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Well, imagine if you could raise awareness about your band just by playing music. Musicians of the world, allow me to introduce you to Turntable.fm.</p><p><a href=\"http://turntable.fm/lobby\" target=\"_blank\">Turntable.fm</a> is a startup that&#8217;s already managed to accrue more buzz than that band you hate &#8212; you know, the one that stole your sound and is now going on tour while you&#8217;re stuck at home, reading things (like this) on the Internet.</p><p>Turntable.fm is basically akin to AOL chatrooms of old &#8212; with music. Right now, it&#8217;s invite-only (and <a href=\"http://mashable.com/2011/06/27/turntable-fm-international/\">U.S.-only</a>), but if you have a friend on Facebook who&#8217;s already using it (you likely do), you&#8217;ll be able to get access. Around <a href=\"http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/07/turntable-fm-and-the-siren-song-of-the-start-up-pivot/\" target=\"_blank\">300,000 people</a> already have.</p><p>Once you have an account locked and loaded, you can start checking out DJ rooms (and creating them, but we&#8217;ll get to that later), where users take turns manning the decks and spinning songs via MediaNet or by uploading MP3s. Other users rate music as &#8220;awesome&#8221; or &#8220;lame,&#8221; which garners a DJ points and, consequently, access to cooler avatars.</p><p>Sound fun? It is. &#8212; and about as addictive as chocolate-covered, deep-fried crack cocaine. And while it&#8217;s totally OK to mess around with the service as a casual user, we think there&#8217;s a huge opportunity here for bands to promote their own music while having that aforementioned fun.</p><p>Here&#8217;s how.</p><hr /><h2>Interact &#8212; <em>Really</em> Interact &#8212; With Your Fans</h2><hr /><p><center><img src=\"http://7.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/crowdsurfing.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"crowdsurfing\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-671939\" /></p><p></center></p><p>Yes, <a href=\"http://mashable.com/follow/topics/facebook\">Facebook</a> and <a href=\"http://mashable.com/follow/topics/twitter\">Twitter</a> make it extremely easy to talk to your fans, but there&#8217;s also a lag-time when it comes to answers. It&#8217;s not a true dialogue &#8212; you know, the kind you&#8217;re privy to when that one true fan corners you at the merch table. 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Play songs that you like, and let fans jump on the decks as a way to open up an even more lively dialogue with your fanbase.</p><p>&#8220;We love playing records for other people, so this felt like the perfect opportunity to make our fans listen to &#8216;Mo Money Mo Problems&#8217; by the Notorious B.I.G.,&#8221; says Hull.</p><hr /><h2>Get Feedback</h2><hr /><p>That being said, Turntable.fm is also a great place to get feedback on your new, or previously unreleased music. <a href=\"http://www.maddecent.com/artists/diplo\" target=\"_blank\">Diplo</a> quite famously dropped into a Turntable.fm room and started spinning some new Major Lazer tracks recently, and the audience&#8217;s reaction was quite mixed, to say the least. Some people were enjoying the show, according to a <a href=\"http://thisismynext.com/2011/06/28/night-diplo-destroyed-turntable-fm/\" target=\"_blank\">story by blogger Paul Miller</a>, but a ton of users were booing him as well.</p><p>Still, it looks like Diplo is strong enough to take a hit now and then. Instead of fleeing from the forum, Diplo&#8217;s record label, Mad Decent, launched its own <a href=\"http://turntable.fm/mad_decent\" target=\"_blank\">Turntable.fm room</a>, and started playing <a href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/maddecent/status/88791379941146624\" target=\"_blank\">unreleased music</a> from its artists for the digital masses.</p><p>&#8220;[On Turntable.fm it] feels like we are in a proper club &#8212; except I can read what kids think,&#8221; Diplo told us. &#8220;In a club, it&#8217;s only noise. 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(Sure, someone will probably figure out how to rip your music from TT, but that&#8217;s nothing new, and they can do the same from a stream.) They can only listen to that song within Turntable, and can only listen to the full song when other DJs are in the room. So when they&#8217;re playing your song, they&#8217;re playing it for an audience &#8212; an audience who might not have previously been aware of your music, and would therefore not attend a listening party.</p><p>DJs from the original listening party henceforth become a kind of digital street team, turning other users onto your new album, and, quite possibly, convincing them to buy it (or steal it and see you in concert).</p><hr /><h2>Drive More Traffic to Social Channels</h2><hr /><p>Since you connect to Turntable.fm via your Facebook account, whatever name you go by on Facebook will be your DJ name. 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It will give you a history of what tracks have been played, and how users have rated them.</li><li>When you upload your tracks, convert everything to MP3s. M4As &#8212; the format most songs from iTunes come in &#8212; will not upload to Turntable.fm. Neither will WAVs. To convert those to MP3s, go to iTunes/Preferences/General/Import Settings/ and switch to &#8220;import using MP3 encoder.&#8221; Highlight the track you want, and go to Advanced/Create MP3 version.</li><li>Try the <a href=\"https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mnciafhfaahhafklckmcabbncbgcjpeg#\" target=\"_blank\">Chrome Extension</a> to keep better tabs on a room. 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href=\"http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?text=sdasdasd&url=http://mashable.com/2011/07/09/gadgets-driving-crashes/\"><img style=\"border:none;margin-right:5px;\" src=\"http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/themes/v7/img/share-buttons/stumbleupon.png\" align=\"right\" /></a> <a href=\"http://digg.com/tools/diggthis/login?url=http://mashable.com/2011/07/09/gadgets-driving-crashes/&title=Up to 25% of Accidents Are Associated With Gadgets&related=true&style=true\"><img style=\"border:none;margin-right:5px;\" src=\"http://6.mshcdn.com/wp-content/themes/v7/img/share-buttons/diggme.png\" align=\"right\" /></a> <a target=\"_blank\" type=\"box_count\" name=\"fb_share\" href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://mashable.com/2011/07/09/gadgets-driving-crashes/&src=sp\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><img style=\"border:none;margin-right:5px;\" src=\"http://6.mshcdn.com/wp-content/themes/v7/img/share-buttons/fb.jpg\" align=\"right\" /></a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2011/07/09/gadgets-driving-crashes/&service=bit.ly\"><img style=\"border:none;margin-right:5px;\" width=\"51\" height=\"61\" src=\"http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://mashable.com/2011/07/09/gadgets-driving-crashes/\" align=\"right\"/></a></div><div style=\"float:left;margin-bottom:10px;\"><img src=\"http://9.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/driving-texting.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"driving-texting\" width=\"225\" height=\"\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-190405\" /></div><div style=\"clear:both;\"></div></div><br/>A new study from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) highlights the impact that cellphones and other gadgets can have on car crashes. According to the study, as many as 25% of U.S. car crashes are associated with drivers distracted by a cellphone or gadget.</p><p>Produced using a grant from State Farm, the GHSA report, titled <a href=\"http://www.ghsa.org/html/publications/pdf/sfdist11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Distracted Driving: What Research Shows and What States Can Do</em></a> [PDF] looks at the main external driver distractions. Not surprisingly, talking on cellphones, fiddling with gadgets and <a href=\"http://mashable.com/2009/11/16/teens-dangerous-driving/\">texting while driving</a> are some of the most common driver distractions.</p><p>After reading the 50-page document, it&#8217;s clear that this study contains as many certainties as uncertainties. As GHSA Executive Director Barbara Harsha says in <a href=\"http://www.ghsa.org/html/media/pressreleases/2011/20110707_sfdist.html\" target=\"_blank\">a statement</a>, &#8220;Much of the research is incomplete or contradictory. Clearly, more studies need to be done addressing both the scope of the problem and how to effectively address it.&#8221;</p><p>Still, one certainty is that cellphone usage increases the risk of crashing and texting is likely more dangerous than using a cellphone.</p><hr /><h2>What is the Solution?</h2><hr /><p>Understanding that drivers who text or talk on the phone are more likely to get into car crashes than those who don&#8217;t, what can be done to decrease these distractions?</p><p>Unfortunately, the GHSA study is inconclusive on the effects of both <a href=\"http://mashable.com/2010/01/26/text-ban-truck-bus/\">texting bans</a> and <a href=\"http://mashable.com/2010/12/27/att-documentary-texting-while-driving/\">public service announcement campaigns</a> for distracted driving.