Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
9/15/10
9/4/10
So I think I will do this ...
Maybe you have seen my Twitter-based micropublishing effort titled MailTip. Well, I have established an efficient workflow for it and started looking around for another similar possibility. Reading a review for some iPad apps the other day, I realized that I was reading them regularly, so why not post the best that I find? These apps can be pure delight in form and function. So here’s Apptwips at Twitter and at the blog where I place and index these for my future use. And yours. If you have an iPad or think about getting one (Do!), get my Twitter feed. Thanks!
8/3/10
So who needs a phone? ...
So what’s new about a text message? Well, this on arrives free to my iPod Touch and announces its arrival. Skype does not do this as yet. So when the other person isn’t available to chat with Skype, also free, I can schedule a call using textPlus, also free. I like free. Requires wifi, so this and a couple bucks will get you a cup of coffee and a call.
Cool use of the iPad ...
This might not be legal in copyright terms, but it’s something. Takes your Facebook and Twitter feeds and makes a magazine from them.
7/14/10
6/28/10
Saw these little cuties yesterday on the Root River ...
And we got response calls using the iBird app sound files.
Thanks to birds in photos for the thumbnails. Gorgeous bird photo site, btw.
Thanks to birds in photos for the thumbnails. Gorgeous bird photo site, btw.
6/22/10
6/8/10
Displays that boggle the mind ...
Apple announced that its new cellphone screen will display over 300 dots per inch, or pixels per inch in electronics. Having worked in publishing, that’s extraordinary. I’m sure we never printed anything over 200 dpi. Publishers get ready.
5/17/10
Taking "printed" out of print publishing ...
Or "Honey, I shrunk the bookcase!" This morning Don and Jack and I got to talking about a local music publisher and I trotted out my latest take on print publishing. (Credit to blogger Mike Cane. Be warned: Mike writes “explicitly.”) When I read his comment that publishers are ignoring technology, the idea sunk in. Unnerving in its implications. Really.
My rendering: Book publishers giving their content to the Amazons, Apples, and other hardware vendors of the world because they don’t know how to produce hardware is comparable to their handing over their content (and revenue) to book printers because they don’t know how to print books. The tablet is the new print delivery vehicle. So just as publishers go to China to print their books, they need to partner with Chinese hardware companies to produce their own inhouse tablets.
Of course scale will matter, and publishers like Hal Leonard, the largest music print publisher in the world with institutional buyers, get to be first. The Kindle will be just one of three or four tablets per household. One for music, one for Bibles, one for other books, one for cookbooks, and so on. Each tablet will have its own focus, features, and store.
And they will be free with a subscription to the publisher's wares.
[Mike Cane linked to this post. My apologies on edits to the quote he excerpted. Didn't change the substance of the thought, just the styling.]
My rendering: Book publishers giving their content to the Amazons, Apples, and other hardware vendors of the world because they don’t know how to produce hardware is comparable to their handing over their content (and revenue) to book printers because they don’t know how to print books. The tablet is the new print delivery vehicle. So just as publishers go to China to print their books, they need to partner with Chinese hardware companies to produce their own inhouse tablets.
Of course scale will matter, and publishers like Hal Leonard, the largest music print publisher in the world with institutional buyers, get to be first. The Kindle will be just one of three or four tablets per household. One for music, one for Bibles, one for other books, one for cookbooks, and so on. Each tablet will have its own focus, features, and store.
And they will be free with a subscription to the publisher's wares.
[Mike Cane linked to this post. My apologies on edits to the quote he excerpted. Didn't change the substance of the thought, just the styling.]
5/11/10
Its feats show it, they're iPads ...
Dunno what that means. Just to say, the iPad is a cool tool reading machine.
5/5/10
Where's my waldo-pod? ...
Cool feature. Find a computer’s location and wipe the memory if it’s been lost or ‘napped.
5/4/10
Up the Amazon without a paddle ...
