iOS 4.3 with multitouch gestures

Apple continues with the development of iOS, as well as the improving of the User Interface with interactions that changes the way of managing all the resources inside the device. iOS 4.3 can come up with many innovations, especially given the features that were released a few days ago, specifically something is calling enough attention, that is multitouch gestures.

Of course, this 4.3 has not been public released, nonetheless developers can take hands on with private releases so that Apple can have feedback about the intention to publish those new features. The multitouch gestures are activated using four or five fingers down to return to the main screen, left or right to switch between applications and a move up to show open applications. These gestures have been in the beta of 4.3 for iPad iOS, so the question was whether the iPhone would have this capability.

Here is a video of those running on the iPad:

FastPost: Tech Facts

Exciting Facts of Technology

More than a billion transistors are manufactured... every second.

ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago. The original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today can store a million times more information than an ENIAC, and 50,000 times faster.

From the smallest microprocessor to the biggest mainframe, the average American depends on over 264 computers per day.

Motorola goes for everything

CES 2011 was such a great event to show up what Motorola is preparing for launching along this year.

Between those start products are:

Xoom (Tablet)

• 10.1” HD Screen(1280×800)
• Tegra 2 Dual core Processor (1 GHz)
• HDMI output with 1080P HD video reproduction
• 3G/4G LTE Cellular Networks (Verizon's 4G for 2nd Semester)
• Giroscope, Barometer, Digital Compass, Acelerometer, Light Sensors
• WiFi
• 5MP Behind camera with 720p video record capabilities
• 2MP front-facing camera
• Android 3.0 Honeycomb

Android 3.0 Honeycomb

Sooner than later, Google with its Android will reach the 3.0 version of this mobile operative system, mainly designed for Tablets, which of course, will be on watch along all this year.

• Optimized tablet support with a new user interface
• Three dimensional desktop with redesigned widgets purportedly taken from BumpTop, the 3D desktop acquired by Google in 2010
• Refined multi-tasking
• Google Maps 5 with 3D interactions and offline reliability
• Access to over 3 million Google eBooks
• Browser enhancements including tabbed web pages, form auto-fill, bookmark syncing, and private browsing
• Support for video chat using Google Talk

A video explains everything much better:

Media Universe

Nielsen is an expert consultancy firm for market research, positioning and impact studies in the consumer sector and business. This company occasionally takes very interesting studies in market trends about technology. Few days ago they released a study in graphic form, related to U.S. consumption for various technological media. In particular, addresses the media universe of TV and mobile phones. It is really interesting to analyze this data, which you can see more detail clicking on the image.

Mobile App Store data of 2010

As the end of the 2010, Distimo delivered to us a new report about the news and noteworthy of theirs findings about all mayor mobile app stores on the market.

If you are interested on looking for more information, here is the direct link of the pdf report. Ok let's continue with the contents of the document:

Long Term Evolution or LTE

Experts say: 2011 will be 4G year.

The sentence above would be true just for industrialized countries, with EUA ahead. Of course, in order to support these new features, on the market must be devices that include the necessary hardware of communication, like HTC EVO or Samsung Epic.

Mac App Store: Positive and Negative

One million downloads in just one day. This is the key sentence for the projected success of this new store launched by Apple. To give a view as objective as possible, I found few points to summarize what are the positive and negative aspects of this store:

How's doing the App Store

Right now, the Apple App Store has more than 300,000 developed bundles into theirs servers. According to IDC, the App Store will have 300,000 applications by the end of next year. Looking at the history, that looks pretty good in a chart, except IDC is predicting even faster growth for Google’s Android Market.

LG Optimus X2

Recently, Smart phones producers have been releasing devices with common characteristics (memory, processor, connectivity) with differencing from each other with design and software alterations. Everyone was expecting the Dual Core mobile chipsets as the news for the next year, however LG has given the first hit on the marker: LG Optimus X2.

Here are its technical specifications:

Mittratter: Lighweight Twitter Client

Mittratter was approved for selling into the new Mac Store, to reach the program here is the link.

Desktop Twitter made simple. Mittratter is a lightweight desktop client that communicates with Twitter and allows you to share your thoughts easy and fast. Its key features are:

More Cocoa Tips and Tricks

I been working on improving and adding functionality to Mittratter so that it will be available through the Mac App Store. Of course, in my path to developing it, I found more tutorial that could help others programmers out there: