Inside Apple's secret plan to kill the cash register - wireless networking, wireless, networking, Mobile Apps and Services, Mobile and Wireless, Macintosh, internet, Financial IT, e-commerce, e-business, Apple. Computerworld - If you've ever been to a store, you know the drill: Browse the merchandise, pick something, carry it to the checkout counter, maybe wait in line, pay, then walk out with your purchases and a receipt.
Whether it's a clothing store, a grocery store or a coffee shop, you're likely to find a big counter with a cash register on it, and a person operating that cash register on the other side. You go to them; they don't come to you. Why? An American saloon owner named James Ritty invented the cash register in 1879. Since then, all cash registers have shared the characteristics of bigness, heaviness and bulkiness -- and have required the old walk-up-to-the-counter behavior in order to buy things. One notable exception is your local Apple Store. Apple, apparently, thinks the whole process for buying things in retail stores is dumb. And it has a point. So why would Apple's hotly anticipated iWallet system require a cash register?
It won't, if one analyst has it right. Ten One Design Pogo Sketch Pro stylus for iPad review. The Ten One Design Pogo SketchPro stylus is a fantastic all-around style, with all around best in-class performance Ten One Design Pogo Sketch Pro, part of the Pogo Sketch line up of stylus pens, is one of the best we've had the pleasure use with the iPad. It's not as cheap or as specialized as some of the competition, however, so does the quality make up for it?
Unlike some other iPad stylus pens, the Pogo Sketch Pro doesn't look like a traditional pen. It's longer and far more tapered than most. It's got a solid aluminum unibody and an excellent ergonomic grip. This puts the weighting far more forward than most other stylus pens, and that's a good thing. It lets the weight of the tool do a lot of the work for you.
The tip is special designed and patent pending. The Pogo Sketch Pro is available in any color you want, provided that color is black and silver. For note-taking, the Pogo Sketch Pro is very good. The good Excellent sensitivityGood ergonomicsGreat gaming stylusReplaceable tips. Microsoft has a new gaming handheld...and it's the iPad | E3 2012. LOS ANGELES--You can forget about your dreams of an Xbox 360 Portable. That's so 2006. No, at this year's E3, Microsoft did something much more surprising: instead of getting proprietary, it hopped on everyone else's platform instead. Xbox SmartGlass was the touted application, service, technology -- whatever you want to call it -- that stood for a new product at Microsoft's E3 press conference this morning in Los Angeles. It needed some jolt of new produce excitement, arguably, and SmartGlass can stand in as this year's "what is that?
" buzzword, a second-screen concept for turning seemingly any smartphone or tablet into an additional display when watching movies, playing games, or browsing online. It's very unclear what exactly SmartGlass is , or what it will do, other than what was demoed. Chasing hardware is risky. Apple has had a huge impact on mobile gaming . Doing that may not be quite so simple. I'm a little skeptical.
iPhone or iPad Ran Out of Storage Space? Here’s How to Make Space Available Quickly. You’ve been downloading tons of apps, books, music, and movies galore, and when you go to download the latest great app you find yourself unable to, confronted with a “Cannot Download – There is not enough available storage” message. What are you supposed to do when your iPhone, iPad, or iPod runs out of disk space? The simplest and fastest answer is to free up some storage capacity by focusing on apps you no longer use, we’ll show you the fastest way to do this so you can quickly get back to downloading the new apps or content you want.
From the iOS home screen tap on “Settings”, then tap “General” followed by “Usage”, this shows us how much space is available and what’s eating it all upThe Usage list is sorted by total size, starting from the top look through the list for apps you no longer use When you find an app that is large that gets infrequent use, tap on it and then tap the big red “Delete App” button, then confirm the deletion at the alert dialog. DIY Touch-Screen Stylus; New and Improved. Make a Tablet Stylus Out of a Candy Wrapper. APP™ Rumor: Apple to include quad-core A6 in next iPhone | iPhone Atlas. Sources in the industry speaking with DigiTimes (via AppleInsider) have reportedly been expecting the competition in the smartphone world to heat up around the adoption of quad-core processors as early as this year's holiday quarter.
HTC, Samsung, LG, and China's Meizu already have quad-core processors in their phones, leading industry sources to believe that indeed, Apple will have to include a new chip to stay competitive. That new iPhone is largely expected to be released this fall. While its competition is mostly using Qualcomm's dual-core technology (quad-core is forthcoming later this year), Apple is expected to use Samsung's Exynos 4 architecture as part of its custom line of chips.
