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Selasa, 07 Januari 2014

App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013


Apple announced today -

Record-Breaking December with Over $1 Billion in Sales

CUPERTINO, California―January 7, 2014―Apple® today announced that customers spent over $10 billion on the App Store℠ in 2013, including over $1 billion in December alone. App Store customers downloaded almost three billion apps in December making it the most successful month in App Store history. Apple’s incredible developers have now earned $15 billion on the App Store.

“We’d like to thank our customers for making 2013 the best year ever for the App Store,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “The lineup of apps for the holiday season was astonishing and we look forward to seeing what developers create in 2014.”

With the introduction of iOS 7, developers were able to create stunning apps that took advantage of the redesigned user interface and the more than 200 new features and APIs. Developers such as Evernote, Yahoo!, AirBnB, OpenTable, Tumblr, Pinterest and American Airlines re-imagined the user experience, bringing content to the forefront while increasing the overall efficiency and performance of their apps.

2013 saw surprise hits like Ellen DeGeneres’ Heads Up, ProtoGeo’s Moves, Simon Filip’s Afterlight and Kevin Ng’s Impossible Road. Many of the year’s biggest successes like Candy Crush Saga, Puzzles & Dragons, Minecraft, QuizUp and Clumsy Ninja were created by international developers, while Duolingo (United States), Simogo (Sweden), Frogmind (UK), Plain Vanilla Corp (Iceland), Atypical Games (Romania), Lemonista (China), BASE (Japan) and Savage Interactive (Australia) emerged as developers to watch in 2014.

The revolutionary App Store offers more than one million apps to iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® users in 155 countries around the world, with more than 500,000 native iPad apps available. App Store customers can choose from an incredible range of apps in 24 categories, including newspapers and magazines offered in Newsstand, games, business, news, sports, health & fitness, travel and kids.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.


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Instapaper

Category - News

Greg's Review
It was a sad day when Google closed the Google Reader project. A great piece of software died that day. Moment of silence please......

Instapaper fills the void left by Google Reader and improves on the concept. It lets you tag stories in your web browser(s) for you to read in an Instapaper app on a tablet or smart phone. The articles you tag are available for offline reading. This makes it great if you have a wifi only tablet.

I like to tag 10 or 20 articles to read whenever I take a road trip. You can manage your account online. The app let's you adjust the font, line spacing, and background colors. The black background setting is great for reading in a dark space.

This is a great app for news junkies. Enjoy!


From Developer
Not Instapaper is the simplest way to save and store articles for reading: offline, on-the-go, anytime, anywhere, perfectly formatted.

Instapaper for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch provides a mobile-optimized Text view that makes reading Internet content a clean and uncluttered experience.

Instapaper Core Features:
- Save most web pages as text only, stripping away the full-sized layout to optimize for the iPhone and iPad screens. 
- Store up to 500 articles on your iPhone or iPad, and store unlimited articles on the Instapaper website.
- Read offline, even on airplanes, subways, on elevators, or on Wi-Fi-only devices away from Internet connections.
- Send to Instapaper from 150 other iPhone and iPad apps. 

Additional Features:
- Adjustable fonts, text sizes, line spacing, and margins
- Dark mode and brightness control for night reading
- Automatic Dark and Sepia Mode switching for sunset times in your location
- Sort your list of unread items by popularity, date, article length, and shuffle
- Filter your list of unread items by reading time
- Folders for organization
- Dictionary and Wikipedia lookups 
- Tilt scrolling, page-flipping 
- Share via email, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Pinboard, Evernote, or other supported apps
- Rotation lock
- Preview links in the built-in browser without leaving the app
- Search, via in-app purchase

Accolades:
- Featured by Apple many times in the App Store, including both the iPhone and iPad Hall of Fame
- Macworld Editor's Choice Award
- Featured in Wired, TIME, Daring Fireball, TechCrunch, PCMag, TUAW, The Next Web, and many other magazines, newspapers, and websites
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Senin, 06 Januari 2014

Best Longread Sites


From Wikipedia
Long-form journalism is a branch of journalism dedicated to longer articles with larger amounts of content. The length of long-form articles is between that of a traditional article and that of a novel. Long-form articles often take the form of creative nonfiction or narrative journalism.

