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Georgia, Seth, and Rene discuss low Siri usage levels, whether iOS 6 needs a new Home screen, Notification Center do not disturb, Pandora vs Slacker vs Spotify shootout, Quasar, BIG JAMBOX, and the iPhone bra. This is iPhone & iPad Live!

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Meta

• Editor’s desk: WWDC 2012 and iOS 6, Google Drive, Google and Facebook apps, iCloud guide, and more
• What would you do with $ 110 (not billion) dollars?
• iMore community spotlight for April 2012
• Siri co-founder talks to iMore about the future of technology, mobile interfaces, and implementing Siri
• Which celebrity would you most like to see talking with Siri in an iPhone commercial?

iOS 6

• Siri six months later: Community report card
• iOS 6: Is it time for Apple to revamp the Home screen?
• OS X Mountain Lion gets Notification Center do not disturb — Can we have that for iOS 6?

News

• RIM Australia admits it was responsible for Wake Up flashmob at Sydney Apple Store
• Nintendo posts first annual financial loss as casual gaming continues to shift to Apple and iPhone

Apps

• Pandora vs. Slacker vs. Spotify: iPhone music streaming app shootout!
• Now you can stream music from Spotify directly to your iPad
• View multiple windows on your iPad with Quasar jailbreak tweak [Updated]
• Now you can block retweets from individual users with Tweetbot 2.3 for iPhone and iPad

Accessories

• Take your Bluetooth speaker power to the extreme with Jawbone’s BIG JAMBOX
• Make your iPad look like a MacBook Pro with Brydge, a new Bluetooth keyboard on Kickstarter
• JoeyBra lets ladies carry their iPhones safely and discreetly while dancing the night away

Hosts

• Georgia (GeorgiaTiPb
• Seth Clifford (@sethclifford)
• Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie)

Credits

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Safety Photo+, by Eightythree Technology, is an iPhone utility app that lets you passcode protect your photos.

One of the cool features is the ability to upload/download from your computer via web browser or iTunes file sharing. This means you don’t have to ever have the photos in the native photo library.

You can now keep your most private photos away form unauthorized access. Introducing the Safety Photo+. Used the most advanced security system to protect your photos. You can then browse, organize, share, and manage your photos right on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

• Passcode locking style (combination lock, keypad lock)
• Selectable stylish theme, yet easy to use interface

• Take private photos from within the app
• Extremely simple to import photos from photo library

• Export photos to your iPhone/iPod Touch
  
- Create albums for your photos
• Passcode protect individual album
• Supports move, copy & paste
• Upload/download from PC to iPhone via web browser/iTunes file sharing
• Share photos within 2 iOS devices with Safety Photo+ installed vie Bluetooth/Wi-Fi

• Full Retina display support

Today, Safety Photo+ is available on the iPhone for free. The price will increase each day by $ 1 until it’s $ 3.99.

[App Store link]

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No, you didn’t read the headline wrong — Samsung is claiming their Galaxy Tab 10.1 couldn’t be a copy of Apple’s iPad because… it was copying the earlier movie prop from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Well, okay, not copying — more like maintaining the design elements were commonplace in pop culture, especially science fiction. One of the ways to invalidate a patent is to prove prior art — that someone had the idea before the company who was awarded the patent.

Since everyone from HAL’s buddy Dave to the Enterprise D’s Captain Jean Luc Picard used tablet-like devices, Samsung seems to be asking, how could Apple possibly have been granted the design patent?

Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents stops short of calling it either genius or a stunt.

It would be amazing if the court agreed with Samsung that this constitutes prior art for that particular iPad-related design patent. Whether or not Samsung will succeed, the mere fact that they proffer this kind of evidence is remarkable and will be exciting for many fans of movies in general — and of that movie in particular — to find out about.

Hopefully Samsung hasn’t seen Dick Tracy or Apple’s nano watch might be next!

[FOSS Patents]

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What’s the next iOS device you plan on buying? I’m guessing a lot of the TiPb Nation is waiting for the iPhone 5, but is anyone going to skip it and hold out for the iPhone 6? Maybe you hope that Apple discounts the existing iPhone 4 like usual, or puts out a budget iPhone nano instead?

