WWDC is barely over and the rumors of next year's event are already beginning to swirl around the internet blogosphere, with potential attendees desperate to gain an inkling of the show's dates in order to both plan for an expensive trip as well as to prepare for the guaranteed stamped for tickets - WWDC tends to sell out in a matter of hours.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
We love Google. Specifically, we love Google search. That's not to say we don't love their Gmail. Or their Google Docs for that matter. It's just that, well, search is what makes the internet merry-go-round work. Before Google we had AltaVista and co, and we all remember how poor that was!
3D is an interesting proposition. Many love it, while equally as many loath it. After the recent success of the 3rd dimension in the world of movies, it was inevitable 3D would make it to the home gaming market. Sony was the first to toy with the idea of 3D and now if reports are correct, Microsoft is also getting ready to bring a 3D element to its Xbox 360 console.
These jailbreak developers just can't stop cranking out Notification Center tweaks can they? The latest in a long line of 3rd-party widgets brings iOS stats to the Notification Center.
Chances are, if you're a brave soul you're rocking iOS 5 on your iPhone. Chances are if you're a REALLY brave soul, you're rocking a jailbroken iPhone with iOS 5 installed. If that's the case, what's the best way to take advantage of the new widget-y power of the new iOS 5 beta while leveraging the ability to run unsigned code from Cydia? How about a fancy new way to mange multitasking apps? Sounds good right?
Wallpapers are the strangest things. Chances are they're one of the things you see most on a device, especially on a smartphone. Oddly enough, your wallpaper is probably one of the least utilized and most boring aspects of your otherwise tricked out Android device - perhaps a boring black affair, or if you're really adventurous you'll be using the same boring image your friend sent you you last year that seemed mildly amusing at the time. Thanks to Wallpaper Changer, your Android's home screen need never get boring again.
One of the most requested features for an upcoming version of iOS was always widgets. People with iPhones have always looked at their Android friends with all their various widgets and thought - 'why can't we have those?' - we've all done it.
Facebook always seems to be in the middle of a debilitating privacy row, and as Mashable reports the social networking site could be steaming headlong into another with its new facial recognition system.
According to people snooping through Apple's iOS 5 beta, new iPhones and iPads are currently being tested by the company. Interestingly, no mention of a next generation iPod touch was found, however.
We barely get one rumor-filled event out of the way and another rumor surfaces to take its place. The new murmurings surround Apple's as yet unannounced iPhone 5 which, according to DigiTimes, will sport an 8 Megapixel camera.