Long-form journalism has grown in popularity over the past several years, with blogs and media organizations including BuzzFeed and the New York Times creating or expanding long-form coverage and new companies being founded to capitalize on the new interest.

From Greg
I like nothing better that long form nonfiction. I find it more rewarding than reading fiction. The truth is usually far more entertaining than imagination. Here are some of the best sites to get long form articles. Enjoy.

Sites with long form non-fiction:

1- http://longform.org/

Longform.org recommends new and classic non-fiction from around the web.

Articles can be read on a browser or saved to read later with Readability, Instapaper, Pocket or Kindle.

Article suggestions, including writers and magazines submitting their own work, are encouraged. Longform considers pieces over 2,000 words that are freely available online.

Longform was founded in 2010. Longform Fiction was added in December 2012. Additional sections to come.

2- http://longreads.com/

Longreads, founded in 2009, is dedicated to helping people find and share the best storytelling on the web, across both nonfiction and fiction.

Longreads are defined as anything over 1,500 words. They’re stories that are best enjoyed away from your desk — whether it’s on a daily commute, an airplane, a subway, or your couch.

Longreads features stories from hundreds of the best writers and publishers on the web, as well as exclusive stories never before published online.

Readers:

Share your favorites with the #longreads community by tagging your tweets with #longreads. Check the raw feed for most recent submissions, or search the Longreads archive for thousands of timeless stories curated by the editors.

Publishers:

Longreads is a company that brings together people who are passionate about reading and sharing great storytelling. Share your best stories by tagging them on Twitter (#longreads).

Drop a note if you would like to collaborate: mark@longreads.com

***

Longreads was created in April 2009 by Mark Armstrong, and it is edited by Mark Armstrong and Mike Dang. You can reach us here: mark@longreads.com.

3- http://epicmagazine.com/

You know that feeling you get when a good true-life tale grabs you right from the start? You can’t stop turning the page — because you realize incredible things happen to real people — and it's hard to believe that what you’re reading is non-fiction. That is the kind of story we like to tell.

Epic writers travel the world searching for encounters with the unknown. Wartime romance, unlikely savants, deranged detectives, gentlemen thieves, and love struck killers: stories that tap into the thrill of being alive.

Epic stories will debut on Medium,  a new venture by Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone. Medium is a platform built for ideas that should last. And that's what Epic aims for: stories worth remembering.

Welcome aboard.

4- http://narrative.ly/

Narratively, named one of TIME's "50 Best Websites of 2013," is a platform devoted to original, in-depth and untold stories. We launched in September 2012.

Narratively slows down the news cycle. We avoid the breaking news and the next big headline, instead focusing exclusively on untold, human-interest stories—the rich, intricate narratives that get at the heart of what a place and its people are all about.

Each week, we explore a different theme and publish a series of stories—just one a day—told in the most appropriate medium for each piece. We might feature a longform article on a Monday, followed by an animated documentary on Tuesday, then a photo essay, an audio piece or a short documentary film. Every story gets the space and time it needs to have an impact—an approach we call “slow storytelling” or “slow journalism.” (Stay up to date on our latest stories by signing up for our weekly and weekender emails.)

Our community of writers, editors, photographers, filmmakers, illustrators, and designers have worked extensively for top media outlets like the New York Times, New York magazine, CNN, NPR, MediaStorm, the New Yorker and the BBC, among other innovative and experimental publications. And we’ve subsequently gotten press from leading outlets like Forbes, PBS, Yahoo! Finance and others.

5- http://www.vanityfair.com/

Mission
"Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly." —Frank Crowninshield, March 1914

Vanity Fair became a bellwether of the Jazz Age under the editorial direction of Frank Crowninshield in 1914. It folded in 1936, but was resurrected in 1983, hardly missing a beat. Helmed by Tina Brown until 1992, and currently edited by Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair publishes a steady stream of hard-hitting stories, colorful narratives, and eye-popping exposés that routinely become part of the national discussion.

