Instagram’s Rise To 30 Million Users Visualized
(Instagram’s growth. Click for full size.) With the launch of the official Android app today, Instagram has released updated stats that show the stunning growth of the service over the past 18 months. It was only back in December 2011 that we reported 15 million users had signed up to Instagram; the growth rate of...
App Updates: PDF Expert, OneEdit, ReaderX, Watchlater
A number of iOS applications have been updated following the release of the new iPad. While most of the software updates quickly approved by Apple have focused on Retina graphics, others that have come out in the past few days have brought new important functionalities as well. PDF Expert, our favorite app to read and...
Sync Documents From iCloud to Dropbox
Sync Documents From iCloud to Dropbox TJ Luoma at TUAW has written the post I was going to save for the weekend: a simple way to sync documents from iCloud to Dropbox using Hazel on the Mac (our review of Hazel 3.0). Because a number of apps — text editors in particular — have started...
Shazam 5.0 Brings Faster Tagging
Music recognition service Shazam announced this morning a major update for its Shazam Free, Encore and RED apps, which reach version 5.0 and add a number of new functionalities and refined user interface design. Renowned for allowing users to tag songs and certain TV content in a few seconds by using the iPhone’s microphone and...
iOS Text Editor Roundup
iOS Text Editor Roundup In my article about text editors from two weeks ago, I compared my four favorite apps for writing on the iPad. In his amazingly researched text editor roundup, Brett Terpstra did the opposite: he took every text editor for iPhone and iPad out there, crowdsourced the initial compiling of the data,...
Apple Announces Q2 2012 Conference Call For April 24
Last night, Apple updated its Investor Relations webpage to include a placeholder for the company’s next earnings call, scheduled for April 24. As usual with Apple’s conference calls, the event will be provided as an audio webcast for investors and listeners. Apple plans to conduct a conference call to discuss financial results of its second...
Air Display Gets HiDPI Mode Support on iPad Retina Display
Announced last week, Avatron’s popular utility Air Display, a $9.99 app that can turn any iOS device into an external display for a Mac or PC, has been updated today to include support for two major new features and technical achievements: HiDPI mode and Retina graphics. Meant to be enjoyed on the new iPad’s Retina...
Facebook for iPad Gets Retina Graphics
The official Facebook app for iOS, available for free on the App Store, has been updated today to include graphics for the new iPad’s Retina display, and a series of other enhancements. Alongside crisper images for the new display, the 4.1.1 update to the app brings an option to go offline in chat, fixes for...
Tweet Marker Launches “Plus” Version To Sync Timeline on the Web, Index Tweets
Last year, when Manton Reece of Riverfold Software, maker of Tweet Library, announced he was working on a new service to sync Twitter timelines across apps and platforms called Tweetmarks, Twitter users and iOS nerds alike rejoiced, and began hoping the service would work as well as Manton promised. Not only did it work, Tweet Marker —...
Apple Clarifies iPad “4G” Marketing On Australian Website
Two days ago we noted Apple had promised the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) to clarify the marketing for the new iPad’s “4G” connectivity options on the company’s Australian website. With the ACCC alleging that Apple was misleading Australian customers in thinking the iPad would be compatible with Telstra’s 4G network, and Apple replying that...
iOS 5 Certified For Government Use In Australia
iOS 5 Certified For Government Use In Australia ZDNet reports the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) — the organization that reviews and certifies software and devices for use by government agencies in Australia — has certified iOS 5, allowing iPhones and iPads to be used to transmit “certain classified information”. Today, the DSD cleared iOS for...
Gravitational Force in Angry Birds Space Analyzed
Gravitational Force in Angry Birds Space Analyzed Rhett Allain has posted a follow-up to his 2010 article The Physics of Angry Birds, this time studying the gravitational force that influences the trajectories of Rovio’s birds in the franchise’s latest installment, Angry Birds Space. The article goes into great detail analyzing the forces that may affect the...
