Showing posts with label ipad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ipad. Show all posts

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Roller to clean your iPad


Japanese Jim king offers its iColoColo for iPad owners, a small roller running on the same principle as for adhesive rolls rid of their clothes dirt.

Roll iColoColo not clean clothes, but touch screens tablets all traces of sebum, grease or dust that have accumulated there. Each roll sheet can be used forty times, which ensures a life expectancy of about 500 cleanings.

It is available for 525 yen / approx. € 5.32 refills (75 x 23 mm) paper adhesives. Dimensions: 96 x 32 x 152 mm. Price: 1260 yen / approx. € 12.80.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Concept: a real typewriter for iPad


The youngest will perhaps not a mechanical typewriter prints the letters on the paper by pressing a lever strikes the paper and an ink ribbon.

A designer had the crazy idea to take this principle of mechanical lever to apply to the iPad: the concept is iTypewriter born. The principle is the same: pressing a button, a lever is operated just make a tap on the screen of the tablet.

The idea is fun, but the concept is really not very practical keyboard of this strange machine is stuck on a configuration and it is not even the QWERTY. Typing is very slow as shown in this video, but who cares, the pleasures of nostalgia has no price...

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Testing the MacBook Air 13 "mid-2012 1.8 GHz Core i5 - II

Then comes the resistance tests of the battery on a machine that sees its performance increase. It turns out that we find the values promised by Apple with its 7 am in the best case (in consultation Wi-Fi 25 sites popular with the screen at 50%, says the Apple).

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Testing the MacBook Air 13 "mid-2012 1.8 GHz Core i5 - I

This is a virtual twin of the previous model that offers Apple MacBook Air with this 13 "version 2012. One year to another, the designers have made to the exterior of the machine and only minor changes that it sees only the AC power really evolve. The outline of this family remains the same since its birth in early 2008. The number of times we have seen manufacturers take inspiration from this design is sufficient to demonstrate its relevance.

Monday, July 2, 2012

iPad: The magazine will arrive more tomorrow - II

Reading linear or cross?

Further pages of an ordinary place, as proposed conversion homothetic, we tried to imagine an architecture that makes it more rational reading a magazine. This resulted in what we call, for want of better, "read Cross": it scrolls horizontally between different items, and vertically to read the whole of a long subject. In practice, you move from one section to the next in "turning" the page of a finger, then one of them if you are interested in is a vertical gesture as you discover its sequel.

Saturday, June 30, 2012

iPad: The magazine will arrive more tomorrow

More than two years after the release of the iPad, magazines available on the Apple tablet are still relatively few. Those who have made the jump to the vast majority, like carbon copies of the paper version, they do little to exploit that allows the digital enhancements, in terms of multimedia, for example. However, the design tools offer more options, newsrooms are organized and equipped themselves gradually, and one begins to imagine what might be the electronic magazine of tomorrow ... if it does come tomorrow.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

iOS6 - III

Changes in the keyboard of iPhone

Apple has made some minor changes to the virtual keyboard iOS 6. The iPhone keyboard found the operation of the iPad for accented characters. If you hold your finger on a button, you will all accented characters, but not the original letter, which speeds up typing.

iOS6 - II

Facebook integration
iOS 5 incorporated the social network Twitter, iOS 6 starts in turn to Facebook. The principle is exactly the same: to save the settings in your account and you can add a status and other information on your account. Apple has done things with the opportunity to select an album to send a picture and to restrict the scope of the statute.

iOS6 - I

iOS 6, Apple does not offer the complete overhaul of its mobile expected by some. As with every update since its first version presented in 2007, the manufacturer has made some additions and modified in many ways more or less minor.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

iBookstore: Return of the complaint against Apple and publishers


Steve Jobs comes into the picture

Through the exchanges between publishers, it appears that one of them is not ready to change his tune. January 24, three days before the launch of the iPad, Steve Jobs enters the discussion and send an email to one of the protagonists by describing the situation as follows: "As I see it, you following choice:

Friday, May 18, 2012

iBookstore: Return of the complaint against Apple and publishers


Several details have emerged of a complaint filed by 17 states against Apple [PDF] and two publishing houses. This is always the accusation of collusion between Apple, Macmillan and Penguin to fix - upward - the prices of electronic books. The complaint is not new, but some elements remained hidden and they have just been made public (via PaidContent).

