When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad he called it the next wave of personal computing. He was quick to add that Apple’s original product line, the Mac, still had a role, but compared it to a truck. Desktops and laptops were cast as workhorses to be used to haul heavy-duty software and apps. The utilities on this list fit that description.
Even if you’re a rising star in a creative field, Twitter followers won’t net you six figures. What’s an independent agent in need of cash to do? Sell direct! Your online fanbase are your likeliest buyers, and there are a host of new services out there to help you hawk your e-book or album or plugin without having to pitch some complicated e-commerce tent.
Fresh off the news that beleaguered GOOD magazine is reinventing itself as an off-brand Reddit for the social good, Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic Tech has announced a pivot of his own.
Nearly three years ago, when the first iPad was announced, many jeered. Tech journos impugned it as “just a big iPod Touch.” Others lamented that it was just a content-consumption device and wished it allowed people to create things. How wrong they were.
You’ve been warned: You’ll soon see images like the ones in this post — part moving, part still — everywhere. Animated GIFs are making a comeback, and Echograph, a new iPad app, is taking them to the next level. Remember how the newspaper photos in the Harry Potter movies came alive? That’s what this app brings to the Muggle world, for $2.99.
German artist Bartek Elsner’s cardboard replicas.
The iPhone is a Swiss Army Knife for makers. It looks like a brick of metal and glass, but with the touch of a button, instantly becomes almost any tool required.
A running series in which we ask Wired art directors to give us a list of their current obsessions
It says something about where we’ve come as a society that the simple act of fixing something that’s broken is considered a revolutionary act. Yet here we are. It’s cheaper and easier to buy a new toaster, lamp, printer, or chair than it is to mend the one you have when it breaks — never mind that you may already be jonesing for an upgrade.
Architect Jennifer Devlin talks to Wired Senior Editor Adam Rogers about urban design on this week’s Storyboard podcast.
forum before function
