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1) More iPad video torture: 64GB iPad 3G gets microwaved
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/more-ipad-video-torture-64gb-ipad-3g-gets-microwaved/
Filed under: iPad
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It didn't take long for the iPad to get tortured, blended, and now, microwaved.
Yes, in this YouTube video, a brand spankin' new 64GB iPad 3G is lovingly unwrapped, registered, and loaded with data, then popped into the Amir9000 for a journey into flaming oblivion. Just sad. And we're crying about it not just for you broke American friends who haven't gotten one yet, but for many of our international friends, who would pay a king's ransom just for a device like this.
These purveyors of microwave-inflicted iPad violence will apparently be selling the cremains of the iPad on eBay soon, likely in an attempt to recover a bit of their investment.
[via Crunchgear]TUAWMore iPad video torture: 64GB iPad 3G gets microwaved originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog [...]
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2) Humble Indie Bundle offers five great Mac games for pay-what-you-will
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/humble-indie-bundle-offers-five-great-mac-games-for-pay-what-you/
Filed under: Deals
A group of independent game developers have released a "Humble Indie Bundle," and if you're a Mac gamer, it's a treasure trove. For a donation of your choice (the retail value is set at $80, but you can pay what you want, and you can even specify whether your money goes to the game developers or a couple of different charities), you can pick up the indie classics World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru, and Penumbra Overture, all playable on Mac, Linux, and Windows.
Amazing deal, and this is about the most generous and customer-friendly way to do it. Any one of these games is well worth the purchase, and not only are you supporting developers and charities, but you're supporting the decision to release great games like this cross-platform, without DRM, and without a publisher or middleman getting in the way and taking a cut. Excellent deal -- they've already raised over [...]
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3) Steve hates the New York Times iPad app
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/steve-hates-the-new-york-times-ipad-app/
Filed under: iPadThat's the word from Gawker. Ryan Tate is quoting people close to the paper who say the Apple CEO is very unhappy with the free New York Times Editor's Choice app, mostly because it leaves out a lot of the content of the daily Times.
The trimmed-down Times on iPad stems from a reported deal that Amazon made with the paper for the Kindle. Amazon has an exclusive on the full content of the Times for e-readers. On the Kindle, you have to subscribe to read the Times, even though the full content is free and available on the web. The Amazon deal apparently allows competitors to have the full text, but not at a lower price.
Earlier this month, the New York Times raised subscription prices on the Kindle from
US$13.99 to $19.99 a month.
The Times has already said it wants to charge readers for the web version, maybe $20-30 a month. That arrangement left Apple with a pretty [...]
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4) Rumor: Apple's iTravel being previewed in other markets
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/rumor-apples-itravel-being-previewed-in-other-markets/
Filed under: iPhone
Last week, Patently Apple got a hint of a new app/service from Apple called iTravel, an official app that would allow you to make and check-in travel reservations with just your iPhone. Apparently it's farther along than we thought, because a new app co-sponsored by Apple in a Montreal newspaper appears to show off the app itself, including an on-screen seat display while checking in, a "My Flights" section for flight tracking, and a "Find Flight" search button.
[Mmm, egg. Our Canadian cousins have written in to point out that the app featured in the newspaper ad is not a secret Apple travel app, but is in fact the real world, maple-syrup-and-curling enabled Air Canada app. Demerits to PA and 9to5 for misreading and to us for falling for the mixup. -Ed.]
PA suggests this is all being done in time for something called the Travel Distribution Summit on June 17, but [...]
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5) iPhone OS 4 beta 3 adds orientation lock, iPod controls to multitasking bar
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-adds-orientation-lock-ipod-controls-to-multi/
Filed under: iPhone9to5Mac reports that new features have been added to the iPhone's multitasking bar as of the release of iPhone OS 4 beta 3 earlier today. Swiping left from the multitasking bar now accesses a new set of controls. On the far left is an orientation lock, which disables the iPhone's auto-switching between portrait and landscape orientation. This achieves via software the same thing as the iPad's dedicated orientation lock hardware switch. It will make using the iPhone in a reclined position much easier; no longer will the iPhone switch between orientations seemingly at random as you're catching up on e-mails just after waking up. And there was much rejoicing.
