Interesting… Mattebox features professional adjustments, for control over color, exposure, saturation, gamma, vignette, and crop. This cool app is modeled after the legendary Konica Hexar. It’s an app that’s about taking pictures not manipulating them. It’s a bit higher priced than most camera apps on the App Store at $3.99 but it looks pretty darn good.
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Yep. We downoaded the new iBook Author App as soon as it was available.
We’re just beginning to test it out and see what it can do with simple tagging in Pages and Word for importing. Can’t wait to drag and drop a Keynote deck into a book and see what happens.
From the presentation and the demo’s it looks pretty sweet. We even downloaded a book to see what reading and interacting with one is like. More on what we think soon.
Read MoreWe haven’t tried it yet but at $7.99 isn’t it worth trying?
Buy it for your kids they’ll probably gobble it up and create something you can play with in no time.
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Finally Adobe has come to understand it’s Flash mobile plug-in isn’t worth the trouble. Lucky us. The plugin was crap on mobile and now it seems Adobe got the message.
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Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations. Some of our source code licensees may opt to continue working on and releasing their own implementations. We will continue to support the current Android and PlayBook configurations with critical bug fixes and security updates.
In a word yes.
If you don’t have a smartphone or if you are due for an upgrade — DO IT. Siri is awesome.
watch the Siri video here >
watch the iPhone 4S video here >
VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi interviews Disney Mobile chief Bart Decrem about Appmates. This is a great interactive experience. This will be available in October.
Wow did he say unstructured play? Awesome.
Read MoreMicrosoft follows Apple’s lead and jettisons Flash with ‘plug-in free’ Windows 8 Metro IE10.
For the web to move forward and for consumers to get the most out of touch-first browsing, the Metro style browser in Windows 8 is as HTML5-only as possible, and plug-in free. The experience that plug-ins provide today is not a good match with Metro style browsing and the modern HTML5 web.
Running Metro style IE plug-in free improves battery life as well as security, reliability, and privacy for consumers. Plug-ins were important early on in the web’s history. But the web has come a long way since then with HTML5. Providing compatibility with legacy plug-in technologies would detract from, rather than improve, the consumer experience of browsing in the Metro style UI.
What was it the Steve Jobs said in his letter?
Conclusions.
Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 250,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.
New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
Apple made this decision in April 2010. It took Microsoft almost a year and a half more to come to the same conclusion.
You can read Steve Jobs full letter here:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
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The thought of driverless printers warms our hearts.
Printing on with an Apple machine is less painful than most platforms. But printer manufacturers provide the drivers to their devices and that often creates confusion. How many times have you chosen landscape only to receive a portrait orientation of you print out?
This driverless printing doesn’t necessarily say those situations will be over. Still the act of hitting print should be a whole lot smarter than it currently is. Shouldn’t it be easy?
If Apple can make it as easy as these Patent application drawings look we’ll all be much happier.
AirPrint has taken us one step closer.
Our cloud:
– Flickr: photos
– Dropbox: everything
– .Me: preference and contact syncing between devices
– Netflix: entertainment
– Gmail: duh.
– Google Docs: Misc docs and spreadsheets
– Instagram: photo sharing
– Pandora — music
– Spotify — music
– Teux Deux — to do lists
– Google Voice
– Google+
What about you?
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