The iPhone 4S currently runs the dual-core A5 (the new iPad runs with the A5X, which includes an upgraded graphics processor to handle its Retina Display). A quad-core iPhone would likely carry the A6 name. Would the lack of a quad-core processor in Apple's next iPhone be detrimental to Apple's sales? Mobile & Add-ons. Fast, easy and accurate Keep your phone contacts up to date Over 200 million people and businesses WhitePages Current Free call & text ID Social & news feeds Get it on Google Play Reverse Phone Reverse phone lookup Spam alert Get it on the App Store Lookup phone numbers Find local addresses Get it on the App Store. iBackFlip Somersault: A versatile high-quality bag for your iPad. Back at Macworld | iWorld 2012, TUAW editor-in-chief Victor Agreda had a chance to talk with the creator of the iBackFlip Somersault (US$89.95). Now that this iPad bag has been in the wild for a time and has gone through a few design revisions, we thought it would be a perfect opportunity to review the Somersault.
Be sure to read through to the end of the post for details on entering to win an iBackFlip Somersault in a TUAW giveaway. Of all of the myriad bags that we receive at the TUAW Labs, I have to say that the iBackFlip Somersault is one of the most unique I've seen. At first glance, it appears to be a sling-type backpack just big enough for an iPad or perhaps a MacBook Air. The real difference shows up when you open the main fold-out pocket on the Somersault. This is the killer feature of the Somersault, and the thing that really makes it stand out in the crowd. That cool little fold-out "desk" panel isn't the only feature of the iBackFlip Somersault, though.
Conclusion Giveaway. Livescribe Echo: The smartpen upgrade you wanted. Smartpen maker Livescribe has for a few years been selling a product called the Pulse -- a pen that knows what you're writing. But it now has an upgraded version for 2010: the Echo. The original Pulse came with the ability to record audio alongside whatever you wrote with it. That audio could then be selectively played back by tapping the pen on whichever words you're interested in -- thanks to a microscopic pattern of dots on specially-printed paper, the pen knew what was being recorded at the moment each word was written.
It's a nifty idea, but as the community of users grew, so too did the list of complaints about the product. "They wanted the pen to stop rolling around on the desk, for one thing. So Marggraff worked down the laundry list of demands, sprinkled in some ideas that he'd had too, and created a new product. There's a smaller rubberised grip with one flat side, a microUSB charging socket, an audio jack, and considerably bulked up storage from 2GB to 8GB. How many Apple IDs should your family have? — Apple News, Tips and Reviews. Xappr Gun turns your iPhone into an FPS dream machine! Xappr is a gun accessory for your iPhone that'll instantly appeal to everyone from fans of the original Duck Hunt on Ninteno to the latest Halo or Call of Duty FPS shooters.
Imagine, holding a weapon that looks like something out of a James Cameron sci-fi blockbuster, your iPhone safely mounted on top, your favorite shooting game loaded and ready, the grip tight on your hand, the trigger itching under your finger, your multi-player enemy right in your cross-hairs. How fun does that sound? The Xappr and Micro-Xappr guns are currently on preorder, but will be available in the EU, Isreal, U.S., and Canada this June. Apps will be required to support it and while there's only a handful right now, more should be coming soon. A lot more I hope, especially the Modern Combat, N.O.V.A. and other premiere App Store games.
Pre-order price is $30. Source: XAPPRGun The Xappr and Micro-Xappr guns are currently on preorder, but will be available in the EU, Isreal, U.S., and Canada this June. FastEddieSRT : Devium Dash looks to repla... Apple rumored to be working on a hardware gaming controller. Rumor has it that Apple is quietly tinkering with a new device dedicated to making gaming easier on iOS devices.
During their 2012 iPad review, AnandTech mentioned: I know of an internal Apple project to bring a physical controller to market, but whether or not it will ever see the light of day remains to be seen. As smartphones and tablets come close to equalling the performance of current game consoles, I feel like the controller problem must be addressed.
