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WWDC 2011에서 발표된 iOS 5의 새로운 기능 Top 10입니다. 기존 iOS와는 정말 많이 다르네요. iOS 5는 무려 200개가 넘는 새로운 기능들을 추가했다고 합니다.

#1: Notifications.

Audio, badges, alerts. Massively popular feature. Pushed more than 100 billion notifications to date. It has scaled "beautifully". Customers want better UI. A single place to combine all your notifications -- get to it any time, anywhere by swiping from the menu on the top of the screen. They've also added stocks and weather up there.

#2: Newstand.

It's iBooks with magazines. (We totally called this.) "Most of the major publishers" for magazines and newspapers have signed up for subscriptions. Engadget: "When you purchase them they're automatically downloaded and placed on the Newsstand.

#3: Twitter.

Interestingly, these features so far have almost no impact on developer APIs

#4 Safari.

iOS version of Safari reader, which brings article into one page and lets you email content of an article. Reading List lets you save a story for later.

#5 Reminders.

Reminders allows you to keep multiple lists, dates. Gets rid of "those scraps of paper you keep reminders on". Finally Apple adds a "nagomatica"[tm me] feature.

#6 Camera.

Jobs praises the iPhone onboard camera. There are various sniggering comments from around the blogosphere. We'll spare you the specifics. #6 Lock Screen Camera. Volume-up to take pictures now -- and you won't even get thrown out of App Store. Dan Moren: Built-in editing of photos. Crop, rotate, automatic red-eye reduction. And even one-click enhance from iPhoto.

#7 Mail

Dan Moren: Making it even better in iOS 5, with rich text formatting (bold, italics, underline). Control the indentation with decrease/increase. Drag the address between two fields. Added support for flagging. Indentation control has been added. More support for Enterprise customers.

#8 PC FREE OPERATIONS!

Finally. No need to have a computer to own and love your iDevice. Chris W: "Incoming PC fanatics claiming they stole that from Microsoft's Windows 8 news" Welcome to the post-PC World. Apple is selling devices to many customers without household computers. New welcome setup image. Setup and activation done on-device. Chris W: "If it isn't optional it's the most deft anti-jailbreak move they could have made" Incremental over-the-air-app updates. Take that TomTom and Navigon, with your 1.5GB app installs.

#9 Game Center.

Your profiles can now use images. Purchase and download games directly in Game Center. Support for turn-based games like Scrabble built-in.

#10 iMessage

Messaging for all iOS customers. Looks like the SMS icon but now with more messaging support. Works over 3G and Wi-Fi. Messages are pushed to all devices. Start a conversation on one device, you can pick it up on another.

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WWDC 2011의 키노트 스피치에서 애플의 첫 주자로 소개된 Mac OSX Lion 관련 내용입니다. 출처는 TUAW 라이브 블로그 (Http://tuaw.com/)입니다.

10:39. Dev Preview available today.

10:36.Windows Migration assistant eases your migration *from* windows *to* Lion. FaceTime is built into Lion. Lion will be available only in the Mac App Store. 4GB download, installs in-place. Works on all authorized Macs. $29. July.

10:31.#10 Mail: Looks like brushed metal is the new cool kid on the block. Not sure I'm really fond of the look. Sande: "Interesting - this may convert me back to Mail.app from Sparrow". Dan Moren: Lion has a brand new conversation view, that shows you the entire thread that you can just scroll through, with attachments, and everything. Ars: "beautiful view" that shows the conversations just as they were sent. As for me, I'm still disappointed that I can't keep using Eudora 6 in Rosetta on Lion.

10:30. #9 Airdrop: Peer-to-peer Wi-Fi based networking. AirDrop is in the sources in the Finder. Get a display of yourself and the people around you running AirDrop at the same time. Allows ad-hoc file sharing. Jason Snell: "Now Phil Schiller and Lion are here to kill sneakernet again. AirDrop is quick, ad hoc file transfer system, without setting up sharing systems and stuff, or going through IM." Recipient authorizes download. Stored to ~/Downloads.

