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A page from Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener’s awesome Atomic Robo . I’ve been reading comic books since I was a kid, and now the new iPad has quickly become my primary means for reading them. Comics are one of the few printed formats whose interaction may have actually improved (or at the least didn’t diminish) when they moved to the iPad. The de facto standard for digital comics is the app Comixology — whose technology is also licensed by standalone apps from the big publishers. … Read the rest here

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Paper is a new drawing app for the iPad from FiftyThree. Immediately after watching the video, I downloaded it (free download with paid add-ons) and ordered Cosmonaut and Jot styluses to try out. As a habitual sketcher , I’ve tried lots of drawing apps before, but this is the most promising one yet. The simplicity and lack of chrome for navigation (not unlike what we’ve seen in Clear for the iPhone) really speaks to me. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

‘Paper’ for iPad : There are so many things right about this app. The lovely watercolor, miniature sketchbook icon. The marketing site. The “take this everywhere life takes you” video above. … Read the rest here

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So, yeah. I wrote an e-book . It has been an interesting experience and I thought I’d share a few random thoughts on how things have gone so far. Backwards When I first started down the path of writing the SMACSS e-book, I had intended it to be either an e-book or a printed book. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

iPad Outsells Mac : Dan Frommer: During the June quarter, Apple sold 9.2 million iPads for $6 billion in revenue. It also sold 3.9 million Macs for $5.1 billion in revenue. Apple even admitted that some of the iPad’s success was at the Mac’s expense: ‘We do believe that some customers chose to purchase an iPad instead of a new Mac during the quarter,’ Apple COO Tim Cook said on the company’s earnings call, ‘but we also believe that even more customers chose to purchase an iPad over a Windows PC.’ This is astounding. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

I can’t wait to give these away (Apple guidelines duly noted ). The boxes above have been in my office for more than a month. This Friday at midnight Eastern time the Authentic Jobs Touchscreen Tussle contest ends, and shortly after an iPad 2 with (RED)™ Smart Cover will be awarded to three of you. I hope it’s you. And you and you… Read the rest here

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Left to right, top to bottom: Yours Truly, Khoi Vinh, Tina Roth Eisenberg, Greg Storey, Myles Grant, Veerle Pieters, Roger Johansson, Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain, Jeff Croft, Marc Roberts, Ben Bodien, Sarah Parmenter, Elliot Jay Stocks, Jon Hicks. I have the incredible fortune of working with the all-star team pictured above. Some serve as advisors, others actively create and maintain things. Together we’ve collaborated on a new version of Authentic Jobs that’s realigned, responsive, and better suited to connecting companies and creative professionals. Read the official announcement over at the Authentic Jobs blog regarding the new site, Authentic Jobs UK, and the iPad contest. You’ll also find additional remarks by Veerle Pieters , Sarah Parmenter , and Elliot Jay Stocks . … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

Aside from “Will you ever do a theme for GMail?” and “Know any good Penny Farthing Emporiums?” the questions I get asked the most are “Do you know of any jobs?” or “Can you let people know about this job?”. I help where I can in getting word out. It’s natural then, for Hicksdesign to snap up the invitation to be a part of the new UK division of Authentic Jobs . Along with Elliot Jay Stocks , Sarah Parmenter , Floris Dekker , we will be joining the existing Authentic Jobbers showing the latest vacancies on our blogs, and broadcasting the occasional tweet. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

PhotoSwipe, an Image Gallery for Mobiles Devices : HTML/CSS/JS-based image gallery specifically targeting mobile phones and tablets. I’ve just tested this on iPad 1, iPhone 4, BlackBerry PlayBook, Samsung Galaxy Tab, and HTC Aria. It works fine on all of them except the Aria (slow loading for some reason). … Read the rest here

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Flux CSS3 Slider : Hardware-accelerated image transitions using CSS3, which, as described in the readme on GitHub , “improves performance on less powerful devices such as mobiles and tablets.” Indeed, this functions quite well on both my iPad and iPhone. … Read the rest here

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Why Every Child in America Needs an iPad : Mike Elgan: Everybody’s asking: Are iPads healthy for children? I’m here to tell you: That’s the wrong question. The right question is this: Is the iPad a healthy replacement for TV? And I believe the answer is a resounding yes. … Read the rest here

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Bento Book : Core77: The Bento Book is a system of devices that work together… kind of like Voltron. The phone, tablet, hard drive, and battery dock into the base of the laptop to essentially form half of it. The phone becomes the track pad, the tablet becomes a touch screen keyboard/input area, somewhat like a Nintendo DS. Content can be surfed on the tablet, and then say you want to modify that content, or interact with it more deeply, you dock the tablet into the screen to continue working with it in a more focussed way. Then you can pop the phone out to take it all on the road… Read the rest here

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Paul Irish , Divya Manian and Shi Chuan launched Mobile Boilerplate recently—a mobile companion site to HTML5 Boilerplate . There’s some good stuff in there but I was a little surprised to see that the meta viewport element included values for minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no : <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, target-densitydpi=160dpi, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no”> Setting user-scalable=no is pretty much the same as setting minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0 . In any case, I’m not keen on it . Like Roger , I don’t think we should take away the user’s right to pinch and zoom to make content larger. That’s why my usual viewport declaration is: <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1″> Yes, I know that most native apps don’t allow you to zoom but I see no reason to replicate that failing on the web… Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Cosmonaut, a Wide-Grip Stylus for Touch Screens : Glif makers Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt are at it again with another Kickstarter project, this time for a wide-grip stylus that feels more like a dry erase marker rather than a pen: Writing or drawing on the iPad feels nothing like using a pen or pencil. For one, tablets are ideal for low fidelity sketching. Also, it is pretty awkward to rest your palm on the screen of the device because it throws off the capacitive detection. Writing on a tablet feels like writing on a dry erase board: fast, simple, low fidelity. … Read the rest here

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The Monster at the End of This iPad : An interactive version of my all-time favorite children’s book. Totally worth $4. /via @ zelph … Read the rest here

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Smart Cover for iPad 1 : Dan Provost: I wondered if it would somehow be possible to retrofit the original iPad to utilize the Smart Cover. Turns out, it’s actually pretty simple. … Read the rest here

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Steve Jobs Pitches iPad on Dragons’ Den : Had the iPad been an actual pitch to investors, it might have gone something like this. /via @ mark_forrester … Read the rest here

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Last year, I submitted my very first app to the App Store. It was rejected 3 weeks later. This is its brief story… Wes West from Torchbox first gave me the idea to create an iPhone app for Oooh! It was a great idea, and one that would give me a learning opportunity to develop and submit my own app. It would be fun, and free! All it needed to do was to “ooooOooooh!” when shaken. While I created all the necessary graphics, Simon Whitaker of Goo Software handled the development side, implementing the shake-to-ooh function and guiding me through the whole process from start to finish… Read the rest here

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Freelance Gig: iPad / iOS Developer : Possibly the shortest listing ever posted to Authentic Jobs: Worry Free Labs in Austin, TX is looking for an experienced iOS casual game developer to help us develop an iPad game in progress: http://fiveredwoods.com . Work remotely. Full stop. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Freelance Gig: iPad / iOS Developer : Possibly the shortest listing ever posted to Authentic Jobs: Worry Free Labs in Austin, TX is looking for an experienced iOS casual game developer to help us develop an iPad game in progress: http://fiveredwoods.com . Work remotely. Full stop. … Read the rest here