Type2Phone turns your Mac into a keyboard for your iOS device

10 January 2012

Type2Phone turns your Mac into a Bluetooth keyboard for your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Type and paste text to your iOS device. Every character you type into Type2Phone will appear on the mobile device it is paired with. Of course, you may also paste text from your Mac to the device.

- Use your Mac as a keyboard to quickly type SMS text messages, notes, …

- Reply to emails on accounts configured only on your iPhone

- Communicate with friends over your iPhone: Facebook, Twitter, chat

- Paste addresses, passwords, … from your Mac to your iPhone.

via Mac App Store – Type2Phone.

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Bracketron Unveils Eco-Friendly Line of Mobile Device Chargers That Automatically Eliminate Vampire Power

5 January 2012

Bracketron announces its new lineup of and eco-friendly mobile device chargers and batteries that feature GreenZero Technology. This exclusive technology totally eliminates wasteful stand-by consumption, also known as vampire power, which other chargers consume when they are left plugged into power outlets.

Bracketron’s GreenZero chargers detect when your device is fully charged or unplugged, and then automatically shut off. The chargers then consume zero idle power to save energy, while also lengthening the life of your device battery by limiting top-off charging time. Bracketron’s mobile device chargers make it easy to get rid of standby consumption, so that you no longer need to worry about unplugging your chargers or switching off a power strip to save energy.

via News and Events – Bracketron Unveils Eco-Friendly Line of Mobile Device Chargers That Automatically Eliminate Vampire Power | Bracketron.

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CollabraCam multi-camera video production for iOS devices

15 December 2011

CollabraCam is the worlds first multicam video production iPhone app with live editing and director to camera communication. CollabraCam provides a quick, easy and fun way to shoot and simultaneously edit live video from multiple cameras using iPhones, iPod Touches and iPad 2. CollabraCam links iOS devices running the app over local WiFi to create a video switcher and communication control room with a simple, yet powerful, live video editing workflow.

via CollabraCam | Macworld.

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Apple Posts Gyroscope-Friendly Panorama of Grand Central Retail Store Opening

13 December 2011

Apple has posted a 360-degree panorama of its new Grand Central Terminal retail store on opening day, showing the large crowds and the new store in the context of the massive terminal building. The panorama supports gyroscope input on compatible iOS devices, allowing users to experience the panorama simply by rotating the device.

The panorama is accessible by visiting Apples Grand Central retail store page and tapping on the “View More Photos” link on the featured store photo. The panorama is the final image in the gallery, and can be navigated by gyroscope on newer iPhone and iPad devices and by clicking/tapping and dragging on other devices.

via Mac Rumors.

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Motion Tracking iPhone Dock Keeps Video On-Point

10 November 2011

The Swivl is an iPhone dock that uses motion tracking to swivel the phone — and thus the front-facing camera — to follow your every move, both horizontally and vertically. It also comes with a wireless remote to control the camera and start-and-stop recording, useful for video-bloggers.

via Motion Tracking iPhone Dock Keeps Video On-Point – Mac Rumors.

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Texas Instruments and Brookstone debut iPhone Pocket Projector case

8 November 2011

Electronics giant Texas Instruments TI and specialty retailer Brookstone have announced the Pocket Projector for iPhone 4, a case for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S that incorporates TIs Pico projector technology to offer on-the-go video projection.

via Texas Instruments and Brookstone debut iPhone Pocket Projector case | Macworld.

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Researchers turn iPhone into 350x microscope on the cheap

12 October 2011

Take a close look at the images below. They look like fairly typical photos taken with a microscope, except…they were taken with an iPhone. The highly detailed snaps are magnified an impressive 350 times thanks to a recently created microscopic lens, and it was all done for around $50.

The low-cost makeshift microscope comes courtesey of researchers at University of California, Davis.

via Researchers turn iPhone into 350x microscope on the cheap

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New Google Maps feature lets you helicopter preview routes

4 October 2011

Google Maps now includes a new feature that lets you preview a route with a 3D bird’s eye animation, whether you’re driving, walking, biking, or using mass transit.

via Cool new Google Maps feature lets you helicopter preview routes | Macworld.

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Amazon launches Kindle integration with public libraries

21 September 2011

Amazon on Wednesday announced the launch of its previously-promised Kindle library lending, which will allow Kindle and Kindle app users alike to borrow ebooks from 11,000 local libraries in the United States.

via Amazon launches Kindle integration with public libraries | E-Readers | Playlist | Macworld.

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The Mechanic Muse — From Scroll to Screen

5 September 2011

Something very important and very weird is happening to the book right now: It’s shedding its papery corpus and transmigrating into a bodiless digital form, right before our eyes. We’re witnessing the bibliographical equivalent of the rapture. If anything we may be lowballing the weirdness of it all.

via The Mechanic Muse — From Scroll to Screen – NYTimes.com.

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