10:30. AAPL -1.25 (-0.36%)

10:28. He demonstrates what happens when he quits -- "absolutely nothing". No prompts to save, no queries. When Pages re-launches, it brings back the entire window set including inspectors, window positioning, etc. Even insertion point and selection are remembered. It's full restoration of your session.

10:23. Autosave leads to... #8 Versions. Version control for your app. Bringing version control for "the rest of us". That's awesome. Sincerely awesome. You can make any version the current one, even copy and paste between them. It's Time Machine for documents, with a similar UI. Craig is demoing windows and palettes in Pages to show editing. He's changing fonts, dragging images around, etc.

10:20. #5 Launchpad. #6 Resume. #7 Autosave. Resume: Launch an app in Lion, it remembers what you were doing and where you were. The name of your document is now a menu now. Click on it and you can revert to last opened to get back to where you were. Dan Moren: You can Lock a file to prevent it from being auto-saved again (like a template). You can duplicate it right in the app.

10:20. New incremental updates mean you won't have to re-download the entire application at a time when you have to update, so updates should be much faster. Jason Snell: Sandboxing is interesting... that's a security approach. Will be interesting to see how secure it is and if it becomes a meme that App Store apps are safer than non-App Store apps.

10:20. AAPL +0.06 (0.02%). The Apple Online Store is still up.

10:17. Next up is #4 Mac App Store. In the last 6 months, it's become the #1 PC software channel for buying software, beating out Best Buy, Walmart, Office Depot -- Schiller. Autodesk Sketchbook Pro has seen 1 million new MAS users on OS X. Feral doubled its revenue since MAS. Pixelmator has quadrupled its revenue.

10:16. The multitouch gestures we're seeing is really amazing stuff -- although not all of us are ready to say RIP to the mouse. Dan Moren: Multiple desktops integrated. Click at the top right to create a new desktop, and you can even drag the windows right to them.

10:15. Jason Snell: "Face detection effects [in iPhoto] are pretty cool. My kids are going to waste dozens of hours on that." Snell adds that Jobs (sadly) looks poorly, commenting that this may be his last keynote.

10:11 #3 is Mission Control: essentially Dashboard, Exposé and Spaces rolled into one. Demoing... Sande: "Most of this is familiar to anyone who has been playing with the Lion Developer Preview but it's still exciting stuff".

10:09 #2 is Full Screen Apps. Apple worked with its system apps to allow them to convert to full screen. Fullscreen demos includes Safari (with reading list), iCal, iPhoto, Preview. Swipe to see your entire Safari browsing history. Demonstrating swiping back and forth between full-screen Safari and iPhoto using gestures. Caolo: "RIP scroll bars" Exit fullscreen, just tap a screen in the top right.

10:07 10 new features. #1 is multitouch gestures including tap-to-zoom, pinching, two-finger swipes with (Engadget) "incredible, physical realism that has never been possible in a PC operating system before." Lion can do momentum based scrolling (""The page feels alive beneath your fingers.""), multitouch taps, pinch to zoom. "Why do we have scroll bars?" The scroll bars disappear, magically appearing only when you scroll. This is quite similar to what happens on iOS already.

10:04 Today's topics are Lion, iOS 5, and "interesting new cloud stuff". Let's start with Lion, Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi will start with Lion demos. Jacqui Cheng: "He's trying to pull a Ballmer". Mac sales are 73% notebooks, 27% desktops. Mac OS X is the heart of the Mac. Built on Unix, with ease of use and simplicity.

10:03. Macworld: Dan Moren: "Over 5200 attendees. Sold out within two hours. This is the biggest place they can get. Sorry for all those that couldn't make it and we wish we could sell more tickets, but we don't know where to have it."

10:01. Steve Jobs takes the stage. He's met with a standing ovation. Engadget: "We've got an awesome morning together, this morning. Thank you for coming so much." Macworld: Dan Moren: Someone shouted "I love you!" TUAW waits with breathless anticipation for what's about to be revealed.

10:00. James Brown. "I feel good". The lights are dimming.

This is a grea article about Augmented Reality of luxury brands and is about Tissot, BMW, Hugo Boss etc. (http://liten.be//U7F2i)

Augmented reality is proving a major force in the engagement between luxury brands and the Millennials - the generation of tech orientated consumers born in the 1980s.