</p><p>From the report:</p><ul><li>Laws banning hand-held cellphone use reduced use by about half when they were first implemented. Hand-held cellphone use increased subsequently but the laws appear to have had some long-term effect.</li><li>A high-visibility cellphone and texting law enforcement campaign reduced cellphone use immediately after the campaign. Longer term effects are not yet known.</li><li>There is no evidence that cellphone or texting bans have reduced crashes.</li></ul><p>Still, the GHSA encourages states to pass more bans of driving while texting and while talking on cellphones &#8212; hands-free or not.</p><p>How often do <em>you</em> find yourself engaged with an iPod, cellphone or an in-dash GPS while driving? 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Now <a href=\"http://mashable.com/category/google/\">Google</a> has selected SRI International to embed its video stabilization software inside the <a href=\"http://mashable.com/follow/topics/google-talk/\">Google Talk</a> app in Android 3.0 devices, promising to smooth out those jittery video transmissions from front-facing cameras on <a href=\"http://mashable.com/follow/topics/android/\">Android</a> smartphones and <a href=\"http://mashable.com/follow/topics/tablets/\">tablets</a>.</p><p>The Menlo Park-based nonprofit <a href=\"http://www.sri.com/news/releases/07072011.html\">SRI International</a>, formerly associated with Stanford University and responsible for the <a href=\"http://www.sri.com/about/timeline/mouse.html\" target=\"_blank\">invention of the computer mouse</a> in 1964, has been working on this stabilization software since the early 1990s. Now, Android tablets are fast enough to allow the software to perform its magic in real time.</p><p>The software works by identifying the user&#8217;s face, stabilizing that video before it&#8217;s compressed for transmission. There&#8217;s an added benefit to that steady shot &#8212; the video is easier to compress because there&#8217;s less movement involved, making the picture look sharper with less video noise.</p><p>So far, this video stabilization is only available for Google Talk with Android 3.0 installed. 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It filters choices by preferences that you indicated at sign up, the time of day at which you are searching, and the weather.</p><p>It will not, for instance, suggest that you go to dinner at a restaurant that&#8217;s only open for breakfast and lunch. Nor will it, theoretically, send you to the botanical garden when thunderstorms are in the forecast.</p><p>To create reliable recommendations, Picksie incorporates databases such as Zagat&#8217;s and Fandango&#8217;s. It also includes concerts and festivals from online calendars. Users can &#8220;train&#8221; the app by giving its recommendations the thumbs up or thumbs down, and lets them leave short, Foursquare-tip-style reviews for other users.</p><p><center><img src=\"http://7.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Screen-shot-2011-07-08-at-1.57.03-PM.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-285526\" /></p><p></center></p><p>Apps such as <a href=\"http://mobile.zagat.com/iphone.htm\" target=\"_Blank\">Zagat</a> and <a href=\"http://www.yelp.com/yelpmobile\" target=\"_blank\">Yelp</a> already help map nearby venues, <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/app/id307906541?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">Fandango</a> tells you what movies are playing near you and the Songkick and Eventful apps will tell you <a href=\"http://mashable.com/2009/02/12/find-music-concerts/\">where to find concerts near you</a>. Picksie&#8217;s main advantage is that it puts these location-based data points in one place. 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These 160-character messages cost cellular carriers literally next to nothing, and yet they’re priced so usuriously that they give new meaning to being “nickeled and dimed.” One researcher even calculated that it’s significantly <a href=\"http://www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/news/press-releases/2000-2009/2008/05/nparticle.2008-05-12.4476906328\">cheaper to communicate with the Hubble Space Telescope</a>, and there’s a <a href=\"http://gthing.net/the-true-price-of-sms-messages\">wonderful article</a> that calculates how much it would cost to \ntransmit a 4 MB MP3 via SMS.</p> \n \n<p>Of course, if your thumbs have dents from hundreds of thousands of text messages, the cost is probably immaterial — you’re likely happy paying a fixed monthly fee for unlimited text messaging (and the cellular carriers are still making plenty of profit from you). </p> \n \n<p>No, the people who cringe every time the iPhone buzzes with a new text message are those, like me, who use text messaging sufficiently infrequently that it doesn’t make financial sense to buy even the smallest bundle of text messages.</p> \n \n<p>(From AT&amp;T, bundles cost $10 per month for 1000 SMS or MMS messages, $20 for unlimited, or $30 for unlimited for the entire family. 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A button next to the LEDs does let you turn them on and off while the case is unplugged; ideally it would work when plugged in as well.</p> \n \n<p class=\"inflow_image\"><a href=\"http://tidbits.com/resources/2011-04/Mophie-Juice-Pack-Air-LEDs.png\"><img src=\"http://tidbits.com/resources/2011-04/Mophie-Juice-Pack-Air-LEDs.png\" width=\"310\" height=\"119\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" /></a><BR /></p><p>Like at least some other battery-powered cases, the Juice Pack Air drains itself first, before the iPhone 4’s battery even comes into play. That’s great, because I’ve run into situations with car chargers in the past where they couldn’t bring a drained iPhone back to life as quickly as I needed. 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If, however, the audio files are available on your iPad, you might find it simpler to play them from your iPad by streaming via AirPlay.</p></li> \n<li><p>Second-generation Apple TV: A second-generation Apple TV doesn’t store content; instead, media plays through it. If that media is not on your iPad, then use the Remote app. However, if that media is on your iPad, you might find it simpler to send it to the Apple TV using AirPlay.</p></li> \n<li><p>First-generation Apple TV: Remote is a great alternative to the physical remote control that comes with the first-generation Apple TV. (At present, you can stream audio from iTunes on a computer to a first-generation Apple TV, but you can’t stream it from an iPad or other iOS device.)</p></li> \n</ul> \n \n<p>On either Apple TV, the Remote App lets you type passwords or other text using the iPad’s keyboard, a notable improvement over using the physical remote. 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Either option appears to work well, but <a href=\"http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1947\">Apple’s knowledgebase article</a> suggests using Home Sharing.</p> \n \n<p>You can connect to only one Home Sharing account, but (at least theoretically) you can also connect to one or more iTunes libraries.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Home Sharing</strong> -- If you are already sharing your iTunes library with Home Sharing, you can connect the Remote app to the library through Home Sharing. You need an active Internet connection so Apple can verify the Home Sharing Apple ID.</p> \n \n<p>Follow these steps in the Remote app:</p> \n \n<ol> \n<li><p>If you don’t currently have any active connections, tap Turn on Home Sharing. Otherwise, tap the name of the active library at the top of the sidebar, then tap the Settings button, and then tap the switch to turn on Home Sharing.</p></li> \n<li><p>In the popover that appears, enter the same Apple ID and password that your iTunes library uses and then tap Done. Apple verifies the Apple ID and confirms that Home Sharing is on.</p></li> \n<div class=\"indented_image\"><p><a href=\"http://tidbits.com/resources/2011-04/remote_home_sharing_turnon.jpg\"><img src=\"http://tidbits.com/tbthumbs/tn_remote_home_sharing_turnon.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" border=\"0\" /></a><BR /></p></div> \n<li><p>Tap Done again to close the popover, and then (if necessary) tap your iTunes library’s icon to go to the main Remote screen.</p></li> \n</ol> \n \n<p>Now that you’ve connected with your iTunes library, you’ll see the name of the library at the top of the Remote sidebar.</p> \n \n<p class=\"inflow_image\"><a href=\"http://tidbits.com/resources/2011-04/remote_home_sharing_sidebar.png\"><img src=\"http://tidbits.com/tbthumbs/tn_remote_home_sharing_sidebar.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"192\" border=\"0\" /></a><BR /></p><p>Tip: If you can’t connect Remote to iTunes, first try restarting your iPad and quitting and relaunching iTunes on your computer. If that doesn’t help, consult this <a href=\"http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1741\">somewhat geeky Apple article</a> for more advice.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Add an iTunes Library</strong> -- This easy method requires that you make a physical connection between the iPad and the computer.</p> \n \n<p>(In my testing, I couldn’t make the steps below work if Home Sharing was on in iTunes on the computer. If Home Sharing is on, in iTunes on the computer, in the Advanced menu, a command will say Turn Home Sharing Off.)