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Beginner tip: How to email a photo

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 02:08 PM PST

New to iPhone and want to learn how to send those pictures you have just taken, then here is a tip for you. Once you’ve taken a bunch of photos with your iPhone’s camera here’s how to share them with your family and friends. There are actually 3 different ways you can do so. The first method only works for emailing a single photo. The second and third methods are for emailing multiple photos at once. The third one is ideal for scenarios when you’ve already started an email and want to attach a photo to it. This is especially handy when you’re replying to an email.

How to email a single photo

  • View the photo
  • Tap the arrow on the bottom left corner
  • Select “Email Photo”

How to email 2-5 photos in a single message

  • View the album containing the photo you wish to email
  • Tap the arrow at the upper right corner
  • Tap the photos you wish to email (up to 5)
  • Tap “Share” at the bottom left corner
  • Tap “Email”

Note: if the Share button isn’t working, check to make sure you haven’t chosen more than 5 photos. 5 is the limit.

How to paste 1-5 photos into an existing email

  • View the album containing the photo you wish to email
  • Tap the arrow at the upper right corner”
  • Tap the photos you wish to email (up to 5)
  • Tap “Copy” at the bottom left corner
  • Exit the Photos app
  • Launch Mail app
  • Paste photo into new or existing email message

Bonus tip: if you just want to copy one photo, tap and hold your finger down on it and a “Copy” button will pop up just for that photo.

So there you have it – three different ways for emailing photos. You will likely find yourself using all three methods, because depending on the situation, one may superior to the others.

Let us know how these work for you. Do you find yourself using one method more than another? If you have any questions, ask us in the comments below!

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Adobe: Apple is being very mean to Flash

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 01:47 PM PST

According to Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, Apple is out to get Flash. Which I guess is fair since Flash has been out to melt every Apple device I’ve ever owned. Fast Company quotes:

“I just think there’s this negative campaigning going on, and, for whatever reason, Apple is really choosing to incite it, and condone it,” Lynch says. “I think that’s unfortunate. We don’t think it’s good for the web to have aspects closed off–a blockade of certain types of expression. There’s a decade of content out there that you just can’t view on Apple’s device, and I think that’s not only hurtful to Adobe, but hurtful to everyone that created that content.”

This following Apple not allowing the Flash runtime (or any runtimes) on iPhone or iPad, and recently shipping the new MacBook Air Flash plugin-free. (Which Ars Technica reported can result in as much as 33% battery life improvement).

It’s not Apple, however, that is Adobe’s enemy. It’s time. The same thing happened to Real Media (ask your grandfather) and ActiveX (ask your father). It’s a cycle that keeps repeating — the web lacks certain needful technology so a proprietary 3rd party plugin rises up to fill the gap until HTML and associated standards evolve and the plugin is no longer needed. It’s the natural order, and Adobe is finding it increasingly hard to fight mother nature.

And that’s okay. Flash is still great at a few things. It just doesn’t need to do the battery draining, CPU melting, security-troubled, privacy violating stuff it’s not good at any more. Better for Flash, better for the web, better for users.

Adobe’s core strength is content creation anyway. Buying Flash and moving into content delivery may have been a bold experiment but it’s one likely to enjoy increasingly niche relevance as the web marches on.

Luckily Adobe seems to be hedging their bets with HTML 5 authoring tools. That’s a far better response than Kevin Lynch’s.

[Fast Company]

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iBooks vs Kindle app- Which one should you use?

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 11:16 AM PST

Amazon Kindle bikini ad

Ever since the iBooks was announced, this is probably the single biggest issue an avid ebook reader will ultimately have to deal with: Kindle app or iBooks. What should you pick? Well, no one can tell you that for certain, but I hope to give you a little insight that might help you decide.

The fundamental difference between the two is the Kindle app has a very large ebook selection by comparison. 750,000 ebooks on Kindle and 60,000 books at iBooks launch (Apple has not released exact numbers). To me, this is the differentiating factor. Both applications support landscape view with two columns and a built-in dictionary as well as syncing of bookmarks, highlights and notes. Let’s look at some of the differences of each app beyond how many books they have.

(You can get our quick review of the Kindle app here and iBooks app here)

Kindle

The Kindle app is a free universal app so you can run it on any iOS device. You can tap the left or right of the screen to turn pages and tap the top right corner to bookmark a page. You have several levels of font sizes and colors to choose from to help create your reading experience as good as it can be. You can even sync your annotations to other devices that support Kindle, that includes any iOS device, Mac, PC, Android and BlackBerry as well as Amazon’s own Kindle.

There are a couple of innovative features that the Kindle has brought to the ebook table. First the Kindle app displays popular highlights in a book via underlined text while you read. You can easily see what other people have highlighted, quotes or whole passages. Second is data supplied by Shelfari. This content includes summary, character, spoilers and more; not a bad benefit. On the iPad, you can turn on a page turning feature similar to iBooks, but it is not has smooth or pays as much attention to detail as Apple’s iBooks. On iPad, you have to different ways to view your library; big icons that can use pinch to zoom to resize as needed or an alphabetical list. I like both options depending on my mood, but what is lacking is a manual arrange function; You only can sort by Recent, Author or Title.

Since Kindle books are in the cloud, there is no need to sync your book on any desktop. Simple navigate to the archive in Kindle and redownload your book and it will then sync your bookmarks and other annotations.

iBooks

iBooks is a free download from the App Store for iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad. You can immediately tell the difference in aesthetic quality between the two apps. When reading with iBooks, it “feels” like a book. In portrait iBook’s pages look like they are laying on a bound book. When you turn a page, you can see the print on the other side. Also, one of my caveats with the Kindle app is resolved in iBooks; I can manually arrange my books in any order. One of the other benefits of iBooks is the very nice PDF reader that is built it. You can easily search within PDFs and bookmark pages. For later reference, you can even filter to just view pages you have bookmarked. This is a very nice feature to have for free.