The best third-party attempt at hardware remotes dedicated to mobile that I've seen to date is Zeemote. but if Apple ends up providing native Bluetooth connection support for standard game controllers like the PS3's, it may circumvent the need for Apple to make anything themselves. Personally, I think the Wii remote would be best suited for the job, at least from a style standpoint. Apple is most definitely targeting gaming consoles with the new iPad, so the possibility isn't too far-out. Source: AnandTech. FastEddieSRT : Pogo Sketch Pro vs. Kuel H... Pogo Sketch Pro vs. Kuel H12 vs. Jot Pro vs. Bamboo: iPad stylus shootout. Pogo Sketch Pro vs. Kuel H12 vs. Jot Pro vs. Bamboo: iMore compares pro-level iPad stylus pens and tells you which one is best for you Apple might have said "yuk!
" to stylus pens but users are saying "yes! " in ever greater number. Apple might have had a point, back in the days before iPhones and iPads, when pointy old resistive stylus pens had to be used just to get outdated touch screens and inscrutable interfaces to work. To answer that questions, iMore took a look at four of the most popular, high end stylus pens on the market -- The Ten One Design Pogo Sketch Pro, the SGP Kuel H12, the Adonit Jot Pro, and the Wacom Bamboo. And here's what we found... iPad stylus hardware comparison How a stylus feels and how it holds up is as important as how it works. Wacom Bamboo stylus The Wacom Bamboo stylus looks like a standard, straight-barrel pen with feed. We found the Wacom Bamboo to be the least comfortable of the group. Wacom Bamboo Stylus for iPad review Adonit Jot Pro stylus Cost Conclusion.
FastEddieSRT : Ten One Design Pogo Sketch... FastEddieSRT : Xappr Gun turns your iPhon... 6 Reasons Why We Should Be Using iPads | iPads for Learning. Vineet Madan, vice-president of McGraw-Hill Higher Education eLabs, spends time developing ways that technology can improve learning among college and university students. He recently talked about the reasons why iPads are ready for the college classroom. K-12 schools across the country (and just down the street) are putting huge chunks of cash aside for 1-to-1 iPad initiatives. Madan argues that iPads are tailor-made for the university level. But are they really ready for K-12? I think they are. iPads Are the Best Way to Show Textbooks iPads are capable of displaying incredible ebooks featuring images, video and audio.
And when there is text, the iPad allows students to highlight text, take notes in the margin and access a dictionary directly within the book itself. Kids Are Ready for Tablets While iPads have been around for just over 14 months, kids have been using smartphones for years and understand touchscreen technology. iPads Can Raise Test Scores iPads Are Becoming More Available. Apple adding photo sharing and social features to iCloud, report says. Apple will soon unveil an update to its iCloud storage service that will add photo sharing and social features, the Wall Street Journal reports. While Dropbox, Box, Microsoft, and Google have dominated the cloud storage conversation in recent months, Apple has mostly stayed out of comparisons because it offers the dumbest (maybe “easiest” is the right word) cloud storage.
It syncs your media across all iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad), Macs, and PCs, but there is no way to manage what exactly goes where. But with new functionality that is Apple is likely to announce at its WWDC conference on June 11, iCloud could take a leap forward with more fleshed-out features. First up will be easy photo sharing so others can access and download your photos. The iCloud update will also reportedly let you sync notes and reminders using new web apps. Let us know in the comments if you use iCloud now and if you’re looking forward to new features from the service. This Site Features Some of Steve Jobs' Best Quotes. We realize that some of you may have had your fill of Facebook news today, so this is a perfect time to break out some zen thinking thanks to the master of Apple himself: Steve Jobs. This cool site called SteveTold.Us depicts a very relaxed Steve Jobs with an overlay of his best quotes.
Simply refresh the page and you’ll find some new words of wisdom: There’s nothing more to the site than that, but as usual, the words of Steve Jobs still resonate like they always did. Give the site a go and get yourself some knowledge like this gem: Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. . ➤ SteveTold.Us. Is this the new Apple TV Set?
Rumors about a TV coming from Apple have been around for a while already. Never any clear facts, yet the rumors also never entirely go away either. Now we are one big step further – what you see here above, apparently is the new Apple HDTV. According to a source of Cult of Mac, “the Apple HDTV looks like Apple’s current lineup of LED-backlit Cinema Displays but is “much bigger.” It has a built-in iSight camera for making free FaceTime video conference calls. And it has Siri, the iPhone 4S’s voice-activated virtual assistant.” According to those sources, the above mock-up was produced. If this is all true, then an official introduction of Apple television sets this year, would not come as a surprise.
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