</p> \n \n<p>Here’s how to make the connection:</p> \n \n<ol> \n<li><p>In Remote, if you don’t currently have any active connections, tap the Add an iTunes Library button. Otherwise, tap the name of the active library at the top of the sidebar, tap the Settings button, and tap the Add an iTunes Library button.</p></li> \n<li><p>Follow the directions in the popover that appears and connect your iPad to your computer just as you would if you were syncing it — the iPad will be listed in the iTunes sidebar (under Devices) twice; make sure the Remote listing is selected. No Remote listing? If you’ve waited 30 seconds or so and you don’t see a second entry for your connected iPad, try quitting and relaunching iTunes on your computer. If the passcode still doesn’t work, tap outside the popover on the iPad and then repeat Step 1 to get a new passcode to try.</p></li> \n<div class=\"indented_image\"><p><a href=\"http://tidbits.com/resources/2011-04/remote_connection.png\"><img src=\"http://tidbits.com/resources/2011-04/remote_connection.png\" width=\"173\" height=\"72\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" /></a><BR /></p></div> \n<li><p>On your computer’s keyboard, type the passcode that appears on the iPad’s screen.</p></li> \n<li><p>After the verification is completed, click the OK button.</p></li> \n</ol> \n \n<p>Now that you’ve connected the Remote app with your iTunes library, you’ll see the name of the library at the top of the Remote sidebar.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Disconnect Remote from an iTunes library</strong> -- If you’ve connected to more than one iTunes library, you can switch between them by tapping the name of the active library at the top of the sidebar in the main Remote screen. Then tap the name of the library that you want to switch to.</p> \n \n<p>To disconnect Remote from an iTunes library permanently, from the main Remote screen, from the top of the sidebar, tap the library name. Your options are as follows:</p> \n \n<ul> \n<li><p>If you have an Edit button at the upper left, tap it and then tap the X beside the library that you want to disconnect from.</p></li> \n<li><p>For a library that is controlled with Home Sharing, tap the Settings icon and turn the Home Sharing switch off.</p></li> \n</ul> \n \n<p>Tip: To disconnect a copy of iTunes on a computer from all Remote connections, open the iTunes preferences, click the Devices button on the toolbar, and then click the Forget All Remotes button.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Run iTunes with Remote</strong> -- When Remote is connected to an iTunes library, you can operate Remote on your iPad screen to play media in iTunes on the computer remotely. As you tap options in Remote on the iPad, you can even watch the iTunes window change on the remote computer. Remote uses similar controls for locating and playing music as those employed by the iPod app; in fact, you may have to look closely to see the difference.</p> \n \n<p>If you’d like to use Remote to send playback from the computer to some other device via AirPlay, you can — read “Control AirPlay in iTunes,” ahead.</p> \n \n<p>Note that if someone quits iTunes on the remote computer, Remote cannot launch the app and begin playing media.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Control AirPlay in iTunes</strong> -- With Remote, you can choose where iTunes sends its audio via AirPlay. The AirPlay control appears in two places within Remote:</p> \n \n<ul> \n<li><p>On the main Remote screen, tap the Speaker icon to the right of the playback controls at the top.</p></li> \n<li><p>On the Now Playing screen (accessed by tapping Now Playing at the lower right), tap once to review additional controls (such as the Genius and Shuffle buttons), then tap the AirPlay button at the right of the volume slider. Tap a device name to enable (designated by a checkmark) or disable it.</p></li> \n</ul> \n \n<p class=\"inflow_image\"><a href=\"http://tidbits.com/resources/2011-04/remote_airplay_popover.jpg\"><img src=\"http://tidbits.com/tbthumbs/tn_remote_airplay_popover.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"154\" border=\"0\" /></a><BR /></p><p>Notice that you can control the volume of each active AirPlay audio destination from the AirPlay popover and that you can choose multiple AirPlay destinations (tap Single if you want to send audio to only one destination).</p> \n \n<p>If you have a second-generation Apple TV on your network with AirPlay enabled, it appears as an AirPlay audio destination, too. Wrap your head around that for a second: You can tell iTunes on your computer to send its audio to the Apple TV via a command from your iPad — that’s what I call a digital entertainment ecosystem!</p> \n \n<p>Note that when you turn an AirPlay audio destination on or off, playback pauses for a few seconds while iTunes synchronizes the music stream.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Set Up a Second-Generation Apple TV with Home Sharing</strong> -- The second-generation Apple TV comes with an attractive metal remote control; it almost looks like a work of art. And yet, given how much more control the Remote app on the iPad gives you, the only reason to keep it around is as an emergency backup. Perhaps you can put it in an attractive display case on your coffee table while your iPad does the real work.</p> \n \n<p>But, before you put away the metal Apple Remote, you need it to set up Home Sharing on your Apple TV so that the Remote app can later control the Apple TV:</p> \n \n<ol> \n<li><p>Using the Apple Remote, navigate to the Computers column on the Apple TV’s main menu.</p></li> \n<li><p>In the Computers column, select Turn On Home Sharing.</p></li> \n<li><p>In the onscreen keyboard that appears, use your remote control to enter your Apple ID and password. (Using the buttons on the control to enter characters is awkward for long IDs and passwords, but you only have to do it once.)</p></li> \n</ol> \n \n<p>Once the Apple ID and password are verified (your Apple TV must be connected to the Internet for that), all the iTunes libraries on your home network that have Home Sharing turned on appear in the Computers column of the Apple TV main menu. What’s more, your iPad’s Remote app can now control your Apple TV. To make the connection, follow the steps in “Home Sharing,” earlier.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Add a First Generation Apple TV</strong> -- Do the following to pair the iTunes library on your Apple TV with the Remote app on your iPad:</p> \n \n<ol> \n<li><p>If the Remote app isn’t currently connected to anything, tap the Add an iTunes Library button that appears on the main screen. Otherwise, tap the name of the currently connected library at the top of the sidebar and then tap the Settings button; then tap the Add Library button in the popover that appears. Remote displays a screen with a passcode.</p></li> \n<li><p>Using the remote control that came with the Apple TV, on the Apple TV, go to Settings > General > Remotes and then choose your iPad.</p></li> \n<li><p>Using the remote control, enter the passcode from Step 1.</p></li> \n</ol> \n \n<p>Yes, using the Apple remote to laboriously enter the passcode on the Apple TV screen isn’t much fun, but once you’ve done so, your iPad can take its place.</p> \n \n<p>To disconnect a first-generation Apple TV library from Remote, tap the name of the active library at the top of the Remote sidebar. On the Settings screen, tap Edit, and then tap the X button that appears by a library.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Control an Apple TV</strong> -- You can use the Remote app to control media playback as described in this chapter so far. However, another option appears when you’re connected to the Apple TV: Control. To access the Control screen for the Apple TV that Remote is currently controlling, tap the Control button at the lower right of the main Remote screen.</p> \n \n<p>The nearly blank Control screen operates as a virtual trackpad: Drag to move the selection highlight among the Apple TV’s menus and tap to select an item.</p> \n \n<p class=\"inflow_image\"><a href=\"http://tidbits.com/resources/2011-04/remote_controls_screen.png\"><img src=\"http://tidbits.com/tbthumbs/tn_remote_controls_screen.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\" border=\"0\" /></a><BR /></p><p>To navigate back one level in the menu hierarchy, tap the menu button.</p> \n \n<p>If options are available (for example, to mark a TV show as watched), tap the Options button at the lower left. Tap Done to return to the main Remote screen.</p> \n \n<p>To switch among different organizational tabs, such as listing podcasts by date, show, or watched state, flick left or right.</p> \n \n<p>The Control screen enables other non-obvious but helpful controls.</p> \n \n<p>For video, do the following:</p> \n \n<ul> \n<li>Play or Pause: Tap once.</li> \n<li>Rewind or fast-forward: Flick left or right, or drag and hold</li> \n<li>Jump back 10 seconds to replay: Drag two fingers to the left.</li> \n<li>Show chapter markers: Flick down to reveal, then flick left or right to skip.</li> \n</ul> \n \n<p>For audio, these commands are available:</p> \n \n<ul> \n<li>Play or Pause: Tap once.</li> \n<li>Rewind or fast-forward: Drag left or right and hold.</li> \n<li>Previous song or next song: Flick left or right.