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Next week’s Worldwide Developers Conference is sure to have a certain air of vacancy to it – it’ll be the first of Apple’s annual extravaganzas to be held since Steve Jobs’ passing. But even though something will be missing from the event next week, there will be plenty to talk about.
Every time I restore my iPhone (i.e. after jailbreaking or if I just wipe it clean and re-sync it), I get this constant error message asking me to “enter voicemail password” over and over again. For some reason, I can never remember what to do in this situation—well, this time, I’m documenting the solution for [...]
This week Apple began accepting submissions for the upcoming Mac App Store, the OS X equivalent of the iOS iTunes based App Store. For Mac users this is a big deal; what Steam Powered has done for games, Apple is doing for Mac applications. This also means a big opportunity for people who never jumped [...]
Your iPhone has a screen lock passcode set up, so all of your data is safe… right? Think again, there is a new exploit for the iPhone 4 or iPhone 3G(S) running iOS 4.1 that allows people to easily break in and access your contact list, photos, voicemail, and call history. The iOS exploit works [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (9.7MB) | Embed In one of our previous articles we got you informed on the New Apple Products and the Release of iTunes 10. iTunes 10 brought us a bunch of new features and a great new view which resembles the view in Windows Media Player 12. What [...]
Recently we told you about Apple’s 2010 Music Event along with the release of iTunes 10 and its new Ping feature. “Ping perhaps is the twitter and facebook for iTunes” according to Steve Jobs. Anyway, although disabled by default if for some reason you turned on PING and now want it disabled (like me) here’s [...]
Apple has just released 3 New iPods in their latest music event making a great addition to their product library and also surprised customers with lots of other goodies and news that we’ll quickly cover right now. iPod Touch Apple released a new iPod Touch that’s packed with new features including a slimmer iPhone-3GS-Style body, [...]
Just when you thought the on-going battle between Apple and Adobe was over, Artefactgroup announced a new project that works around Apples “no flash” policy. It’s still in testing and development but they’ve put some “proof of concept” videos up and it’s looking pretty groovy. The technology is officially called Artefact Animator and has future [...]
By now it’s fairly common knowledge that AT&T just cut their unlimited data plan on the iPhone, iPad and other smartphones replacing it with a 250Meg or 2GB data limit. The new plan was made official the same day Apple announced the release of their new data hog iPhone 4. Interesting… Yeah, it all makes [...]
“Stop me if you’ve seen this before” joked Apple CEO Steve Jobs before introducing the brand new iPhone 4. The new iPhone was bumped into the spotlight a few months too early by Gizmodo, marking the most publicized non-oil related leak to occur this year. In spite of its alien abduction and subsequent prostrate exam… [...]
Read and shop fast because effective Monday June 7, At&t will be killing their rather groovy Unlimited data plans for the iPad, iPhone and other Smart Phones. New users will be stuck with their new plan, which is going to limit data usage to 2GB per month for $25. Really? 2GB per month?? What do [...]
Codenamed Gianduia, Apple is playing with a new browser-based web framework that is fast. Really fast. ClickToFlash developer Wolf Rentzsch said that Gianduia “essentially is browser-side Cocoa (including CoreData) + WebObjects, written in JavaScript by non-js-haters”. In-case you’re wondering where the name came from, it’s an Italian hazelnut chocolate.. Ah, groovy! Presently, while rumors may [...]
Apple’s new iPad is finally available for purchase! At a price of $499 (for the basic WiFi only model) there are still plenty of reasons to justify not buying it (um.. no 3G for one), but then again it’s a shiny new device from Apple and who doesn’t like those? If you’re still on the [...]
I recently was borrowing an iPod Touch (3rd generation) from a friend and I realized that whenever I connected to the network it was displaying his creative but highly inappropriate device name. This had to be changed! After looking through all of the settings on the iPod and also on my iPhone I realized that [...]
