mTrip makes its mark on Brazil with a unique
Guide to Sao Paulo

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In collaboration with Brazilian journalist and local expert Diego Ramos, mTrip presents Sao Paulo Travel Guide 1.2.2 for iOS. Diego helped to create a unique guide for travelers to see the brilliant sights including highly recognized attractions, frequent concerts and experimental theatre and dance. Fire up the intelligent So Paulo travel guide for endless attractions, restaurants, hotels, bars, entertainment and shopping destinations to explore.

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TreadmillVR MAX for Treadmill Runners Now
Availabe on the iPhone

post from prMac on 18 March 2011 06:58:00 PM. © prMac

Florida based SellwareVR has released TreadmillVR MAX 1.0 for the iPhone. Already available on the iPad platform, the app is an exercise companion for treadmill running and other stationary exercising. TreadmillVR MAX provides the user a point of view experience, creating the illusion that you are actually exercising in an outdoor environment. The key advantage of TreadmillVR MAX is that it makes your exercise session appear to be much shorter.

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TSA Admits Bungling of Airport Body-Scanner
Radiation Tests

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David Kravets, reporting for Wired:

The Transportation Security Administration is re-analyzing theradiation levels of X-ray body scanners installed in airportsnationwide, after testing produced dramaticallyhigher-than-expected results.
The TSA, which has deployed at least 500 body scanners to at least78 airports, said Tuesday the machines meet all safety standardsand would remain in operation despite a ?calculation error? insafety studies. The flawed results showed radiation levels 10times higher than expected.

Shocking.

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Flash 10.2 for Android Shipped Today

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Sean Hollister, for Engadget:

First off, you don’t absolutely need a dual-core phone to takeadvantage of Flash 10.2 — Adobe VP Danny Winokur told us, and weconfirmed in testing, that there are slight performanceimprovements on earlier devices too. With our trusty Droid 2’s1Ghz OMAP3 chip, we saw a slight but noticeable boost inframerate when playing a YouTube trailer at 480p, whichadmittedly only took took that particular video from“unwatchable” to merely “fairly jerky.”

Sounds great.

With the Tegra 2-toting Motorola Xoom, however, 480p videos ranperfectly smooth, even as the tablet had trouble rendering 720pcontent as anything but a series of images.

Sounds great.

However, Adobe says even that will change soon, as this betarelease doesn’t take advantage of full hardware acceleration —it’s actually turned off right now.

When will Flash not suck? The answer is always “soon”.

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Felix Salmon on the NYTs Pay Wall Pricing

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Felix Simon:

Beyond that, $15 per four-week period gives you access to thewebsite and also its smartphone app, while $20 gives you access tothe website also its iPad app. But if you want to read the NYT onboth your smartphone and your iPad, you?ll need to buy bothdigital subscriptions separately, and pay an eye-popping $35 everyfour weeks. That?s $455 a year.
The message being sent here is weird: that access to the websiteis worth nothing. Mathematically, if A+B=$15, A+C=$20, andA+B+C=$35, then A=$0.

I just don’t get the pricing, and I find it hard to believe there are many people willing to pay $455/year for digital access to a newspaper, no matter how good the newspaper is.

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PaperNappkin Hits the iPhone App Development
Scene

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PaperNappkin, an upstart app development firm based in Charlotte, NC, will soon introduce a handful of new apps in March 2011! Three apps, FotoFarm, FotoFarm for iPad, and ManMeter, are currently in Apple's submission approval process. Another app, Celebrity Lookalike GOTCHA!, is being relaunched in tandem with the three. Finally, PaperNappkin's TrustBust app is available for purchase now.

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The Talk Show, Episode 34

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Yours truly and Dan Benjamin, discussing SXSW, Netflix, Twitter?s move against new API clients, and the worst James Bond movie ever made, On Her Majesty?s Secret Service. Brought to you by two fine sponsors: Sourcebits and Audible.com.

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Manton Reece: Where Apple Went Wrong With Free
Apps

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Interesting take from Manton Reece:

Apple is trapped by their original decision to shoulder the costof free apps. They encouraged free apps and now they’ve got oneband-aid on top of another — advertisements, in-app purchase,subscriptions — all trying to make free apps work for the AppStore bottom line. These changes make developers nervous becauseall the power lies with Apple.

I don’t agree with Manton entirely, but I think he’s mostly right: free is hard.

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The New York Times Pay Wall

I think it’s too expensive and too confusing: $15/month for unlimited web site access and smartphone app access; $20/month for the web and tablet app access; $35 for web, phone, and tablet access. (And they’re not really months — it’s a four-week billing cycle.)

Why not just $15/month for everything? Or $10/month for the website and an extra $5 or $10 for “apps”. The distinction between phone apps and tablet apps is just confusing. And The Times should get its software in order before charging extra for it. I might pay $5 extra per month for their iPad app — but not in its current state where it’s buggy, crashy, and too slow. I’m willing to pay for the NYT, but I don’t want to feel nickel-and-dimed.

The above is my take as a consumer and long-time daily reader of The Times’s journalism. Professionally, this pay wall is likely going to result in my linking to stories at nytimes.com far less frequently than I used to.

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Jeff Carlson Reviews iMovie for iOS

Jeff Carlson:

iMovie for iOS 1.2 could be the friendliest version of Apple?svideo software yet, a welcome introduction to the process ofturning raw video clips into movies that say more than just, ?Ipointed my camera at that place.?

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