The Week in iPad Cases: Wakka wakka wakka

The Week in iPad Cases: Wakka wakka wakka If you're old enough to remember Pac-Man, you're probably old enough to remember the seemingly interminable string of quarters that you wasted on it. Alas, we can't seem to get rid of the little round man, which makes an appearance in one of this week's cases.

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3D (sort of) on your iPad without glasses

There's a nifty little free demo you may want to pick up that uses the iPad camera to do some head tracking and create a kind of faux 3D on your iPad display. We took a look at an early demo for this last month, and now the app has arrived for your downloading pleasure. Unlike stereoscopic 3D systems, i3D doesn't send two images to your eyes.

What i3D does instead is show you several scenes that change perspective as you tilt your iPad side to side and up and down. The effect does not depend on the gyros built into the iPad, but instead uses the camera to track the position of your head and render a changing perspective in real time.

The demo was developed by Jeremie Francone and Laurence Nigay, and as you use it, you can just imagine the possibilities for games and educational apps. The app only works in portrait view at present. There is an iPhone version, but screen size makes a difference and the 3D effect on the iPad version seems stronger. I've seen some similar demos that use the built-in gyro, but they don't seem as responsive as this app. It's hard to give you a feel for this app in a static screen shot, so I'd suggest that you check out the fascinating video on the next page to get a good idea how it all works.

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France Telecom CEO talks SIM cards, next iPhone, apps and more

france telecom ceo talks iphone and dataThe CEO of France Telecom, Stephane Richard, recently spoke to Ina Fried at AllThingsD and spilled some juicy tidbits about how Orange (a global brand owned by France Telecom which currently sells the iPhone in 15 countries) has worked with Apple. He also made some interesting comments about Apple's competition in the smartphone world while basically crediting them for creating the entire smartphone market! And yes, he mentions RIM and Nokia, two other pioneers in the smartphone game.

In terms of dealing with Apple, Richard's comments about apps made me cringe. He's basically favor of carrier-owned app marketplaces which were the standard before the iPhone came around. You know all that crapware that comes pre-installed on Windows machines and other smartphones? Yeah, he loves that stuff and worries that someday Apple will deny an app which Orange approves of. He also says, however, that they have a good working relationship with Cupertino, who can be "a little tough." If Apple should refuse an app which Orange likes, Richards says, "Definitely, if we face these kind of problems, we will go to court. Because competition is not only something that should be applied to telcos and to carriers. For us it should be a principle for the whole Internet environment." Those of us in America will chuckle at that competition comment, given AT&T's former stranglehold on the iPhone.

The juicy bit the Apple blogosphere seems to be freaking out about today is Richard's comment about the "next iPhone." After a discussion regarding a SIM-less phone (like ESIM), and noting that the SIM card takes up valuable space, he goes on to say, "I understood that the next iPhone would be smaller and thinner and they are definitely seeking some space." Which, in blogosphere freak out-speak means that Apple's next iPhone will be the iPhone nano. I think he's simply saying the next iPhone will be somewhat smaller and thinner, which is par for the course for Apple's design team, isn't it? I'm hard pressed to think of a product line which Apple made larger and thicker in a new iteration. At any rate, we already knew Orange was working with Apple on a smaller SIM card.

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Report: Sony Onboard With Apple Cloud Music Service, Too

Apple is very close indeed to locking up every major music label in advance of launching its own cloud music service, according to Bloomberg. Sony Music is reportedly on board, leaving just Universal Music Group to join up before a service can be unveiled.

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McDwiff reads DWF files on your Mac or iPad

In the world of computer-aided design (CAD), Autodesk's Design Web Format (DWF) file format is a common way to send drawings to others who need to view, review or print design files. Through the use of compression schemes and a way of sending only what recipients need to see, DWF files are small and easily transferred through email. To this point, one of the few ways of reading DWF files on a Mac or iPad was through Autodesk's Freewheel web service.

Now Austin Silver Software has launched an application called McDwiff for opening, viewing, converting and printing DWF files on Macs (US$9.99) and iPads ($6.99). The Mac version has been available since January, while the iPad app went on sale in the App Store about two weeks ago. McDwiff utilizes Freewheel as a backend to process the DWF files, with an appropriate front-end app on your Mac or iPad to obtain files (locally, on a website or in Dropbox) for processing.

Want to see how McDwiff works? Check out the video on the next page for a quick overview of the features of this handy utility.

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