Apple Releases Universal iWork Applications for iOS
Apple has released their iWork collection of productivity application for the iPhone and iPod touch, making it available to all the iDevices.
“Now you can use Keynote, Pages and Numbers on iPhone and iPod touch to create amazing presentations, documents and spreadsheets right in the palm of your hand,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The incredible Retina display, revolutionary Multi-Touch interface and our powerful software make it easy to create, edit, organize and share all of your documents from iPhone 4 or iPod touch.”
Square Replacing the Register.
Square has made it possible for anyone, anywhere, anytime to accept credit and debit card payments. The next frontier for the new born company is replacing the cash register. Square has developed a new aspect to their app called “Square Register” for the iPad. Square states that the application will allow users to put their whole catalog of services and products on their iPad.
iCloud icon revealed
Apple has already started decorating the Moscone West convention center. Within the decor, Apple has advertise the orientation of the keynote and giving an idea of what the company will be talking about. One decoration that has made some noise on Twitter is the exposure of what seems to be the iCloud icon.The topic of discussion at the event will be obviously Mac OS X Lion, iCloud, and of course, iOS 5. To add, Steve Jobs has been confirmed to be delivering the WWDC ’11 keynote this year. This is a signal that the event will showcase something big, whether hardware or software. The event is set to take place on Monday, June 6.
iOS 3D
The iOS is taking the a step into the three dimensional realm. A new demo application entitled “i3D”. The application demonstrates head tracking on the iPod, iPad, and iPhone to create three dimensional effects. To demonstrate the application and the project, French researchers Laurence Nigay and Jeremie Francome posted a video on YouTube of the application and the technology in action.
i3D is a free download from the App Store that is available as a universal binary for the iPod and iPhone and for the iPad. The application consists of a video feed who a red bounding box that tracks the user head movements. From there, the same demonstrations displayed in the YouTube video are presented.
Adobe Releases Companion Apps For PS
Adobe this week released the first three companion applications to their widely praised Photoshop application. The company showcased a demonstration of what was possible with the new Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit.
“Adobe Eazal ($4.99)
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 locationall you need is a network connection between your iPad and computer. Or do all your painting in the app, and share via email.
Apple Data Center Working with Nuance for iOS Voice Capabilities?
This month, there has been information provided that states that Apple is currently working with voice recognition firm Nuance Communications to being their service to the iOS platform with the intro of iOS 5 presumably later this year. New information has been provided that stars that Apple will be using their massive North Carolina data center to power centrally-hosted voice services. This new partnership is said to be revealed at the World Wide Developers Conference in June.
No iOS 5 for iPhone 3G(s)
The word is out. Eldar Murtazin, editor-in-chief of the Russian mobile device blog Mobile-Review, tweeted that the next installment to the iOS linage, iOS 5, will not be compatible with the iPhone 3G. This would in turn mean that only the iPhone 4 and later reiterations of the iPhone will be the only phone devices from Apple compatible with iOS 5
“Just one comment. Apple iPhone 3G(s) wont be upgradable to iOS 5.x. iPhone 4 will.”
Steve Jobs and MobileMe
MacStories is chiming in today with an anecdote that steps into the mind of Apple’s head honcho Steve Jobs for a bit. The story was made first available as an in-app purchase through the Fortune magazine subscription on the iPad (later made available on the web on print copies).
The story shares some interesting information about Steve Jobs and the launching of the MobileMe web service. Specifically, the article shares the reaction Jobs had to the initial bogged networks and downtime of the service.
Amazon Makes Cloud Player iOS Compatible
iFans chimed in and gave some information on changes made with the Amazon Cloud Player. Among the changes, one of them was noted as Amazon making their Cloud Player software iOS compatible.
“While it isn’t quite as nice as an actual app, it provides nearly all of the functionality that you could ask for. Even the multitasking music controls work flawlessly. Sound quality is said to be ‘great,’ and the only part of it that is a little buggy seems to be the scrubbing capability”
iOS 5 to bring revamped notifications and widgets?
There has been a lot of talk about iOS 5 being that WWDC is around the corner. One of the things that has been mentioned that will be appearing in the new version of iOS is revamped notifications. One of the very few flaws in the iOS mobile platform is it’s notification system. Users have often found the pop-up notifications very obtrusive. The user has to stop and decline the notification before they can continue with what the were originally doing. Apple has long hired someone who created the widely acclaimed notification system on Palm (now HP) webOS. Apple has been encouraging the press to attend this year’s WWDC, being that the event has been heavily rumored to be software-only oriented. The company is making sure that media attendees do jot Take absence in the event simply because the next iPhone is not present. That being said, sources are expecting Apple to show some “breathtaking” changes in the software.
