I wonder what our upcoming CreativeMornings speaker Rolf Hiltl thinks of this idea of using iPads in a restaurant as the menu and to put in your order.
(via @roitsch)
Felt iPad Case
I keep coming back to this iPad Felt Case and am tempted to hit the purachse button. I own the original Apple iPad Case and while it is superpractical I miss holding/handling the iPad sans case.
Grid-App for iPhone/iPad
Effektive designed these grid based home screen backgrounds for iPhone and iPad to coincide with the IOS4 software upgrade which allows you to select and image as a home screen background. These grid inspired layouts act as an organised wireframe grid structure to keep your applications in neat and tidy order on your iPhone or iPad. With numbered grid rows and a ‘D’ for Dock you simply press hold and drag and drop your icons into the specific grid spots.
Please note only works on devices running IOS4 and only on 3GS or iPhone 4. More colours and styles will be available soon. See here for download and installation instructions. iPad Grid-Apps will be available soon.
The $0.69 iPad Stand
Andrew Devigal (multimedia editor at New York Times) has found an affordable iPad stand solution: An Office Depot Business Card holder. $0.69 a piece. Wheee!
(via unpluggd)
iPadPeek.com
(testing our To-Do App called TeuxDeux)
Want to know what your site looks like on an iPad, but don’t own one? Try iPadPeek.com.
(thank you @suparabbit)
Napkins are so passé
This is the ‘iPad’ that I will be ordering asap: PixelPad (holding off on the other one, but lusting over it, yes) It will look sooo good on our coffee table. Ha!
(thank you Jonquils)
MoviePeg
The MoviePeg iPhone Stand is so simple, it’s brilliant!
Talking Carl
Ever since I discovered Talking Carl over at Ben Chestnut’s blog and introduced our almost 4 year old to him, she’s obsessed with Carl. It’s a silly, simple iPhone App that has provided our little Ella many many giggles.
Swiss Railway Clock iPhone App
Oh, the memories of growing up in Switzerland, now packed into a minimalist nifty Swiss Railway Clock iPhone App (iTunes Link) by Thomas Feger. The clock, prominently displayed in every railway station in Switzerland, can be found more than 3’000 times across the country. Back in the 1940s when the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) was looking for a way to take advantage of their name for punctuality and incorporate this theme into their national image, they asked Hans Hilfiker, an SBB employee, engineer and prolific inventor, to come up with a highly visible clock that would not only form the basis of their later corporate identity, but it would help to guarantee on time departures as well.
Hilfiker, an exponent of products that were both functional and well designed, created the Railways’ masterpiece in 1944. The design, with its clear and easily read face, mimics the smooth running of the trains and incorporates clever features that demonstrate punctuality in a highly visible fashion.
The SwissRailwayClock is also available as a Mac OS X dashboard widget.
(thank you kevin)
Dr.Brendan
Back in June, I cracked my iPhone screen and all this time I just couldn’t get myself to pay $200 for a new glass. (Sorry, Apple)
A lovely lady at an AT&T store pointed me to Dr.Brendan, the iPhone Doc here in Manhattan. Last week, I finally managed to meet up with Brendan and watched him do surgery on my beloved iPhone. (We met up in a Hotel Lobby in the Meat Packing district, it felt like some sort of drug deal, ha!)
Brendan is a charming young guy, who kinda fell into this and is now making a living off fixing iPhones. My phone looks like new, works like a charm and it cost me a mere $70. Brendan does house-calls and meets you pretty much anywhere in the city. Does it get any more convenient? Nope.
I can’t recommend Brendan enough. I was disappointed though that he didn’t wear scrubs during the surgery. Ha!
Portable Solar iPhone Charger
How cool is this portable iPhone Solar Charger by Dexim? It can be flipped vertically or horizontally for hands-free viewing and can extend talk time up to eight hours. Solar P-Flip is expected to be released in a few months and should retail for USD79.90.
BookBook
BookBook is a hardback leather case designed exclusively for MacBook and MacBook Pro. Available in Classic Black or Vibrant Red,
I *love* it. Hat tip to TwelveSouth! (Must go on my wishlist asap!)
is that an iPhone or a MiniMac?
iCooli makes your iPhone look like a MiniMac. Cute. I want one.
Keep this checked.
Keep this checked.
Marco Arment’s (and my) “Entire Message” search in Mail.app hasn’t worked for a long time, always just inexplicably returning zero results for any search. Today it was finally causing enough of an inconvenience that he searched for a fix.
He learned that for “Entire Message” searches, Mail just uses Spotlight on the message files. So if you leave this box unchecked* in Spotlight’s preferences, “Entire Message” searches simply won’t work, and neither Mail nor Spotlight felt it necessary to tell him this. (You also need to ensure that ~/Library/Mail isn’t excluded from settings in that Privacy tab.)
He was impatient, so after fixing that setting, he told Spotlight to manually import the messages immediately:
mdimport ~/Library/Mail
As soon as that completed, “Entire Message” searches started working.
* he had unchecked it because mail messages always cluttered up the results when I was simply trying to launch an app or find a document.
BassJump
Designed exclusively for MacBook, BassJump is a USB-powered subwoofer that turns your MacBook into a mini sound system. One single USB cable delivers power and sound. Custom software blends the music coming out of your built-in speakers with the sound output of the BassJump for dramatically enhanced audio performance.
iRetroPhone
The iRetroPhone iPhone App made me smile.
Look, Beach Balls!
Look, lots of beach balls! (Discovered in Chris Glass’ Footer links) Made me smile!