</li> \n</ul> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Take Control of Media on Your iPad</strong> -- The Remote app is just one way to use your iPad as a media hub. Using the iPad, you can watch movies, listen to music, read ebooks, view photos... and just as important, wrangle the content for getting it onto your device or accessing it wirelessly. I cover it all in “<a href=\"http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/ipad-media?pt=TB1074\">Take Control of Media on Your iPad, Second Edition</a>,” a 158-page ebook that’s available for only $15 (or less, if you bought the previous edition). </p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p><p><small><b><a href=\"http://db.tidbits.com/article/12126#comments\">Read and post comments</a> about this article | <a href=\"http://db.tidbits.com/t/12126\">Tweet this article</a></b></small></p><div class=\"sponsorbox\">\n<div class=\"sponsortext\"><A HREF=\"http://crashplan.com/ref/tidbits.html\"><IMG SRC=\"http://tidbits.com/images/badges/CrashPlan.png\" ALT=\"\" HEIGHT=\"50\" WIDTH=\"50\" BORDER=\"0\" ALIGN=\"left\"></A>CrashPlan is easy, secure backup that works everywhere. 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In fact, Comodo is responsible for security updates issued for every major Web browser and consumer operating system over the past few weeks.</p> \n \n<p>How does one relatively unknown security company trigger a rash of updates in so many different products? The answer reveals more about flaws in the chain of trust of the Internet than any particular product weaknesses.</p> \n \n<p>Among other aspects of their business, Comodo is a provider of the digital certificates that power the encrypted SSL/TLS (generally shortened to just SSL) connections we use to protect our communications over the Internet. Whenever you see the little lock icon in the corner of your browser you are using SSL. It means your connection is encrypted, and that, supposedly, the Web site you are visiting really is what it says it is. This technology is used to secure your connections to everything from MobileMe to your bank. SSL is also used to protect other connections and protocols — including secure email and certain VPNs.</p> \n \n<p>SSL relies on digital certificates — special files that use different aspects of cryptography, including cryptographic signatures — to build a chain of trust. Certificates are used to sign other certificates in a highly secure fashion that identifies every member of the entire chain, allowing your computer to decide who to trust. These chains always lead back to a root certificate authority (CA). All Web browsers, and most operating systems, include the public certificates for CAs trusted by the browser or OS manufacturer, which enables your computer to know who to trust without you having to make the decision yourself.</p> \n \n<p>Normally this system works well. Our banks and other online providers purchase SSL certificates from the CAs, which validate the identity of the company and issue the certificate (a file) signed by the CA. The customer company then installs that file on their Web server to enable secure connections. People who don’t want to pay for a signed certificate (which can be expensive) can generate their own, but since such self-signed certificates aren’t signed by a root CA, anyone visiting the site will see a warning from their browser and have to make a manual exception to accept it. (Very large companies often set up their own CA and install their certificate on employee systems to skip this warning).</p> \n \n<p>But there are three cases where the system can break down. In the first, someone creates a fake certificate with the name of a real site and tricks the user into accepting it. The second problem is if the certificate authority issues a certificate for the wrong company. We’ve seen this happen a few times for companies like Microsoft, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s <a href=\"https://www.eff.org/observatory\">SSL Observatory project</a>, which tracks the over 650 CAs, found numerous certificates issued for names like “localhost” and “exchange” that could be used by an attacker in what’s called a “man in the middle attack.” It’s also suspected that less-than-friendly foreign governments issue certificates for \nknown sites to intercept citizen and visitor traffic.</p> \n \n<p>The third and final case is what Comodo experienced on 15 March 2011. An attacker, <a href=\"http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2011/03/interview-with-comodohacker.html\">believed to be a student from Iran</a>, compromised a Comodo reseller and issued valid certificates for seven major domains including Microsoft, Yahoo, Skype, and Mozilla. </p> \n \n<p>Comodo responded immediately, adding those certificates to its revocation list, and Mozilla and Microsoft released updates for Firefox and Windows on 22 March and 23 March 2011. Technically, all browsers and operating systems will check for revoked certificates, but since this activity can be blocked (or is often disabled), the only certain way to remove the certificates is by blacklisting them using software updates. Apple followed with their updates on 15 April 2011 (see below), and rolled in some additional small changes.</p> \n \n<p>As well as SSL works, incidents like this highlight the weaknesses in the system (covered in depth in this <a href=\"http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/04/internet_security\">excellent Economist article</a> by our own Glenn Fleishman). With so many certificate authorities, including some with poor business processes, it is nearly impossible to assure that our chain of trust is actually trustworthy. While this shouldn’t change your online practices today, it’s worth understanding the system and keeping a skeptical eye in case you notice something unusual.</p> \n \n<p>Meanwhile, here’s additional information about Apple’s updates.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>iOS 4.3.2</strong> -- The most significant of the updates, <a href=\"http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1358\">iOS 4.3.2</a> goes beyond the security problems to fix an issue that occasionally caused blank or frozen video during a FaceTime call, and also addresses a problem that prevented some international users from connecting to 3G networks on the 3G iPad. <a href=\"http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4606\">On the security side</a>, along with blacklisting the spurious updates, iOS 4.3.2 includes fixes for a problem with library randomization, a pair of WebKit vulnerabilities, and a Quick Look vulnerability.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Security Update 2011-002</strong> -- This update, available for <a href=\"http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1376\">Mac OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard</a> (4.43 MB), <a href=\"http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1374\">10.5.8 Leopard</a> (241.35 MB), and <a href=\"http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1375\">10.5.8 Leopard Server</a> (473.19 MB), includes only the fix necessary to <a href=\"http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4608\">blacklist the spurious certificates</a>.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>iOS 4.2.7 for iPhone (CDMA)</strong> -- <a href=\"http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4607\">This update</a>, available only via iTunes, updates iOS 4.2.5 or 4.2.6 running on the CDMA-based Verizon iPhone 4 to address not just the spurious certificates, but also iOS 4.3.2’s WebKit and Quick Look vulnerabilities.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Safari 5.0.5</strong> -- As you might expect, <a href=\"http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1070\">Safari 5.0.5</a> mimics the changes in iOS, blacklisting the spurious certificates and <a href=\"http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4596\">rolling in the WebKit fixes</a>, which presumably also patch WebKit for all other applications that use it (ranging from iTunes to Google Chrome). 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Amazon will improve on all this, no doubt, but for now it has achieved the first-mover advantage on Apple and Google: Amazon wants to lock people into uploading massive amounts of music and files, forcing a subsequent competitor to overcome the burden of convincing users to transfer and manage files on yet another service.</p> \n \n<p>The fundamental flaw with cloud-based streaming music services is metered mobile broadband. If you can’t store music on your phone or tablet, and you must stream it — even from your own collection — you could wind up paying tens of dollars extra per month for something that’s free today when you store the music you want on your mobile device.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Cloud Drive Compared</strong> -- Cloud Drive includes a free 5 GB of storage for Amazon account holders; accounts are free to set up if you are in the statistically unlikely position of using the Internet and not having an Amazon account. If you purchase at least one MP3 album from Amazon, the company bumps your storage to 20 GB for a year at no extra cost. You can also purchase higher amounts of storage, ranging from 20 to 1,000 GB, for $1 per gigabyte per year.