Forget Flash, iPhone, iPad Don’t Support ActiveX!
January 31, 2010
I’ve mentioned a couple times already, given the recent flare-up in the discussion about iPad and iPhone not supporting Flash, that not so expanded ago you had a hard day using any browser other than IE6 considering of another proprietary plugin — Microsoft’s ActiveX. Times chang…
Apps Gone Free on 1/30. Adubble and Compression
January 30, 2010
“Great Apps Gone Free” is our daily column that features great and valuable paid apps that have just gone free. We’ve tested them and filtered out crappy apps from our list so these apps are actually worth your duration to download. Get these apps quickly considering some are just free for a l…
Apple vs. Amazon vs. Macmillian — Begun These e-Book Wars Have?
January 30, 2010
According to the NYT’s Bits blog, Amazon has pulled Macmillan e-books due to a dispute by pricing, with Amazon wanting to hold the line at $9.99 and Macmillan wanting to raise it to an Apple iPad iBooks-like $14.99.
Eerily similar to Apple and iTunes Music, where Steve Jobs resisted the mu…
How-to: assemble Your Jailbroken iPhone Look Like an iPad
January 30, 2010
Redmond Pie has a nifty tutorial up for those who want to give their Jailbroken iPhone and/or iPod touch an iPad look-and-feel (or just a tip of iPhone 3.2!). Here’s what you need:
Winterboard
“Simple iPad Theme”
MakeItMine app
Shrink app
ProSwitcher
NYTimes app
Classics app
Kindle ap…
How-to: compose Your Jailbroken iPhone Look Like and iPad
January 30, 2010
Redmond Pie has a nifty tutorial up for those who want to give their Jailbroken iPhone and/or iPod touch an iPad look-and-feel (or just a tip of iPhone 3.2!). Here’s what you need:
Winterboard
“Simple iPad Theme”
MakeItMine app
Shrink app
ProSwitcher
NYTimes app
Classics app
Kindle ap…
Apple iPad Promotional Material Updated to Remove Flash composition, Adobe iPad Porn Fail Removed from TheFlashBlog
January 30, 2010
And 9to5mac finally puts to bed the does-iPad-support-Flash flood they kicked off yesterday by noting Apple and their advertising agency have updated promotional videos and images on Apple.com to properly reflect the lack of Adobe Flash support on the iPad, including the blue lego bricks of plugin…
iPhone 3.2 SDK on iPad — iChat Video Calling, File Downloads, Telephony Support, Handwriting Keyboard… And Coming to iPhone?
January 30, 2010
Engadget has been getting tips from deep cipher divers who are exploring Apple’s latest iPhone 3.2 SDK for the iPad and what they’re finding includes code/hooks for iChat-style video Calling, file downloads from Mobile Safari, support for telephony like SMS and calls, and some prototyp…
iPad Accessory Development Ramping Up
January 30, 2010
When Apple introduced the iPad as their “magical and revolutionary” device on Wednesday, Steve Jobs quickly mentioned a few accessories to form the iPad a little more practical. Keyboard, case and connection kits help construct the iPad more accessible and useful for the “muggle…
Adobe Flash Blog on iPad/iPhone — poor for Games, TV, News… and Porn!
January 29, 2010
TheFlashBlog’s Lee Brimelow, Platform Evangelist at Adobe “focusing on the Flash, Flex, and AIR developer communities” has put up a series of iPad mockups highlighting a wide range of web sites all showing the blue lego brick of, in that case Flash, plugin fail — and they f…
UPDATED: iPad Displaying Adobe Flash in Apple Publicity Videos? Wait, What?
January 29, 2010
UPDATE: 9to5mac followed up and found out they were hi-res mockup/optimized pages used for the promotional material. Likely NO Flash.
TiPb assumed, for reasons we’ve written about ad nauseum infinitum, that there was no way Apple’s new iPad would include Adobe’s Flash plugin, ye…