12.5.10

10 Essential Apple iPad Productivity Apps for IT Pros

By Nicholas Kolakowski on 2010-05-09

The Apple iPad has sold more than 1 million units since its April 3 release, and while many consumers are using the device for multimedia consumption, business users are starting to experiment with how the tablet PC can work for them. A scan of the most popular productivity apps for the iPad, in its first four weeks of release, shows that many of those work-oriented users are using their device for file sharing, note taking, word processing and number crunching, and access to the cloud. The iPad may not serve as a desktop or laptop replacement quite yet, but the following 10 apps show the tablet has more use than simply being able to play "Iron Man."

Name: Dropbox
Price: Free
This app allows users to share files via e-mail, text message, or by copy and pasting links; files can also be exported to other iPad apps, or downloaded for offline viewing. It does require a Dropbox account

Name: Simplenote
Price: Free
This app allows you to create and edit text notes, as well as add links and build extras via a developer API. Users can also categorize and search through their notes.

Name: PaperDesk Lite for iPad
Price: Free

A "notebook replacement" app for iPad that lets users write on virtual paper (in multiple colors), e-mail a page in .PDF format, record audio while taking notes, bookmark pages to navigate, and draw. It also features spell-check.

Name: SkyGrid
Price: Free
SkyGrid uses a proprietary algorithm to determine the fastest-spreading topics and trends on the Internet, subdivided by category (Sci & Tech, etc.). Other features include the ability to create custom streams, receive live streaming updates and alert notifications

Name: Evernote
Price: Free
Evernote facilitates the creation of text, photo and audio notes, and the auto-syncing of those notes with a Mac or PC. All notes include geo-location information for mapping and search.

Name: SugarSync
Price: Free
Access to cloud-based files, photos and music from a device, paired with the ability to share those files with other users. For music-philes, a key feature is the ability to stream a music library from any computer.

Name: LogMeIn Ignition
Price: $29.99
The iPad version of this app boasts one-click remote access to your other computers. This app requires a LogMeIn account.

Name: Digits Calculator for iPad
Price: $0.99
This app aims to be a calculator on steroids: Features include the ability to hold calculations in place after you leave the app, scroll back through mistakes, keep running totals, flag important digits, and personalize background colors.

Name: GoodReader for iPad
Price: $0.99
An e-document reader, this app supports .doc, .txt, .ppt, .xls and PDF formats, with the ability to display iWork '08/'09, HTML and Safari Webarchives, and high-resolution images. The app fits the text for full-screen reading, with navigational controls for quick browsing.

Name: Pages
Price: $9.99
Still the most popular paid-productivity app for iPad, this modified word processor gives the user 16 predesigned templates for cards, fliers, etc. Documents can be imported from Pages '09 or Microsoft Word, and then exported to either of those two programs or PDF.

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10.5.10

iPad 3G rodando na TIM

Hoje cortei um chip de dados da TIM para colocar no meu iPad 3G.

Eis a prova do crime.

Material necessário: Um lápis para marcar o contorno, um estilete e uma lixa de unha (roubada da minha mulher).

Só.

Denis

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1.5.10

Tweet by @garotasemfio from Twitterrific

Saiu atualização do Android 2.1 para o Motorola Milestone - http://tinyurl.com/2chsfrr (via @blogdoandroid)

http://twitter.com/garotasemfio/status/13192139375

Sent from my iPhone

25.4.10

Windows Phone 7 e Office

http://www.gizmodo.com.br/conteudo/microsoft-office-no-windows-phone-7-parece-ser-fantastico

Sent from my iPhone

18.4.10

A verdadeira história por trás da guerra Apple x Adobe (Flash)

Vale a pena ler:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/18/adobe_slips_mobile_flash_player_10_1_to_second_half_of_2010.html

14.4.10

Novo MacBook Pro

Primeiras impressões pela CNET:

Aqui: http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/apple-macbook-pro-spring/4505-3121_7-34058852.html?tag=smallCarouselArea.0

11.4.10

Converte tudo pra tudo

http://pplware.sapo.pt/software/format-factory-2-30-simplesmente-o-melhor/

Mobile@iPhone

8.4.10

iPhone OS 4.0 com multitarefa

Enfim!

Da Wired:

Apple Unveils Next-Gen, Multitasking iPhone OS

By Brian X. Chen
April 8, 2010 |
10:03 am |

CUPERTINO, California — Apple unveiled details of its next-generation iPhone operating system Thursday in a press event at the company’s headquarters here.

The new operating system, iPhone OS 4, will be released to developers this week and to consumers this summer. It will give developers access to calendar, photo library, still image and video data, and includes features aimed at helping apps run faster.

As expected, the new OS will support multitasking of apps.

“We weren’t the first to this party but we’re going to be the best, just like cut and paste,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs, alluding to the fact that cut-and-paste hadn’t been available until a year after the first iPhone launched. “It’s really easy to implement multitasking in a way that drains battery life. If you don’t do it just right your phone’s going to feel sluggish and your battery life is going to go way down. We’ve figured out how to implement multitasking of third-party apps and avoid those things.”

With the new OS, users will be able to press the home button twice to see a menu of all the currently active apps, which appears as a bar along the bottom of the screen. Tapping one of the apps takes you directly into that app. Apps can remain running in the background. Apple demonstrated how you can keep listening to music in Pandora while doing other things on the phone, and how the phone could deliver push notifications to alert users to an incoming Skype call.

“It was really simple to implement. Just a dozen lines of code,” said Skype’s head of product development David Ponsford.

To address privacy concerns, the OS will also let you know (via a notification on the app’s icon) when an app running in the background has requested your location from the device’s GPS.

The announcement comes less than a week after Apple’s launch of its tablet computer, the iPad. Jobs said the company had sold 450,000 iPads to date, and that users have downloaded more than 1 million iPad applications and over 650,000 digital books from the iBooks store.

Jobs also added that the company has sold more than 50 million iPhones and 35 million iPod Touches.

The iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad all run iPhone OS 3.0. The operating system is based on an OS X core, but with a touch-centric interface and optimizations aimed at increasing screen responsiveness and maximizing battery life. The current iPhone OS has been widely criticized for its lack of support for full multitasking: It only allows a few core apps, such as iPod and Mail, to run in the background while another app is active. The OS also restricts add-on software to apps available through Apple’s App Store.

The App Store currently contains 185,000 apps, Jobs said, adding than users have downloaded more than 4 billion apps from it to date. About 3,500 of those apps are optimized for the iPad.

The new OS also gives users the ability to group apps in folders, instead of just laying them out on the home screens.

Other features planned for iPhone OS 4 include a 5x digital zoom feature in the camera, and the ability to tap to focus in video. (Tap to focus was already available for still images in iPhone OS 3.)

See below for more photos from the event.

UPDATED 10:20am, 10:40am Pacific

Top photo: Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrates multitasking in iPhone OS 4. Photo by Brian X. Chen / Wired.com.

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