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Clarityn Hayfever app gets 5,500 downloads a day, 72k total in 2 weeks

By Ewan on June 1, 2010 in Applications

Congratulations to the team behind the Clarityn Hayfever application which we covered on The Application Review last week. The application has knocked back a highly respectable 72,000 downloads in just two weeks (or roughly 5,500 per day). I know mobile developers who would kill for 5k downloads a month, so kudos. I’m particularly interested to [...]

Video: Using The Times iPad App

By Ewan on June 1, 2010 in Applications

I took out my iPhone and recorded a QIK video of The Times iPad application in use. See what you think…

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Has the iPad killed tablet innovation? Chris at SlashGear says yes!

By Ewan on June 1, 2010 in Opinion

I very much enjoyed this perspective penned by Chris Davies over at SlashGear: How foolish I’ve been. Five months ago I wrote that tablets had come of age, and even sifted my way through the line-up cherry picking what must-have features would make for the perfect device. A month later, in the afterglow – or [...]

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Put.io – online media storage for torrents, audio, docs, videos & images

By Ewan on June 1, 2010 in Services

Reader Kirk dropped me a note today about Put.io, a new online storage service that, as the site explains, fetches media files and lets you stream them immediately. You can use it to stream video, listen to your music and share your library with friends. It’s an interesting take on the online storage conundrum that [...]

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The Times iPad App: Did you miss The Sunday Times?

By Ewan on June 1, 2010 in Applications

Here’s the frontpage of today’s The Times iPad application: The app has been getting quite a lot of attention over the past few days particularly since it represents a corresponding shift toward a paid-for experience of The Times and The Sunday Times. I’m going to produce a video-walkthrough shortly — but meantime I wonder if [...]

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Enable your site to serve HTML5 video to iPhone, iPad & beyond

By Ewan on June 1, 2010 in Devices

If you’d like to enable your site to serve HTML5 videos to the growing legions of users with super-fancy devices such as the iPad, iPhone and so on, then I very much recommend checking out the Longtail Video site’s HTML5 Beta Player. It not only delivers a lovely HTML5 experience, but it also falls back [...]

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