Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
Apple has released the final Gold Master version of iOS 6 to registered developers, and it is now available for download from the dev center. The final version of iOS 6 will be released for public on September 19 and will come loaded on the new iPhone 5 and iPod touch 5th generation. Apple has […]
Apple has released an updated version iTunes and it is now available for download for Mac users via software update. Apple is yet to update it’s official iTunes page for a link for Windows users. The update is also yet to hit the Mac App Store. The new iTunes features support for new iOS devices […]
Apple is holding a media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco today at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern, and they are expected to unveil the 6th-generation iPhone, rumored to be called the iPhone 5. Other things that may be announced are a release date for iOS 6.0, updated iPods and […]
On one hand, the $8 MyScript Notes Mobile from Vision Objects is yet another of the growing number of iOS note taking apps. However, it attempts to separate itself from the pack by focusing on handwriting as its main—well, actually, it’s only
Everybody’s jazzed for Wednesday’s Apple event, but that doesn’t mean that the world’s stopped spinning: One analyst thinks the iPhone 5 could be economical in more ways than one, Samsung’s prepping to capitalize on the new iPhone, and ebook prices ar…
A few developers have talked before about the App Store’s “race to the bottom” problem, and Joe Cieplinski has clearly been doing some thinking about the issue as well. In his talk at 360iDev this week, Cieplinski (who is a former English teacher …
According to our sources, Apple’s new, smaller 9-pin dock connector is dubbed “Lightning” internally. As of this evening, we believe that this name will extend to the new connector’s marketing name. The moniker makes sense for two reasons. One: it goes along with the Thunderbolt connector name on the Mac (Thunderbolt and lightning!). Two: perhaps […]
On the eve of its big iPhone 5 event, Apple has seeded a new version of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 to registered developers in the Mac Dev Center. This marks the fourth beta update of 10.8.2 to be released in less than a month, indicating that a public release is imminent. Unlike the last […]
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MICGadget translates a report from the Shanghai Evening Post which sheds some more light on the Foxconn assembly plants.. A reporter went undercover as one of the many people hired to build the iPhone 5. He (pictured right) kept a diary but was only able to stomach the work for a few weeks (reporters are lightweights […]
The new iPhone 5 announcement is expected to happen tomorrow at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. When all the excitement dies down, however, will the device have the staying power that its earlier versions had? Will it beat out Samsung’s new offerings? Will consumers, perhaps suffering iPhone fatigue, be looking for something that […]
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Apple has seeded OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 build 12C50 to developers. This new build comes less than a week after 10.8.2 build 12C43. 10.8.2 includes phone number syncing for iMessage and Facebook integration, making it the iOS 6 compatibility release. Tomorrow, Apple will unveil a new iPhone and provide final iOS 6 details. 10.8.2 […]
The Shanghai Evening post sent a reporter into the Foxconn factory in Tai Yuan, China to pretend he was a new worker. His 10 days at the factory has been published as a diary, exposing the inside story of making the iPhone 5. The Tai Yuan factory is known from the March workers’ strike, in […]
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Adam Cheyer, an engineer who helped build the Siri voice-recognition software that was acquired by Apple, has left the company, reports “Bloomberg” (http://macte.ch/iVU9Z), quoting three, unnamed “people familiar with the situation”
Cheyer, a Siri co-f…
If you create websites these days there are a few big players who dominate the field—WordPress (my fav), Drupal (my second choice), and Joomla (not one of my favs, but…)—and while all of them are pretty easy to get, they have their own quirks and tricks that you need to learn to get the most […]
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Andreas Linde is the developer of an app called WorldView+, which is designed to let you view webcams from around the world on your iOS device (we took a look at the app here). He released the app on Apple’s App Store over four years ago now, and …
An update on Apple’s iCloud system status page says that 1.1 percent of subscribers are unable to access their iCloud mail on Tuesday.