Posted on October 6, 2011
Former chief executive and co-founder of US technology giant Apple,Steve Jobs, has died, aged 56, after suffering from cancer.
A statement released by Apple said:
”Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.”
He was one of the world’s best-known business leaders and [...]
Posted on September 9, 2011
AirPlay is nowadays fully integrated into numerous speaker docks, AV receivers, and stereo systems from Pioneer.
AirPlay does have some requirements, though, such as not the oldest iOS device you can find, and iTunes 10.
Available in Pioneer ($399) and Elite ($479) branded models, both taps can connect to you Wi-Fi home network to enable wireless music connection using AirPlay, DLNA 1.5, vTuner Internet [...]
Posted on September 7, 2011
An icon from iPhoto 9.2 beta 3 Photo Stream could reveal the Apple design of next generation.
The fifth generation of iPhone is expected to feature the dual-core A5 chip, more RAM, 8 mega pixels camera and thinner design.
After Apple iPhoto 9.2 beta 3 launching,buried in Apple’s upcoming Photo Stream instructions, an unusual image of what looks like an iPhone with a larger screen and elongated home [...]
Posted on September 7, 2011
An iPhone GPS signals are used to track down the remains Chilean airplane. 21 people died in last Friday’s accident, which happened near the Juan Fernandez Islands. Plane twice attempted to land at the islands’ airport before crashing, probably as a result of high winds. While everyone died in the incident, an iPhone appears to have stayed functional long enough for its owner’s relatives [...]
Apple released a new developer beta of Mac OS X Lion last week.
Apple came up with one interesting new feature called “Restart to Safari“. On Mac OS X Lion‘s user lock screen, you are given the option to “Restart to Safari” rather than logging in. This allows you to boot the computer into just the web browser and nothing else. This browser only mode allows unauthorized [...]
It’s almost too easy to make a parody video of Apple and its products these days. The company follows an easily discernible regularity in its product launches and despite growing popularity and marketshare for all of its products over the last decade, Apple’s “image” is tagged with the weight of a certain “hipster cred” that tends to make for easy pickings when it comes to ridicule.
Director [...]
Posted on February 23, 2011
Argon for iPhone, available now in a developer preview version, can be downloaded free from the Apple App Store. Argon browser, which lets users scan places and objects with the phone’s video camera and see Web content overlaid on the screen.
An Argon user standing in a city park can pan the iPhone video camera and see overlays of geo-tagged Flickr images, Twitter posts and other Web content that [...]
Posted on February 11, 2011
At&t (as a Thankyou) is giving 1000 free bonus rollover minutes to all their loyal customers who are sticking with them, reported by Mark Gurman of 9to5Mac. This was reported by many customers and later confirmed by their staff.
“If you did not receive the text just send the word ‘yes’ to the 11113020 number and you will recieve a text that says your account has been credited,” Gurman [...]
Posted on February 11, 2011
Mobile ad firm Chitika today announced that it has put together a live tracker showing the relative balance of AT&T and Verizon iPhones showing up on the company’s advertising network,” Eric Slivka reports for MacRumors.
“The data, which is based on a rolling 24-hour average and is updated hourly, currently shows the Verizon iPhone already grabbing 3% of the U.S. base as measured by the limited [...]
Posted on February 10, 2011
“Apple Inc. has started manufacturing a new version of its iPad tablet computer with a built-in camera and faster processor, said people familiar with the matter,” Yukari Iwatani Kane and Shayndi Raice report for The Wall Street Journal.
“The new iPad will be thinner and lighter than the first model, these people said,” Kane and Raice report. “It will have at least one camera on the front [...]