AVIAN WALLPAPER
These images are specifically licensed for your enjoyment on your iPad. Enjoy the beautiful avian images every time you unlock your screen or interact with your iPad apps or both. Only 99 cents!
WOLF WALLPAPER
These images are specifically licensed for your enjoyment on your iPad. Enjoy the beautiful wolf images every time you unlock your screen or interact with your iPad apps or both. Only 99 cents!
Interesting use of iPad in Japan for access to medical images by surgeons. The iPad is included in sterile case and has access to the patient’s images on the hospital PACS (picture archiving and communication system) by wifi.
Japanese video is at:
http://www.radrounds.com/video/radiology-on-ipad-during
Hat tip to PadPundit reader Neil for this link.
Time Magazine Inc is having trouble getting Apple to approve subscription sales via the iTunes store. Up until now, most of the complaints I’ve heard drom developers about Apple’s iTunes App acceptance policy have bordered on whining. But this is a legitimate problem that needs to be sorted out or everyone will suffer, including Apple.
The iPad is making its way into college classrooms. Everyplace from Oklahoma State University to North Carolina State University is doing something with the iPad. Could the iPad replace the need for the expensive books that college students need?
And finally, in what seems to be a daily routine (or perhaps it’s becoming a sporting event that will qualify for the Olympics) lawyers have filed what is possibly the 128,274th class action lawsuit against Apple this year because – wait for it – when you take the iPad out into the hot sun it gets – HOT!
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By Scott Bourne
All Photos Copyright Scott Bourne – All Rights Reserved
I love providing my images to iPad and iPhone users for use as wallpaper. For those who can’t afford or get access to my larger fine art pieces, this is a way to have the images accessible 24/7 on your favorite portable devices.
We launched Avian Wallpaper first and then Wolf Wallpaper. Both were originally built for the iPad. The good news is that now they have been upgraded and are also available for iPhone users.
Here’s a complete list of the updated versions. Those of you who bought the app for iPad can get free updates from the iTunes Store.
- Now a Universal app (i.e. works on both iPhone and iPad)
- Enhanced the iPhone version to be optimized for the retina display of the iPhone 4
- Supports any aspect ratio, the prints are simply centered and scaled to fit the space but are now never cropped.
- Each image can now have its own url associated with it to allow for tight integration with an eCommerce system that sells prints of the image (Pending)
- Provides in app email to a specified contact email
- Provides a link back to the artists website on the info page
- Includes a space for an artists statement or information regarding the app.
To celebrate, I’m going to offer free download codes to each app to three of my Twitter followers this week. Each will be randomly selected. I am working on another app of general wildlife pictures to be released soon.
Thanks for your support.
Avian Wallpaper – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/avian-wallpaper/id366518593?mt=8
Wolf Wallpaper – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wolf-wallpapers/id371439028?mt=8
P. S. if you’re a photographer who would like to build your own iPad app, I strongly suggest you contact my developer David at info@crossforward.com.
Apple said it sold 3.27 million iPads during the quarter. This was revealed in Apple’s formal third-quarter earnings reports required by the Securities & Exchnage Commission.
3.27 million – in the first quarter the product was available.
Nuff said.
There’s an interesting new research report from Resolve Market Research that looks at how people use the iPad. The results are impressive. It will cost you money to buy the report, but Mashable has seen it and has some relevant excerpts.
Apple released iOS 3.2.1 for all iPad models.
The much-anticipated fix to Wi-Fi connectivity issues is supposed to be fixed but at the time of this writing, there is no detail provided as to how.
iOS 3.2.1 also adds Microsoft’s Bing as one of the search engines supported by Safari for Web searches. Also fixed: copy-and-paste problem related to PDF documents, video performance, reliability of iPad’s video-out when using a VGA adapter.
The iOS 3.2.1 update is available now for free download via iTunes.
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Here’s another example of the iPad as photo gear. Mamiya announced the addition of a new medium format digital camera kit to its line. The Mamiya RZ33 offers cable-free operation, because it was designed with integrated electronics, for direct, cable free communication with the digital back.
You can view images remotely on an Apple iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad (in tethered mode, Wi-Fi required).
The Mamiya RZ33 kit, including the RZIID body, 33MP focusing screen, Mamiya cable-free digital integration plate, Mamiya DM33 digital back and battery, battery charger, FW800 cable, Capture One and Leaf Capture software, will be available in the U.S. for $17,990 and will begin shipping in July 2010.
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A company called LensRentals.com is now offering the iPad for rent to photographers alongside expensive camera bodies and lenses.
For about $12 a day for four days, photographers can rent an iPad with Apple’s Camera Connection Kit. The price per day goes down with longer rentals.
As predicted, the iPad has become a Godsend to photographers and is mainstream enough that a camera rental house includes the iPad on its regular rental list. Times are a changin’.
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Long ago I said that the iPad could be the tool that saves the magazine industry from itself. “Gourmet Magazine” certainly hopes I am right.
Gourmet Live is scheduled to launch on the iPad Q4 of this year. I’m very excited to learn that Conde Nast (Gourmet’s owner) is letting the app go out free. I might be less excited if I find out it comes with a high monthly subscription fee like Sports Illustrated does. But so far, no mention of that in Gourmet Live’s press release.
Gourmet Live is targeted at a younger audience than was Gourmet Magazine. The result is a product that will incorporate features you might not expect from an old-guard brand.
Activate, led by Anil Dash and Michael Wolf (Epicurious) are tasked with making Gourmet Live more than just a port of the magazine. They promise many interactive and social media features that may just be enough to get people to pay attention to Gourmet a mere year after it was pulled from magazine shelfs.
We’ll have a full review of Gourmet Live when it becomes available later this year.
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I Love Sports Illustrated and SI has a new iPad app. I’ve been anxiously waiting for this one. I love the magazine. It’s got some of the best photography you’ll ever see inside. Bill Frakes is a personal hero of mine.
But I’m already a little bit bummed. While the SI iPad is free, each issue of the magazine is $4.99. That’s pretty steep. You can preview each issue to make sure it’s got content you’re interested in, but at $4.99, I am not sure this is a sustainable business model. Think about what you can get for $4.99. You can buy tens of thousands of fully functioning iPad/iPhone apps that don’t come with additional subscription fees. You can rent a movie or a video game. You can buy a used book or CD for $4.99. You can buy the SI print edition for less than $4.99.
If magazine publishers are going to look to the iPad to save their businesses, they’re going to have to get a little more creative and a little less greedy.
In the case of SI, they could and should in my opinion, offer some sort of bundled print, web and iPad combo subscription. If I already subscribe to the print edition, why should I pay $4.99 more for the iPad edition?
And beyond the pricing and the business model, the content needs to be special too. In the case of the SI iPad application I am glad to see some multimedia and some interactive content. I am also glad to see more photos. But it’s not WOW – content. It’s just good content. For $4.99 I want WOW. I’d be happy with what they have at about $2.99.
Hopefully the print magazines we all know and love will put someone other than the traditional bean counters in charge of figuring out a better business model for selling content on the iPad.
For now, we have to be content that SI is at least paying attention to this new technology. That’s a good thing. It will help convince other traditional print magazines to try the iPad. They just have to figure out how to do it a little cheaper.
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