To the right of the orientation lock is a set of three controls for play/pause and track skipping in the iPod app, as well as a dedicated icon for the app itself. It seems likely this will replace the current [...]
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6) Report: Apple adjusts sources for iPhone 4G components
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/report-apple-adjusts-sources-for-iphone-4g-components/
Filed under: iPhoneDigiTimes is reporting that a number of manufactures in China will receive orders for components that will eventually become 4G iPhones. Previously, TPK Touch Solution and Wintek have produced touch displays for Apple. Its being said that they'll produce iPhone 4G panels as well, with the addition of Chimei and Innolux.
As usual, Foxconn will assemble the device (they put the 3G iPhone together). In fact, the Chinese language newspaper Economic Daily News reports that Foxconn began receiving 4G components in April. DigiTimes offers the following break down of what will come from where:
Foxconn will handle assembly
TPK, Wintek, Chimei and Innolux will produce touch panels
TXC will handle quartz components
Other components, like the camera module and flexible copper-clad laminate will be handled by Largan Precision and Taiflex Scientific, respectively.
Here's [...]
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7) London hotel offers guests iPad during stay
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/london-hotel-offers-guests-ipad-during-stay/
Filed under: iPad
Select guests at The Berkeley in London will gain an extra amenity in addition to their already posh quarters -- an iPad.
When the iPad comes out in the UK later this month, the hotel will offer the iPad to its guests staying in certain suites during their stay. The iPad will include a variety of games, videos and comics for children as well as several newspapers, ranging from Le Monde to the Wall Street Journal. There will also be suggestions for places to visit, utilizing the iPad's capabilities to help plan an itinerary.
Of course, it's far cheaper to actually buy your own iPad than to stay at this particular hotel in order to use one for free. The suites that qualify for this particular extra start at £1,850 per night plus VAT, which is more than $2800USD (as of this writing)!
[Via Edible Apple]TUAWLondon hotel offers guests iPad during stay originally [...]
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8) FileMaker releases free business productivity kit, 30-day trial
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/filemaker-releases-free-business-productivity-kit-30-day-trial/
Filed under: SoftwareFilemaker Pro 11 was released earlier this year with a slew of new features, including native charting, recurring imports and "snapshot link," which lets you share and edit a found set of records with a remote colleague. Today, Filemaker has upped the ante by releasing a free Business Productivity Kit and 30-day free trial of Filemaker Pro 11.
The kit is a collection of ready-to-use templates for business owners who don't have the time or inclination to build a system for themselves, but want to get right to work. It includes solutions for tracking customer and vendor contacts, sales, product information, invoicing and shipping.
Of course, if you want to get in and fiddle with the solutions, that's no problem. You can enter layout mode, tinker with scripts, etc. So not only are they useful out of the gate, but the templates also offer an opportunity to see how a [...]
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9) Report: Apple could realize $1B of iPad revenue in its 1st quarter
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/report-apple-could-realize-1-billion-of-ipad-revenue-in-its-1s/
Filed under: iPadThere are some smoking hot numbers coming out of Cupertino CA this week and they're all about iPad sales. Just yesterday, Apple announced that they had sold 1 million iPads in the first 28 days of availability. As Business Insider (BI) notes, selling 1 million units of anything in a month is impressive, much less during April in the USA when most people are fretting over taxes.
BI goes on to speculate that Apple could ship 2 million units by the end of the June quarter. Figuring an average retail price of US$650, Apple has already realized $650 million in revenue and, if they do indeed hit the 2 million milestone in time, the iPad could bring in $1 billion in revenue in its first quarter of availability.
As a little perspective, note that Apple as a whole generated $1.8 billion in revenue during the June quarter of 2000. Plus, it took 74 days to sell 1 million iPhones [...]
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10) iPhone OS 4.0 SDK Beta 3 available for download
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-0-sdk-beta-3-available-for-download/
Filed under: DeveloperApple just posted its latest iPhone OS 4.0 beta. As with previous beta releases, this new beta update provides firmware for each of the supported devices (namely the iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 3G, and the 2nd and 3rd generation iPod touch).
