Daily Archives: April 28, 2012

Weekly Wrap: WWDC, Apple earnings, Adobe Creative, and more

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Worldwide Developers Conference tickets came and went, we launched a brand new website, and Adobe unveiled Creative Suite 6. Those stories and more qualify for this week’s edition of the Weekly Wrap, in which we’ll highlight Macworld’s most significant stories from the week gone by. Continue reading →

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Wozniak: Windows Phone trumps Android, carries Apple spirit

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Habitual smartphone experimenter Steve Wozniak in a podcast (embedded below) gave strong compliments to Windows Phone. Having picked up a Lumia 900 weeks earlier, the Apple co-founder still picked the iPhone as his favorite but argued to aNewDomain that Windows Phone was better than any Android phone. It had the “most beautiful” visual experience of any platform, Wozniak said, and its presentation made him feel like he was “with a friend, not a tool.”… Continue reading →

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Apple-Samsung settlement talks slated for May 21, 22

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The judge mediating settlement talks between Apple and Samsung firmed up details for the proceedings late in the week. Both sides, likely including their CEOs and chief counsels, are expected to meet the mornings of May 21 and 22 in a San Francisco court rather than in the full trials’ San Jose venue. The two will additionally have to produce statements by May 9 saying how likely the believe they are to win at trial, although it’s unlikely this will produce concessions…. Continue reading →

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The Macalope Weekly: Always with the negative waves

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Apple posts another amazing quarter. So it’s clearly doomed. Continue reading →

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SloPro app allows for true 60fps HD shooting on iPhone 4S

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A new, free app from the App Store has promised users a long-desired feature for retaining high quality HD even when using slow motion for things like acrobatic stunts. SloPro says it can use the camera in a variety of recent iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch models, but the 60 frames per second recording that is its main selling point remains exclusive to the iPhone 4S for now. A $2 “pro upgrade” allows users to save the raw footage to iTunes for third-party editing…. Continue reading →

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Apple considered physical keyboard for first iPhone

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Ex-Apple executive Tony Fadell revealed that the company toyed with the idea of equipping the first iPhone with a physical keyboard, but ultimately settled on the intuitive multitouch design that changed the face of the game. Continue reading →

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Google MapsGL gains enhanced 3D buildings

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Google has further enhanced its use of WebGL to now add more 3D perspective to buildings seen on its MapsGL project, an alternative version of Google Maps (which received the improvement in March). The improvements now add a “parallax” view that allows users to pan around buildings and see them from different angles while still in overhead view. The buildings become translucent in order to avoid obscuring roadways or other landmarks while panning, and are most noticeable on taller buildings…. Continue reading →

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Ex-Apple exec: iPhone could have had hardware keyboard

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Apple had considered one of three core ideas for the iPhone, one of which included a hardware keyboard, former Apple executive and now Nest founder Tony Fadell revealed Friday. Speaking in an evening session with The Verge, he mentioned that the all-touch design that eventually shipped first had come after he wanted to try a virtual keyboard before resorting to the hardware option. The key iPod architect had understood the potential of an on-screen keyboard, which has infinite customization and can disappear when not needed, but didn’t rule out physical keys at first…. Continue reading →

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Irish PM visits Apple’s European headquarters

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Prime Minister Enda Kenny visited Apple’s European headquarters in Cork, Ireland on Friday after the company announced that it would be creating 500 new jobs with a planned expansion. Continue reading →

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Foxtrot cartoonist thrives using iBooks Author over print

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Syndicated Foxtrot comic strip creator Bill Amend, who two weeks ago took his “first steps into the worlds of e-books and self-publishing,” has reported that his “Pad Pack” collection (three volumes of 100 strips each selling for $2 on the App Store) have made in two weeks about 25 percent of what his traditionally-published strip collections make in two years. The artist, who created the books entirely in iBooks Author, called the results “amazing.”… Continue reading →

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