Earlier this week, Susan Kime, luxury lifestyle journalist for www.justluxe.com reinforced this theory with encouraging statistics for premium brands which are considering new methods of digital engagement.

• Wealthy Americans under 35 are avid consumers of a wide range of new media on smartphones and tablet computers - 70% own smartphones (40% iPhone, 24% BlackBerry); 23% already have an iPad

• On average Millennials spend 246 minutes emailing compared to 137 minutes speaking on the phone.

• Compared to their older wealthy counterparts, millennials spend far more minutes on average each week texting (121-42), instant messaging (89-30) and video chatting (75-9)."

• Television, radio and print newspaper consumption habits are dying out in favour of online video (78%) than those who regularly read a printed magazine (76%) or newspaper (68%).

Susan relates AR to the above statistics as being a natural progression of current communication methods for brands and consumers:

"Augmented Reality is taking digital marketing strategies to a more sensory, immediate, attuned level - perfect for Millennials and others on either side of the generational divide. AR enables consumers to virtually try on jewelry, watches, clothing and handbags.

"With these stats considered, how have many luxury brands engaged these new media Millennial mindsets?"  

We have sourced seven examples of how a range of luxury brands have cleverly leveraged AR to provide deeper engagement, wow factor or brand butler services to their clientele:

1.  Tissot enabled shoppers to try on their luxury watches virtually via Selfridges and Harrods windows in London, creating a great deal of spectacle and PR for the brand:

2.  Hugo Boss created an AR game offering up discounts as prizes, significantly increasing dwell time and footfall as a result.

3.  Garrard got into the Royal Wedding spirit last month, collaborating with UK Vogue's street lights initiative,inviting everyone to 'try on a tiara' with another shop window installation.

4.  Ray Ban cleverly deployed augmented reality in-store and online with face tracking that allowed consumers to digitally select and try on from a range of Ray Bans.

5.  BMW integrated AR with their advertising campaign that saw the car being used as a virtual paintbrush. Creating this video as a viral, they encouraged the public to print their own symbol and get behind the wheel: 

5.  MyBoucheron allows consumers to try on pieces from the luxury French retailer Boucheron collection from the comfort of their own home.The experience is reported to have generated a 50% increase in web traffic.

6.  Conde Nast created a travel guide app aimed at their affluent readership, which guides them around the world's most chic city destinations. This is a nice example of how AR can be integrated as a brand butler service.

This is a interesting article on how to maximise your internet experience when using the iPad. It was located over at Worldwide iPad News. There is nothing worse than spending half your lesson time just trying to get all your students actually connected to the net. This is not a magic wand but it is a list of tips for setting up your procedures for the iPad so your students do not waste valuable class time. Check it out to see if it gives you quicker access.

If you like to browse the internet, the chances are that you like to do it in a timely manner. Take a look at these tips and tricks that will make web browsing on your iPad 2 a breeze.

Keeping the Bookmarks Bar visible
An often overlooked feature of the iPad is the Bookmarks Bar, which allows you to surf quickly to your favorite websites. It’s easy to miss because, by default, the bar only appears when you open a new tab and then disappears again when you go to a website. You can make it stay visible by going to Settings on your Home screen, selecting Safari and setting “Always Show Bookmarks Bar” to “ON”. You can add bookmarks to the bar by tapping the “+” sign to the left of the address bar, tapping “Add Bookmark” and then “Add to Bookmarks Bar”.
 
Placing bookmarks on the Home screen
You can add a bookmark for a website – a webclip – to your iPad Home screen by surfing to the page you want to bookmark in Safari, tapping the “+” sign and selecting “Add to Home Screen”. The webclip, which you can rename, is added to your Home screen and will automatically open to the area of the web page you had displayed when you bookmarked the site. Webclips are backed up by iTunes, but are not synced by either iTunes or MobileMe.

Read the full article:
http://algebraxyz.com/2011/06/01/ipad-2-browse-the-internet-faster-and-easier/

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Aurasma is a radical piece of technology that represents the future of how we use our mobile devices by bringing the physical and virtual worlds together for the first time.