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Minggu, 05 Januari 2014

Steve Ballmer Moron

From Greg 
Business Insider just posted a story entitled: Microsoft Is A Total Mess Because Of Steve Ballmer, And That's Why No One Wants To Be Its New CEO, Says The WSJ

Read more: businessinsider

The Wall Street Journal could not be more correct. Ballmer has run the wrecking ball through a great company. Whether it be the failed rack and stack employee review program or the stagnant growth in the former world's largest corporation Ballmer has almost ruined Microsoft.

Ballmer's support of the Xbox program is the only shining moment in what will go down as one of the worst corporate leadership tenures in history. My biggest fault lies with the Microsoft board not with Ballmer. Why did they stick with him for so long? The balance sheet speaks for itself and what it says is: Ballmer Sucks!

Good riddence Steve. Try the used cars business. Something about you makes me feel like you would excel there.



From Business Insider
Microsoft says it will have a new CEO in the "early part" of this year.
Whenever that may be, it will be behind schedule. 

Microsoft was hoping to have a new CEO in place by November or December, say Shira Ovide and Joann Lubin at the Wall Street Journal. 

The reason Microsoft doesn't have a new CEO right now, according to Ovide and Lubin, is that the job isn't all that appealing thanks to two big problems: One is called Bill Gates and the other is called Steve Ballmer. 

"At least some external executives who discussed the CEO job with Microsoft directors have expressed concerns about being hamstrung if the two men continue to serve on the board, according to people familiar with their thinking," report Ovide and Lubin. 

In particular, the Journal's reporters go after Ballmer pretty hard: "Some candidates for the top post at Microsoft seem to be particularly uneasy about Mr. Ballmer, according to people familiar with their thinking. He has made several recent decisions that have altered the company's strategy and generated controversy among managers and investors."

Just before Ballmer announced his retirement, he created a sweeping re-organization of the company. This has led to a lot of talented engineers leaving Microsoft as they either lost battles for promotions, or found themselves in new, less-desirable roles. 

A new CEO will be stuck with Ballmer's re-org, which was done with the board's support. Or the new CEO will have to tear it up, which means another period of awkward transition for Microsoft, and for the new CEO, an awkward board dynamic, since Ballmer is still on the board. 

Then, after announcing his retirement, Ballmer spent $7.2 billion buying Nokia, a dying handset maker. This is a turnaround project within Microsoft the next chief executive will have to deal with. 

Ballmer is expected to be on Microsoft's board. And, as the WSJ notes, he's not a quiet guy who will sit idly if a new CEO tries to rip up everything he's done. 

Then there's Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, the richest person in the world, a guy who is mostly revered in Microsoft, and has his own very strong opinions about what Microsoft should be doing next.

The problem, though, is that Gates isn't attuned to what's happening in tech the way he once was. He's busy saving the world. His time is spent meeting with heads of state, and figuring out how to cure poverty and global disease. His brain power is not trained 100% on iPads, servers, enterprise software, and web-based software. (When you're fighting Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, and Tim Cook, who spend every second of the day thinking about tech, you need to be just as focused.)

Anyone that's CEO will have Gates bending his or her ear. And they can't just ignore Gates.

In addition to Gates and Ballmer, Microsoft is also about to add an activist board member. ValueAct, which took a stake in Microsoft, is getting its own board member starting this year. Although, the ValueAct board member could be helpful to the new CEO, since ValueAct wants Microsoft to change its ways. 

If the board room dynamics weren't difficult enough, there's the actual company which has gone from a near-monopoly in computing to an almost also-ran status in consumer tech. 

So, yeah, it's a tough job!

But, there is only 1 job like this available in the world. And if you're scared off by all the above, you shouldn't take the job. Microsoft is going to have to have to find the right person, even if it takes a little longer than expected.

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Sabtu, 07 Juli 2012

The Daily Beast App




Price - Free
Category - News

Greg's Review
I'm a news junkie. Comes from my newspaper days. For about two decades the best source of national news was the front page of the Wall Street Journal. The news digest on the front page could be read in 15 minutes and you were as informed for the day. Remember this was before the 24 hour news cycle.

In the digital age news cames all the time not once a day. The Daily Beast reproduces the Wall Street Journal news digest and then updates it by constantly refreshing news stories. You on a cross country trip and up at 2 am? You can get an up to the minute breakdown of the news. No story goes more than a couple of paragraphs so you get all the facts quickly. 

