There have been no posts to iPhone J.D. this week due to the Fourth of July holiday, but there were quite a few news items of interest to iPad and iPhone owners this week, so without further ado, here is this week's In the news:
- ExhibitView, an iPad app that can display documents at trial or in a meeting, was just updated to version 3.0 with lots of new features including graphics optimized for the Retina Display on the new iPad, improved zoom and free drawing, sharper resolution on zoomed documents, and 1.5x zoom with a double tap. Click here for ExhibitView ($49.99):
- Trial presentation consultant Ted Brooks reviews TranscriptPad, an iPad app that you can use to read and annotate depositions. I reviewed the app earlier this year, and it is still one of the most useful apps on my iPad.
- If you use Elite for your time entry and billing in your law firm (that's what we use at my firm), you may be interested in this report by Even Koblentz of Law Technology News about an upcoming iPad client.
- California attorney David "MacSparky" Sparks talks about how he used his iPhone and other gadgets to lose weight.
- Last week I reflected on the five year anniversary of the iPhone. John Gruber has an interesting article on the occasion on his Daring Fireball website. I completely agree with his argument that the iPhone was (and is) special not because it is a phone, but instead because it was "the world's best portable computer. Best not in the sense of being the most powerful, or the fastest, or the most-efficient to use. The thing couldn’t even do copy-and-paste. It was the best because it was always there, always on, always just a button-push away. The disruption was not that we now finally had a nice phone; it was that, for better or for worse, we would now never again be without a computer or the Internet."
- Dieter Bohn of The Verge also has an interesting look at the five-year history of the iPhone.
- Ryan Kim of GigaOm opines that the major point in the iPhone's five-year history was the creation of the App Store. I agree.
- Ken Segall used to work for Apple's advertising agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, and he not only authored the Think Different campaign, he also came up with the name "iMac." Segall is also one of the masterminds behind the always funny Scoopertino site. He has a new book out called Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success. Simon Jary of PC Advisor reports on some of Segall's revolutions during the promotional tour for his book, including the interesting tidbit: one of the first names considered for what would be come the iPhone was "iPad." Interesting.
- Roy Furchgott of the New York Times offers tips for taking better pictures with your iPhone.
- And finally, we now have a solution to the age-old problem of being unable to use an iPhone while it is in your jeans pocket. The smart folks at Alphyn Industries have come up with the Delta415 Wearcom Jeans, pants that include a zippered flap for your iPhone. Available in sizes 28 to 38, they can be yours for the low price of $160.00. (via Cult of Mac)