It’s been days, possibly even weeks, since we’ve covered a wedding-focused startup. Let’s change that, shall we? OneWed , the company formerly known as Nearlyweds, is now on iPad . The new app quietly arrived just before the holidays, offering a new way for brides-to-be to browse, be inspired by, save and share wedding imagery and ideas. The iPad launch follows the revamp of the startup’s flagship website, OneWed.com , which this fall was redesigned to better emphasize its wedding photos. Previously, OneWed had operated a fairly traditional-looking media property, admits CEO John Scrofano. The company had recruited top wedding bloggers to produce original content for the site, paying bonuses based on how well that content did. “We built [OneWed] on the back of this blogger model and the content we had produced…but what we were hearing our customers say is ‘we really love the pictures,’” Scrofano explains. “Bloggers were writing all these articles for us,” he laughs, “but really [users] just wanted the pictures.” The company is no stranger to adjusting its offerings in response to user feedback, though. As Nearlyweds, it had once offered wedding websites and planning tools in the hopes of later connecting brides with wedding service providers Read more »
Watch This iPad Magician Do Cool Christmas Tricks
Here's a magician who combines traditional sleight-of-hand with his prop of choice, an iPad . Simon Pierro , better known as iSimon, is no stranger to Mashable . We've featured his videos teasing the introduction of the iPad 3 , revealing a video preview of a "beta version of iOS 5," entertaining us with a bit of digital magic involving a couple of cats , and dazzling us with a bit of Halloween magic . Now Simon is back, this time commemorating the Christmas season of Advent with his magical APPvent Calendar . He's been creating a separate video for each day of December, and plans to release one each day until Christmas Eve. Here we present a special version of all those videos, edited into… Continue reading... More About: Christmas , ipad , Magic , Simon Pierro Read more »
Group Photo-Sharing App Tracks Continues Cross-Platform Push With Support For iPad And Android Tablets
Mobile photo-sharing app Tracks is today continuing its cross-platform expansion efforts, after arriving on Android earlier this fall and on Windows 8 and Windows 8 RT (yes, RT!) just a couple of weeks ago. Today, the company is going after the majority of the tablet market with the launch of Tracks for iPad and Android tablets. The tablet launch brings all of the key app features to the big screen, including the Tracks camera with live filters, integration with Facebook, Flickr and Instagram, and more, while also offering an experience that takes advantage of the new form factor. For example, you can now add photos, videos and friends, or jump into slideshow mode, from just one screen. Launched at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2011 , Tracks was once described as the Color for normal people - that is, it offers users a more straightforward way to create shared photo albums. These albums are called “Tracks,” and they’ve historically been available on both mobile and web. Read more »
Tumblr Launches New iPad App
Tumblr's New iPad App Click here to view this gallery. Tumblr unveiled its native app for the iPad on Wednesday, just two days after the blogging platform updated its Android app to support tablets . Version 3.2.3 of the iOS app is now compatible with both the iPad and iPad mini, and features markdown support as well as a new "Explore" tab. Bloggers can also access a sidebar navigation menu and a circular menu for composing posts. Like its iPhone counterpart, the long-awaited iPad app lets users manage all their blogs, view and reply to messages, access the camera by swiping the compose button up, and share photos, videos, links and text. It also offers offline support, such as the ability to reblog even when not connected to the Interne… Continue reading.. Read more »
Get Your DIY Kick Over the Holidays With Snapguide
It might be too late for making DIY Christmas gifts, but how-to app Snapguide debuts on iPad today, perhaps still in time to help with a Christmas recipe or New Year's party decorations. The iOS app is also available on iPhone and its user-submitted guides can be viewed on the desktop as well. The visual nature of the app plays well on a bigger screen, along with the more visual social networks. "Pinterest is the largest social driver of traffic, more than Twitter and Facebook combined," noted Daniel Raffel, founder and CEO. He points out many of the top Pinterest users gained their status by posting great how-to content. SEE ALSO: Data-Driven Design: The Story Behind a Simple How … Continue reading... More About: How-To , diy , ipad , startup Read more »
TumblPad: Tumblr Finally Releases Its Native iPad App, Sporting Enhanced Navigation & Markdown Support
Now that Tumblr’s blackouts are behind it , the company is back to focusing on its product, particularly its mobile one. A growing channel that, by the way, recently helped propel the blogging platform over 20 billion monthly page views . While Tumblr updated its iOS app with the most recent in November to improve user experience, speed and engagement on the iPhone by making the app “native” — i.e. integrating it more deeply into the iOS experience — the company still has yet to customize its app for the iPad. Days after adding support for Android tablets , that finally changed tonight, as the company updated its iOS app , adding compatibility for both the iPad and iPad Mini. Read more »
Apple CEO Tim Cook Defends iPad Mini’s “Aggressive Pricing”
On the Apple Q4 conference call, both CFO Peter Oppenheimer and CEO Tim Cook took a moment to defend the iPad’s pricing in response to a question about what they think about comments it’s too high. Not surprisingly, both defended the pricing decision and talked quality. “When we set out to build the iPad mini, we didn’t set out to build a small, cheap tablet,” Oppenheimer said. Read more »
Good News For Brands, Managing Pages With The Google+ App Is Finally Here (Kind Of)
As I’ve mentioned before, Google+ has become a place for businesses and brands to set up shop and interact with their customers. Google is making sure that these folks have everything they need to not only engage with fans, but eventually turn the actions into actual sales and traction. Today, the company has announced a pretty long-awaited feature for both versions of its Google+ mobile app, Page management for administrators. Read more »
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Apple: iOS 6 Maps Is A First Attempt, We’re “Just Getting Started”
Apple has finally broken silence on the customer reaction to Maps in iOS 6, which spawned Tumblrs , fake twitter accounts and generally a lot of mockery and confusion. The statement, provided to AllThingsD from Apple spokeswoman Trudy Miller, essentially says this is a first try, and Apple knows there’s lots to do to make it better. Here’s the statement in full: Customers around the world are upgrading to iOS 6 with over 200 new features including Apple Maps, our first map service. Read more »