The interface is simple but very smooth. The app is one of the best free apps out there for news junkies. Give it a try! You can't beat the price!



From Developer
The Daily Beast's app is the quickest way to get breaking news from across the Web on your iPhone. Using a distinctive and fun interface, The Daily Beast offers instant summaries of the Web's must-read stories, as well as original news reporting, opinion, and photo galleries.

Features:
• The Daily Beast’s “Cheat Sheet” of the best stories from around the Web — the best way to get the latest summaries of breaking news on your iPhone.
• Original news reporting and features on politics, entertainment, culture, world news, and books.
• All of the articles and photo galleries from The Daily Beast’s Web site, www.thedailybeast.com.
• Customizable navigation to get you to your favorite stories faster.
• Share stories via email and Facebook.
• Distinctive, touch-friendly interface expressly designed for the iPhone and iPod touch.


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Senin, 14 November 2011

Zite Personalized Magazine

Best Way to read on a Tablet. Kindle app is tablet certified on all tablets.


By Zite, Inc.
Price - Free
Category - News

Mike's Review
One of the major uses I have for my iPad is reading all the blogs, sites and news feeds in my media diet. There are dozens (if not hundreds) of apps that will aggregate all your reading in one place, but I like the approach used by Zite. Zite, which according to the company is a play on the word "Zeitgeist," is an iPad magazine that offers pre-loaded sections as well as your own customized content. 

Where the app gets clever is when you read an article, you can tell Zite whether you liked it or not and it will adjust your content to provide you more of what you like and less of what you don't. The effect is that the more you read in Zite, the more new content you can discover and the more likely it will be relevant to your interests. Not bad for a free app. 

The interface looks good, loads fast and has yet to crash my iPad. You can share the stuff you read across the various social network platforms and every section of your "magazine" is accessible from any other by a contents column on the right. Overall, Zite, is one of the better examples of a news reader for iPad. 

From Developer
Zite is a free personalized magazine for your iPad that automatically learns what you like and gets smarter every time you use it. Zite delivers all the great news, articles, blogs, and videos you want – and helps you discover new stuff that you'll love.


"The iPad’s smartest magazine yet." —Mashable


"If you'd like a smarter way to handle information overload, Zite can do the dirty work." —Wall Street Journal


Highlights:
Zite personalizes your content automatically and gets better the more you use it.


Gaming and tech? Motorcycles, cats, or vegetarianism? Create your magazine your way with thousands of sections and a smart auto-suggest tool.


Interact with the articles you read on Zite by thumbing them up or down and watch your magazine get more and more personalized.


Get a head start on finding amazing content tailored just for you by automatically syncing Zite with your Twitter and Google Reader accounts.


Experience a magazine like no other – Zite will change the way you discover and enjoy content on your iPad
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Kamis, 03 November 2011

This American Life - News App



By Public Radio Exchange (PRX)


Greg's Review:
Not only is this a great show and a great app but it is also great value. Tons of content that you would pay a whole lot more for buying individually on itunes.
The archive of old shows includes every episode back to 1995 plus and extras on demand.


From the Developer:
This American Life is a hit public radio show and most weeks, the most popular podcast in the country.

This app gives you on-demand access to all episodes going back to the show's launch in 1995. In other words, you get the full archive of the series, at your fingertips. You can stream for free or (for 99 cents) download any episode, search by episode name or by a favorite contributor's name, or listen in order from the beginning.

This is a big deal, in both senses of the word. There's so much in here – hundreds of shows – you'd need 17 days and nights of listening to catch up. Every new episode is automatically added to the app. The app also connects you to all the episodes of the This American Life television show, which won three Emmys and aired on the Showtime network. (You have to pay 1.99 to download each full episodes from iTunes.)

SPECIAL FEATURES
*Never-before and rarely-before heard audio and video extras: including behind-the-scenes video with the show's producers, video outtakes from the TAL TV show, a video excerpt (of Mike Birbiglia) from TAL's live cinema event, Ira Glass interviews Terry Gross and vice versa, and some very old radio stories produced by host Ira Glass, including four Morning Edition stories by David Sedaris.

