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The last time I talked to the guys from Happy Owl Studio, they were busy cranking out great-looking leather bags for Apple devices. Now the company is producing the Cashbox (starts at US$750 - $1,500, depending on the payment solution selected for the register), a product that was still in planning back in early '12 and is now ready to give your iPad cash register a solid and sustainable home. As you'll see in the video at the bottom of this post, Happy Owl uses sustainably grown and harvested bamboo wood that is then cut to precise measurements with a CNC milling machine, laser-etched with a logo of your choice, and hand-finished. The guts of the Cashbox are all industry-standard -- an iPad, of course, as well as a Star receipt printer and a Vasario cash drawer. The Cashbox can not only accept credit and debit cards through Square, PayPal, or any of the other common iPad payment solutions, but also has a cash drawer for taking the old legal tender as well. One unique feature is the tilting iPad holder that flips from letting a clerk enter an order to a customer's view of the transaction for signature. The Cashbox certainly appears to be a lot more sturdy and usable than the upcoming "Stand" or the existing Business in a Box solutions from Square. If you're looking at an iPad-based register solution for your business, the Cashbox is definitely worth a look for a solid custom register. Happy Owl Studio Cashbox: a beautiful hand-crafted iPad cash register originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 20 May 2013 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Museum buffs and tourists might want to download Google's Field Trip app right now. As we've told you before, the location-based app shows you cool things to do while on a trip. For a limited time, the app will also get you into 13 major US museums for free, as Google announced on the Field Trip Google+ page: Rumor has it you can visit 13 museums in 6 cities for FREE with Field Trip... RUMOR CONFIRMED!!! For a limited time you can walk into any of these for free: Conservatory of Flowers, SF California Academy of Sciences, SF Walt Disney Family Museum, SF Museum of Contemporary Art, LA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Adler Planetarium, Chicago The Field Museum, Chicago Museum of the city of New York, NY Museum of Arts and Design, NY National Building Museum, DC Portland Children's Museum Portland Art Museum Pittock Mansion, Portland If you are around one of the following 13 museums, you will get a Field Trip card with "Free Entry" in the title (check the 'nearby' tab). Show the card on your phone to the admissions staff and they'll take care of the rest. Enjoy your Field Trips! Living in Europe I'm pretty spoiled, as almost every major museum is free. But looking at the list above -- especially seeing three of Chicago's best museums (my old stomping grounds) -- leaves me feeling a little envious of my US friends at the moment. Field Trip is a free download for iOS and Android.Google's Field Trip app gets you into 13 museums for free right now originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 20 May 2013 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Yahoo has confirmed it has bought Tumblr, in a deal noted yesterday to be in the region of $1.1 billion. The search company has already moved its company blog over to the blogging platform, and despite CEO Marissa Mayer saying "We promise not to screw it up," there is reportedly a large jump in the number of users moving from Tumblr to Wordpress....

If you jailbreak your iOS devices, there usually comes a point where you get stuck on an older firmware because the latest one hasn’t yet been hacked by the jailbreak community. When this time comes, it’s almost impossible to restore your device and start with a clean OS without losing your jailbreak. But not anymore. A new app called Semi-Restore provides you with a clean install of your current firmware without updating your device and killing your jailbreak. Semi-Restore is in beta testing at the moment, and it’s not yet clear when it’ll be officially available to the public. However, to quash doubts that the Semi-Restore was a fake, Dom over at AppAdvice decided to put it through its paces. “As of today, I’m happy to report that Semi-Restore is definitely legitimate and we’ve got a video walk-through to prove it,” he writes. You can watch the walkthrough below to find out how to use Semi-Restore yourself. If you prefer to follow written instructions, you can check out a rather lengthy step-by-step guide over at AppAdvice. Semi-Restore doesn’t strictly restore your iOS device, but it’s the closest you’ll get to a clean install without updating your device. With that being the case, it’s going to be hugely popular among jailbreakers. I just wish it had arrived sooner. A couple of weeks ago, my iPhone 5 started seeing a few performance issues, and I wanted to restore it and start with a fresh OS. The problem was, I didn’t want to update and lose my jailbreak. I was pretty much stuck. In the end, I decided that I would just bite the bullet and give up my jailbreak for a clean and smooth OS install. Had Semi-Restore arrived a few weeks earlier, I wouldn’t have had to do that. Once again, Semi-Restore is in beta testing at the moment, and there’s currently no word on when it’ll be made available to the public, so for now we’ll just have to wait. But as soon as it’s ready, we’ll let you know. Source: Semi-Restore Related StoriesThe Entire Music Publishing Industry Is Peeved At Sony For Delaying iRadioHacked AT&T Carrier Update Promises Faster Data Speeds On iOS5th Gen iPad To Enter Production In July Ahead Of September Release [Rumor]Foxconn Is Already Making iWatches, And They Have OLED Displays [Rumor]15-Year-Old Boy Dragged To Death During iPad Theft