</p> \n \n<p>This is cheaper than the retail price for Amazon’s <a href=\"http://aws.amazon.com/s3/\">Simple Storage Service (S3)</a>, which charges $0.14 per month ($1.68 per year) for each gigabyte stored up to 1 TB, and which lacks its own friendly front end. (You can use Transmit, Cyberduck, Interarchy, and other file transfer tools to manage S3 storage as though it were an FTP server.) S3 also levies fees for moving data around: $0.10 per gigabyte uploaded and $0.15 per gigabyte downloaded (after 1 GB free each month). </p> \n \n<p>In contrast, <a href=\"https://www.google.com/accounts/purchasestorage\">Google charges $0.25 per year</a> per gigabyte for storage added to any of its app services, with no transfer fees. With some third-party software help, you can use Google Apps storage just like other storage offerings. <a href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/pricing\">Dropbox’s standard storage plans</a> offer 50 GB for $10 per month or 100 GB for $20 per month, which works out to $2.40 per gigabyte per year. Dropbox also include desktop synchronization, of course, which isn’t part of Amazon Cloud Drive. (Dropbox relies on Amazon S3, as do many of the online storage firms.)</p> \n \n<p>Currently, you upload files to Cloud Drive via a file dialog in a Web browser, which is an awful interface. Downloads are also done via a Web browser, which is only slightly better. I suspect, as with the Kindle ecosystem, we will see Amazon producing native apps for Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, and other platforms to make file transfer and sync easier, and it’s also likely that it will open the service to existing file transfer tools. Amazon could wind up competing directly against Dropbox et al., but I doubt it will go after these services in terms of features. Amazon’s consumer-facing interests lie in the media arena, not in computer services.</p> \n \n<p>Several colleagues noted wryly on Twitter that Amazon has two wonderfully dissonant statements on the reliability of storage. On the <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore\">Cloud Drive: Learn More</a> page, the company enthuses:</p> \n \n<blockquote> \n  <p>Store files in your Cloud Drive and never worry about losing them if your computer crashes, or is lost or stolen.</p> \n</blockquote> \n \n<p>But if you read the <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=200557360\">Terms of Use</a> agreement, Amazon’s legal beagles say:</p> \n \n<blockquote> \n  <p>5.3 Security. We do not guarantee that Your Files will not be subject to misappropriation, loss or damage and we will not be liable if they are. You’re responsible for maintaining appropriate security, protection and backup of Your Files.</p> \n</blockquote> \n \n<p>The fine print is there to protect Amazon from undue penalties in an extreme case. Amazon’s S3 storage system has a high level of built-in redundancy for all data stored, both within a single data center and across its many data centers. Cloud Drive is likely reliable to an obscene numbers of nines — Amazon claims 99.999999999 percent for S3 “durability” — but that last 0.000000001 is a financial killer for your company if you promise 100 percent, and are sued as a result of lost data. More likely than hardware failure would be damage or theft due to attackers; we have to assume that Amazon is becoming an increasingly large target.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Cloud Player</strong> -- As with the interface problems with Cloud Drive, the limits on Cloud Player are currently severe. You must download the Amazon MP3 Uploader — an Adobe AIR application — to handle uploading music, and that experience, as with most AIR apps, is horrible. The non-native interface, non-intuitive behavior, sluggishness, and mysterious errors (like a timeout 90 percent of the way through scanning my library) are all frustrating.</p> \n \n<p>Despite the well-established dominance of iTunes, and Amazon MP3 Uploader automatically finding the iTunes music folder, the app doesn’t scan the folder and use metadata to reassemble album and artist information. Instead, it relies on the folder structure to present upload choices. I have thousands of music files, and the iTunes internal folder structure isn’t a sensible way to sort through them. A separate downloader app lets you transfer items from the library directly into iTunes or Windows Media Player. You can also download files via a Web browser.</p> \n \n<p>Amazon cheaped out by going the AIR route instead of building native apps. 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(Several of these services also included credit to download up to 10 tracks per month permanently for a $10 to $15 per month unlimited play \nsubscription.)</p> \n \n<p>The shift to on-demand streaming emerged from the growth of smartphones and 3G networks, as well as Wi-Fi hotspots. If you have Internet access wherever you are, why mess about with syncing music before you go or worrying about how much storage you have? Instead, you start streaming the music wherever you are, whenever you want it, dealing only with the time it takes to buffer the start of a song. These new services include <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/\">Last.fm</a>, <a href=\"http://www.rdio.com/\">Rdio</a>, <a href=\"http://www.spotify.com/int/\">Spotify</a> (outside the United States), and <a href=\"http://www.pandora.com/\">Pandora</a>. All have free and premium flavors.</p> \n \n<p>This makes you reliant on Internet service, though. If you’re out of range of a cell network or near the limit of your monthly tiered data plan, and you can’t find some handy Wi-Fi, you’re out of luck. With tiered data plans in the United States including as little as 200 or 250 MB of usage, it would be easy to run through that with frequent music playback over a cell network, and face overage fees.</p> \n \n<p>Apple has so far firmly resisted this trend, relying on downloadable quanta: individual songs purchased individually or in a “bundle” of an album. Apple has said many times that people want to “own” their music, by which the firm means not that you have the rights associated with true ownership, but rather that you’re given a limited license to play the music forever on devices under your direct control. To listen to your music, you have to be at a computer or have remembered to sync songs to a mobile device. 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Many long-time Word users felt that Word never regained its glory after the release of Word 6, which suffered from being made more Windows-like and from its early implementation of Microsoft’s IntelliSense technology (see “<a href=\"http://tidbits.com/article/1884\">The Word on Word 6</a>,” 15 August 1999). The project to bring Word 5.1 to Mac OS X was meant to make it possible to work with Word 5.1 on more modern Macs.</p> \n \n<p>Unfortunately, that carbonization project ran into a snarl of spaghetti code, and the product was never released. Fortunately, many lessons were learned, and the project is now back on track, this time readying Word 5 for release as an iPad app. </p> \n \n<p>Apparently, as Microsoft investigated the possibility of creating a word processor for the iPad, they realized that porting Word 5 was their best chance at shipping a functional product for iOS 4, given its relatively compact code base (and feature set) as compared with later versions. 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Sprint Nextel has many liabilities that prevent it from being nearly as competitive on price or services as T-Mobile is (or was), and it will have a smaller voice and 3G footprint than either a combined AT&amp;T/T-Mobile or Verizon as well. There’s plenty of speculation that Verizon might buy Sprint, but Sprint doesn’t bring enough value to Verizon.</p> \n \n<p>As a customer, you’re not likely to see any price benefit from the AT&amp;T acquisition. T-Mobile has some of the cheapest national pricing for voice, data, and texting plans in any combination, sometimes $20 to $30 less each month than the cheapest competing plan. AT&amp;T’s pricing tends to be in line with Verizon’s, and we’ll likely see most T-Mobile plans age out and new users or purchasers of newer phones be required to switch to higher-priced offerings.</p> \n \n<p>That stinks, because as we already know, carriers charge a mix of reasonable prices for infrastructure-intensive services, like carrying voice and data, and egregious prices that are nearly pure profit for things like texting (which costs as close to zero as one may calculate), and mobile hotspots, which have no additional cost on metered or tiered plans. (Verizon may have a point in charging for a mobile hotspot on the iPhone because it offers unlimited service only on its phone-based data plan, and allots a separate data pool for tethering and mobile hotspot.)</p> \n \n<p>The good news is that AT&amp;T and T-Mobile customers will see an immediate and notable improvement in call quality and coverage area once the merger is approved. Both companies keep users on home networks as much as possible in areas where they provide service. Roaming happens only when one carrier lacks coverage, as was the case with AT&amp;T in large parts of the Midwest and Northeast, among other areas. (In 2009, AT&amp;T spent billions to buy spectrum in rural areas that Verizon was obliged to sell when it bought the number five carrier at that time, Alltel.)