The 4-fingers gesture on iPad is better than double-tapping the home button. But this would be the perfect one.
J. Eddie Smith, IV:
Before sync became such a reliable reality, computing was basically a two-dimensional concept: you chose hardware, and then you chose the software to run on your hardware (not necessarily in that order).
This only if you never had two or more computers. Those that had to manage a multi-computer environment have invested a lot of energy into solving this problem.
The cloud is indeed making things easier as it takes the role of the reference version or the master, while most of the previous solutions were more or less peer to peer setups that had to manually address conflicts. The more machines you had the more chances to run into conflicts. That’s not to say that conflicts are not possible in a cloud environment though. But if you always consider the remote version the master, then things will be slightly simpler.
Hoping to take a small slice from Apple’s big pie, newspaper publishers are developing tablet computers of their own.
Good luck with getting in the tablet market iPad market.
Tribune aims to offer the tablet for free, or at a highly subsidized price, to people who agree to sign up for extended subscriptions to one of its papers and possibly a wireless-data plan with a partner cellular carrier, said five people briefed on the project.
I was thinking the only way this could work would be exactly the opposite strategy: bring together a bunch of high profile magazines and include the first year subscription in the price of the tablet. This could be the electronic magazines tablet.
Ben Brooks:
I keep only three screens on my iPhone/iPad at all times. There is a very logical order to everything:
- Screen 1 contains only the most used apps, never any folders.
- Screen 2 contains a couple of apps that don’t fit on screen one and everything else in folders.
- Screen 3 contains apps that I am testing or just downloaded (meaning I am unsure how long they will be on my device for).
- iOS Dock contains apps that I want to be able to access immediately, no matter which screen I am viewing.
I’ve recently spent a bit of time reorganizing the apps on both my iPhone and iPad. While I’ve pursued similar goals, I don’t think I’ve formulated my rules so clear.
The only thing I’m not completely happy with is the dock[1]. I’d really like to have a bit of more space on it, even if that would mean smaller icons.
In one case it’s also the fact that I keep 3 similar apps on the dock, just because I haven’t found the ultimate one. ↩
Hilarious:
And, yes, this once again means that the iPhone has gotten the latest version of Android before many Android devices have.
There way too much being written and said about the missing Flash on the iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iTouch). And the solution is simple. Really simple. I’m pretty sure smarter people than me have pointed it out already. It is called:
Flash on demand
How it works? If you are familiar with ClickToFlash for Safari that’s pretty much about it. But let me briefly describe it for those that are not familiar with it.
Flash is disabled by default. But the browser is presenting it (look no more empty spots on the page!). On a user triggered action the Flash plugin is loaded and plays it (look no annoying ads slowing down the browser!). The user can also trigger the unload. (look, I’m not worried anymore about Flash).
The fact that Apple and Adobe do not work on such a simple solution is a clear sign they do NOT care. They don’t care about you and me, the web, or anything. It is just about money and PR.
