Bites from the Apple: This Year... We've Gone Wild!
by Agen Schmitz
on September 01, 2010
- Apple's iTunes software graduated to version 10 with some tweaks to the UI and introduced a major new social networking initiative with iTunes Ping. Tonya Engst over at TidBITS covers the basics:
As with Twitter, friend-to-friend connections are asymmetrical, so a famous musician can pick up zillions of followers without having to follow each one back. You can set up your own profile so that anyone can follow you, so only people you approve can do so, or so no one can. Once you have a few friends, you can exchange messages in a Facebook-like manner, see what music your friends are downloading, and even receive a top-ten music list that summarizes the most popular music your friends are downloading.
- The next iOS update (4.1) will be released next week, and will bring a number of bug fixes (proximity sensor fix, Bluetooth improvements, and speed improvements on iPhone 3G among them) for the iPhone and iPod touch. But the iPad will have to wait until November to run iOS 4, at which point version 4.2 will drop and bring with it wireless printing and AirPlay--the rejiggered AirTunes functionality that allows you to play media from the iPad (or other iDevice) on an HDTV or other compatible device (one presumes that speaker docks and the like will start to include this feature).
- More than just bug fixes, though, iOS 4.1 will also bring HDR (high dynamic range) photo shooting capabilities to the iPhone and camera-equipped 4th generation iPod touch. Adam Engst (Tonya's partner in publishing and life) offers a very cogent, concise description of HDR at TidBITS (with image taken from the Apple event via Engadget):
HDR photos use a technique called "bracketing," in which three photos are taken in quick succession, one exposed at the camera's best guess, one underexposed, and one overexposed. The three photos are then combined algorithmically, which can often provide noticeably better results, as details and colors that are visible only under different exposures are merged. For example, a blue sky that gets blown out to white under normal circumstances would appear blue in the underexposed photo (leaving foreground elements nearly black); when merged, the sky and foreground are properly exposed. The original photos remain available in the Camera Roll too, so you can compare to see if the HDR version is better or not.
- Additionally, iOS 4.1 will bring Game Center, Apple's new social hub for gaming on the iOS platform. Game Center allows you to challenge and play friends as well as showcase scores and achievements (i.e., epic wins) with friends. If you caught the live stream today and saw the demo by Epic Games of its "Project Sword" game (officially called Epic Citadel, and very impressive with the immersive action), you can download a free demo of it from iTunes here.
- Apple's video stream did pretty well for me, until the very end when Chris Martin of Coldplay's final song kept getting buffered back to the middle of the tune over and over and over again. It was the Coldplay song that wouldn't end! (But that criticism could be applied to several of their songs as they stand, I suppose.)
That said, Martin was very amiable and funny (as well as sounding pretty good playing solo on the piano):
"This is a new song we're doing, it's called Coldplay 2.6. It features 7 chords. None of our competitors have it. Jony Ive designed it. It's in the key of iMinor."
- In other music tidbits, the new iPod nano ad includes some older tuneage from one of my fave bands, Cake (who haven't had an album in some time--hey, you bums, get to work!).
--Agen G.N. Schmitz
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