Apple Design Award Winner – iPad Applications 2010
Apple design Award 2010 is a award which recognizes best iPad apps developed on basis of technical excellence, innovativeness, technology adopted, performance of apps, nature of design over the year 2009-10 , These awards are announced every year and the winning apps or say the iPad application developers set new standards for iPad application developer community .
Financial Times iPad Edition : The Financial Times Ltd.
Offering a really great newspaper reading experience on iPad, the Financial Times presents an elegant user interface with animation, shadows, transparency, off-white paper color, nice typography, and intuitive navigation. Integrated photos and video nicely augment printed content. The app’s extensive features and interactions are powered by CoreText, MySQL, CoreData, Cocoa Touch, NSURL, UIwebview, and AV frameworks. The Financial Times also has an application available for iPhone. A awesome iPad app which makes effective usage of the iPad screens real estate from the iPad application developers of Financial Times.
Flight Control HD : Firemint
Flight Control HD is the landmark game that defined a new genre of games on iPhone. Now available for iPad, Flight Control HD offers more layouts, including a 3D layout, head-to-head and multi-device play options, enhanced Multi-Touch control, and improved game mechanics enabled by the large iPad screen. This game is a great example of innovative gameplay, outstanding use of Multi-Touch, and superb attention to detail. Flight Control is also available on iPhone and is equally addictive coming from the iPad application developers of Firemint team.
Pinball HD : OOO Gameprom
Pinball HD is a real Pinball simulator with high fidelity art and stunning 3D graphics delivered through advanced use of OpenGL ES 2.0. This high-quality pinball game offers unique sound effects, a soundtrack with atmospheric music, and voices played using Core Audio. Its high performance, multiple camera views and support for real-time orientation changes brings you inside the action. Portrait mode gives you a flying-table view with the camera panning and zooming over the action while Landscape mode shows a full table view. Pinball HD delivers a level of realism you won’t believe. OOO Gameprom the iPad app developers behind the success of the App .
Star Walk – Interactive Astronomy Guide : Vito Technology Inc.
Star Walk is a personal planetarium for anyone who is interested in stargazing. It makes discovering more than 9,000 stars, planets, constellations, and messiers beautiful and easy using OpenGL ES 2.0 to create stunning 3D graphics delivered at 30 fps. Star Walk uses the accelerometer, compass, and Core Location frameworks to accurately determine orientation, bearing, and location to enable viewing of the night sky as it appears from your location. Star Walk also reaches an international audience with versions in English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. The app comes from the iPad application developers of Vito technology.
TabToolkit : Agile Partners
TabToolkit is an incredibly powerful music notation viewer with multi-track audio playback. The app includes an audio synthesis engine that enables you to listen to and control the audio for all instrument tracks individually. TabToolkit makes learning how to play your favorite songs on guitar, bass, keyboard, drums and other instruments easier and more fun. It offers a beautiful design with high-fidelity artwork optimized for iPad . An excellent app from iPad app developers of Agile Partners .
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Kindle 2 – Will it change the rules of e-reading
Jun 1, 2010 News
Amazon may come up with its new and slim Kindle this August , Bloomberg reports that the new kindle would be thinner than existing models and would still offer a black and white screen but a more sharper and more responsive display .
The new Kindle is just 0.36 inches thick , while its chief rival iPad is almost double in terms of thickness and is thicker by more than half a inch .
Although Bloomberg said the new Kindle would not include color or touch features , but few sources said that Amazon is working hard on multi-touch prototypes and has invested a lot of money in research and development . Also earlier this year, Amazon bought TouchCo, a company in New York that specializes in clear multi-touch overlays for computers and electronic readers.
While the rumors that the next iteration of the device may be a Black and white may also be short lived . As we had seen earlier Amazon has been seeking Engineers with understanding of LCD displays , that could be the theme of next Kindle .
Also Jeff Bezos , Amazon’s chief executive told shareholder that a color screen was in the offing , also Mr. Bezos says ““I’ve seen some stuff in the laboratory, but it’s not quite ready for prime-time production,” .
The competition in the E-reader space is building up since the launch of iPad , also on Thursday Nicholas Negroponte, who started the One Laptop Per Child Project, which hopes to place inexpensive laptops in schools around the world, announced that he was teaming with Marvell, an electronics maker, to create a $75 tablet device that will offer a full computer and e-reading capabilities.
In addition, Google hopes to enter the tablet computing and e-reader market this year, introducing a device that would offer similar capabilities as Apple’s iPad and would most likely run the Android operating system.
It is still unclear if Amazon plans to keep its next-generation Kindle as a device solely for reading, or if it will add computing capabilities to compete with a growing genre of tablet PCs that offer reading, games and full access to the Internet.
How do you think this would affect iPad application development? iPad application developers are encouraged to take part in commenting .
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Wired App downloaded over 24,000 in a day
Jun 1, 2010 News
The Wired iPad app costs $4.99 — the same as the ink-and-paper edition — and includes articles and features from the month’s issue. A new app will appear each month. The print version of Wired magazine sells around 82,000 single copies each month and has around 672,000 subscribers.
Geek mag Wired sold 24,000 iPad apps on its first day in the App Store.
When GQ was released as an iPad app not too long ago, its demographic didn’t respond nearly as robustly. GQ has sold 57,000 copies of its iPhone and iPad apps combined over the past six months; apparently, the lad mag’s readers prefer hard copy to downloaded content.
Being a reader would you prefer a non physical magazine like this or stick to the same old hard copy version of the magazine.
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