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As usual, the details of this release remain behind the NDA wall, so you'll need to visit the developer site and check them out yourself. Apple will be releasing 4.0 into the general iPhone population this summer. An iPad version will debut in the fall.
Apple's servers get slammed whenever a new SDK is released. You may want to wait a few hours if you encounter any problems connecting to the developer site.
UPDATE: Apple has pulled the beta for now. This has happened before and generally indicates some problem [...]
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11) Rudix, a lightweight way to add new Unix utilities
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/rudix-a-lightweight-way-to-add-new-unix-utilities/
Filed under: UNIX / BSDRudix offers a collection of Unix utilities which do not come with OS X by default.
When setting up a new Mac I always install these Unix utilities: wget, ncftp, lynx with SSL support, and the GNU Core Utilities. I compile them manually whenever possible, despite options like MacPorts or Fink. I don't need everything that MacPorts and Fink offer, and installing them always felt like overkill -9 (that's a commandline joke, kids). Generally they try to mimic the commandline syntax of either Linux or FreeBSD, neither of which I have used extensively.
Although Rudix offers a giant 361MB DMG with all of the packages includes, I recommend only installing what you need. You can find each program with its own OS X .pkg installer. These pkgs install to the traditional location of /usr/local/ (something both MacPorts and Fink avoid, a side effect of the volume of [...]
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12) Dropbox app brings iPad support, fantastic external editing
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/dropbox-brings-ipad-support-fantastic-external-editing/
Filed under: iPadThe Dropbox team updated the Dropbox app today with full iPad compatibility and the option to choose which app will open a document. It's a very welcome refresh for an application that many users (myself included) depend on. As usual, the app is free. Let's look at the improvements.
First of all, the cosmetic changes. While in the landscape orientation, Dropbox offers the same split view that Mail and several others use. Pictures and documents look great and legible on the large screen. Across the toolbar are icons to jump to your favorites, adjust your account settings, email a public link to a file (or copy it to the clipboard), mark a file as a favorite and finally choose an app to open a file.
In portrait orientation the sidebar disappears and you're left with a full-screen view of your document and a few icons at the top. It looks super.
I flipped through a [...]
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13) AT&T's international iPad 3G data plans will make you yearn for free Wi-Fi
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/atandts-international-ipad-3g-data-plans-will-make-you-yearn-for/
Filed under: iPadYou've just picked up that nice iPad 3G and now you're heading off on vacation in Europe in a month. You'd like to keep up with news about Icelandic volcanoes, so you're taking your iPad with you. How much is it going to cost you to do data roaming as you wander the streets of Venice? Unfortunately, a lot.
AT&T has added the iPad to the list of devices that use the Data Global Add-On Package for data roaming. If you're traveling to any of these countries where AT&T has a discounted rate plan in place, you'll need to buy one of the following packages -- preferably before you leave on your trip (all prices are US dollars):
$24.99/month: 20 MB Data
$59.99/month: 50 MB Data
$119.99/month: 100 MB Data
$199.99/month: 200 MB Data
But wait, it gets better! If you go over the purchased amount of data, you'll get to pay a $0.005 per KB overage fee (that's about $5 per MB). [...]
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14) MarsEdit 3 adds rich text editing, enhanced media browsing
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/marsedit-3-adds-rich-text-editing-enhanced-media-browsing/
Filed under: Blogging
In the "send an email, post a blog entry" fun and fast-paced world of tomorrow, services like Tumblr and Posterous make it exceedingly simple to prepare and post to your blog; meanwhile, Twitter, Facebook and AOL Lifestream push past the article metaphor to 140-character status snippets. Delightful as they all may be, sometimes it's nice to have a well-rounded Mac app that supports more reflective and considerate writing for your online outlets -- not to mention one that saves your drafts in case your browser picks that particular moment to crash.
For a lot of bloggers, including many TUAW veterans, Red Sweater's MarsEdit (US$39.95) is that app. It allows you to write, edit and schedule posts offline at leisure, with full preview capability so you know what you're getting when you hit the Publish button. It will happily upload your images and files alongside your [...]
