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By Ex on February 14th, 2011

Today, The Loop issued some thoughts on the recently rumored MobileMe overhaul. The opinion is that instead of using a cloud-based strategy to share and access files via MobileMe, Apple may instead opt to use MobileMe as the “brains” of a service that accesses the user’s computer for hosting media and content. Instead of trying…

By Gary Ng on February 9th, 2011

In an interesting read from our friends at 9to5Mac, Nokia CEO Stephan Elop speaks candidly about Nokia’s position in the smartphone market. I won’t quote the whole article but at one point Elop comments, “The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don’t have a product that is close to their experience.“. They go…

By Gary Ng on January 29th, 2011

File this under the “I’m so above average it’s not funny!” file, but an article out of The Unofficial Apple Weblog recently has some interesting stats about your iPhone usage. Based on a survey of 1,000 iPhone users, the average Apple smartphone user has 108 apps and spends close to an hour and a half…

By RoryPiper on January 19th, 2011

Apple has released beta 2 of iOS 4.3 to developers. Features include the WiFi hotspot, as advertised on the Verizon iPhone 4, and more should be revealed as developers open it up and take a look. If you are a developer wanting to test this firmware, the minimum system version required for iOS 4.3 development…

By Gary Ng on January 17th, 2011

An interesting article from our friends at 9to5Mac surmising that with the purchase of Lala coupled with Apple’s new North Carolina data centre facility, we could see our venerable iTunes replaced with Safari!? Say it isn’t so! Then I got to thinking: iTunes is basically a browser now, a front-end for your iTunes library safely…

By Ex on January 15th, 2011

This week, Trend Micro chairman Steve Chang said in an interview that the Google Android operating system was much more open to attack than Apple’s iOS. The reason for Android’s security flaws reportedly comes from Google’s decision to allow open-sourcing and the very light approval process for Android apps. These decisions allow malicious coders to…

By Ex on January 14th, 2011

Today, a 9To5Mac report indicates that Apple may be bringing its popular Photo Booth application to iOS devices. The report further reveals solid proof of this intention found in the recent iOS 4.3 firmware files. The iOS 4.3 frameworks “PhotoBooth” and “PhotoBoothEffects”, as seen below, indicates an intention to release the application for iPhone, iPod…

By Gary Ng on January 6th, 2011

So you just installed the Mac App Store and OS X 10.6.6, eh? Installing or purchasing an App from the Mac App Store is simple if you’re already familiar with the process from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. But what about deleting an app? You can’t tap and hold, wait for the ‘jiggle’ and…

By Gary Ng on January 6th, 2011

We ran into some issues with trying to download a free app via the Mac App Store. The error reads: “We could not complete your App Store request. An unknown error occurred (100). There was an error in the App Store please try again later.” Here’s are a couple ways to fix this Mac App…

By Gary Ng on January 6th, 2011

This is the day we’ve all been waiting for right? Possible another day “we’ll never forget?” Apple has just released OS X 10.6.6 and along with it the Mac App Store via the Software Update. The Mac App Store was previewed during Apple’s Back to Mac event and later announced that January 6th would be…