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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 Ex on January 13th, 2011

More digging into iOS 4.3 Beta 1 has revealed a potential new upcoming MobileMe feature called “Find My Friends”. The feature is associated with the Settings.app, so it will likely have a toggle such as the Find My iPhone feature. It is clear that such a feature would be Apple’s attempt at offering a location-based…

By Ex on January 12th, 2011

With the release of iOS 4.3 Beta 1, the Internet has been digging deep into the new firmware. Aside from the new found features, reports have come in that indicate that references of the next generation iPhone have been located in iOS 4.3. As seen below, the model numbers reference to yet unreleased iPhone and…

By Ex on January 12th, 2011

With the release of the first beta of iOS 4.3, it looks like Apple has dropped support for the iPhone 3G and second-generation iPod touch. As seen in the developer portal, neither the iPhone 3G or second-generation iPod touch are listed. Currently, as of iOS 4.3 Beta 1, the following devices are supported: iPad iPhone…

By Ex on January 12th, 2011

Another feature has been discovered in today’s release of iOS 4.3 Beta 1 and it is very useful for iPhone users! Users of iOS 4.3 on the iPhone 3GS/4 now have the option to change the interval of their Messages alert sound. Currently, iPhone users can toggle on a “Repeat Alert” option in the Messages…

By Ex on January 12th, 2011

Today, Apple seeded the first beta release (8F5148b) of iOS 4.3 for iPhone 3GS/4, iPad, and iPod touch 3rd/4th generation. As many know, iOS 4.3 is the anticipated release of the next iOS firmware rumored to be due in March 2011. iOS 4.3 is also expected to bring “Personal Hotspot” to the iPhone, as we…

By Ex on January 1st, 2011

A Macworld report, with evidence from Engadget, today briefly details a bug found in the iOS clock app that reportedly prevents non-recurring alarms from properly activating on New Years day. I was able to confirm this after a couple of false starts. For the bug to show itself, your iOS device must actually tick over…

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 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…