Stories by Usman Qureshi

Team FireCore has just released the final version of aTV Flash (black) designed specifically for Apple TV 2G. Version 1.1 of aTV Flash (Black) adds ability to play additional media formats including AVI, FLAC, ISO, M2TS, MKV, MP3, MP4, MPEG, VOB, and WAV along with subtitle and AC3/DTS sound support, an extended menu system, web...

When you take photos on an iOS device, your new photos are automatically uploaded to iCloud and pushed to all your other devices including your Mac's iPhoto, thanks to Photo Stream, a feature introduced by Apple with launch of iOS 5. However, Apple forgot to add support for editing these photos in iPhoto's Photo Stream folder...

The ongoing series of patent wars between two of the world's biggest technology giants, Apple and Samsung first began with Apple having alleged that Samsung Galaxy’s smartphones and Tablets infringed its design patents. Among the ten countries in which Apple had initially filed suits against Samsung, it won in Germany and Netherlands. Moving on to Australia, Apple succeeded in banning Samsung’s Tablet...

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California has launched a unique online Steve Jobs exhibit today which showcases the life and times of Apple co-founder, but with a twist. The exhibit is called Steve Jobs: First, Last, One more thing... and can be accessed here featuring objects from the permanent collection of the CHM which holds over 100,000 artifacts including 3,000 Apple-related items. The...

Apple has had a handful of patent-violation lawsuits in recent months which made one thing pretty clear to us that Cupertino's patent policy is very territorial. However, a recent article by The Verge points out a totally different scenario. It seems that Apple has in fact licensed its iOS scrolling patent to Nokia and IBM, especially...

The handy SHSH blobs extraction tool a.k.a TinyUmbrella has just been updated to version 5.1.00 which adds iOS 5.1 beta 1 support. The latest release of TinyUmbrella is now available for download for both Mac OS X and Windows platforms. Until now, there is no way to downgrade back to an iOS 5.x firmware even...

By now, you must have seen tons of Siri related videos which can be found all over the web showing what can be achieved when Siri is combined with SiriProxy, for instance locking / unlocking and starting a car, fully controlling a television and even controlling third-party iOS apps. Now, this developer named Mark Hodder has combined SiriProxy with ioBridge, a small module...

If you're a frequent iTunes customer, here's a limited-time deal you cannot miss. You can buy an iTunes card for 25% off at Safeway. The offer is valid all across Canada. We're told that if you buy 2 of their 3 x $10 packs you get $15 off. This also beats Future Shop's deal who...

An iPhone gaming-themed music video by Australian indie-pop band Hey Geronimo has just gone viral. The song is called “Why Don’t We Do Something”, though it doesn't make much sense what the iPhone games have to do with the song. Nonetheless, the video is pretty special, a creation that portrays what the most popular iPhone games might look like...

We all know how bad the battery life sucks on all current iPhones and iPods. Even the new iPhone 4S fails to impress in this particular area. An average user has to recharge his iPhone at least twice in a 24 hour cycle. This does not include charging on-the-go such as in a car or during...

A recent report published by Global StatCounter (via 9to5Mac) suggests that even though Google's Android OS has been showing rapid growth since the beginning of this year overtaking BlackBerry and even surpassing iOS in August (though only for the remainder of that month), it hasn't been able to catch up with the growing popularity of iOS. The statistics...

Previously featured on Gizmodo, 'Sprd The Note' app allows you to transfer any song from your iPhone / iPod touch's Music library as well as any personal recording, to another iPhone or iPod touch over Wifi and email. All you need to do is import the songs you want to share into the app right from...