</p> \n \n<p>T-Mobile’s 3G network rollouts were accompanied by a lot of high-capacity backhaul to the towers. The company most likely has a far greater percentage of its 3G-and-beyond network with the bandwidth necessary to handle the amount of traffic that’s possible. AT&amp;T had lagged, and is still working incrementally to increase its backhaul capacity. 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After that, <em>all</em> access was seen as authorized and all the data was conveniently <em>decrypted</em> by the nifty new hardware chip. I first wrote about this in “<a href=\"http://db.tidbits.com/article/10468\">iPhone 3GS Hardware Encryption Easy to Circumvent</a>” (7 August 2009).</p> \n \n<p>Apple fixed much of this with the release of iOS 4. In that version, some of your data is encrypted using your device passcode. Even if an attacker bypasses the passcode by jailbreaking, he can’t access protected data without <em>knowing</em> the passcode.</p> \n \n<p>“Protected data” includes all of your email (and attachments) and data in any apps that link into Apple’s encryption. 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Cohen)\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";s:5:\"xmlns\";a:1:{s:15:\"creativeCommons\";s:52:\"http://backend.userland.com/creativeCommonsRssModule\";}}}s:11:\"description\";a:1:{i:0;a:6:{s:4:\"data\";s:8733:\"<p>Obscured by the smoke and sparkles of the iPad 2 release, media giant Time Warner released a free iPad app, <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twcable-tv/id420455839?mt=8\">TWCable TV</a>, aimed at current Time Warner cable subscribers. Compatible with both the original iPad and its sleek younger sibling, the app brings a bunch of Time Warner cable channels to the magic tablet’s oleophobic screen. That’s right, it’s live cable TV for your iPad.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>The App in Operation</strong> -- The app is designed to be as easy to use as a cable TV, or maybe even easier. Once the app is configured, just launch it, tap a channel, and watch. The channel selection palette appears along the left side of the display (which always appears in landscape orientation). You can easily reveal and hide the channel palette with a tap anywhere on the screen. If you want to play the channel-swap game as you would with a TV remote control’s Back or Jump button, tap the app’s Channel History button to reveal a list of the channels you’ve most recently watched and then tap a channel on the list to switch to that channel. If you close the app and later \nreopen it, it starts streaming the channel you were watching when you closed the app, just like a TV.</p> \n \n<p class=\"inflow_image\"><a href=\"http://db.tidbits.com/resources/2011-03/TWCableApp.jpg\"><img src=\"http://db.tidbits.com/tbthumbs/tn_TWCableApp.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" /></a><BR /></p><p>That’s it in terms of app features. It doesn’t do anything other than play live TV and let you change channels.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Set Up Issues</strong> -- The simplicity offered by the app is unfortunately not mirrored in the initial configuration steps you must follow to get it working. First, you must be both a Time Warner cable subscriber and a Time Warner Internet Service subscriber. You also have to have your Time Warner Internet service available via Wi-Fi. If your cable TV and Internet service meet these criteria, you’re good to go.</p> \n \n<p>To sign up, you need to enter your Time Warner Cable user name and password into the app. If you don’t have a Time Warner Cable user name and password (I didn’t, even though I’ve been using the company’s Internet service for several years), you have to create them. </p> \n \n<p>To create these essential credentials, the app takes you to the Time Warner site, where you have to choose a user name (an email address that you currently use) and a password that is at least eight characters long and that has at least one numeral in it, configure a couple of security questions to which you know the answers (such as “What is your mother’s father’s first name?”), enter a user code from your most recent cable bill and the last balance you paid, and verify the user name by responding to an email that Time Warner sends you.</p> \n \n<p>In my case, the signup process was flakier than a well-made croissant, and nowhere near as tasty. To start, the Time Warner site repeatedly rejected a password I entered that met all of the stated criteria. After I had filled out all the required information, the verification email I received contained a link I had to click to confirm the signup: that link brought me to an error page. On that error page was an instruction to “Click below” for assistance, but there was no link to click! However, the verification error page was itself apparently in error because I was able to get the app to work with the user name and password that I had supplied.</p> \n \n<p>My problems might be attributed to the fact that I tried to set things up on the app’s very first day of release. Apparently, the app was so popular that it brought Time Warner’s site to its knees on the first day, and also forced the company to scale back the number of channels offered temporarily from the promised thirty to about half that number. However, as I write this, I see twenty-eight channels listed.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Limitations</strong> -- The app, now that I have configured it, works very well. But it does have its limits.</p> \n \n<p>Aside from the lack of any viewing controls other than channel switching (for example, no pause capability, no AirPlay capability, no on-screen volume controls, no parental controls), the channel selection is constrained: the channels offered are basic cable channels only. You can’t view any of the premium services to which you subscribe, nor can you view any of the local broadcast stations that your cable subscription includes. These limits, I understand, are due in part to the licensing agreements that Time Warner has with its partners. </p> \n \n<p>Furthermore, the app works only over Wi-Fi, and only within your own home. Were I to go on the road, I wouldn’t be able to use the app unless I were in a location with both Time Warner cable and Internet service, and I happened to have the login credentials for that location. The chances of that, of course, are rather small.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Musings</strong> -- This app is certainly not The End of TV as We Know It. The limitations it imposes are major, and the functionality it offers is low. All it really provides is a portable TV screen you can carry around your home so that you can watch a fraction of the TV channels to which you have subscribed. Time Warner has worked hard to come up with the bare minimum of a cable TV app. </p> \n \n<p>On the one hand, I feel rather disappointed and insulted: I pay quite a bit of money to Time Warner for my cable and Internet service, and the limits that the app imposes makes it feel less like a bonus from my service subscription and more like a begrudged handful of pennies tossed my way from a wealthy but miserly uncle. </p> \n \n<p>On the other hand, I rather like having a very portable TV with a high-quality screen at hand any time. Like any TV, I often have it on while I’m busy doing something else (such as, for example, writing this article), and the channels it does offer usually have something worth watching at any given time.</p> \n \n<p>As I implied above, there’s a lot more that I would appreciate in a live cable TV app:</p> \n \n<ul> \n<li><p>More of the channels to which I subscribe, including, especially, my local TV channels.</p></li> \n<li><p>Some basic playback controls: although this app is <em>not</em> a DVR (and I can accept that), it does do <em>some</em> buffering, and I would like at least a 30-second jump-back control and a pause button that could let me pause for a minute or two.</p></li> \n<li><p>Parental controls: while I don’t have kids, my extensive research leads me to believe that other Time Warner subscribers do, and some of those subscribers even have children with iPads (shocking, but true).</p></li> \n<li><p>More schedule information beyond the current show and the next show for each supplied channel.</p></li> \n<li><p>The actual names of the cable channels, rather than just their current logos (the Comedy Central logo, for example, looks like a copyright symbol, and I had to tap it to see what channel it actually was).</p></li> \n</ul> \n \n<p>Even though TWCable TV is the barest of a bare-bones cable-TV app, it may be enough. 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Don’t laugh at us; we’re suffering enough already.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Will It Be a Hassle?</strong> -- We’ve known the Personal Hotspot feature was coming, but I initially discounted it as an option based on reports from people who use a MiFi router for on-and-off use when roaming. The MiFi takes a few minutes to power up and acquire a mobile broadband network connection. The iPhone, of course, removes most of that pain by being always connected to a cellular network.</p> \n \n<p>The setup for Personal Hotspot involves an online change (AT&amp;T only) or a call to your carrier (AT&amp;T or Verizon) to activate it on your service plan. Then you open Settings > General > Network, and tap Personal Hotspot. Apple conveniently sets a strong password for the Wi-Fi access. 