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Friday, August 19, 2011
webOS to iOS, Next generation iPhone name, iOS beta battery, Anticipated iPad features – From the Forums
From the Forums is a great way to see what all of the current hot topics are on the TiPb forums. In order to create any new threads of your own or reply to any of the existing threads, you must be a registered member. Becoming a member is a simple process that will only take a few minutes out of your day, so if you have not already already done so, head on over and register now!
Are you an webOS user looking to jump ship for iOS?
What will the next iPhone be called?
If you are running an iOS 5 beta, how is your battery life?
Top 5 anticipated features of the next generation iPad.
See you in the forums!
iFixit’s Douzuki Promises Manuals That Don’t Suck
As Apple users, we have it pretty good. When you actually manage to get your hands on an Apple repair manual, they’re easy to understand, well written and have excellent diagrams. Sure, they can be tricky to find, but when you do, they’re great. Other companies? Not so much.
That’s why the incredible people from iFixit are releasing
Guidebook is a modern procedural documentation platform. Guidebook makes it easy for anyone to create how-to instructions or publish service documentation for complex devices. Every manual is available online, as downloadable PDFs, through dedicated mobile apps like iFixit’s iOS app-or through custom API applications. It’s simple for technicians to suggest changes, so manuals consistently get better over time.
Answers is enterprise-grade Q&A for experts. Answers is a structured tool for focusing expert conversations into a useful (and searchable) knowledge base. Answers gives companies the ability to make their products a hub for knowledge exchange.
Hopefully this will mean more dynamic repair guides for the things you have at home. If you’ve ever struggled to find the instructions for taking out the base of your dishwasher, an easily accessible and assuredly up-to-date digital document sounds perfect.
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WSJ Says iPad 3 With Retina Display For Early 2012
Okay, here’s my question: what constitutes early 2012? How about March? Because the iPad 2 was launched in March 2011, so a March 2012 release would be completely in keeping with everything we’re used to from Apple. Yes, they’ve bucked the trend with the release of the iPhone 5, but in absence of better evidence, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is just the build up to an annual refresh of the iPad.
More on iPad 3 coming this spring, difficulty in producing Retina Displays
The Wall Street Journal tells us that — surprise, surprise — Apple is working on a Retina Display iPad 3 for this fall!
The Cupertino, Calif., company has ordered key components such as display panels and chips for a new iPad it is aiming to launch in early 2012, said the people.
The next generation iPad is expected to feature a high resolution display – 2048 by 1536 compared with 1024 by 768 in the iPad 2 – and Apple’s suppliers have already shipped small quantities of components for the sampling of the iPad 3. Suppliers said Apple has placed orders for a 9.7-inch screen device.
Digitimes‘ sources caution, however, that Retina Displays of that size are proving tricky to produce.
The sources noted that the iPad 3′s resolution requirement of 2,048×1,536 pixels is also a challenge even for iPad panel regular suppliers such as LG Display (LGD) and Samsung Electronics. Apart from the two Korea makers, Japan’s Sharp has als been selected to supply panels for the iPad 3, the sources said.
TiPb previously reported that, while Apple had considered moving iPad 3 up to a fall 2012, problems with Retina Display component costs and yield rates, Apple had moved iPad 3 back to it’s traditional spring launch window.
If the displays continue to be so challenging to produce, does Apple stick with 1024×768 for generation 3, or do they move the launch further out into summer 2012?
webOS ran twice as fast on iPad 2 as TouchPad?
Matt Brian from The Next Web has a source that claims, before canceling all webOS devices, people inside HP tested webOS as a web app on iPad 2 using Safari and the results were twice as fast as their own TouchPad hardware.
The hardware reportedly stopped the team from innovating beyond certain points because it was slow and imposed constraints, which was highlighted when webOS was loaded on to Apple’s iPad device and found to run the platform significantly faster than the device for which it was originally developed.
Which begs the question — why didn’t HP make better hardware? Even if the TouchPad hardware was already in progress when cash-strapped Palm was acquired, why didn’t HP scrap it and make something better, the way Samsung scrapped the original Galaxy Tab 10.1 after seeing iPad 2, and brought a thinner, lighter, and faster model to the table?
Or would that have conflicted with HP’s intent to surrender the consumer hardware market? Here’s hoping someone with some manufacturing balls picks up webOS and runs with it…
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Mighty Fin for iPhone, iPad [giveaway]
Mighty Fin, the arcade game by Launching Pad Games, has been updated with universal iPhone and iPad support. The goal is to guide Fin through the water and collect bubbles.
I’m really enjoying Mighty Fin! The graphics are fun and the gameplay is both relaxing and challenging. It’s a great little time killer.
Details, screenshots, video, and giveaway details after the break.
Fin needs a vacation. He’s signed up for Shady Sal’s suspiciously cheap — and possibly deadly — Round the World Tour. Hey, money’s tight when you’re a working fish.
The controls are simple: touch the screen to dive and let go to soar through the air. Grab bubbles for a high score, leap over lighthouses, swim under icebergs, and try not to get eaten by hungry sharks! And now in Mighty Fin 2.0, dodge pirate cannonballs, ride futuristic hovercars, sail over ninja shuriken and evade gigantic sponge cakes in a soda stream sea!
Update includes:
The good folks at Launching Pad Games have given us a couple promo codes to give away to you, our awesome readers! Since Fin is on a shady vacation, let us know where you would like to go on vacation for a chance to win! (To win a promo code, not the vacation of your choice).
Mighty Fin is available on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99.
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