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iPad apps (and here comes the “Blackpad”)
Aug 4th
You can make great apps for the iPad using either Webkit or the App Store. Oh, and the “Blackpad”.
- Creating Content for the iPad – Create a photo web app for the iPad using Automator.
- Redesigning the New York City subway map – Visualizing and redesigning the New York City subway map (of course, with an iPad app).
- iPad OmniFocus Review – If you’re not bound to Outlook or another Windows solution for managing your GTD, OmniFocus on the iPad looks sweet. The desktop app was designed in consultation with Merlin Mann.
- RIM Said to Plan Tablet for November to Take on Apple’s IPad – The “Blackpad” might be a godsend for corporates who want a tablet but are limited by their IT policies.
HTML5? Yahoo!
Jun 28th
The Yahoo! Entertainment app for the iPad is based on HTML5, but it looks like the hotly anticipated Sports Illustrated app falls a bit short of the promise of the concept.
- Sports Illustrated Releases Apple iPad App – Sports Illustrated shows how difficult it is to execute the iPad magazine app that we’re all (still) waiting for. The SI app is built on the same “backbone” as the Time app, from The Wonder Factory and WoodWing Software. Chris Hercik, SI creative director, also answers a few questions in an accompanying video.
- Is That HTML5 in Your App? – Yahoo! Product Engineer Travis Young gives an overview of how the Yahoo! Entertainment App for the iPad is based on HTML5.
- HTML5 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Just in case you wanted a semiofficial definition of what HTML5 actually is.
- Papers for iPad – The popular alternative PDF library app for OS X, on your iPad.
- Gourmet Magazine Revived for the iPad – Can a shuttered magazine find a new life on the iPad?
Expectations change quickly
I got a fancy new BlackBerry for work. Unwrapped it, turned it on, nice high-quality, high-pixel-density screen.
Then I started poking at the applications on the screen. Nothing happens.
Hmmm. Wait a second, there’s a touchpad scrollwheel thing below the screen. Oh, it’s one of those…
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