These are all very nice touches iBooks. The look, feel and options are fantastic. However, content is king, just like available software for a platform and regretfully, iBooks falls flat on its face. 9 out of 10 books I search for on iBooks comes up empty. This is very disheartening. I remember in the early days of the Kindle, they only had a 100,000 ebooks or so and are now approaching one million. Sadly, iBooks is not even up to 100,00o yet. I have hopes that Apple will forge the relationships needed to foster a growing library.

Alas, at this time, Kindle really is the better choice for content and iBooks is a much better app. In the end, what s more important to you; books you can actually read, or a pretty application?

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TinyUmbrella update (4.1.13) allows iOS 4.2b3 SHSH blobs to be saved.

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 10:38 AM PST

Semaphore has updated TinyUmbrella (4.1.13) to allow for the saving of iOS 4.2b3 SHSH blobs for the iPhone, iPod touch, and the iPad. This is the first time SHSH blobs are being saved for a beta release and the significance is as of yet unknown, but semaphore tweeted that it might be used to assist the untethering of future jailbreaks. Since the release of iOS 4.2 is imminent, iOS 4.2b3 signatures will not be available for long.

You can download TinyUmbrella from the link below to save both iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2b3 SHSH blobs regardless of what firmware you are currently on and I recommend doing so immediately just in case they are needed down the line…

[TinyUmbrella]

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New Apple Patent Points to Scrollable Menus and Toolbars in iOS, Mac OS X

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 09:16 AM PST

A new Apple patent was just revealed that suggests iOS (and the upcoming Mac OS X Lion) could have scrolling menus and toolbars The idea would be that users could bring up menus and toolbars that apply to whatever application they’re in, scroll through them, and select a command from the toolbar itself.

The patent also tells us that these toolbars could consist of text only commands or that icons could be used. To put it in simpler terms, it could change the way you interact with your OS. Right now in Mac OS X we use drop-down menus to save a file, open a document, or edit them. In iOS we use typically use pop-up menus. This patent implies that Apple may be looking at changing it up a bit. I’m not quite sure how I feel about scrolling through menus on a Mac or if I prefer the traditional solution (drop-down menus are easy to access), but I could definitely see this being an extremely useful feature in iOS. What do you guys think?

[via PatentlyApple]

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ZTE Peel coming to Sprint November 14th for $79.99

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 09:14 AM PST

ZTE Peel for Sprint

The ZTE Peel is launching on Sprint’s Now Network on November 14th, priced at $79.99 and comes with a 1GB data allotment for $30 per month. The Peel allows your iPod touch to connect to Sprint’s data network via WiFi. BGR reports:

On Friday, we told you about a rumor we were hearing surrounding the release-date and pricing for Sprint's ZTE Peel; the iPod touch case that provides 3G internet access. Today, we've got cold hard evidence to confirm our previous scoop.

Something curious we noticed was how little data you’d actually be getting for $30 — at just 1GB with $.05 per megabyte overage charges — because when you figure in that you can have up to 2 connected devices and VoIP ability, you’ll most likely find that limit being exceeded very quickly if you aren’t monitoring your usage. At least it’s month-to-month.

Something else we thought funny was that this doesn’t support the latest 4th generation iPod Touch. Curious, indeed.

Any readers planning on shelling out that kind of cash just to ensure your iPod Touch has a constant connection? Let us know in the comments below!

[BGR]

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Vote now for your favorite addictive iPhone/iPad game! – TiPb Awards

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 04:57 AM PST

TiPb.com 2010 App, Accessory, and iOS awards

The 2010 TiPb Awards have begun and it’s time to vote on all your favorites. This time it’s for your favorite addictive iPhone/iPad game of the year. You know the type, you get it, you download it, you start to play it, you can’t stop. You don’t eat. You don’t sleep. You. Just. Can’t. Stop.

iPhone or iPad, regular, HD version, or universal binary, there are tons of candidates but there can only be one 2010 TiPb Award winner, so vote up in the pole above and then let us know why you chose the favorite you did in comments below. (And if you don’t see your favorite here, add it as a write-in as well!)

Ready, set, vote!

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Epic shows off Infinity Blade coming this holiday for iPhone, iPad

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 04:23 AM PST

Epic shows off Infinity Blade coming this holiday for iPhone, iPad

Epic, makers of the Unreal 3 Engine, have just released a trailer showing off their upcoming Infinity Blade game for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Originally introduced as “Project Sword” during the September 2010 Apple Special Event in San Francisco and featured in the latest ad campaigns for iPhone 4 and iPad, ChAIR’s ground-breaking new game will be the first to bring the power of Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 to Apple’s world-class gaming platforms.

It’s due out before the end of the year. Check out the video after break, go nuts in the comments.

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Parallax enables scrolling panoramic wallpapers on iPhone [Jailbreak]

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 04:18 AM PST

Thanks to a new tweak available in the Cydia store called Parallax, you can now enable scrolling/panoramic wallpapers on your jailbroken iPhone.

If you are unaware of what panoramic wallpapers are, they are simply pictures that will scroll as you change pages on your springboard. This is a great feature if you have a wide shot of a family or group or for amazing nature photos.

Unfortunately iPhone 3G/iPod touch G2 (2008) owners are warned to not install this tweak as the developer has said it is fairly memory intensive and could cause those devices to run slower. If you have an iPhone 3GS or an iPhone 4 you can hit up the Cydia store and download Parallax for $1.49.

Check out a video of this tweak in action after the break!

[ GeekWord ]

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Best of Smartphone Experts, 7 Nov 2010

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 07:51 PM PST

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