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By Gary Ng on January 3rd, 2011

Happy New Year everyone! Are you noticing that the size of your iOS backups are becoming a bit cumbersome and taking up too much of your hard drive space? No, me either – but if your hard drive is relatively small in size, it could become an issue. Our friends at The iPhone Guru have…

By Ex on December 29th, 2010

This week, CNN has put together a list of their ten biggest tech “fails” of 2010. The list highlights technology and Internet products that failed during 2010. As you could have guessed, CNN ranked the iPhone 4′s antenna problems (or Antennagate) as the top tech fail for 2010. This is also rather surprising given the…

By Gary Ng on December 26th, 2010

If you’re looking for an elegant and simple blogging application for Mac, take a look at MarsEdit 3. This powerful solution allows easy management of your blog posts and pages. I’ve been testing out MarsEdit 3 for a week now, and I must say it’s incredibly easy to use and very feature rich. The brain…

By Ex on December 23rd, 2010

Tonight Apple announced the availability of calendar alerts on me.com using the company’s MobileMe service. Similar to how calendar alerts work on any iOS device, users can now set up alerts for events and receive notifications through the online webapp so long as the web browser is open with the Calendar webapp. The new MobileMe Calendar…

By Ex on December 22nd, 2010

After Apple released iOS 4.2, Apple also updated mobile Safari to support various new HTML5 and W3C standards. Of these updates, Apple enabled the use of an iDevices’ accelerometer and gyroscope within mobile Safari. Before this find, many users assumed that the gyroscope was an app-only function and did not have support for stock iOS…

By Gary Ng on December 21st, 2010

Who wouldn’t love to have a Star Trek-type communication device, that they could whip out and command it to do something? OK perhaps ‘beaming’ is a bit beyond today’s technological capabilities…how about “Spock! Play Doodlejump!” or “Scotty! Download updates!”. Soon Apple might have an iOS for that! Job postings from Apple show they are looking…

By Ex on December 15th, 2010

Today Apple released a minor update to the latest iTunes 10. The new iTunes is now version 10.1.1 and is available on a PC/Mac via Apple Software Update or from Apple’s website. iTunes 10.1.1 The new iTunes 10.1.1 update primarily brings bug fixes with no other major feature upgrades or enhancements. The update lists the…

By Ex on December 14th, 2010

Tonight from 10PM – 12AM PST, Apple will be applying scheduled maintenance for its me.com service, MobileMe. During the maintenance, web apps on me.com will not be accessible and the maintenance will also affect those trying to sync data between devices. “Due to scheduled maintenance, some MobileMe members may be unable to sync between their…

By Ex on November 26th, 2010

Font website iOS Fonts has put together a growing list of fonts available in iOS 4.2 for iPhone and iPad. According to the list, there are 40 font families available for the iPhone and 57 font families available for the iPad. There is no mention of the iPod touch, but the available font families in…

By Ex on November 25th, 2010

Alongside the iOS 4.2 launch, Apple also revealed that the latest iDevices (iPhone 4, iPod touch (2010), or iPad) could use the MobileMe Find My iPhone feature for free. While initially you had to have the latest iDevice, it was later found out that older iDevices could also use Find My iPhone for free if…