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It plans to change this to tiered, metered service in mid-2011, but new prices and tiers haven’t yet been announced. </p> \n \n<p>Verizon charges an additional $20 per month for the Personal Hotspot feature and doesn’t allow partial-month pro rata payments. It also includes 2 GB of service, allotted just for the hotspot and tethering usage, but has a $20-per-GB fee beyond those 2 GB.</p> \n \n<p><a href=\"http://phones.verizonwireless.com/ipad2/\">Verizon’s iPad 2 plans</a> are tiered differently than AT&amp;T’s. It charges $20 for 1 GB, $35 for 3 GB, $50 for 5 GB, and $80 for 10 GB. Service plans are continuous. Verizon hasn’t confirmed this on its site or to reporters, but it’s true of its MiFi and other devices. 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In addition to PDF and text files, GoodReader can display common Microsoft Office files, iWork files, HTML and Safari Web Archive files, and various image and media files. Over time it has gained more power and flexibility, adding the capability to download files wirelessly from a variety of sources: MobileMe iDisk, Google Docs, WebDAV servers, Dropbox, FTP servers, SugarSync, and box.net. It has also extended its early lead in PDF handling (it was one of the first apps to support PDF links) with the capability of annotating PDF files and syncing those annotated files back to their server sources. And not only \nindividual files: users can sync all of the files in a remote folder with the app instead of having to choose them one at a time. 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In this category, there is only one option: “Download only” Sync. Turn that on, and the syncing policies that control what happens when files are deleted either locally or on a server vanish — because they are not needed.</p> \n \n<p class=\"inflow_image\"><a href=\"http://db.tidbits.com/resources/2011-03/Goodreader_sync_params.jpg\"><img src=\"http://db.tidbits.com/tbthumbs/tn_Goodreader_sync_params.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"776\" border=\"0\" /></a><BR /></p><p>With this addition to GoodReader’s already commodious bag of tricks, the app has become an even more powerful tool for workers, students, and readers in general. 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I was on hand for Apple’s March 2nd announcement and spent time working with the new device, got a feel for the cool new Smart Covers, and learned several details that didn’t make it into Steve Jobs’s presentation. (See “<a href=\"http://db.tidbits.com/article/12007\">iPad 2: Faster, Thinner, Lighter, and Bicameral</a>,” 2 March 2011.)</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Smart Covers</strong> -- Nearly as much presentation time was devoted to Apple’s new Smart Covers for the iPad 2 as to the iPad 2 itself, and I can understand why. They’re really cool. I’ve used Apple’s black iPad case on my first-generation iPad not because it’s especially stylish — it’s not — but because it’s thin and functional. I’d prefer to have the iPad out by itself, but I found that carrying the iPad with no case at all is awkward: I didn’t want to hold it sideways like a notepad and smudge the screen, so I was always self-conscious about it. With the black iPad case, the screen is covered, and I can grab it however I choose, tuck it under an arm if \nneeded, and slide it into my bag without worrying about scratching the screen.</p> \n \n<p>The new Smart Covers appear to do all that in the most minimal possible way. Magnets in the metal hinge connect to magnets along the inside of the left edge of the iPad and snap securely in place. The attractive and durable-looking covers are made either of leather or polyurethane (“which is used to make spacesuits!” exclaimed Jobs). The leather covers are nice, thin, and tactile; I didn’t immediately notice that an iPad handed to me was using the leather cover versus the polyurethane, although to be honest I was more focused on the iPad itself.</p> \n \n<p class=\"inflow_image\"><a href=\"http://db.tidbits.com/resources/2011-03/ipad2_smart_cover_hinge.jpg\"><img src=\"http://db.tidbits.com/tbthumbs/tn_ipad2_smart_cover_hinge.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" border=\"0\" /></a><BR /></p><p>Are the covers worth $39, or $69 for the leather versions? I think so, but it will be interesting to see what third-party case manufacturers come up with once they get the specifications on where to place the magnets. I will definitely buy a Smart Cover to go along with my iPad 2, but haven’t yet decided if I’ll spring for the leather version. Apple also notes about the leather covers on <a href=\"http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC942?mco=MjEzNTMwMzk#overview\">the product page</a>, “Some color may rub off \nduring use.”</p> \n \n<p>Speaking of third-party covers, the iPad 2 includes a system preference to enable the sleep/wake functionality that kicks in when the cover is closed and opened. It’s a great additional feature, and was nicely responsive in my repeated flipping of the cover’s edge.</p> \n \n<p>The way the Smart Cover bends in four places is also quite clever and quite useful. (Click and drag the <a href=\"http://www.apple.com/ipad/smart-cover/\">sample on Apple’s site</a> to see how this works.) I regularly flip back the cover of my black iPad case and latch it to hold the iPad at an angle. In fact, setting up the Smart Cover in the vertical orientation felt more stable to me than the old iPad cover, which often feels tippy because the base can sometimes bow slightly.</p> \n \n<div class=\"indented_image\"><p><a href=\"http://db.tidbits.com/resources/2011-03/ipad2_with_smart_cover_upright.jpg\"><img src=\"http://db.tidbits.com/tbthumbs/tn_ipad2_with_smart_cover_upright.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" border=\"0\" /></a><BR /></p></div> \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>The Feel of a New Machine</strong> -- For several people I know, the size and weight of the first-generation iPad is a detriment; it’s just heavy enough that holding it for long periods of time — even propped against a leg; I’m not talking about elevating the iPad for hours — is tiresome.</p> \n \n<p>(Let’s take a moment and point out that the original iPad is still much thinner and lighter than tablets that came before, so Apple gets credit for that. However, the reality is that we like our technology thinner and lighter than what came before, no matter the dimensions of the previous device.)</p> \n \n<p>I didn’t get a good sense of how much the weight differed; it’s only 3.2 ounces (90 grams), after all. But the thinness is wonderful, and contributes to the sense that the iPad 2 is lighter than it really is. Your brain sees a <em>sliver</em> of glass and aluminum. Not a slab. Not a slate. And I think that physical effect will be lasting, just as I notice how much sturdier my unibody MacBook Pro is compared to old models every time I pick it up.</p> \n \n<div class=\"indented_image\"><p><a href=\"http://db.tidbits.com/resources/2011-03/ipad1_compared_to_ipad2.jpg\"><img src=\"http://db.tidbits.com/tbthumbs/tn_ipad1_compared_to_ipad2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" border=\"0\" /></a><BR /></p></div> \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>FaceTime</strong> -- After months of speculation that the iPad 2 would include dual cameras, the presence of FaceTime isn’t a surprise. The image quality looked soft in the hands-on room at the event, partly due to the VGA-resolution front-facing camera, and perhaps partly due to a room full of FaceTime demo chats going on. But I’m willing to give it a chance; FaceTime on the iPhone 4 has been great for doing video chats between my daughter and my mother (who uses FaceTime on the Mac), more so because Grandma is on a satellite Internet connection. In fact, the FaceTime image quality is consistently better than iChat video. FaceTime is still limited to Wi-Fi networks.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>Faster Mobile Broadband</strong> -- Hidden in the iPad 2 announcement was a speed bump, although the implications still need to be measured. The 3G GSM (AT&amp;T-compatible) iPad 2 joins the GSM iPhone 4 as the first models in each line to support the faster upload speeds possible with HSUPA, an upload standard for 3G GSM networks. The iPhone 3G and 3GS and original 3G iPad included only UMTS for upstream traffic, which maxes out at 384 Kbps. HSUPA in the flavor used in the iPhone 4 and likely in the iPad 2 can reportedly hit 5.8 Mbps of raw throughput, although AT&amp;T’s network is limited to somewhat under 2 Mbps. Carriers in some other countries are running faster networks, \nand AT&amp;T will eventually upgrade its upstream rates to that level.</p> \n \n<p>On the download side, there’s no information from Apple yet about whether the iPad 2 improves on the 7.2 Mbps downstream flavor of HSDPA that’s built into the iPhone 4 and the original 3G iPad. AT&amp;T built this rate out to cell towers nationwide, and is now working a boost called HSPA+, which offers a raw throughput of 21 Mbps. It’s possible HSPA+ is in the iPad 2, but AT&amp;T said late last year that it only expected to see tablets with HSPA+ by the second half of 2011. In practice, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA can top 4 Mbps in the real world, and 21 Mbps HSPA+ might provide sustained download rates of 8 Mbps in the right conditions.