A fifteen year old boy has been gruesomely killed in Las Vegas while being robbed for his iPad. Two men — Jacob Dismont, 18, and Michael Solid, 21 — have been arrested and charged for open murder, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery in the death of teenager Marcos Arenas. Arenas, the oldest of ten children and a student at Bonaqnza High School, was walking home from school with his two-month old iPad when Solid and Dismont pulled up in a car and tried to grab it from his hands. Arenas refused to let go, resulting in him being dragged, then run over. Arenas’s father Ivan said: “For him to lose his life over an iPad, it’s just not fair,” Ivan Arenas told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Never in my life would I imagine that me buying my kid an iPad for his birthday would end up with him getting run over.” What a tragedy. An iPad isn’t worth losing your life, or taking someone else’s. Source: Seattle PI Via: MacNN Related StoriesThe Entire Music Publishing Industry Is Peeved At Sony For Delaying iRadioHacked AT&T Carrier Update Promises Faster Data Speeds On iOS5th Gen iPad To Enter Production In July Ahead Of September Release [Rumor]Foxconn Is Already Making iWatches, And They Have OLED Displays [Rumor]Get A Clean iOS Install Without Losing Your Jailbreak With Semi-Restore [Jailbreak]

A report in the Taiwanese trade paper DigiTimes -- which has a mixed track record of accuracy -- claims that Apple will begin large-scale production of the fifth-generation iPad in July, with a possible launch in September. The new model is said to be significantly thinner than the previous full-size model, which was unveiled last September. The report also claims the unit will be a third lighter than the current model....

A report in the Taiwanese trade paper DigiTimes -- which has a mixed track record of accuracy -- claims that Apple will begin large-scale production of the fifth-generation iPad in July, with a possible launch in September. The new model is said to be significantly thinner than the previous full-size model, which was unveiled last September. The report also claims the unit will be a third lighter than the current model....

Apple doesn’t like OLED displays. Across the board, Apple uses LCD IPS displays in its devices, which have better color accuracy than OLED. Theoretically, though, OLED is better than LCD when it comes to power consumption, though… which is why a new report is floating the possibility that Apple might switch to OLED for the iWatch… and that Foxconn is already building test runs. A couple of reports from the Digitimes-like Economic Daily News out of Taiwan claim that Apple is testing 1.5-inch OLED panels for the iWatch. These OLED touchscreens were manufactured by RiTdisplay of Taiwan using glass with touch sensors already baked in, instead of a separate multitouch layer. This would help the iWatch remain thin while maximizing internal space for battery. In a separate report, the Economic Daily News claims that Foxconn has actually already received orders for the iWatch. These orders, however, aren’t for mass manufacture: instead, they are limited “small-scale trial production” runs of no more than a thousand units. In other words, Apple and Foxconn are testing how easy it will be to mass produce iWatches, but aren’t getting them ready for retail just yet. These rumors are interesting if true. Powering the display on a smart watch is tricky, which is why smart watches like the Pebble use e-ink displays. Apple would never use e-ink because they simply don’t look as good, which makes OLED the second most likely display technology for Apple to use: there are already Android smartwatches on the market that successfully use OLED multi-touch displays. It’s also worth noting that Apple hired a Senior OLED expert from LG Display earlier this year. That would certainly seem to indicate they are taking the possibilities of OLED seriously. Via: Macotakara Related StoriesWatch Steve Jobs Laugh At The Idea Of ‘Intel Inside’ Stickers On The Side Of Every Mac [Video]The Entire Music Publishing Industry Is Peeved At Sony For Delaying iRadioHacked AT&T Carrier Update Promises Faster Data Speeds On iOS5th Gen iPad To Enter Production In July Ahead Of September Release [Rumor]Samsung Is Looking For Developers Who Can Help Them Make Galaxy Apps As Good As Apple’s

The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an was seen visiting Apple's headquarters in Cupertino over the weekend, reports The Hurriyet Daily News. The visit was part of a series of stops to major technology companies in Silicon Valley, including Google and Microsoft. The visit wasn't just out of casual interest on the PM's part, however. Turkey is seeking to purchase 10.6 million tablet computers for use in its schools. Even for a company as large as Apple, an additional 10.6 million iPads sold would be massive. It's unknown who Erdo?an met with at Apple, but this was not the first time a Turkish government official stopped by. Way back in 2011, Turkish Trade Minister Zafer Caglayan visited Apple to discuss the same tablet education program.Turkish Prime Minister visits Apple HQ originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Apple’s fifth-generation iPad, which is set to feature an all-new design much like the iPad mini’s, will enter production in July ahead of its September release, according to supply chain sources. Trial production of the device will reportedly begin soon and will ramp up to 2-3 million units this fall. That’s according to sources for the not-so-reliable DigiTimes, who say the fifth-generation iPad will boast the same 2048×1536 Retina resolution as its predecessor. That display is expected to be packed into an all-new aluminum shell, however, which will look much like the iPad mini’s, only larger. In an effort to make it thinner, Apple is expected to use new manufacturing methods for the display: The touch panel solution for 5th-generation iPad is GF2 (1 layer of glass and two layers of ITO film) instead of G/G bonding used in 4th-generation iPad, the sources added. The new iPad will use one LED light bar for backlighting, compared to two LED light bars used in 4th-generation iPad, the sources noted. This will lead to a device around 25-33% thinner than the fourth-generation iPad, the sources claim. LG Display, Sharp, and Samsung — despite rumors claiming Apple is moving away from Samsung’s components — will reportedly supply LCD panels for the new iPad, while Taiwan Surface Mounting Technology will supply its LED light bars. Source: DigiTimes Related StoriesBuycott App: Shop Ethically Using BarcodesSky Sports For iPad Now Lets You Choose Your Own Camera Angles During ReplaysWatch Steve Jobs Laugh At The Idea Of ‘Intel Inside’ Stickers On The Side Of Every Mac [Video]The Entire Music Publishing Industry Is Peeved At Sony For Delaying iRadioHacked AT&T Carrier Update Promises Faster Data Speeds On iOS