Results make up for awkwardness of iPhoto for iPad – Chicago Sun-Times: “iPhoto represents the second generation of iPad apps. It’s not merely a ‘mobile’ photo editor. It’s a photo editor. A less-ambitious photo app like Snapseed is something you play with. iPhoto is an app that you can actually rely on.” (Via. Chicago Sun-Times) I have to completely agree with Andy Ihnatko here. When I first started using iPhoto for iPad, I immediately thought, like everyone else, that it was a UI nightmare. But the more I used…

Compelling idea for moving files from Mac to iPhone | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog: “There’s iCloud, Dropbox and a host of other services to help us tranfer these files, but there are no solutions as elegant as the concept devised by interaction designer Ishac Bertran.” (Via. TUAW) Elegant? I’d say this is anything but elegant. For starters, how is manually holding a phone in one hand while pinching and dragging with the other on a vertical screen more elegant than iCloud automatically syncing the files with no user…

Familiar is not a design: Quasar was not designed, but rather only implemented. It’s the classic outcome of closed, engineer-based thinking. (Via Matt Legend Gemmell) Matt Gemmell sums up my thoughts on Quasar perfectly. The iPad doesn’t present multiple apps on screen at once for a reason, and that reason isn’t because of some hardware limitation, or because Apple wanted to “dumb it down” for users. It wasn’t an arbitrary decision. Apple designed the iPad that way, and I believe it’s a better device for…

Dear iOS app developers (including you, Apple), When my iPad doesn’t have an Internet connection for whatever reason, popping up a dialog box to tell me it has no connection is somewhat annoying, but understandable. After all, it’s good to communicate what’s going wrong to some extent. You can probably find a less obtrusive way than a box that takes over my whole iPad until I tap it, but whatever. Popping up the same box 15 times in three seconds, and constantly popping it back up as…

Apple warns developers against gaming App Store rankings | Macworld: For many developers, Apple’s warning, and the fact that it appears to be cracking down on apps that take advantage of these means, is definitely a positive. For one thing, it helps level the playing field for those trying not just to make a hit, but a living developing software. “There are plenty of developers who work very hard to produce quality apps,” The Iconfactory’s Craig Hockenberry wrote in an email toMacworld, “and we’re all happy to see…