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Swipe, a Web app that functions as a two-way presentation tool, is launching into beta today, allowing people to not only build Web-powered slideshows, but also share them with anyone. ...
The latest conversation in web design has been, how do we reimagine the web for a mobile device? Do you design your mobile site first, then supersize it for PCs? Or do you wrap all that content in an app and bring special functionality to tablets?
The fall out from Instagram's changes to its Terms of Service (ToS) at the end of last year has proved far more calamitous for the Facebook-owned Photo app
(...) De insteek van PRSS is eigenlijk doodsimpel. De web-based magazinesoftware maakt het in elkaar zetten van magazines veel eenvoudiger. (...) In zijn huidige vorm doet PRSS denken aan het opmaakgedeelte van blogs als Tumblr: simpel maar doeltreffend. Ik zie rijen foto's en lappen tekst. "Je gooital je materiaal in een grote bak", laat Elings zien. "Dan kies je een template en", hij klikt op een knopje, "boom!" Seconden later zie ik een nog te verschijnen editie van TRVL, helemaal opgemaakt zoals ik gewend ben. "Nu heb ik in een keer 90 procent van de layout gedaan. Foto's, tekst, links en gps-data stonden al gesorteerd, PRSS deed de rest." Elings zegt de opmaak van een editie TRVL nu in een uur te kunnen doen, tegenover de dagen die hij vroeger nodig had. Er zijn meer voordelen. Vroeger was een nummer TRVL honderden mb's groot, nu weegt TRVL per editie zo'n 35 megabyte, een besparing van 80 procent. "De tekst van alle edities is al gedownload op het moment dat je de app opent. Afbeeldingen laden pas wanneer je gaat bladeren, toch gaat dat zo snel dat je er niks van merkt." Opslaan voor offline lezen kan ook, downloaden duurt dan luttele seconden. Publiceren met PRSS heeft nog een groot voordeel: wijzigingen zijn makkelijk door te voeren. Een spelfout kan maanden na publicatie alsnog verbeterd worden. "Ook voor adverteerders zijn we aantrekkelijk. We kunnen zorgen dat reclame altijd actueel is, zelfs binnen nummers van maanden geleden en kunnen we advertenties op leesgedrag, land en smaak aanpassen." (...) TRVL staat als een huis, volgende stap is het polijsten van PRSS. "Ik omschrijf PRSS graag als de iBooks Author voor magazines die Apple is vergeten te maken", zegt Elings. "Ik wil dat het er ook zo uit gaat zien." PRSS wordt gratis voor iedereen en door de gebruiksvriendelijkheid een democratisering voor de digitale tijdschriftenmarkt. "We hebben afgelopen zomer al uitgebreid met Apple gesproken, ze waren erg geïnteresseerd. Toch weet je nooit wat er gaat gebeuren en dus blijven we schaven tot we vinden dat het perfect is." Ik vraag Elings wat er nog te verbeteren is. "Details, honderden details." Ik vraag of dat geen ondankbaar werk is: de meeste mensen zal het niet opvallen, ze nemen het voor lief. "Dat is het grootst mogelijke compliment dat lezers en gebruikers ons kunnen geven." Dit artikel is verschenen in Bright 49. Beeld door Milan Vermeulen.
If you're a creative with a penchant for eking out the best tools to help you produce the goods, 2012 saw a slew of handy apps that could help you in your endeavors.
Indeed, The ...
Wat maakt online magazines effectief? Aan de hand van voorbeelden worden in dit artikel de belangrijkste do’s en don’ts gedestilleerd.
I’ll admit it. I was a VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) skeptic. But now I’m a convert. What turned me from cynic to evangelist? I ran a little experiment. Last month, I was preparing to travel for an entire week. First, I attended Cloud Expo East 2012in New York from Monday through Thursday, and then headed down to Avalon, N.J., for a few days.The experiment was to go sans laptop for the entire week, bringing only my iPad with an Apple keyboard running The Evolved Office: Desktop. It works on the iPad by utilizing VMware’s VMView app. You download it from the App Store, enter your connection URL, log in just like you would with any PC or laptop, and boom … Windows 7 is running on the iPad. Or in my case, Windows 7 running on my iPad, running on the Evolve IP VDI infrastructure.
Code as art, an ever growing movement where creatives and geeks collide (e.g.: Water Light Graffiti, the work of Raven Kwok and this Arduino installation), has captured plenty of attention lately, and although Apple has yet to really embrace experimental works with their own category in the App Store, apps like Thicket and Orphion have us giddy. Following in the footsteps of artistic-focused coding frameworks like Processing and openFrameworks, C4 is a new kid on the block with an interesting twist: it’s entirely iOS-focused. The decision to solely target a single, closed platform may seem like a limitation at first, but this hyper-focus on iDevices could prove to be a benefit, enabling C4 to do one thing and do it right. C4 emphasizes a media focused approach, and hopes to be the easiest way for developers to jump right into animation and multi-touch interaction for their iOS apps. In this space, there’s a wide range of work, varying from games and experimental productivity tools to completely abstract installations like in the example videos below. Read more at; http://thenextweb.com/dd/2012/09/30/c4-this-creative-coding-framework-made-just-ios/
Is there a future for tablet-only publications? The last few weeks have cast an ominous shadow over this niche industry following substantial staff cuts at News Corp.'s The Daily and a decision by the Huffington Post to give up on charging for its iPad magazine after just five issues.
