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What’s more ‘exclusive’? An expensive, glossy photo book, or an iPad app? Photo credit Steve Rosenbaum
Almost ten years after the World Trade Center disaster, a book documenting the history of the building in photos and video will be published. And it will be iPad-only.
The creator, Steve Rosenbaum, has assembled 400 photographs plus several hours of video, and will be skipping paper altogether. His reasoning is both smart and startling. When asked why he would limit sales of his book by publishing only on a device that costs minimum $500, he said
The iPad is the single fastest selling consumer device in the history of consumer electronics. There are 30 million now on the market. What’s more limited? A beautiful glossy photo book that sits in Barnes & Noble, or something that’s free and on a device that lots of people have?
When you look at it like that, it seems stupid to publish on paper any more, right? Imagine how these things will go when the iPad finally gets a retina display.
The app will be free from its launch on September 1st until September 12th. After that it will cost $10 — still much less than a glossy photo book.
9/11 Memorial App to Be iPad-Exclusive [New York Observer]
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Logitech unveils suction cup joystick for the iPad (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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A judge in The Hague just issued a ruling in Apple’s patent infringement case against Samsung, prohibiting “the marketing of Samsung smartphones Galaxy S, S II and Ace for violation of Apple Inc. EP 2,059,868.” In an official press release, the court explains that The Hague judge ruled to “ban trading of Samsung smartphones Galaxy S, S II and Ace,” adding that Samsung also violated other did not violate Apple patents with its Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 10.1v. The judge determined that Samsung violated patent 2,059,868, which deals with “method of scrolling,” but did not infringe 2,098,948 for “recording a flag in connection with multiple screen taps,” or 1,964,022, which relates to dragging a slider to unlock the phone. We haven’t been able to confirm, but from an online translation it appears that The ban will remain in effect through begin on October 13th. Hit up the source link for the full 65-page verdict (in Dutch).
Update: A dutch IP attorney has pointed out that the judge has ruled patent 1,964,022 to be null and void, meaning Apple can no longer make claims in the Netherlands based on this patent. The judge also found that Samsung did not infringe on patent 2,098,948. The infringement of 2,059,868 does not affect the Galaxy Tab 10.1. (Correction: the main patent in question is 2,059,868 not 2,058,868.)
Update 2: According to Tweakers.net, Samsung says that it will replace the software that infringes on Apple’s patent (the Gallery application, specifically), which should allow it to continue to sell the phones. Notably, that Gallery application is the standard Android one used in Android 2.3, which also explains why the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is not affected by this ruling. Less clear is what the ruling means for other Android phones that use the same application.
Update 3: Samsung Mobile’s Kim Titus released the following statement:
Today’s ruling is an affirmation that the GALAXY range of products is innovative and distinctive. With regard to the single infringement cited in the ruling, we will take all possible measures including legal action to ensure that there is no disruption in the availability of our GALAXY smartphones to Dutch consumers. This ruling is not expected to affect sales in other European markets. Samsung has a proud history of innovation in the mobile industry. We will continue our plans to introduce new products and technologies that meet and exceed consumer expectations. And we will defend our intellectual property rights through the ongoing legal proceedings around the world.
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It’s a full-sized keyboard, and it folds into a full-sized block of plastic
Logitech has announced a big, fat fold-up keyboard case for the iPad which will make your slim iPad 2 look like a 1990s tablet PC. The Bluetooth keyboard, which charges via USB, actually looks like a great accessory — if you can get past the bulk.
The Logitech Fold-Up Keyboard for iPad, as it is known, does the usual stuff an iPad keyboard should do. It offers a full-sized typing area, has iPad-specific keys for volume, brightness and the like, and offers a stand to prop up the tablet as you type.
It also folds up into a thick package, splitting in the middle to shrink down to the same footprint-size as the iPad (only way, way fatter). The Bluetooth radio switches on and off automatically as you fold and unfold the device.
It actually looks like a pretty nice keyboard, and beats out other keyboard cases thanks to its full-sized keys. It also costs $130. For this price, you could just go with a regular Apple aluminum keyboard ($70) and a keyboard case from WaterField ($30) and still have (almost) enough left over for a Smart Cover ($40).
Available for pre-order now.
Logitech Fold-Up Keyboard for iPad [Logitech. Thanks, Tim!]
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United Airlines and Apple announced today that the airline will deploy 11,000 iPads for its United and Continental pilots. This is the first major airline to replace paper flight manuals with electronic flight bags, or EFBs.
“The paperless flight deck represents the next generation of flying,” said Captain Fred Abbott, United’s senior vice president of flight operations, in a press release. “The introduction of iPads ensures our pilots have essential and real-time information at their fingertips at all times throughout the flight.”