The iPad 3 sounds like it’s not coming this fall after all, but are you planning to get it shows up this spring? Or does a new iPod touch 5 fit your needs better?

What if Apple finally makes a real iOS powered iPod nano, one that works amazingly well as a watch and shows all your notifications? Anyone else besides me really want one? And if they finally let Apple TV go a full 1080p, would that be on your shopping list?

Let me know what you plan on buying in the poll below, and give me the reasons why — or better yet, why not! — in the comments below!

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Evernote, the popular note-taking, productivity apps, received a huge update today. It includes rich text styles, numerous interface improvements, and much more.

It’s not specifically in the release notes, but @ichadman points out that one of those UI improvements is three-finger swiping between screens. Very cool!

Evernote turns the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything and everything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put it all into Evernote and watch as it instantly synchronizes from your iPhone to your Mac or Windows desktop. See why millions of people worldwide use Evernote:

• Create text, photo and audio notes
• Auto-synchronize your notes to your Mac, PC, and Web
• Magically makes text within snapshots searchable
• Mark notes as “Favorite” for quick access
• All notes include geo-location information for mapping and search
• Premium Feature: File Synchronization – add, sync, access, and share files (PDF, Word, Excel, PPT, and more) among the different versions of Evernote you use

Update includes:

• Add rich text styles, lists and links to notes (iOS 4.2 and above)
• Edit existing notes containing simple styles (iOS 4.2 and above)
• Redesigned New Note and Edit Note screens on iPhone
• Access Shared Notebooks
• Tap an image in a note to launch a slideshow
• Premium users can lock Evernote with a passcode
• Search within individual notes
• Redesigned iPad look and feel
• iPad: Pinch and zoom into the note list
• iPad: Support for multi-selection of notes for easy sharing and deletion
• Numerous interface improvements and bug fixes

Evernote is available on the iPhone and iPad for Free.

[App Store link]

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British Airways is currently rolling out iPads to some of its cabin crew members to see how it can improve customer service. The iPads will be distributed initially to 100 cabin crew with the aim to carry on the roll out to all senior cabin crew in the following months.

The iPads will be used to gain instant access to on board customer preferences such as where they are seated, who they are travelling with and if they have any special dietary requirements. On top of that, the iPads will have access to flight times, safety manuals and customer service updates.

Bill Francis, British Airways’ head of inflight customer experience, said: “The iPad is already allowing us to offer a more personalised onboard service, but the possibilities for future development are endless. We’re receiving great feedback from cabin crew and customers already.  It allows the crew to offer the thoughtful service they want to deliver and customers are treated as valued guests.”

The iPads will be connected to a 3G network while the plane is on the tarmac; allowing them to have complete real time passenger lists. Currently this is done with a long scroll of paper which lists up to 337 passengers!

[British Airways]

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And hey! — these double as show notes for our iPad Live! podcast tonight at 9pm Eastern. So join us and follow along!

Meta

• Mobile Nations 5: A wedding and a funeral
• Superfunctional 7: Balance
• TiPb Asks: What do you want in the next generation iPod touch?

iOS 5

• iOS 5 likely coming first week of October
• Apple releases iOS 5 beta 6 to developers
• iOS 5 getting better iTunes and App Store download management? [Updated]
• Apple removing developer access to UDIDs in iOS 5?
• iOS 5 beta 6 works with existing jailbreak tools

iPad 3

• Apple cancels iPad 3 supply orders for 2011?
• More on iPad 3 coming this spring, difficulty in producing Retina Displays

The Competition

• HP to discontinue webOS devices — Pre, Veer, and TouchPad bite the dust
• Did iPad kill HP’s hardware business?
• webOS ran twice as fast on iPad 2 as TouchPad? [Updated]
• Google’s $ 12.5 billion dollar Motorola insurance policy
• iPad rivals still can’t find a tablet market
• TabCo (Fusion Garage) announces Grid 10 (JooJoo2) and Grid 4 (JooJooPhone)

News

• Head of iAds leaving Apple to join Highland Capital

Jailbreak

• Sn0wbreeze 2.8b5 jailbreak for iOS 5 beta 5
• Seas0nPass jailbreak updated for Apple TV 4.3

Apps

• App for That: How to print emails, webpages, and photos as PDFs
• http://www.tipb.com/2011/08/17/speechtrans-ultimate/
• Quickoffice Pro HD for iPad goes social
• Translate between languages with SpeechTrans Ultimate for iPhone, iPad

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If you currently jailbreak your Apple TV 2, you may have held off from applying the recent Apple software update to avoid losing your jailbreak. The good news is, Seas0nPass has now been updated to support an untethered jailbreak with the latest iOS 4.3 for Apple Tv 2. Thrown into the update is a new version of fireCore’s Media Player which allows you to playback many more media formats with a whole host of options.

