Linked List: June 22, 2011

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Roadshow 1.0 — Offline Web Videos for the iPad ★

Great idea and a nice app, from long-time Mac developer Fetch Softworks. Free, with ads, for up to 15 videos; $5 to remove the ads and video limit. (Via Aayush Arya at Macworld.)

Update: Fireballed at the moment, so here’s a direct link to the App Store.

Bloomberg Apple Rumor Dump ★

Tim Culpan, Peter Burrows, and Adam Satariano, reporting for Bloomberg:

The screen resolution on Apple’s new iPad would be about one-third higher than that of the iPad 2 and will boast a more responsive touchscreen, one of the people said.

Higher-res makes sense to me. “One-third higher” makes no sense to me.

Update: It’s not even clear what Bloomberg means. I believe they’re suggesting something like a 1280 × 960 screen that’s 9.7 inches diagonal — the same physical size as the current iPads, but slightly more pixels. But some readers take it as meaning 1024 × 768 (same as current iPads) but on a 7-inch or so display. I don’t think either is likely, but I’d say a 7-inch iPad at least makes some sort of sense. A same-size iPad with anything short of a double-resolution 2048 × 1536 display doesn’t make sense to me.