![]() ![]() As an iPhone owner, I obviously know how much of a pain it is to get content on your iPhone, but with it being a phone, it never really bothered me all that much. What is this, 1998? Are we back to cradles? Proprietary cables? Sync buttons? Buggy software that crashes mid-sync so you have to start all over again?Ĭontrary to popular belief around here, I actually really like Apple’s products (read any review I’ve written and you’ll see), and I tend to think that Apple has a slightly better grasp on how to make mundane tasks in computing easier to accomplish than most other software licensors. This is the incredibly complicated set of steps you need to perform in order to get a video from your computer onto your iPad. In the window that appears, select a file to transer, and then click choose.Below File Sharing, select “VLC” from the list, and then click Add.In iTunes, select your iPad, and then click the Apps tab.You currently don’t have any video in your VLC library. Forget the botched text – look at what it actually says. Instead of getting up in arms over the botched text rendering, I actually read what it says, and after a few seconds of disbelief, it hit me. That was that, you might think – but it really isn’t. Then again, you’re better off just apt-getting the codecs (Linux) or installing K-Lite (Windows) for those types of users anyway, but alas. He has a point – VLC isn’t always as welcoming as it could be to some types of computer users. “Of course, one might expect this sort of thing from an app whose desktop version has a toggle between ‘Basic’ and ‘All’ in its Preferences,” he adds. A kind of annoying oversight, but nothing to get your knickers in a twist over. As you can see in the screenshot, part of the text is missing in portrait mode (it does show up properly in landscape mode). ![]() So, Paul Kafasis, CEO of Rogue Amoeba Software, tried it out, and discovered an issue with the text displayed when you first launch the VLC application on your iPad. This isn’t really an iOS-only issue, though – many operating systems (mobile or desktop) support only slightly more codecs out of the box than an Etch A Sketch. Until I actually read the text – this is how you’re supposed to get content on your iPad?Ī few days ago, the iPad version of the excellent VLC music player was released into Apple’s App Store, expanding the rather bleak set of codecs supported by the iOS to something quite substantial. The blog post is a complaint about a bit of help text that’s not properly rendered inside the application – annoying, but no dealbreaker. It’s about the recently released VLC media player for the iPad, which you can use to play just about any video under the sun on your iPad. The award winning app for iOS is now available for Mac based on the same code.As I was casually browsing around today, I came across this blog post. Gravilux was first released as a work of interactive art by Scott Snibbe that was only available in galleries and museums. Move the mouse to the bottom of the screen to change parameters including gravity, antigravity, number of stars, star size, and color. You can tease and twist the particles into galaxies, explode them like a supernova, or color the stars by their speed. As you touch the screen, gravity draws simulated stars to your fingertips. ![]() Gravilux lets you draw with stars: it’s a combination of art, meditation, science, and zen relaxation. ** #1 Entertainment App in Mac App Store worldwide ** Top Ten Overall Worldwide ** iTunes Top 10 App of the year for Art and Music on iOS ** "Of the millions of apps out there, none quite capitalize on the sheer fun and beauty of interactivity the way that Scott Snibbe’s do.” -CoolHunting "Every once in a while, an app will come along that has no practical application whatsoever but is just SO COOL that you have to have it! Gravilux is that sort of app." "Apps like Gravilux awaken an 'Avatar'-like sensitivity to electricity in the body, power in the palms and general connectedness." -New York Times "Apps like Gravilux awaken an 'Avatar'-like sensitivity to electricity in the body, power in the palms and general connectedness." -New York Times "Every once in a while, an app will come along that has no practical application whatsoever but is. ![]()
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