Wesley Dyson

I’d like to take a moment and thank everyone who has taken advantage of the Twin Browser Sale that started this past Saturday. Over the course of the weekend we had over 30,000 downloads of Twin Browser, the app is in the high 120s in the overall iPad app chart, and is holding at #5 in Productivity apps for iPad!

I could not be more thrilled!

If you haven’t already heard, Twin Browser is currently free while we wait for Apple to approve version 1.2 which includes a new Bookmarking system, better Navigation, and link sharing. It also includes compatibility with iOS 5.1.

To download Twin Browser while it’s free, just head over to http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twin-browser/id368754825?mt=8

Once you’ve taken a look around, all I ask is you rate Twin Browser on the App Store (hopefully 5 stars!) and tell your friends about the app!

Twin Browser 1.2 will require an iPad running a minimum if iOS 5.0. If you’re not currently using iOS 5, be sure to upgrade your iPad before installing Twin Browser 1.2 or later.

Thanks again everyone! You’ve made my month. Let’s see if we can bring Twin Browser up in the Charts!

(Source: itunes.apple.com)

Mark Gurman from 9to5mac.com today found live sites for beta.icloud.com and developer.icloud.com. It’s not so much that these site existed and were live, but that Apple had included references to new features that anyone could see.

The pages have since been taken down and as far as I know, no one outside of Apple has credentials to login to either of those sites, so nothing more than the login screens were made public.

I just hear Ricky in the back of my head saying “Someone’s got some es’plainin’ to doooo!”

The biggest software release each year for me is the next new major version of iOS.

As there has not yet been an iOS 6 announcement this year, and WWDC is just over one month away, I’m going to assume the two will debut on the same day.

With all we know about iOS 6, it’s going to be a great relea.. Err.. Wait. What do we know about the next version of our favorite mobile OS?

Well, nothing. Very odd.
Apple is keeping this one very close to their chest. Much like they did with Mountain Lion. There were no leaks about 10.8 before it was (quietly) announced.

I actually hope not to hear about any new features or APIs before Scott Forstall takes the stage. It’s.. Refreshing.

I knew about tabs in Xcode 4. What you could do with them though? Total and wonderful surprise. Glad I found this.

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Great article. I was actually just talking about this with a buddy last night. The sight of floating windows on an iPad made me cringe.

If this were true, it’s brilliant. Buying bandwidth wholesale from the carriers and Apple becoming the network provider. Steve Jobs reportedly went down this path years ago to no avail. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, carriers interfere with Apple’s seamless customer experience.

parislemon:

Matthew Lynn, January 14, 2007:

To its many fans, Apple is more of a religious cult than a company. An iToaster that downloads music while toasting bread would probably get the same kind of worldwide attention.

And:

Don’t let that fool you into thinking that it matters. The big competitors in the mobile-phone industry such as Nokia Oyj and Motorola Inc. won’t be whispering nervously into their clamshells over a new threat to their business.

And:

First, Apple is late to this party. The company didn’t invent the personal computer or MP3 player, but it was among the pioneers of both products. Yet there is no shortage of phones out there. There are already big companies that dominate the space, all of whom will defend their turf. That means Apple will have to fight hard for every sale.

And:

Yet Apple has never been good at working with other companies. If it knew how to do that, it would be Microsoft Corp.

And:

Lastly, the iPhone is a defensive product. It is mainly designed to protect the iPod, which is coming under attack from mobile manufacturers adding music players to their handsets.

And:

It won’t come from the iPhone. Apple will sell a few to its fans, but the iPhone won’t make a long-term mark on the industry.

Nailed it.

I mean…

I’m absolutely flabbergasted. Where to begin? Nokia Oyj?!

Hindsight is 20/20 and all that. But come on. What a huge jackass. If he had said the exact opposite of everything he said, he would have been much closer to the truth than he was.

[thanks Tobin]

Let’s say you’re working on an icon for an iOS app. The app is universal, so it should run on all iPhones (and iPod touches), and on the iPad. As a designer, you’re used to drawing icons at various sizes; this is a big part of what “icon design” is (as opposed to other types of illustration).

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rickfillion:

I’ve wanted a NeXTCube since I first learned what they were, which was well after they stopped being made, and some time after Apple bought NeXT. Last summer, I finally got one as Dan Messing decided he didn’t want to lug his out to Portland in his move. It was a physical machine, but not much…

myfourthblog:

While iOS push notifications are awesome in many ways, one of their most important features is that they can be selectively disabled. If one app sends too many push notifications, you can simply turn off push notifications for that app (or delete it outright).

But what if you coulnd’t? And by…

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