Apple refreshed their MacBook Pro line up yesterday, with the highlight being Intel's super fast connection, Thunderbolt. Formerly known as Light Peak, this Intel technology allows for both electrical or optical connections. A question many have been asking lately: Will the iPhone get Thunderbolt in the future? The answer is no. Macworld breaks it down:...
If you're an existing user of XBMC (formerly XBOX Media Centre), you'll be happy to know that it has been ported over to iOS, for jailbroken iPhones (and iPads). XBMC allows for a world of possibilities on your iPhone. The XBMC team ported an iOS version just yesterday, and is compatible with all A4 iOS...
We've talked about how to enable Emoji (from the Japanese iOS keyboard) on your iPhone via free apps in the App Store. Currently, just by searching the term "emoji" in the App Store produces many solutions to satify your Emoji needs. But what about getting universal emoticons on your iPhone? Emoji can only be seen...
Keeping it all in sync with MobileMe More MobileMe speculation from "sources" coming your way. I'm going to take this 'source' from Cult of Mac with a grain of salt, especially after hearing about Apple's "cloud-only" iPhone rumour. New details report that MobileMe's plans include a mashup of Foursquare, uStream, and Facebook. As per Cult...
Google has just announced on their blog a new publishing initiative, called Google One Pass. CEO Eric Schmidt introduced this today at Humboldt University in Berlin. With the backlash over Apple's new subscription policy, publishers looking to head elsewhere (if they actually jump ship from iOS is another story) can do so with Google One...
With the announcement of Apple's new subscriptions model, there have been mixed emotions popping up left, right and center around the web. Publishers are crying fowl Apple is taking a 30% cut of subscriptions, and some have even brought up anti-trust issues against this new policy (?!). What exactly is Apple introducing here with their...
Did you watch the Grammy Awards? The show ended with the Album of the Year going to Canadian band, Arcade Fire. After doing a quick Google search in Safari on my iPhone 4, I noticed something I had never seen before on iOS--a live stream of tweets relating to search term. Here's an example of...
Another week, and another episode of The iPhone Podcast. Justin Luey and I discuss the latest iPhone, iPad, and iOS news. We also break down some of the must-have apps of the week. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with other RSS Readers You can follow and comment on all the news we discuss at our blog. Apps We...
Tutorial: How to jailbreak Apple TV 2G 4.2.1 on Windows - by Invalidx The Chronic Dev Team updated their jailbreak tool Greenpois0n to RC6, which also included support for an untethered jailbreak for the Apple TV second generation (ATV2). To jailbreak your Apple TV2 on iOS firmware 4.2.1 (shown as 4.1.1 on the ATV2) with...
Update 1: The CEO of App Remix was contacted by Cult of Mac, and asked if his company was going to be acquired by Cupertino. His response was "No comment..."--the plot thickens! The notification system of iOS is long overdue for an overhaul. The latest rumours from CultofMac indicate that Apple is working to improve...
The latest survey from Net Applications over worldwide browser market-share has resulted in some very interesting results. Apple's iOS devices (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) now generate over 2% of global web browsing traffic. iOS devices account for 3.6% of web traffic in Canada, and is the most popular in Singapore and Hong Kong at 9.98%...
Looks like Apple is gearing up for the Verizon iPhone by releasing iOS 4.2.6, Build 8E200 to developers. Verizon users in the US will soon be excited to use the iPhone 4 on their network. The notable feature that debuted on iOS 4.2.5, was the announcement of Personal Hotspot. Rogers has already mentioned they would...
