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Today's Obsession: Apple's Watching Us?

by Patric King April 21, 2011

In a dropping of a symbolic rock into its proverbial puddle, O’Reilly Radar disclosed yesterday that Apple was collecting data about our locations and movements, and was tracking our motions around the country via our iPhones and iPads. Generated a lot of hand-wringing on the ‘net yesterday, let me tell you. Here, from Atlanta developer [...]

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Today's Obsession: LetterMpress

by Patric King April 18, 2011

Over at Kickstarter today, there’s a really interesting potential iPad application going way over its funding goal. LetterMpress is a lovely idea for composing and printing images that act and look a lot like the real thing. Funding up to $15,000 was requested, but founder John Bonadies from central Illinois is more than twice over [...]

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Today’s Obsession: Finding your Phone

by Patric King November 23, 2010

Yesterday saw the release of iOS 4.2 for all of apple’s mobile devices. With this release, the company has opened up a particularly valuable feature of Mobile Me to all AppleID holders for free: Find My iPhone. The service not only finds your phone, it lets you either lock or erase it from a distance. [...]

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Today's Obsession: Martha on the iPad

by Patric King November 11, 2010

If you’re paying attention to digital publishing for iOS, you know that Adobe’s recently released the Digital Publishing Suite in beta for InDesign. I spoke about this briefly last week. When I reviewed CS5 a million years ago, I was confused as to why inDesign seemed to have interactive capabilities (and remember, this was before [...]

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Today's Obsession: Publishing for the iPad

by Patric King November 3, 2010

Last week, Adobe released beta versions of a very interesting set of tools for InDesign—a Digital Publishing Suite for designers developing for the iPad. It's available now at Adobe Labs. (One caveat: It's in beta, so go into it understanding that beta means things may be a little buggy here and there.)

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Today's Obsession: iPad Then, iPad Now

by Patric King August 18, 2010

Nerd alert: At Ars Technica, known for its lengthy and exhaustive OS reviews, there’s an interesting article looking into Star Trek’s touch interfaces, beginning with graphic sheets created for Star Trek: The Next Generation, and comparing those advances in special effects with today’s iPad design. Also related: Computerworld’s side-by-side comparison of Apple’s 1979 Graphics tablet [...]

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Today’s Obsession: iOS4 Multitasking, Explained

by Patric King July 28, 2010

iOS4’s probably on your iPhone already by this point, as it is mine, but of course, Apple’s public explanations of their implementations leave something to be desired. The Iconfactory’s Craig Hockenberry has a well-written essay explaining iOS4’s multitasking implementation and how it actually works (versus how many seem to be expecting it to work).

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ICON Reax, Part 2: Is Animation the Future of Illustration?

by Michael Dooley July 26, 2010

Here's the second half of my report on ICON 6, the illustration conference held in Pasadena, California, from July 14th to the 17th. This installment continues the feedback I've gotten about the "Future of Publishing" keynote panel discussion. There were a couple of issues that provoked a wide variety of strong emotions: are art directors [...]

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Dispatches from Hong Kong, Part 2: Big iPad Day for Austria, Hong Kong,

by Mario Garcia July 24, 2010

TAKEAWAY: Two newspapers prepare to introduce iPad editions tomorrow as Apple introduces the iPad in their countries: Austria and Hong Kong.  We preview here and will follow up tomorrow with first day edition reports. See how Austria’s Wirtshafts Blatt and Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post take their baby steps on theiPad. PLUS: Dateline Hong Kong, Day 4. [...]

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ICON Reax, Part 1: Is Animation the Future of Illustration?

by Michael Dooley July 21, 2010

So Print – as in "print" – has launched its daily blog (the good news is that it's not called "Out Of Print.") But what else can be said about publishing's future? This issue was the primary topic of discussion and debate throughout the ICON 6 illustration conference. Held at the Langham Hotel – formerly [...]

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