It can then deliver relevant content in real time, including videos, animations, audio or webpages. Using the smartphone's camera, GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi internet and its position, acceleration and direction, the technology combines image recognition and a conceptual understanding of the 3D world to recognize objects and images and seamlessly merge augmented reality actions into the scene.
Without the need for barcodes or tags, the app is able to see its surrounding environment and make it fully interactive.

The app currently works on the iPhone 4 and iPad 2, and will shortly be available on Android devices. You can download Aurasma for free from the App Store.

When you start the Aurasma app, you can start viewing and creating Auras, augmented reality actions,
which enable you to overlay videos, audio or interactions over all sorts of images in the real world.

images that can be viewed and recognized wherever they are found. Find one of those images in the real world or on your computer screen and point your phone to it to see it come alive.

Auras

There are different types of Auras:

Channels

Social

Newspapers and Magazines

For example, a static image of a weather forecast or a photo from a football match can come alive in the form of a video stream.

Putting on my bullet proof vest here, dare I say there’s some features shown in the Windows 8 demo video that iOS and even Mac OS X would greatly benefit from?

Regardless of how you feel about Windows, Microsoft, and Apple competition, you have to admit there are some good ideas shown in the first look at Windows 8. Here are six features that I think look promising enough that the iPhone and iPad would benefit from including too:

1) App Activity Overview from a Start Screen

In Windows 8, unlocking the screen brings you to a quick overview of app notifications and their updates. New emails, updates from your social network, upcoming calendar events, your investments, updated weather (I really wish the stagnant iOS weather icon updated the temperature), tweets, and a few other things. Contrast this to unlocking the screen on an iPad or iPhone, where you’re instantly shown all your apps and you have to dive into them to find out what your new emails are, what the weather is, whats on your calendar, etc. Again, this could be resolved in iOS 5, but I think it would be nice to have an overview screen like this.

2) File System Browser on a Touch Screen

Windows 8 lets you use a simplified touch accessible file system to go through all your documents, pictures, music, videos, and other files in one central location. Many people think iOS and iPad benefits from not having access to a file system, but I think it’s actually needed at some level so you can access created documents from other apps. Why can’t I open a document typed up in iA Writer in Pages app? That’s frustrating, access to a file system in iOS would allow this and much more. Here’s what the touch file system looks like in Windows 8:

3) Side-by-side Display of Open Apps

Multitasking is great, but if you want to transcribe information from one app to another, it’s impossible to do this quickly on an iPad or iPhone. This is one of the main productivity boosts you get with dual-displays on a desktop, and iOS would greatly benefit from this feature. Sure, with Mac OS X you can just resize apps to be side-by-side, but it’s not perfect either, which is why apps like Divvy are so popular. The good news? Reviewing the Win 8 demo, John Gruber of DaringFireball seems to suggest this feature could come to iOS.

4) Better Use of the Lock Screen

This is probably going to be addressed in iOS 5 with a revamped notifications and widget system, but until it’s official I am going to complain about the wasted space of iOS lock screens. Microsoft has found a happy medium here, it still serves as a picture frame of sorts, but it also displays the date, time, events, your instant message counts, and email notifications. If you ask me, these things are important to display on a lock screen.

5) Split QWERTY Keyboard for Touch Typing on Tablets

If you’ve ever held an iPad in vertical orientation and tried to type on the keyboard with your thumbs you know it’s not the easiest thing in the world. Microsoft has found a crafty way to address this by splitting the keyboard into two parts on both sides of the screen, easily accessible to your thumbs. This is a great idea and the iPad would benefit from this as an input option.

6) Full Featured Touch Weather App & Updating Weather Widget

This is simple but it’s been a widely criticized complaint about the iOS ecosystem. Why doesn’t the iOS weather icon update the conditions? And why has nobody released a good weather app? The Apple offering for iPhone and iPod touch is good, but it’s too simple, and the iPad is lacking a good weather app completely. I’d change the tiles, but otherwise I like the look of Windows 8′s weather app and an iOS developer should take this idea and run with it:

These are the six things that stood out at me from the Windows 8 video that iOS could add or improve on. Remember that iOS 5 will be shown next week at WWDC, so much of this could be addressed then, so stay tuned.

Source: osxdaily.com