OPEN Forum: How to Use QR Codes for Small Business Marketing.
“If you’re going to use QR codes for small business marketing, you’ll want to keep in mind that QR codes — and the apps that scan them — are still foreign to most people.” Still, they look like a bit of fun gadgetry to impress select clients with.
Macworld: iHub brings cloud-free synchronization to OS X and iOS.
If unpredictable ‘cloudy weather’gets you down, there’s an alternative.
mir.aculo.us: Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast.
Sounds like mobile will be making The 5k Project relevant again, also. [Alas, site seems to be offline now.]
AppleInsider: Apple relaxes iOS SDK terms to allow Lua but block Flash.
CNet: Annoying World Cup horn comes to iPhone.
CNet: iPhone 4 at Wal-Mart on June 24.
“Wal-Mart is not the only alternative to Apple and AT&T;, however. It’s rumored that Best Buy will have the device on launch day, and Radio Shack employees have begun telling customers they have also been selected to carry the device starting June 24.” Best Buy I get. Wal-Mart and Radio Shack ... don’t those outlets tarnish the upperclass sheen a bit?
adaptive path blog/Jesse James Garrett: iPad Frees Designers From the Tyranny of QWERTY.
Contextual touchscreen keyboards/keypads.
Flashlab: Jump back in time with HTML5.
“Apple loves to repeat history and made some supercool amazing examples that show you how the web was like 8 years ago with any browser equipped with Macromedia Flash 6 ...” Oh, snap. Try the ‘Typography’ examples to get a feel for the difference.
Why does everything suck?: Apple fears the killer app.
Gizmodo: This Macintosh Is Really an iPad
This sort of explodes my head.
Times Online.UK: Hockney hails ‘visual tool’ that will bring art to the masses.
“I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.” A familiar complaint, certainly, in all media.
Discover Magazine: Resolving the iPhone resolution.
Does the extra resolution matter, really?
Macworld: A photographer’s workflow for the iPad.
Seriously? “Shoot JPEG or RAW+JPEG.” I can’t see many professionals making that much of an allowance for a generic device. Items such as the Epson P-7000 are able to view RAW files directly, and are purpose-built. Unless you’re getting an iPad anyway, and don’t care about workflow (post-production time is the monster that eats profits), there are better solutions.
The New York Review of Books: What the iPad Can’t Do.
“One of the guilty pleasures of an actual, ink-on-paper book is the possibility of marking it up—underlining salient passages, making notes in the margins, dog-earing a page. While it’s true that some electronic book platforms for the iPad allow highlighting (it even looks like you’ve used a fat neon yellow or blue or orange marker), and a few—most notably Kindle and Barnes and Noble but not iBooks—allow you to type notes, they barely take advantage of being digital.”
Gizmodo: iPhone 4 - Droid Incredible - Evo 4G - Nexus One Comparative Chart.
Mashable: Adobe to Bring Flash-Based Ads to iPhone.
“The ads distributed through this deal between Adobe and Greystripe will challenge Apple’s own, HTML5-based iAd platform. We’re not sure what (if anything) Apple will do about this.” They will also work on Android.
SwipeLife: The Kno.
A different kind of ‘challenger’ to the iPad. Read more about it.
Photoble: 15 Beautiful iPhoneography Examples.
”All these beautiful pictures are taken and edited with iPhone only.” Very nice. Smartphones are going to start cutting into the point-and-shoot market, no question. Why haul both a phone and a separate camera around?
Ajaxian: Are we going to be stick shift drivers amidst the automatic population?
”However, I am scared to death to think of the Web going this way. You go to websites and get sent to apps directly. I *do* want user agents to tell me if apps are available (hence the App Discover experiment), but don’t force me into the world of apps.”
Rob Galbraith DPI: Camera Bits rules out iPad version of Photo Mechanic.
PR Newswire: AT and T Announces New Lower-Priced Wireless Data Plans.
Makes iPhone more attractive.
Later: Maybe not.
Smokescreen.
Flash ... without the plugin (preview). Works for banner ads and animations, at present.
Gizmodo: “Bwahaha!” says Adobe. “We Were Behind Wired’s iPad Magazine All Along!”
Closed systems live to be broken.
Macworld: Original Prince of Persia hits the App Store.
One of the few games I ever got addicted to. Besides Flight Simulator.
Recombu: FxCamera Android App Review.
Vintage, Polaroid and other photo effects are no longer just for iPhone.