*Browse by show contributor (including Sedaris, Birbiglia, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman, and more)
*Share episodes by email, Facebook, and Twitter
*Keep your own favorites list, and get staff favorites, too
*Station finder for listening to TAL on the radio in your area
*A blog with show news and events
*A countdown to the live weekly broadcast, which you can stream from the app.

This American Life is mostly true stories of everyday people, but it's also really hard to describe. Here's what it's not: It's not a news show or a talk show or a call-in show. Instead, it's stories that are like little movies for radio. There are funny moments and emotional moments and moments where the people in the story say interesting, surprising things about it all. It's a public radio show for people who don't necessarily like public radio. It's produced by Chicago Public Radio and distributed by Public Radio International.

Your purchase of this app helps fund This American Life.

Devices: iPad
Category: News
Price: $2.99
Link to app in iTunes
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Sabtu, 29 Oktober 2011

WeatherHD - Travel

By vimov, LLC

From the Developer:
Re-invention of how the weather looks on mobile devices. Weather HD is the #1 weather application in the US and 51 other countries. Recommended by The New York Times, The Guardian, Macworld, Gizmodo and more • • • Watch the trailer: http://www.vimov.com/weatherhd

Weather HD, the most beautiful way to check for weather information on the iPad and the iPhone. See the current and forecast weather in stunning high definition videos.

The New York Times: "Weather HD elevates the user, placing her at cloud level for a hushed real-time weather tableau that puts the web's goofy sunshine-rain-cloud icons to shame."

MORE REVIEWS
● "Brings you the weather in a whole new way" - ZDNet.
● "Weather HD goes all-out on the eye candy and includes gorgeous high definition videos" - Macworld.
● "Weather HD does the job in the simplest, prettiest fashion" - PC Magazine.
● "Stunning" - MacStories.
● "A very artistic approach to providing weather information" - 148Apps.
● "Shows weather conditions in a way that's prettier than any other we've seen" - AppShopper.
● "A great app to show off your new iPad to friends" - Appolicious.

USAGE
➤ Navigate between cities using the arrows at the top right. You can also swipe to the left and swipe to the right in the middle to navigate forward and backward.
➤ To see the forecast, click on the "Show Forecast" in the bottom left. You can then click on the corresponding day to see the weather condition's video.
➤ To add or delete cities, click on the "Settings" icon on the bottom right.
➤ To enable the Clock, click on the "Settings" icon on the bottom right, choose "Display Settings", and then enable the Clock. You can there also choose the size of the clock.
➤ You can also show or hide the Chance of Rain (Precipitation), Pressure and Visibility from the "Display Settings".

UPGRADE TO FULL VERSION
The Full versions offers a number of features not present in the Lite:
➤ Add an unlimited number of cities, up from only 2 in the Lite.
➤ More videos.
➤ No ads.

Devices: iPad
Category: Travel, News  Price: Free


Links:
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npr - News

By NPR

From the Developer:
NPR for iPad: Experience NPR in magazine style with a focus on News, Arts & Life, and Music content that’s broad, deep, and timely. It’s NPR like you’ve never seen us before. The app also replicates popular features of the NPR News iPhone app, including playlist, hourly newscasts,station finder, and sharing. And, we are already working on future enhancements for our next release.

NPR for iPad. You thought driveway moments were good.

Highlights:
Navigation
- Sliding “tapes” for News, Arts & Life, and Music and dozens more topics, providing fast access to NPR stories
- Same-screen popovers for Topics, Programs & Stations
Read
- Read stories while listening to live stations or on demand audio
- Download stories for offline reading
Listen
- Access hundreds of NPR stories, and stations’ live and on-demand streams
- Persistent audio bar for story or stream currently playing, even while navigating throughout the app.
- Save favorite stories to playlist for immediate or future listening.
Stations
- Bookmark your favorite station(s)
- Find stations by location (GPS) or zip code
- Find station broadcast frequencies while traveling
Other Features
- Tap on any storypage photo to zoom in full-screen.
- Share your favorite stories via email, Twitter and Facebook.

The NPR for iPad app is optimized for OS 4.3.
Technical Notes:
- If you need support using the app or wish to report an issue or feature request, please do so at: nprmobile@npr.org

Devices: iPad
Category: News  
Price: Free
Link to app in iTunes
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