Monday, May 14, 2012

Why Apple does not need to become mobile operator

The idea that Apple would become a priority objective of mobile operator returns periodically, like bad herpes - except that it seems impossible to get rid of. It assumes that the Apple strategy is to vertically integrate all components of its business. This is very bad understanding of how the Cupertino than to believe, and therefore to imagine that the launch of an operator to either Apple tomorrow.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Playback: Comparative Instapaper, Readability and Pocket - I

Applications "Timeshift" have the wind behind Instapaper, which created the genre in 2008 has since been joined by Readability and Pocket (ex-Read it Later). Although similar, these three applications are not quite the same, and each has a different economic model. Which one? Response elements in our overview.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

WWDC 2012: June 11 to 15 [Update]


WWDC 2012 will take place from June 11 to 15, 2012 in San Francisco. The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference will be held as usual at Moscone West, which means it will host just under 5,000 people. Many developers still watching this ad for several weeks.

Friday, March 30, 2012

New iPad: better than the iPad 2 for the same price - II

Best camera

Apple highlights the camera better on her new iPad. The result is the same everywhere: the camera is actually much better than on the iPad 2, which was also not difficult. Macworld focuses on the quality of this camera: very close to the iPhone 4S for photos, she is also very powerful video, including with bad light conditions. The stabilization is clearly effective for
videos.

New iPad: better than the iPad 2 for the same price

U.S. sites have appeared in the night the first tests of the new iPad to be released in the U.S. as in France tomorrow. Meanwhile our full test of the third tablet from Apple, here's what to remember this advice generally very enthusiastic.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Testing the iPad Third Generation (Wi-Fi, 32GB) - II


Retina Display: a sheet of paper illuminated

It is nevertheless difficult to snub his pleasure at first boot, the only word that comes is "Wow! ". The effect of the Retina display is less impressive today than it was two years ago when we discovered it on the iPhone, but it nonetheless still amazing, especially on a Screen 9.7 "screen of the iPad is like an electronic sheet of paper backlit.

Testing the iPad Third Generation (Wi-Fi, 32GB) - I


It is not called "iPad 3" but simply "iPad" with the third generation, Apple intends to redefine the category it created with the original iPad. "We have made improvements to the most fundamental aspects of the iPad while keeping everything that people liked the first iPad," said the Cupertino Company. Since the iPad is a large screen flanked by a large battery, these are the points that have been drastically improved, while retaining the strengths (and weaknesses) of IOS. Is it enough to redefine the concept of the iPad? The response in our test.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The A5X reveals its secrets

This has not missed, the processor A5X the new iPad was soon to be "dissected". The first observations of UBM TechInsights and Chipworks, who had already combed the A4 and A5, confirm that the A5X is a chip transition. The improvements are real, but not spectacular.

Like its predecessors, the A5X is always produced by Samsung and is 45 nm. In this regard, we recently learned that TSMC, which is supposed to produce the successors of the A5 processor knows the problems with its transition to a fine engraving of 28 nm. This problem occurred late last year may explain the conservative choice of Apple (read: Towards MacBook Pro 15 "without dedicated Nvidia graphics card?).

Thursday, March 15, 2012

What differences between the iPad 2 and the new iPad? - I

Presented on 7th of this month, the "new iPad" does not fundamentally change from its predecessor. From the outside, nothing has actually changed, or almost: the display still measures 9.7 inches, there is a white or black depending on the model, the home button is always present in front as well as the dock connector on the edge.