</p> \n \n<p>The Verizon Wireless CDMA flavor of iPad 2 remains fixed on Verizon’s current 3G standard, EVDO Rev. A, which the company is working to enhance by rolling out a faster standard called LTE. AT&amp;T will also launch LTE this year. Neither 3G model of the iPad 2 will have LTE connectivity, but nor does any laptop on the market. Motorola recently flabbergasted many of us by explaining that its Xoom tablet, which is upgradable to support LTE, will require six days at a factory to install a new modem when the upgrade becomes available in a few months. LTE might offer 5 to 12 Mbps downstream, but it will take until 2013 for nationwide LTE coverage to overlay today’s GSM and CDMA 3G networks.</p> \n \n<p class=\"article_subhead\" style=\"padding-top:10px\"><strong>iMovie and GarageBand</strong> -- I’m excited to start playing with the new version of iMovie for iOS, which will be available on the iPad 2, iPhone 4, and camera-equipped iPod touch. I’m also curious to see how Apple translated the new version and features to the latter two devices with their smaller screens.</p> \n \n<p>Contrary to earlier reports, I confirmed late in the day that iMovie will not be available for the first-generation iPad. My guess is that there are two culprits: The original iPad does not include a camera, and even though I can see how it would be helpful to import footage and edit it on the iPad, Apple likes to have all features available for an app like iMovie. The second reason, I suspect, is memory. The iPhone 4 contains 512 MB of RAM, and the iPad 2 must contain at least that much (although the fourth-generation iPod touch is equipped with 256 MB of RAM, and is supported). Apple is extremely reluctant to reveal how much RAM is in the iPad, despite the fact that we’ll learn that fact as soon as someone like iFixit buys one of \nthe first units and tears it apart.</p> \n \n<p>GarageBand for iOS, the other major software announcement, also looks extremely polished and fun, although not being a musician, it doesn’t grab my interest as much. I do appreciate that a significant amount of effort has gone into appealing to people who would otherwise skip a music app like this. Also, based on the large number of music-related iPad apps and accessories at Macworld Expo last month, there must be a market out there. Or, at least a lot of people who like to burn money developing and trying to sell music gear.</p> \n \n<p>Unlike iMovie, GarageBand will run on the first-generation iPad, although, I presume, with limited performance. Also, projects you create on the iPad can be transferred to the Mac, where you can continue editing (following an upcoming GarageBand ’11 update). It’s a one-way street, however; you can’t go back and forth, or start on the Mac and finish on the iPad. 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An original iPad can use the HDMI connector, but only with specifically enabled apps and features that already play through dock connector adapters.</p> \n \n<p>A part of the iOS 4.3 update, iTunes Home Sharing lets you stream media from a copy of iTunes on your network to your iPad, rather than having to first transfer it during a sync operation. In addition, Home Sharing helps keep your library up to date. When you purchase a song on an iOS device and then connect to your iTunes library wirelessly, the song is automatically transferred to your library. It’s like turning your iOS device into an Apple TV.</p> \n \n<p>Lastly, I recommend watching <a href=\"http://www.apple.com/apple-events/march-2011/\">Apple’s video of the event</a> to see Steve Jobs in fine form. I’m not talking about his health (he looked about the same as he did at Apple’s October 2010 event, like a man dealing with illness but not debilitated), but rather his criticisms of the rest of the tablet market. 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The object of this game is to complete different mazes and as you go a picture is revealed.</p>\n<p>There are small mazes, medium mazes and large mazes for you to concour. With over seventy mazes for you to complete this game offers a lot of play time.</p>\n<p>When you start up a maze your character is a bug that goes through the maze stepping on little color blocks that leave said color behind you to create the picture. In the top left corner there is a screen that shows your progress on the picture so the further into the maze you get the more detailed your picture becomes.</p>\n<p>The controls are really simple and not intrusive. In the bottom right corner there are four arrows that you push to go in the direction you wish.</p>\n<p>In the options you can set hints to be on or off. If you have the hints on and you wait at a fork in the road the right way will be show to you as a blinking color tab and if you wait even longer or find yourself off the main path arrows will show up to lead you back.</p>\n<p>You can also set a playlist of songs to play from the option menu.</p>\n<p>If this wasnt enough there is a custom maze creator. All you have to do is draw up the picture and a maze will be created for you automatically. Way cool.</p>\n<p>I had a fun time testing this game out, cool graphics, cool pictures but the one and only thing I didn&#8217;t like was the character. Im not sure why they chose a bug as your character but I would have preferred something more appealing.</p>\n\n<a href=\'http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/2010/06/15/pix-maze/img_0661/\' title=\'IMG_0661\'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/IMG_0661-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"Main Menu\" title=\"IMG_0661\" /></a>\n<a href=\'http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/2010/06/15/pix-maze/img_0662/\' title=\'IMG_0662\'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/IMG_0662-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"Options\" title=\"IMG_0662\" /></a>\n<a href=\'http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/2010/06/15/pix-maze/img_0665/\' title=\'IMG_0665\'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/IMG_0665-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"Ready Set GO!\" title=\"IMG_0665\" /></a>\n<a href=\'http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/2010/06/15/pix-maze/img_0658/\' title=\'IMG_0658\'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/IMG_0658-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"Hmm What could it be?\" title=\"IMG_0658\" /></a>\n<a href=\'http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/2010/06/15/pix-maze/img_0659/\' title=\'IMG_0659\'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/IMG_0659-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"Starting to see something\" title=\"IMG_0659\" /></a>\n<a href=\'http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/2010/06/15/pix-maze/img_0660/\' title=\'IMG_0660\'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/IMG_0660-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"OMG Its a mermaid\" title=\"IMG_0660\" /></a>\n<a href=\'http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/2010/06/15/pix-maze/img_0667/\' title=\'IMG_0667\'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/IMG_0667-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"Time to be creative\" title=\"IMG_0667\" /></a>\n<a href=\'http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/2010/06/15/pix-maze/img_0666/\' title=\'IMG_0666\'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/IMG_0666-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"My iPhone Maze\" title=\"IMG_0666\" /></a>\n<a href=\'http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/2010/06/15/pix-maze/pixmazeicon/\' title=\'pixmazeicon\'><img width=\"150\" height=\"70\" src=\"http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/pixmazeicon-150x70.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"pixmazeicon\" /></a>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pix-maze/id369038630?mt=8\">iTunes Link &#8211; Pix Maze</a></p>\n<p>Version 1.0.0</p>\n<p>Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS 3.1.3</p>\n<img src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/iPhoneAppReviews/~4/pzP0uzHhe_c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/>\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:36:\"http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/\";a:1:{s:10:\"commentRss\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:57:\"http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/2010/06/15/pix-maze/feed/\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:38:\"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/\";a:1:{s:8:\"comments\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:1:\"1\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:42:\"http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0\";a:1:{s:8:\"origLink\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:52:\"http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/2010/06/15/pix-maze/\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}}}i:11;a:6:{s:4:\"data\";s:47:\"\n		\n		\n		\n		\n		\n				\n		\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n		\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b