New Footage of Prototype iPhone/iOS Device/Software
Something that is creating a bit of a buzz on the Net is a new YouTube video that displays what appears to be a prototype white iPhone with a corresponding prototype iOS software. Interestingly enough, the software caught the attention of viewers being that it entailed a mobile version of Exposé, managing and switching apps in a nine window grid. What also caught attention of viewers is the iPhone device containing 64GB.
Adobe Intros Photoshop Touch SDK And 3 iPad Apps for PS
Alongside the major update to the Creative Suite collection, Adobe introduced a new type of touch SDK that allows developers to create software for the mobile and tablet devices of today and have these softwares interact with PS.
Our friends over at MacRumors did some great profiling of the details of the new SDK
With Adobe Eazel, you can use your iPad and your fingertips to paint beautiful works of art. Paint across your entire iPad screen, and easily access the tools you need. Send your artwork directly to Photoshop CS5 from any location?all you need is a network connection between your iPad and computer. Or do all your painting in the app, and share via email.
Walkthrough Of Mac OS X Lion Emerges
Many people already knew that as soon as Apple released the first developer seed of Mac OS X Lion to developers, a video walkthrough (as has been provided in the pass with previous seeding of Mac OS software) of the software would emerge. Although the news of Apple’s new MacBook Pros with the new Thunderbolt port and the iPad 2 announcement quickly overshadowed the announcement of the Mac OS Lion testing, it hasn’t been forgotten.
Mac OS X: Lion Launchpad + Mission Control + App Store + Full Screen Apps
With the introduction of the next generation operating system for the Mac, Apple has based this rendition of Mac OS X on the mobile software that it help build, iOS. Demoed this week at the Back to the Mac event, Cupertino showed off three aspects of the new OS that is patented iOS and will be making its debut this summer with the Lion release: Launchpad, Mission Control and the every so familiar App Store.
Launchpad has been designed to behave like the Home Screens on iOS. Using the power of Multi-Touch through your Magic Trackpad or Magic Mouse, users can navigate through multiple home screens (there was no limit mentioned at the event) to launch all the applications that are currently installed on your Mac. Users can even drag applications on top of one another to create folders, just like it’s done on iOS.
iLife 11 is Here
This week Apple rolled out iLife 11, the new upgrade to the user-friendly multimedia software suite. iLife 11 incorporates some new features that make the software more powerful than its predecessor set.
iPhoto brings home the new influence of full-screen apps on the Mac OS X front, incorporating the elements from iOS. The full-screen view goes more in-depth than the previous experience adding new functionalities and features. Along with that, Apple also expanded on some features, more precisely, iPhotos social network integration. Facebook integration now includes updates and comments made on the photos posted on the users account. The app also includes an more elegant, simplistic, integrated method for emailing photos to recipients. You can now set up an email message with the photos cropped according into a variety of templets. Custom letterpress options are also now available in iPhoto. Letterpress is the process of printing from a hard, raised image under pressure, using a thick and consistent ink. Being that the theme of the event was creating a cycle between the iPhone/iPod, iPad and Mac, the new iPhoto also introduces a new iBooks-like shelf to hold all of your album creations.
Apple Awarded Filtered Messaging Patent
Apple got the patent rights to an idea that has received a whole lot of attention from the media this week. The idea, originally submitted in 2007 and made public for viewing in 2008, makes it possible for supervisors of a device to filter or block out certain email and SMS content. The idea has received consideration from the media being that it can be used to prevent parent’s children from participating in to what has become a hot topic in recent time: “sexting”. Sexting (for those of you who don’t watch daytime television) is the action of sending sexually explicit content by SMS/MMS or email means.
Apple seeds Mac OS X 10.6.5 Build 10H555 to Devs
This week, Apple released a new build to the Mac OS 10.6.5 development. Build 10H555 was release to a section of the their development community for testing, following the same two week release of the previous build.
Like the last build, there has been no mention of known issues with the software from Apple. Also, the build asks users to concentrate their testing on printing, QuickTime, Time Machine, graphics and USB devices. With Apple again not posting any known issues with the software, OS 10.6.5 seems to be on its way from earning the golden-master label and hit Apple servers for a public release.
Apple Is Prepping Up/Apple Update iWork To Version 9.0.4
Apple is hardly ever behind are they? The company is getting everything set for the September 1 Media Event kicking off at 10AM Pacific time (thats 11 oclock for you folks in the mountains, Noon for the midwest, and 1PM for the people on the east coast), which is the usual time they have been throwing these things. People are expecting a wide array of developments to show their face next week, including the new iPod touch, iTV and a social web-based iTunes. The iPod as been the subject of the week recently with some new cases for the iPod touch being pitted into the while giving the impression that the hardware will be receiving the same squared off goodness of the iPhone 4. Not only that, the iPod nano looks like it might taking off the world famous Click Wheel (yeah, you heard right. Thats what the buzz is on the Net.) Well, like we said, we have the day circled in red on our calendar.
The Revolution WILL Be Televised
Well there has been plenty of news to come rolling out right at the beginning of the week. One of the latest developments is built around the new Apple TV (speculated to be rebranded as iTV). Founder of Digg, Kevin Rose, chimed in via his blog by saying that the new set top box from Apple is going to “change everything.”
Apple Granted “Slide to Unlock” and Scale Up Keyboard Click Animation Patent Rights
Say what you must, but Apple did change the industry with the iPhone, as the did the music and movie industry with the iPod and iTunes and the tech industry back in ’84 with the Macintosh and the GUI (graphical user interface). One thing that Apple is notoriously known for is their software (being that they are primarily a software company) and hardware design. Even though it may seem like a small aspect of the iOS software, cheers were shared at the unveiling of the original iPhone when Steve Jobs slid his finger to unlock the UI of the system. A lot of “oohs” and “ahhs” were also given with inertial scrolling and the scaling up of keys as Steve typed on the iPhone. Today, Apple was granted the official rights to the keyboard and lock screen eye candy.