While some media observers are quick to write off the format, many in the industry see recent woes as part of the natural growing pains of an emerging market.
A good part of the backlash stems from how inevitable tablet magazines seemed at their inception two years ago. With magazines and legacy print publications struggling, the iPad offered a flashy and interactive new way for publishers to bring new content to the tech-savvy masses without the burden of printing and distribution costs.
Two years later, however, the tablet publishing market isn't the runaway success many envisioned. Yet despite glaring questions from media pundits, many media buyers and industry veterans are surprisingly calm.
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Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Wordpress and Automattic, said at paidContent 2012 that the service is preparing for a significant change of direction -- by releasing a much simpler version designed to work on mobile.
Posted by Sheila Shayon on July 25, 2012 05:05 PM Intel has built a new social publishing platform called “iQ” that leverages the social actions of their global employees and curates content that is capturing Intel’s collective attention, much as it's been doing externally with such consumer-facing social digital projects as The Museum of Me Facebook integration. (...)
iTunes U gives educators an easy way to design complete courses with audio, video, and other content and distribute them through the new iTunes U app.
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I’m swiping through photos of beautiful women on my phone. Within 30 seconds, I’ve stalked at least 10 within a 50-mile radius of where I currently stand.
In toenemende mate gebruiken we tablets en smartphones voor het bekijken van websites. Echter, niet iedere website is geschikt om op tablet of smartphone te bekijken. Maar weinig financiële...
When the iPhone hit, everything changed. We didn’t need to have 50 specialized buttons tethered to smartphones anymore. Rather, the screen could pull up a keyboard as easily as a shutter button or a set of browser controls.
Twitter has released a twenty-page booklet for advertisers on trends in television viewing and Twitter use in the UK. The Twitter TV Book (registration required) is rich with data gathered by...
The REWORK_(Philip Glass Remixed) app for iPad is so cool it makes you wonder if apps-as-albums might be a surprisingly large part of music's future.
Twenty minutes after unboxing my first iPad, I realized this device’s potential to revolutionize the world of kiosks. Ten years ago, my team and I worked with Honda to develop touchscreen kiosks for its dealerships. (...) Step 1: Hardware Considerations Step 2: Software Considerations (...) Conclusion The clunky, expensive kiosks of yesterday are becoming irrelevant in today’s world of elegant low-cost touchscreen devices. Whether clients want to capture email addresses, enable customers to sign up for events in the store or add interactive elements to their artwork, a touchscreen kiosk can deliver the results they’re looking for. Tablet kiosks can be integrated into any decor smartly and sleekly. Now that affordability is no longer a factor, you can start working with clients to develop apps that bring imagination back to their business solutions.
It would be great if we all had the time, skills, and patience to learn computer coding, especially since technology pervades so many areas of our life. But thankfully, there are applications and web developers out there who provide ways for the rest of us to produce apps with little or no coding skills. Back in June, I reviewed one such web application called Buzztouch, which is designed to allow anyone to create their own smartphone application. Now a similar program has just been released called Infinite Monkeys, a web-based tool geared toward niche communities who want to share content on the iPhone and Android platforms. Infinite Monkeys provides three different app platform models, ranging from free to the pro level version of $499. But for many users, the free HTML 5 web-based, and ad-supported model should suffice.
There are numerous options for recording a video of one’s computer screen but only a few that allow you to record your iPad's screen. Find out how the Disp Recorder app is providing new opportuinties on the iPad.
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31 Jul 2012 Maily is an iPad app that lets kids send personalized emails to their parents, grandparents and close friends securely. The app, especially designed for kids 4 years and older, lets them create their own emails by drawing, or adding photos, backgrounds and stickers. The app is safe for kids as their personal contact list would be restricted. It also comes with built-in parent control feature, that lets parents check on who their children communicate with, and approve or reject messages that are sent or received by their children. http://vimeo.com/maily/intro
FastcoDresign MARK WILSON Who hasn’t, at least for a moment, thought a Choose Your Own Adventure book would be fun to write? It’s like making a game out of words. Branching narratives are a surprisingly natural approach to make books interactive. But they’re a logistical nightmare. Multiple storylines? Converging plots? How could you keep even a simple story straight? A company called inkle appears to have figured it out. Recently, they released the impressive Frankenstein app and interactive novel, and while we weren’t so sure that rewriting Frankenstein was a win for literature, we were impressed by their flowing, option-fueled text interface. (...) Now, inkle is making their internal compositional software available to the public free as an HTML5 web app called inklewriter. So, without any coding expertise at all, and without much preplanned plot, either, you can simply start typing an interactive novel. Try it here; http://writer.inklestudios.com/
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