Comments on: The iPhone 4 Unboxed: Early Observations for Publishers

By: The Chefs Meet “I Write Like” — or, the Long Arm of David Foster Wallace « The Scholarly Kitchen

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:27:09 +0000

[...] — Kent Anderson, Howard Ratner, Phil Davis, Joseph Esposito, Ann Michael, David Crotty, Michael Clarke, and Alix Vance — and ran it through the I Write Like submission form. I was careful to [...]

By: OK, Let’s Try This Again — It’s Time for a Summer Vacation! « The Scholarly Kitchen

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:20:37 +0000

[...] The iPhone 4 and Michael Clarke’s very useful post about it kept us going on “escape day,” we’re posting our vacation notice once again: [...]

By: Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:40:41 +0000

Ah, the ESPN World Cup App (USA! USA! USA!) – where would we be without you? Probably sober and not at bar at 10 am on a weekday (wait, are people reading this?).

That is a good idea. I’ll see what we can round up in terms of publishing app reviews.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:09:44 +0000

Excellent posting Mike … am still waiting for the FedEx man here …

One suggestion that comes to mind though, could the Scholarly Kitchen bloggers do a top 10 publishing (and maybe non publishing) Apps review … the ones you use and like … and maybe will use on your holiday we all appreciate your input and postings, happy vacation to all, Adrian

Ps, most used non publishing App by myself this month is the ESPN Soccer World Cup App … it’s even taken me away from my trusted BBC website, must be a fairly good App to do that, or is it just we are all getting used to using Apps more than websites these days with the introduction of iPad, new iPhone and improved Apps ??

By: Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:19:32 +0000

We are indeed on vacation but I was thinking a vacation is a good time to play around with the new iPhone 4. After all, one would not want to be distracted with the shiny new object at the office.

Yes, e-mail consolidation and folders are big improvements for users. I already have a folder for the growing hoard of STM publisher applications (at least two of which, I noticed, are from authors of this blog).

Also multi-tasking is finally here.

I didn’t list these as I don’t see them as game changers for publishers (perhaps multi-tasking should have been listed and some publisher applications might make use of it). But I will certain use them.

By: David Crotty

David Crotty — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:49:50 +0000

Hey, aren’t we on vacation?

Some quick thoughts on upgrading a 3GS to the new operating system, iOS4, as some of us aren’t eligible for upgrades until February of next year (and why bother at that point with the iPhone5 likely out a few months later?):

The big immediate improvements are:
1) Folders–so happy to have a system where I can easily organize all those apps I’ve collected over the last few years. I’ve cut down from 6 screens-worth to a little over 2.

2) Consolidation of e-mail inboxes–as someone who uses multiple e-mail addresses, work, personal, etc., checking all of these on an iPhone meant constant hopping back and forth, mailbox to mailbox. iOS4 now offers a view of “all inboxes”, a nice time saver.

Just starting to play around with iBooks–who doesn’t love Winnie The Pooh?