Google does have a way of dismantling entire market sectors, in this case Amazon’s ebook business. Emphasis added to this item:
“Google says its new service--called Google Editions--will allow users to buy digital copies of books they discover through its book search service. It will also allow book retailers to sell Google Editions on their own sites, taking the bulk of the revenue.”
“Google says its new service--called Google Editions--will allow users to buy digital copies of books they discover through its book search service. It will also allow book retailers to sell Google Editions on their own sites, taking the bulk of the revenue.”
4/1/10
Mixing coffee with cocoa ...
Now this looks like trouble. For me, anyway. Just whip out an iPod to pay for your coffee. (Cocoa is the programming language for Macs. Little joke there.)
Happily rationalizing ...
According to this site, my first Mac, back in 1987, cost about $6,000 in today's dollars, $2,800 back then. Or 12 iPads or 30 iPod Touches, using this linga techna. And that for a device that had 1/100 or less the capability of an iPod Touch.
3/22/10
Will the real tablet stand up? ...
This year will tell the tale: Will tablets replace laptops? (And aren’t tablets the real laptops, while laptops are always used on tabletops, which means they are more tabl-ets than laptops?) My playing around with the “mini tablet” iPod Touch tells me they will. Once folks get a look at the astonishing apps available and a safe and simple touch-screen operating system and a larger screen, the game is over.
And replace printed books also? Amazon thinks so. Or at least it’s hedging its bets.
And replace printed books also? Amazon thinks so. Or at least it’s hedging its bets.
2/20/10
2/10/10
Move over Twitter ... What's the Buzz?
Google is offering an alternative to Twitter and Facebook both, called Buzz. This is the “phone” version of the web app. It’s mighty purty. In fact, looking at the desktop and phone versions, it’s been built for mobile use primarily.
Image at 3x. Don’t I wish the screen was this size. Hmm.
Image at 3x. Don’t I wish the screen was this size. Hmm.
1/31/10
Probably projecting from my past ...
Post-iPod, Apple looks to huge content areas to run through its hardware. With the just announced iPad, there is a confluence of content that Apple has already secured: music, apps. But Steve Jobs knows that new hardware must be matched and mated to new gigantic, coherent content sectors. The last slide in his presentation (below) says it all: Steve is going after education as a market. The whole enchilada of educational publishing.
The hardware is spot on: Simple, safe, small, light, cheap (or soon will be) exactly right for students from grade school to grad school. The software provides the creativity/research tools students need. The iWork apps are astonishingly lovely, creative, and fun software.
It will not mean all printed books be damned but it will mean printed textbooks be damned. Maybe it will be textbooks be damned: I’m guessing it’s the creativity tools that Steve really cares about. Ten years out, every student will have an iPad or something just like it. Finally. Except Apple will be there first and foremost. That’s a done deal as of last Wednesday.
Everything about the iPad says that Steve Jobs wants to be remembered as the guy who revolutionized schooling if not learning. Take a look at the mission at the OLPC site. That’s Jobs’s kind of language and vision, except he not only thinks bigger than most of us, he thinks better.
SOURCE: Apple Inc.
The hardware is spot on: Simple, safe, small, light, cheap (or soon will be) exactly right for students from grade school to grad school. The software provides the creativity/research tools students need. The iWork apps are astonishingly lovely, creative, and fun software.
It will not mean all printed books be damned but it will mean printed textbooks be damned. Maybe it will be textbooks be damned: I’m guessing it’s the creativity tools that Steve really cares about. Ten years out, every student will have an iPad or something just like it. Finally. Except Apple will be there first and foremost. That’s a done deal as of last Wednesday.
Everything about the iPad says that Steve Jobs wants to be remembered as the guy who revolutionized schooling if not learning. Take a look at the mission at the OLPC site. That’s Jobs’s kind of language and vision, except he not only thinks bigger than most of us, he thinks better.
SOURCE: Apple Inc.
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