A History of Apple Tablet Computers.
Chalk for iPad
37signals just introduced Chalk, a nifty little sketching tool for iPad. It’s a free web app, with no need to install through the App Store. Quite impressive what you can pull off with a little bit of HTML, CSS and Javascript these days. I particularly like how they leveraged the Canvas element to enable image saving in Safari for iPad – a clever workaround so they don’t have to deal with file storage and sharing features.
In my personal opinion, Adobe is doing a tremendous disservice to the publishing industry by encouraging these ineptly literal translations of print publications into iPad apps. They’ve fostered a preoccupation with the sort of monolithic, overbearing apps represented by The New Yorker, Wired and Popular Science. Meanwhile, what publishers should really be focusing on is clever, nimble, entertaining apps like EW’s Must List or Gourmet Live. Neither of those are perfect, but both actively understand that they must translate their print editions into a utilitarian complement to their users’ content consumption habits.
iPad vs Kindle
I get asked this a lot: “should I buy an iPad or should I buy a Kindle?” The TLDR; answer is: no, you should buy both.
iPad vs Kindle « Tempus Fugit by Mark Jaquith.
Making Future Magic
Long exposure light painting with an iPad, by BERG:
Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.
iPads Orientation Lock Switch Becomes Mute Switch With iOS 4.2 – i hate this. There’s not a day where i don’t wish for a hardware screen orientation lock switch on my iPhone and now they are repurposing it on the iPad, where i’ve never felt the need for a mute switch.
