People often poke fun at the idea of using an iPad to take a photo or record a video. I do so at least a few times a month and wondered if I was the only one doing this apparently odd thing. While at a high school track meet yesterday, I spotted this guy recording a video. So, it looks like I am NOT the only one who thinks it is fine to use the iPad’s camera to do what it was designed to do. 🙂
It looks like a lot of apps were updated in the past week for the new iPad which was available for purchase starting last week Friday. Here’s information about some of the 59 app updates that became available for my iPhone or iPad in the past week.
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One of the handiest features in Safari mobile for the iPad (or iPhone or iPod touch) is the ability to double-tap on a column of text to make it zoom to fit the display width. It allows me to comfortably read text that is just a bit too small at its default size. It works great on every website except TechCrunch’s for some reason. You can see the problem in the screenshot above. Its banner and a few other web page areas are in focus. But, the title and text column are blurry.
I’ve had some minor issues updating Windows Phone apps through Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace app in the past few weeks. But, this is the first time I’ve seen anything like this – The screen photo above shows what looks like an install-file path visible in the apps list on my Windows Phone. You can see the progression that led to this in the screen photos below.
This is unbelievable. Samsung is shipping the new Galaxy S Blaze with Android OS 2.3 (Gingerbread). Sure, it has T-Mobile’s so-called 4G (HSPA+42). But, Gingerbread? Really?
Forty-four (44) apps installed one time or another on my iPhone or iPad were updated in the past week. Let’s take a quick look if anything interesting showed up in these updates.