’s My Water” to push the download mark over the 25 billion mark.  He will receive $10,000 USD in the iTunes App Store int he form of a gift card. Currently, there are more than 550,000 apps in the iTunes App Store…

More than 25 Billion Apps and counting have been downloaded from the Apple App Store.  Apple held a contest for the mark, giving the person who downloaded the 25 Billionth app a $10,000 USD gift card to the App Store, however, who that lucky person was still has yet to have been announced.  This mark was reached in just over 3.5 years with the current pace of downloads reaching a staggering 15 million apps per year.  There are currently 550,000…

Invitations for the next release of the iPad went out to the media today, with Apple proclaiming “We have something you really have to see. And touch.” The event for the iPad 3 release is scheduled to take place on March 7, 2012 at 10:00am PST at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. The event has been talked about greatly throughout the media rumor circles for the past several weeks with this event being the worst kept secret of…

Program: Pinball Arcade Version: 1.0.8 Size: 17.5 MB Language: English Seller: FarSight Studios URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pinball-arcade-free/id497189134?mt=8 After months of being hyped by many in the media, the biggest bust of the year must be Pinball Arcade by Farsight Studios.  I was totally looking forward to playing some of the pinball games from over the years that have long left arcades everywhere for pinball graveyards. However, one should have been forewarned by the name of the publisher, which leads right into the…

  Egan Ford, creator and curator of the Apple ][ Game Server and the Apple ][  Disk Server has created mobile versions of the website.  This allows those users with iPhones to use the iOS based device to load their Apple ][ computer with games or disks directly from the Internet. The mobile version of the Apple ][ Game Server is at: http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver/mobile.html The Apple ][ Disk Server mobile version  is currently being built and will be available soon. now…

While there are many agencies and groups which take a hard line against any kind of piracy, including the SBA, RIAA, amond others, there seems to be one company now that actually thinks it is a good thing to some extent. Rovio, the maker of the popular game Angry Birds seems to be taking a page from the MS-Dos 1.0 book and saying that the piracy is actually growing their business more than it is hurting it.  According to Rovio…

Apple has updated iBooks Author, updating the End User License Agreement, getting even more specific about what can or cannot be sold when producing content with the application.  In the original EULA, Apple had said that “If you charge a fee for any book or other work you generate using this software (a ‘Work’), you may only sell or distribute such Work through Apple (e.g., through the iBookstore) and such distribution will be subject to a separate agreement with Apple.”…

JotStudio is an application specifically made to the allow precision drawing using Jot by Adonit.  The application lets you take note and draw in the application, arranging photos and other media around the drawing.  While you can draw badly by hand, having a Jot or JotPro stylus is really your best bet. While initial reviews of the App have been less than stellar, it is still worth the look.  Adonit has some issues still to deal with in the App…

A report on the Boy Genius Reports website this morning is showing photos of a purported screenshot from code showing Apple’s next generation iPad.   According to the report, the iPad 3 will contain Apple’s A6 Chip and will also be quad core.   The new iPad will also be compatible with GSM, CDMA, and LTE networks of all major phone carriers.   This would likely include the latest 4G networks as well. Source: BGR

Mac お宝(otakara) is now saying that there are two events scheduled by Apple.  The first event which they were saying was for Apple’s iPad 3 announcement apparently has been pushed back to March.  The first event supposedly in February is yet unknown.  Mac お宝 is saying that the event would be “a Strange Event”.   Speculation by some of the posters on the site and others says that the February event might be scheduled to coincide with Steve Jobs birthday which…

Apple lost a decision last month in Shenzhen Province Court regarding the iPad naming rights in mainland China.  The original filer of the name, Proview, apparently still owns the legal rights to the name iPad, in spite of their Taiwan subsidiary having sold the name to a British company, IP Applications.  Apple purchased the name from IP Applications in 2010, however, according to Proview, they never transferred the name or the rights to the name. Apple lost a judgement in…

The High Definition version of the popular game Angry Birds has been updated.  Version 2.0.2 includes some minor improvements in the performance of the program.   This version was produced specifically for the iPad and now comes in English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese , and Spanish. Angry Birds HD is a $4.99 download from the Apple iTunes Store and requires at lead iOS version 3.2.  The game can be can be found at: http://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/angry-birds-hd/id364234221?l=en&mt=8  

Byte Squared has updated  their Office2 suite to version 5.0.2.  The Office2 suite allows users to create and edit Word, Excel and Powerpoint files on their iPhone or iPad.  The $#5.99 App is a must for users who just cannot live without their Office suite.   Some of the changes in the latest version of Office2 Suite include: ☆ Document saving now preserves 100% existing content fidelity ☆ New page layout based document editor interface option ☆ Ruler bar with ability…

AT&T announced that they are upgrading their data plans for smartphone and tablet customers.  The new plans for Smartphones are as follows: AT&T Data Plus 300MB: $20 for 300MB AT&T Data Pro 3GB: $30 for 3GB AT&T Data Pro 5GB: $50 for 5GB, with mobile hotspot / tethering For Tablet users, the available plans are: Keep their existing plan of 250mb for $14.99 a month AT&T DataConnect 3GB: $30 for 3GB AT&T DataConnect 5GB: $50 for 5GB While these are…