Saturday, July 17, 2010

iPhone 4 coming to Canada and 16 other countries July 30th

iPhone 4 coming to Canada and 16 other countries July 30th

Digg this!Not much of a surprise here, but Apple has now finally revised its previous "by the end of July" iPhone 4 launch timeframe for some of the remaining international countries to a specific date: July 30th. That includes Canada, a whole host of European countries, plus Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. Absent from that list, however, is South Korea, which had been among the "end of July" group, but has apparently been pushed back to an unspecified date due to a delay in receiving government approval.

iPhone 4 coming to Canada and 16 other countries July 30th originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Engadget by Donald Melanson 17 July 2010 4:39 AM


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Sunday, July 11, 2010

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Thursday, July 08, 2010

First Glimpse at How Google Apps Accounts will Integrate with Other Google Services

First Glimpse at How Google Apps Accounts will Integrate with Other Google Services

Gina Trapani points to a Google Accounts Help page that explains part of how Google will allow Google Apps users to access Google services such as Voice, Reader, Buzz and Analytics with their Google Apps accounts. At present, users must maintain a separate Google account to access services that aren't part of Google Apps. Google has previously announced this coming functionality, but this is the first indication of how it will work in practice.

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Based on the help page, it appears that rather than allowing Google Apps users to import their regular Google Accounts into their Google Apps accounts, the company will simply allow the use of Google Apps e-mail addresses as logins for other Google services.

Users who created a regular Google Account using their Google Apps e-mail address would have a conflict, but Google already has a solution: users who use their Google Apps e-mail addresses for Google Accounts will be able to access their existing Google Accounts using an new, automatically created e-mail address in the form of "email+personal@my-domain.com."

Trapani laments the lack of a way to merge Google Apps accounts and regular Google Accounts, but notes that it is possible to export data from most Google services, and move Google Voice accounts from one Google Account to another, so consolidation of accounts will be possible.

The changes haven't been officially rolled out yet, but businesses can sign-up to to be testers here.

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Read/WriteWeb by Klint Finley 6 July 2010 12:45 PM


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Friday, July 02, 2010

IPhone4 music video

Video recorded using iPhone4

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Thom Cochrane
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Unitec
New Zealand

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Monday, June 28, 2010

Ampkit - competition for iRig

Agile Partners Join Forces to Launch AmpKit iPhone App & AmpKit LiNK Electric Guitar Interface

http://www.kvraudio.com/news/14496.html


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Android - HTC Desire

Thoughts on the Android HTC Desire so far - in comparison to using an iPhone 3GS and a Nokia N97:

It comes close to the iPhone experience, definitely better than SYmbian (N97), although like any OS it takes getting used to the way things are done. The text entry via virtual keyboard is not quite as good as the iPhone, but the installation of apps is simple via the Android market app (Symbian Ovi Store sux in comparison!). The main difference to the iTunes Store is the presence of some dodgey looking apps that are blocked in iTunes!
Android is better at Google integration than the iPhone - but not a lot, but the iPhone walks all over Android as a media player. File and application management in Android are completely unintuitive, and third-party file manager apps are clunky - Symbian wins here!

Almost all of my favourite mobile apps are available on Android from the Android Market now, here's a few:

  • Flashlight

  • VNC

  • Barcode and QR Code Reader

  • BibleReader

  • Delicious App

  • Evernote

  • Fring

  • Goggles

  • GMail

  • Google Sky Map

  • gReader

  • Layar

  • Maps

  • Market - for downloading apps

  • MixZing - a media player - limited formats

  • Navigation

  • PDF Viewer

  • Picasa

  • Pixelpipe

  • Qik

  • QuickOffice

  • Route Recorder

  • Google Talk

  • Task Manager

  • Twitter

  • Twonky Server

  • UStream

  • Weather

  • WikiTude

  • Wordpress

  • YouTube


iPad Apps

The 'computer for your Mum' - the iPad has been surprisingly useful and addictive so far. My wife loves it! I've replaced my physical diary with Evernote, and checking emails and RSS feeds on the iPhone has become somewhat less attractive. The 10 hour battery life is great, and using the additional VGA adaptor allows me to substitute the iPad for a laptop for web-based presentations (except Flash - no Prezi :-( DOH).
Of course there's plenty of annoying quirks with iOS on the iPad (still in version 3.2), not least being the restrictive file management that forces every media application to use a unique directory - so sharing documents and media between apps is extremely painful. The online sharing via iWork, Google Docs, MobileMe is cool - great for backups, but each has limitations - iWork will only share docs with less than 50 pages, Google Docs has a meager Word Doc file size limit, so the MobileMe iDisk seems the best so far.

A short list of iPad apps I've found useful so far.

  • Whitcoulls
    I may never have to buy another book - and WAY cheaper!

  • StudioTrack
    8-track audio recorder - doing this cost me $2500 for the software in 1995, and my computer could only play back 6 tracks at once! StudioTrack cost $49!

  • EyeTv
    Stream media from EyeTV devices

  • ReelDirector
    iMovie on the iPad!

  • BlogPress

  • Expedition
    Present web pages via VGA

  • Marvel

  • QuickOffice
    Syncs to Google Docs, MobileMe, and Box.net

  • BibleReader

  • GoodReader
    View almost any document and display on external screen via VGA adaptor

  • NetNewsWire
    Great RSS reader

  • Twitterrific

  • Google Earth

  • Pages
    So much nicer to use than QuickOffice or Docs2Go - but limited to iWork synch and email sharing of docs

  • tvGuide

  • Time Magazine

  • Evernote
    Great electronic diary that supports all mobile platforms, and can be used to record audionotes and as a blog editor via email

  • Google App
    Shortcut to Google Mobile services

  • m-connect
    Turns iPad into UPnP server for viewing media on TV

  • And all the built-in Apple Apps of course! Particularly Mail and Safari, plus the App Store for making it so easy to find new apps.



Apps I would like to see iPad optimised:

  • iBlogger
    Best mobile blog editor, supports Vox

  • Blades of Fury

  • UStream

  • Amplitube

  • PixelPipe

  • Fring

  • FiRe

  • Comic Touch

  • Cool Iris

  • Band

  • AudioBoo

  • iDisk
    Doh! this should be a no brainer Apple!

Friday, June 18, 2010

FWD: RT @HallyMk1: @MarkPower @timku blogged Inclusion, social ...

Tweet from James Clay (@jamesclay):

"RT @HallyMk1: @MarkPower @timku blogged Inclusion, social relations and theory: issues in mobile learning http://bit.ly/9g4x9c #cetismob"

URL: http://twitter.com/jamesclay/status/16386573098

Thom Cochrane
Academic Advisor (elearning & Learning Technologies)
Unitec
New Zealand

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Mobile Web 2.0 Prezi