We have good news for those of you not taking full advantage of Google Sync on your iOS device and prefer to use the Google Mobile App [iTunes Link - Free]. You will be happy to know that an update has been rolled out that allows for push notifications. You will now receive an [...]
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As we wait for iOS4 to be released, I think it’s important to try to help folks keep reasonable expectations for what iOS 4 will and won’t do, especially as it relates to “multitasking.” Apple has to take some of the blame for this hype, especially when it’s listed as the #1 feature of iOS 4, saying “Now you can run your favorite third-party apps – and switch between them instantly – without slowing down the performance of the foreground app or draining the battery unnecessarily.”1
Did you notice that 1? The big print giveth and the little print taketh away. Down at the bottom of the page, Apple tells you that multitasking is “available with apps that have been developed to work with iOS 4.” That means that any app that isn’t tweaked to be multitasking-aware simply won’t play nice with the feature.
And even that isn’t the whole truth.
Read on for more…
TUAWMultitasking in iOS 4 is not a magical sparkle pony originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Palm has a stellar, non-interuptive, non-”choose it or lose it” notification system, and according to our sibling site PreCentral.net, the man who designed webOS notifications has left for Apple:
The man who “Invented the non-intrusive banner notification system used in webOS” and also did all sorts of other work for the OS, Rich Dellinger, [...]
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Yesterday’s iPhone 4.0 sneak preview event gave us 7 new “tent-pole” features, 1500 new APIs for developers, and once again took Apple’s mobile OS a step closer to feature parity and a step further towards elegant functionality… but we didn’t get everything we wanted. And no matter how hard we tried, we found we didn’t [...]
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Tomorrow at 10am PT, 1pm ET, Steve Jobs puts sneaker to stage and, along with SVP of iPhone software, Scott Forstall, gives us a sneak preview of the highly anticipated iPhone 4.0. No one outside Apple knows exactly what new features and paradigms iPhone 4.0 will offer. However, tradition demands we make our best guesses [...]
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There’s a fun post at Silicon Alley Insider today that traces an iPad‘s journey from China to the customer’s home. By monitoring Twitter and tracking reports, Nick Saint has assembled an iPad’s typical journey to the US.
It starts at the infamous Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China. That’s the “iPad nursery,” if you will. From there, iPads destined for the USA fly to Anchorage, Alaska, a journey that Google Maps struggled with (38 days by car? Oh, it’d be much shorter by car).
From there, the iPad that Nick was tracking went to Louisville, Kentucky, where it will remain (UPS shipping calls it “UPS Internal Activity”) until it’s set free on Saturday.
Many TUAW readers wrote in to say they’ve received shipment notifications, so we can assume that your precious is somewhere along this route. In the meantime, why not install a package tracking app on your iPhone (you remember your iPhone, right)?
TUAWTrack an iPad from Shenzhen to you originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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All in all, the iPad turned in a pretty exciting product debut. I don’t think Apple will have any trouble selling these things, and it can’t be a very good day in Amazon, Sony or Barnes and Noble’s executive suites.
While all the final info is not out yet, there were a few major omissions from the iPad hardware. Here’s the highly desireable stuff that came out missing :
I think the iPad will be a superior device, and will sell like the proverbial hotcakes. Apple will certainly extend and enhance the iPad over time, but it would have been great to see some of these things in the initial release.
Anything else we missed that they missed?
TUAWWhat’s missing from the iPad originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Outside [iTunes link] is a new, personal weather app for the iPhone/iPod touch that provides a visual forecast with some paid options for push notifications. I like the idea of the app; it has some nice graphics and a fresh approach to weather information. The GUI is based on a metaphor of looking out a window: you can get the current conditions or a five-day forecast, if you want to glance into the future. For the relevant stats, like humidity, cloud cover and winds, you just flick up the screen, and it’ll tell you everything you need to know.
The app also features an interesting pay model: when you buy the U.S $2.99 app, you get 30 days of push notifications for free. Then it’s $0.99 for the notifications every three months. Notifications include letting you know if rain is in the forecast, the UV index when it goes above a set level, a warning if the temperature goes below your preference, and a notification that the weather is OK to wear a T-shirt.
There are a few things that would make this app better. First, it’d be nice to reduce the need to flick the screen so often. The five-day forecast could be placed on one page, not five. And the notifications are unique, but a bit strange. I’d much rather be notified of upcoming storm warnings rather than T-shirt weather, but there is no such option — especially since the notifications are so pricey (getting them for a year costs more than the app itself), it’d be nice to have some more options. And if you want weather from a different location, you have to enter that location manually. There is no list of favorites.
I think weather junkies would be better off with the Weather Channel app [iTunes link], which is free, Weather Channel Max for $3.99 [iTunes link], or MyWeather [iTunes link] mobile which provides very detailed info for a one-time $4.99, and includes (free) push notifications for severe weather. There is some clever thinking behind Outside, and it’s a fresh approach to a function that’s seen its share of rainy days. But I wish it had more information on the individual screens, and it wasn’t so expensive to get notifications.
TUAWGet your current weather from Outside originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Notifications App Review by msbaylor. For more App Reviews, see the TiPb iPhone App Store Forum Review Index!
Notifications [$2.99 - iTunes link] for iPhone does just what the name suggests — hooks into Apple’s push notification framework. I’ve never regularly used an RSS reader, because I would add a lot of feeds, then when I’d [...]
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Every week a few of us from team TiPb, bloggers and forum crew alike, will bring you our current favorite, funnest, most useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone (or iPod touch) related, they’re fair game.
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