Alaska Airlines ditched paper charts for iPads in June, following Executive Jet Management’s lead. The FAA allowed the company’s pilots to use iPads as their primary source of information starting in February. Delta has also been testing out tablets with their pilots. They are first testing the iPad, and then will test the Motorola XOOM.
Just like on land, Apple’s iPad is dominating the scene.
“What makes the iPad more attractive, in comparison to its competitors, is that it is extremely stable and is less likely to experience a system crash. Even if that did occur, the reboot time is one of the fastest in the tablet market,” said Resolve Market Research analyst Kari Cafouros. “These advantages are more appealing to companies when choosing to give out tablets to their employees, compounded by the fact that they know their employees already want the device for personal usage.”
The switch to tablets on board aircraft isn’t just good for Apple. United’s plan will save 16 million sheets of paper and 326,000 gallons of jet fuel a year, because each 1.5-pound iPad will take the place of about 38-pounds of operating manuals, flight charts and checklists, logbooks, and informational papers pilots normally reference. Paper-based flight bags normally house over 12,000 sheets of paper… per pilot.
The iPads will run software called Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck, which includes interactive route navigation information and geo-referenced terminal charts.
Image courtesy United Continental Holdings
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Finally, Evernote for the iPad has been de-fuglified. Images Evernote
Evernote, the love-it-or-hate-it note-taking app, has received a big update on the iPad and the Mac. The Mac version brings Lion-friendly features like full-screen mode and hard-to-distinguish monochrome icons along with a neat new All Notes view, but it’s users of the iPad app that will be happiest: Evernote for the iPad finally doesn’t suck.
The supposed headline feature in v4.1 of the capture-everything app is rich-text editing, which lets you both create styled text notes (previously you were limited to plain text) and also means you don’t destroy the formatting when you edit already styled notes created elsewhere. But as rich-text support will be coming to iOS 5 anyway, this seems less exciting.
Much more interesting is the improved interface. The new view is called “All Notes,” and shows you just that: resizable (pinch ‘em) thumbnails of all your notes. These can be grouped by almost any criterion, including notebook, date and even the city they were created in. This new layout is way easier (and faster) to navigate, and is a lot prettier, too. It feels like an iPad app, not some crap ported from Android.
This new view is standard across the whole app, whether viewing by notebook, tags, location or shared notebooks. That’s right, Evernote for iPad now has support for shared notebooks. This lets groups share between themselves, or for subscribing to publicly shared books. Note: Food blog *Serious Eats* should really consider posting its recipes into a shared Evernote notebook.
The other big change is slideshows. Tap an image and you are entered into slideshow mode, where you can pinch, zoom and swipe your way through multiple images (note with one image don’t do this).
There are also a few tweaks to the iPhone version (the app is universal), including rich text support, but the iPhone got a big update recently anyway.
The double-whammy of new iPad and Mac versions of Evernote mean I can finally stop not quite getting around to canceling my paid, pro account. Evernote, in all its forms, is free. Available now.
Evernote [iTunes]
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Print to PDF adds a virtual printer to your iDevice. Screenshot Charlie Sorrel
Printing to PDF is one of the coolest unsung features of the Mac. Anytime you find yourself in a print dialog box, you can select a dropdown menu and turn whatever you were printing into a PDF file. It’s great for “printing” boarding passes ready to be mailed to your local print shop for actual transfer to paper, for example.
It’s a feature so fundamentally obvious that when the Lady was forced to use a Windows PC for work last week, she called to ask where to find it.
And now this feature comes to iOS. Print to PDF is an app that runs a virtual print server on your iPad or iPhone. Any time you choose to print, in any app that can send documents to AirPrint, you can instead pick Print to PDF as a destination.
Thanks to the limitations of iOS, the app can only run for a few minutes before being terminated, so you’ll have to launch it and then head back to the app you want to print from. Once there, you just pick the printer that has the same name as your iOS device and print. A dialog pops up to tell you it worked, and you can tap this to view the resulting PDF. All the PDFs can be organized into folders, and anything from the browser or e-mail client is automatically filed into a special folder.
That would be good enough, but there’s more. First, you can hit a button to turn the page of the PDF you are currently viewing into a plain text version, ready for copying and pasting.
You can also opt to have your iPad (or iPhone) to show up on your local network as a printer. Thus, you can print to it from any other iOS device, or even your Mac. It might work with a PC, too, but I haven’t tested that as my only PC is under a pile of dust beneath my bed.
There are other apps which let you create PDFs from webpages, but this one is so easy and versatile it might just become the default. It will also let you send the results to any other PDF compatible app, so you’ll never get locked in.
Print to PDF is available now as a universal app for just $4.
Print to PDF [iTunes]
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