Revolutionary Books for Kids
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Adobe announced Creative Suite 5.5 today!
They’ve also released a free update for those who use Creative Suite 5, which will allow you to use the Adobe iPad apps along with CS5 on their computer. (i.e. you can do cool stuff with Photoshop via your iPad!)
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As the industry continues to ponder the future of publishing, Mike Matas (who helped develop the iPhone and iPad UI at Apple) demos a promising next-generation digital book at TED, the first full-length interactive book for iPad.
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Todd Dominey announces SlideShowPro Mobile:
SlideShowPro Mobile is an entirely new media player built using HTML5 that doesn’t require the Flash Player plugin and can serve as a fallback for users accessing your web sites using these devices. But it’s not just any fallback — it’s specially designed for touch interfaces and smaller screen sizes. So it looks nothing like the SlideShowPro player and more like a native application that’s intuitive, easy to use, and just feels right.
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“Infographic of the Day: The iPad Competes With Just About Everyone”
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OMG! Adorbz of the Day: Telstar Logistics founder Todd Lappin’s 2.5-year-old daughter reviews the iPad.
As you can see, after geeking out on my Sutro Tower homescreen, she took right to it — including figuring out how to enlarge some of her favorite iPhone-legacy apps to 2x to display full-size on the iPad screen. If you’re good at understanding kid-speak, you’ll also notice that she immediately saw its potential as a video-display device. She lamented the lack of a camera, and wondered about its potential for playing games.
This is why the iPad is so well designed—it’s intuitive.
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The iPad
After months (nay, years) of speculation, Apple has released their tablet: The iPad. The device has a 9.7” IPS screen, is 0.5” inches thin, and weighs 1.5 pounds. Some other hardware highlights include a whopping 10 hour battery life and Apple’s own 1GHz “Apple A4” ARM chip, likely made from its acquisition of P.A. Semi-technology.On the software side, the iPad features all new user interface for default apps like Calendar, Address Book, Mail, Maps, etc. Safari still does not have Flash, sorry Adobe. It can also run every current iPhone app, either windowed with a black frame, or at 2x scale (fullscreen). Select developers were given pre-access to the new SDK two weeks ago and demoed their new iPad apps—including New York Times (which syncs reading and offers inline video), Brushes, and EA’s Need for Speed. Developers can also now take advantage of the new resolution, and likely new features, with the new SDK out today.
Most impressively, the iPad will also support a new, modified version of iWork. This means documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, all on-the-go. Each app features an all new UI and will be sold for $9.99 on the App Store.
The iPad will offer WiFi 802.11n—a huge advantage over the iPhone’s current limitation of 802.11g. Certain models also have 3G capabilities and Apple is announce a $29.99 unlimited data plan that will be offered through AT&T (contrary to many rumors saying Verizon would be the new carrier). This data plan is pre-paid, so there’s no contract.
The iPad costs $499–$699 for 16–64GB of space for a WiFi-only model, and $629–$829 for a 3G-enabled model. The WiFi only devices will start shipping in 60 days, and the 3G-enabled ones will ship 30 days after that. There are already a variety of accessories created, including a dock that has a keyboard and a case which doubles as a stand.
All in all, it looks like it’s going to be an amazing device. While you can’t quite purchase it yet, you can sign up to be notified. If you enjoyed this coverage of the iPad and want to discuss, or just poke fun of its name, further, let’s chat on Twitter.
not incredibly innovative, but I really want one anyway when I don’t feel like lugging my mbp around or blogging from the iPhone