The  iOS 4.3 update added a couple off new features for the Apple TV 2 like Vimeo support. It is well worth an update now that this jailbreak is available. Just simply update your Apple TV 2 software to the latest version then jailbreak again using the latest aTV Flash (black) Beta6.

[fireCore]

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Microsoft offers subscription music via their Zune service, and now another iPhone and iPad rival, RIM’s BlackBerry, might be joining the party. Kevin from CrackBerry.com has the scoop:

• Users will have to download the new standalone BlackBerry music app from App World
• Once installed, there should be a free trial (may vary by country/carrier – but expect a month free)
• Once the free trial expires, the service will cost $ 5/mo.
• With the app installed, you can choose up to 50 songs of your choice. Apparently the catalog selection is pretty good!
• From there, you invite your contacts via BBM, etc. to also download the app if they don’t have it and join your music sharing network (invited contacts must pay the $ 5/mo. also to take part and remain part of the service).
• From there, you can listen to not only the 50 songs you’ve selected), but any of the 50 songs from your music sharing network. So if you have 20 contacts, you’ll have access to 1,000 other songs in addition to your 50. We’re not sure yet if there’s a limit to how many people you can share with, but essentially the more people in your music sharing group the more music you’ll have access to.

While Apple offers music downloads via iTunes, and will offer a music locker via iTunes Match, they don’t currently have a subscription service nor do they have a way to share music (though they do have a network of sorts — Ping).

That means iOS users who want subscriptions need a third party service like Pandora, Spotify, Slacker, Rdio, last.fm, etc.

Are Apple users missing out here?

[CrackBerry.com]

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Mighty Fin, the arcade game by Launching Pad Games, has been updated with universal iPhone and iPad support. The goal is to guide Fin through the water and collect bubbles.

I’m really enjoying Mighty Fin! The graphics are fun and the gameplay is both relaxing and challenging. It’s a great little time killer.

Details, screenshots, video, and giveaway details after the break.

[App Store link]

Fin needs a vacation. He’s signed up for Shady Sal’s suspiciously cheap — and possibly deadly — Round the World Tour. Hey, money’s tight when you’re a working fish.

The controls are simple: touch the screen to dive and let go to soar through the air. Grab bubbles for a high score, leap over lighthouses, swim under icebergs, and try not to get eaten by hungry sharks! And now in Mighty Fin 2.0, dodge pirate cannonballs, ride futuristic hovercars, sail over ninja shuriken and evade gigantic sponge cakes in a soda stream sea!

• Guide Fin through golden isles, arctic ice caves, vicious storms, pirate strongholds, ninja fortresses and into the future
• 16 replayable levels that are never the same twice
• Beautiful Retina Display artwork with eight completely different art and music themes
• Collect over 60 souvenir costumes, disguises and vehicles, from sombreros to bunny ears to rockets to submarines
• Compete for gold medals and high scores in three different modes, including the ultra-challenging Survival mode

Update includes:

• Doubles the size of the original game!
• Full Universal support for iPad!
• An ocean of brand new art, music, themes, levels and costumes!
• Beautiful full-screen Universal support for iPad!
• Eight challenging new levels!
• Four completely new themes with brand new art and music, including Pirate, Candy, Future and the formidable Ninja!
• New music even for the old levels — every theme now has its own soundtrack!
• Smoother gameplay, especially on 3G and iPhone 4!
• 32 new costumes, disguises and vehicles, bringing the total haul to over 60!

The good folks at Launching Pad Games have given us a couple promo codes to give away to you, our awesome readers! Since Fin is on a shady vacation, let us know where you would like to go on vacation for a chance to win! (To win a promo code, not the vacation of your choice).

Mighty Fin is available on the iPhone and iPad for $ 0.99.

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