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15) TUAW Review: DODOcase for iPad makes Moleskines weep
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/tuaw-review-dodocase-for-ipad-makes-moleskines-weep/
Filed under: iPadWhen the iPad was released in the US, I lined up in Boston with the other early adopters. Apple employees handed out snacks and drinks while a lone PR person distributed coupons for the DODOcase. A few days later I used mine and several weeks later it finally arrived.
After spending a week and a half with the DODOcase, I can say that it will make nearly any customer happy. High build quality, good looks and a secure fit ("like a glove" is an understatement) make the DODOcase worth the price tag and wait.
Looks
The most obvious aspect of the DODOcase is its close resemblance to a Moleskine notebook (note some side-by-side comparison shots in the gallery below). The look is dead on. It's larger than the largest notebook but about the size of the softcover 18 month planner. At first glance (frankly, at 2nd and 3rd glance as well), most people will assume that's what [...]
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16) Found Footage: an iPad in a kitchen cabinet
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/found-footage-an-ipad-in-a-kitchen-cabinet/
Filed under: iPad
While some TUAW bloggers use their iPads in the kitchen, TUAW reader Alan Daly has gone a step further and has built an iPad into his kitchen.
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In the video above and also in a Flickr photostream he's created, Alan shows the simple wooden mount that he used to embed the iPad into a kitchen cabinet. The iPad can be easily removed by unplugging it and then sliding it up and out of the mount. Alan demonstrates the iPad being used for many important kitchen tasks, such as using the Epicurious app, reading and watching news sites, and checking out TUAW.
Alan commented in an email that "My wife thought I was nuts - until she saw the finished product ..." He bought a [...]
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17) msmtp, a free tool to send email from Terminal
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/msmtp-a-free-tool-to-send-email-from-terminal/
Filed under: UNIX / BSDI fully expected that my article on mailsend would lead to several "Why don't you use use XYZ instead?" replies, and it did. Suggestions included Ruby, Python, iPhone push notifications, and configuring postfix/sendmail.
But one suggestion was to use msmtp, and that turned out to be the golden nugget.
What makes msmtp so great, especially compared to mailsend, is that it completely eliminates the need to store your Gmail password in a plain text file on your computer. msmtp uses the Mac OS X Keychain instead. The other big advantage is that mailsend required several command line arguments every time, which makes it very likely that someone (i.e. "me") is going to screw it up. Once msmtp is configured, I can use the venerable "/usr/bin/Mail" to send email from the command line, and /usr/bin/Mail is nearly idiot proof. (Note I said "nearly" -- this is not a [...]
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18) Average iPad app price is $1 more than iPhone apps
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/average-ipad-app-price-is-1-more-than-iphone-apps/
Filed under: iPadHere's some more interesting stats about app pricing. We've heard pricing average stats before, including that the average app price seems to be hovering right around three dollars. But a firm in the Netherlands has done some more research into current iPad and iPhone app prices, and discovered that while iPhone apps average out at $3.87 (slightly higher than most estimates, but still in that $3 range), iPad apps are actually hitting an average of $4.67, almost a dollar more than iPhone versions.
That's both good and bad news for developers -- while it does mean that iPad apps are releasing and selling at higher prices (something most developers believe should be the case, given the amount of work and design that goes into iPad apps versus their smaller-screen cousins), those prices aren't that much higher. Apple specifically priced their iPad apps at $9.99 after [...]
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19) TUAW's Daily App: Raging Thunder 2
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/04/tuaws-daily-app-raging-thunder-2/
Filed under: iPhone, iPad
Polarbit released Raging Thunder 2 a while back -- it's the sequel to their App Store launch title that's serving up solid racing on both the iPhone and the iPad. It's not the best pure racing game out there (Real Racing HD has gotten exposure, even in Apple stores, for that), but Raging Thunder has quite a bit of fun and depth added to it, allowing you to upgrade cars and even go for some Burnout and Mario Kart-style arcade action. And the latest update to the title, released about a week ago, adds online leader boards and touch controls for racing (in case you don't want to tilt your iPad or iPhone around as you play).
Raging Thunder 2 is definitely a respectable racing title, especially good if you're an arcade racing fan, and the price is just as temptingl: US$2.99 on both the iPhone and the iPad. If you're in the mood for a little action with your racing, [...]
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