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≡ Category: Apple, iPad, iPhone, Stanford | ≅ 4 Comments
Back in 2009, Stanford University started recording lectures given in its iPhone Application Development course and then placing them on iTunes, making them free for anyone to view. The course hit a million downloads in a matter of weeks, and now, two years later, here’s where we stand. The course remains the most popular item on [...]
≡ Category: Books, Comedy, iPad | ≅ Leave a Comment
A little David Sedaris on your mobile device? Yes, please! Last week, Hachette Digital released David’s Dairy, a new app that brings six animated short films inspired by David Sedaris’ diary to your Apple and Android devices. The films are short — most run about 45 seconds. They’re characteristically quirky and artfully designed. And the complete app costs runs only [...]
≡ Category: iPad, Literature | ≅ 1 Comment
William F. Buckley famously said that he flogged himself to get through Atlas Shrugged, and now you can too in grand style. This week, Penguin released Ayn Rand’s politically-influential novel as an iPad app. It will run you $14.99, but it brings together “the classic, unabridged text and a treasury of rarely-seen archival materials,” including [...]
≡ Category: Film, iPad | ≅ 1 Comment
The online documentary web site SnagFilms recently unveiled a new version of its iPad app, which makes 80 great documentaries available on yet another media platform. You can already watch the (generally high quality) films on Snag Films’ web site for free, though in this case “free” does entail being forced to watch a brief but soul-draining advertisement touting [...]
≡ Category: Apple, iPad, iPhone, Stanford | ≅ 15 Comments
Looking to design apps for the iPhone or iPad? Stanford University now has a course online that will help you do just that. Simply called Developing Apps for iOS, the course features 20 video lectures (the last installment was uploaded just this week) and, somewhat fittingly, they’re all available on Apple’s iTunesU. Paul Hegarty teaches the course, and he assumes [...]
≡ Category: Art, iPad | ≅ Leave a Comment
Through next April, you can visit “Abstract Expressionist New York,” – an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC) that looks back at the work of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Willem de Kooning and many others. If you can’t make the trip, then you can do the next best thing. Fire up your [...]
≡ Category: iPad, Media | ≅ 3 Comments
The New Yorker iPad app. It’s finally out, and they have actor Jason Schwartzman taking the wraps off in a witty video. Give The New Yorker points for creativity. Now the big question. Will readers pay $4.99 to have the pleasure of reading each weekly issue on the iPad? That’s $234 over a year. Or [...]
≡ Category: History, iPad, iPhone | ≅ Leave a Comment
The new Fotopedia Heritage app for the iPhone and iPad lets the world come to you. (Download here.) Drawing on 20,000 curated photos taken by thousands of photographers from the Fotopedia community, this FREE app lets you visit (at least virtually) 890 UNESCO World Heritage sites. In a matter of minutes, you can move from Notre Dame [...]
≡ Category: Film, iPad, iPhone | ≅ 1 Comment
A quick heads up: Today the National Film Board of Canada released a free iPad app (download it here), providing users free access to thousands of documentaries, animated films and trailers. All films (including some in 3-D) can be streamed over Wi-Fi and 3G wireless networks. And you can even download and watch a film offline [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Apple, e-books, iPad | ≅ 42 Comments
Yesterday morning, I headed to the Palo Alto Apple Store, spent an hour waiting in line, then finally gained entrance to the store. And who entered alongside me? Steve Jobs! An auspicious beginning. I left with a 32 gig iPad, took it home, and started playing particularly with the eBook reader. Here are my very [...]
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