Apple’s big announcement today: An app that allows a teacher to create their own book and publish it to iBook. Thus you can take a Word document and the app formats it to be read on the ipad. Its supposed to be very user friendly. I am excited to use this in my courses this semester. For more info see:
Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category
Apple iBooks App
Thursday, January 19th, 2012Want to develop an ipad, iphone, ipod app?
Saturday, October 29th, 2011Here is a link to the apple site which walks you through the process. First you need to pay $99:( Then you download the SDK (standard development kit). At that point you can develop apps, test them, and send them to apple for approval. Remember apple apps are developed using Objective-C. This is actually not that easy of a language for the average programmer to develop with so it may take some time. I have spoken with several advanced programmers who had many difficulties at first when developing with this code so be patient as there may be a steep learning curve.
Do Macs get viruses too?
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011According to this article they do…and yes we have always known they can. Apparently there is a new trojan horse out there right now called ‘mac defender’ and when you click on it, it installs tons of pornographic material onto your computer. Its one of the few Mac viruses out there right now. So why do macs have less viruses? Simple, they have such a small user base that it is not worth it for hackers to make viruses for them. Additionally most hackers like to disrupt companies, who all use PCs for the most part. So until the Mac user base gets larger its still safe to say that you do not need anti-virus software on the Mac. However remember that Mac is not more secure than windows.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/05/23/malware.security.debate.wired/index.html?hpt=Sbin
iPhone 4 Released
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010Well apple announced the iphone 4. It includes some very cool video features such as
video conferencing
a 5mp camera with 5x digital zoom (boo – we want optical zoom)
imovie app
netflix app
And All of these cool features come just in time for att wireless’s new pay as you go data plan. Yes thats right, everyone who buys the iPhone 4 will have to pay $15 for 200mb of data use, $24 for 2gb, and $10 for each gigabyte. So how easy is it to go over? Well considering one movie might be 500mb-1gb, 2-3 movies could put you right over your limit. Good job ATT – you have proven that your network is terrible. People who currently have their unlimited plans can keep them for now, but when their contract is up, they will be on the new plan. I honestly cant see anyone joining att now that data is not unlimited.
Apples June 2010 Announcement
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010So what are your predictions for apples big announcement in June?
Mine are….
iphone 4gs with video camera
faster/better att service
and the big one….iphone coming to verizon this fall!?! – who knows but speculation is out there. We do know that att had exclusive rights until 2012 but that contract might be null and void now. We will find out in the next 2-3 weeks. We do know that apple is working a cdma iphone that would work with verizon among other companies and that verizon is rumored to be launching an ad campaign for the iphone later this summer. however these are all rumors and verizon is currently pushing droid.
Adobe scraps iphone support
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010apple not supporting adobe but google is. Could this be the end of apples popularity? not likely but it will give people reason to convert to droid. Apple should have never done this IMO:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20003006-264.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1
Apple Blocks Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler in Latest SDK Agreement
Sunday, April 11th, 2010Dear Apple,
WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? Why are you blocking Adobe’s new conversion application for iphone and ipad? This could be a make or break for smartphones. If Adobe starts working with google or MS, I fear Apple will lose the smartphone war. While Apple is supporting HTML5, it is years away from replacing flash, if it ever does.
Link to article: http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/08/apple-blocks-adobes-flash-to-iphone-compiler-in-latest-sdk-agreement/
