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TUAWEtsy Find: Mmmmmmmm iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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With the addition of the Safari Extensions Gallery to Apple's website, TUAW will be highlighting extensions that we think are special, useful, or just plain fun.

Today's featured extension is Awesome Screenshot which lets you capture, annotate and share screenshots to awesomescreenshot.com. The way it works is pretty neat. Once you're at a webpage you'd like to share, simply click the extension's button. A toolbar appears that lets you annotate the page in a variety of ways. You can draw freely or use boxes, circle or lines. There's even a tool to blur out information that you'd rather keep hidden.

Once you're done, you can save the image as a local file or get a url to share with coworkers or friends. It's a useful tool that could make far-flung collaboration a little easier, all handled directly within the browser.

TUAWSafari extension highlight: Awesome Screenshot originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The iPad plays such a big part of some peoples' lives that you could almost say they're married to their iPads. And for others, they just get married by their iPads -- well, sort of.

The iPad helped facilitate the wedding of Aaron and Katie, as it made its rounds to the priest and then the bride and groom. Not only did bride Katie read her vows to husband Aaron from the iPad, she composed them on it as well.

While the couple's wedding was held outdoors, a gazebo provided shade to help make reading easier; the iPad's glass screen and the sunlight usually don't make a good combination for readability.

Offbeat Bride reports on creative wedding ideas; Aaron and Katie's iPad-enabled nuptials certainly qualify.

If you plan on using your iPad in your wedding, you might as well plan your wedding using an iPad. These include 100 Wedding Tips and the Wedding Guests app, which aims to help you make a final decision on who to invite to your wedding and who not to.

TUAWAn iPad, a couple, and a wedding originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TUAWKindle, iPad, and paper examined microscopically originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Wherever you live, lightning can be dangerous if you spend a lot of time outdoors. In the USA alone, an average of 58 people per year are killed by proximity to lightning strikes. PinPoint Lightning (US$5.99), a new app from MyWeather, LLC, hopes to reduce that number by providing push notifications of lightning strikes within 30 miles of your present location within seconds of a strike.

This app only provides lightning strike data for the USA and Canada, with information coming from the National Lightning Detection Network in the 50 states, and from Environment Canada in the Great White North. The strike data used by PinPoint Lightning is rather expensive, which explains the rather high cost of the app. For hikers, bikers, golfers, and anyone else who spends time working or playing outside, $5.99 is a small cost to pay for advance warning of nearby lightning activity.

TUAW received a review copy of the software, and PinPoint Lightning is an extremely well-done and functional app that does precisely what it is designed for. Read on for a full review of PinPoint Lightning.

TUAWTUAW Review: PinPoint Lightning wants to keep you alive originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We could say "Nice use of found materials in that iPad stand! It's a shame that the next person who tries to build out the LEGO City Truck is going to be short a few pieces, but that's the way the brick bounces sometimes."

We won't, though, because this image is a genuine No Comment.

P.S. Braaaiiiins.

Image courtesy of There, I Fixed It.

TUAWNo Comment: LEGO iPad stand shows ingenuity, parsimony originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As a bona fide fan of cruise ships and iPads, I was happy to see a short note from CruiseInd.com today outlining what Celebrity Cruises is doing with the iPad on their Solstice Class ships.

Starting tomorrow (August 15th), iPads will be available on the Celebrity Solstice, and the sister ships Eclipse and Equinox will see a group of iPads on board starting August 21st. Guests can launch a custom app to be able to view the collection of art on their particular ship. The Solstice class ships currently in service, Solstice, Equinox, and Eclipse, have a total of 14,000 original contemporary art works between them that decorate the various decks. Deck plans are displayed on the iPad, and guest can touch artworks represented on the plans to see the exact location, title, artist's name, medium, a description, and an image of the work.

This isn't the first time that iPads have been used on Celebrity's ships -- the cruise line uses the devices to display the menu and wine list at the Qsine specialty restaurant on the Celebrity Eclipse. Celebrity also features the Mac-centric iLearn program on the Celebrity Solstice, Equinox, and Summit, a series of classes that mimic the One-to-One experience available in Apple retail stores.

It's refreshing to see Celebrity embracing Apple technology on their ships, as most other cruise ships seem to feature old PCs running Windows XP in their Internet lounges.

TUAWThe iPad as an art gallery tour guide on Celebrity Cruises originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TUAWApp Review: Set Pro HD originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Gartner is reporting that worldwide sales of mobile phones running Android OS have surpassed iPhone sales for the second quarter of 2010. 10.6 million phones running the Android OS shipped during the last quarter, representing a 17.2% 2010 market share, compared to 8.74 million iOS phones, representing a 14.2% 2010 market share. The two top dogs are still Symbian, with 41.2% of the market and RIM with 18.2% of the market.

Google's cheerleaders may cry foul, but to be fair to Apple, during the quarter they shipped exactly 3 phone models with iOS on them while carriers shipped over 20 different models of Android phones. We could also mention that a true Apples-to-apples comparison would include the non-phone iOS devices (the iPod touch and iPad) which continue to expand the iOS installed base at a furious pace.

Also, Apple was dealing with a transition to iPhone 4, which lead to constraint issues with the iPhone 3G and 3GS. As Gartner pointed out in its report, "Apple's sales would have been higher if it had not had to face tight inventory management in preparation for the arrival of the iPhone 4 at the end of the second quarter of 2010. Apple also suffered from some supply constraint on the new device. We expect that a wider global roll out of iPhone 4 will sustain Apple's sales momentum throughout the second half of 2010."

Will the rest of 2010 be the Revenge of the iOS? The fact that the iPhone 4 is still sold out at over half of Apple's US retail stores is a big check mark in the "yes" column. Whichever way this goes, it looks like one thing is certain -- RIM is virtually sure to lose its second place position next quarter as both Android and iOS phones increase in popularity and market saturation.

TUAWAndroid sales worldwide pass iPhone totals for Q2 2010 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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