The Retina display of the new iPad (aka iPad 3) will require apps, magazines and books to have bigger (high resolution) graphics stored within. This in turn will require a lot more local storage. If 16GB was just enough on an original iPad or an iPad 2, then it won’t be enough on the new iPad. A 64 GB new iPad would prove just enough and this brings up the question what storage options the next iPad would offer. 64GB, 128GB and 256GB?
A feature in the iPhone’s Music (iPod) app that I only discovered now. If long titles are truncated you can tap and hold that title to see its complete name.
Friends of nature,
I was wondering if anyone of you desires a new pet. This one is not your ordinary pet that you’ll have to feed, engage with and that requires your attention. Please see the attached photo of a cute fluffy native marsupial.
Worried about wildlife regulations forbidding you from keeping native animals? Not to worry here, this one’s pretty much the opposite of wild-life: I would say it’s gentle-lifeless.
Need a paper weight for the office, or want to impress your colleagues, or need a party trick? Cast it in resin. I might still be able to engage my uni contacts for some epoxy casting resin. This stuff is long lasting. And, it will be the largest paper weight you’ll ever own.
Need some game meet tonight? This is not road kill! So no skid marks, no messy blood stains, and no bitumen to scrape off. Just whack it on the barbie.
Ever wanted to try your taxidermic skills but didn’t have any objects for preparation? This is your once-in-a-lifetime chance to get up close with our beautiful fauna. Here’s even a how-to article.
Need a last minute gift for your child, niece, nephew to play with? This one will surely impress. It’s life-size and very real looking (actually it is real). You just need to be innovative with coving the slight morbid stench.
Need a St. Valentines gift for next year? Start now and secure this immeasurably valuable fur, which domestically is not allowed to kill for. Skin it, tan it, maintain the full-grain leather! Imagine the flair of seeing a self-made fur shawl on your loved one to be admired for generations to come.
If you want to get it, be quick, because the flies already have shown a keen interest in it. Oh, and you need to pry it from my Camellia tree too where it got wedged in, but this would be a minor thing compared to the years of joy you would have with it.
Let me know!
Tyler Falk over at Smartplanet introduced a web app to find the balance between cost, time, exercise and environmental impact for routes from A to B using different modes of transport. As he points out (and I agree) reroute.it makes some generic assumptions, but two things I’ve found are left out completely.
Today’s post is a special one: It’s two posts in one. Why? I’m glad you asked.
First I went to get a Veggie Turkish (that’s my speak for Vegemite on turkish toast - web search for Vegemite if you’re not familiar with that spread and use it generously if you’ve never tried it before, but that’s a different story altogether). For some reason Three Beans in Chatswood (Railway St) -as good and as friendly as they are- they always give that toast to me on a disposable plate and in a paper bag when I have it as take away. Why it comes on a (superfluous) plate, I have no idea? I’d rather they give me 50¢ off.
Now for the other post: I thought I’d rant about that superfluous plate and show you a picture of it. Having left my iPhone at home, I thought I could use my work BlackBerry Bold to take a picture, but RIM has to make it so complicated to save and send a picture is beyond me. Wouldn’t it be the simplest thing to take a picture with the camera and save it with the Pictures app? I looked for the picture far and beyond on the phone and couldn’t find it. Bad user experience, bad product.
Update: It took over 20 minutes for the pictures to appear in the Pictures app on the BlackBerry. So here it is…
How nice is that? With the new eBay iPhone app update you even get hugs.
I always find it funny, when mainstream stores call the public to be a rebel. If you can’t read what is written on the window on the right, it says “Never let the rebel die”. It’s like those Che Guevara t-shirts. The last thing Che would’ve wanted to become was a capitalist commercial success;)
Apple BTW stopped its ‘Think Different’ campaign long before its products became a mainstream household staple.
The debate between whether to develop web apps for smartphones or native apps has been going on for a while. Mostly it boils down to what you want to do and how you think your users are going to use the app. In some cases users circumvent Google searches completely and go straight to their phone’s app download place (AppStore, Marketplace etc.). But what if web apps could be more?
An article over at iTnews made me think a business should stay on both sides of the fence: develop web apps and native apps. Surely the costs are higher and you need to provide multiple versions of native apps, which need to be managed properly. But I’m thinking that because native iPhone apps need to go through an approval process to guarantee their quality, why not use web apps (that don’t need any approval process from the OS operator) to experiment with?
Test out new features on web apps that you’re not too sure yet will be good to use on native apps. See how users respond (obviously track metrics) and if your new features are a success enhance the native app.
Native apps on mobile devices need to (in most cases) fulfill one, usually short task well. Most major developer guidelines request that actually.
The more I’m surprised how frequently native apps often try to mimic the (desktop) web experience. Take the Wikipedia iPhone app for example. Though it does a great job of streamlining the mobile usage (minimal controls, no fluff, collapsable sections), we’re still presented with a main page first thing we start up the app - rather than offering the options of either searching for an article or displaying the main page.
My friend Tris and I were discussing the other day why the Mac OS X Lion update (10.7.1) wasn’t delivered via the Mac App Store. After all, wasn’t this supposed to be the new way of delivering software updates rendering the old Mac OS X Software Update obsolete?
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