One of the major irritations with the way iOS works is the inability to backup your app data without the need to connect your device to iTunes. Going one step further, wouldn't it be great if apps across multiple devices could stay in sync, using the magic of the cloud?
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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.
Facebook really is one of the biggest success stories of the last 10 years, and not just when it comes to companies based around the internet. Infamously founded by Mark Zuckerberg while at Harvard, Facebook is now home to over 600 million users - and it shows no sign of slowing in its meteoric rise to ruling to social networking world. But what if Facebook was never founded? It just so happens rent-an-evangelist Guy Kawasaki asked that very same question and came up with this infographic courtesy of SimpleGrain.
Facebook and privacy just don't seem to be the best of friends, and today the social network had to remove a whole API in order to stop personal data being accessible by third parties.
With Google's release of its Music Beta today, iOS users were once again left out in the cold when the search giant said the service was Android only. Thankfully though, as with all things geeky, some clever people on the web discovered a way to get the Music Beta goodness on their iOS device.
3D shows no sign of going away, with more 3D TVs arriving by the day, and soon our smartphones will also pack an extra 'D'. The first to hit US shores will be the LG Optimus 3D, or Thrill 4G if you prefer the name AT&T have given it.
While Facebook's iPhone app has certainly improved lately, it's still far from the smooth, slick experience we iPhone users are so used to these days. Unfortunately, it's the only real way to upload photos to Facebook from an iPhone, but if you're a jailbreaker there's a new tweak that's going to rock your world. Enter, FBUploader.
Remember when we told you how CNET had gotten hold of IRC logs that they claimed showed people planning to attack Sony's servers once more? Now the website is claiming Sony actually managed to thwart the would-be hackers, and it's all thanks to them.
It may be nearly two years old, but there's life in the old iPhone 3GS yet and, as reported by AppleInsider, the veteran handset is still outselling some newer Android handsets.
We've all been there. Apple releases a new version of iOS, you wait for the jailbreak to become available and you update. The problem now though is you're left facing the long and tedious task of getting your iPhone back to just the way you like it. After a good while becoming intimately acquainted with Cydia and a lot of restarts later you're done. But chances are you've forgotten something and you'll be doing the Cydia shuffle again.
If you're a big Facebook user, chances are you've run into the odd occasion when you've posted an update that apparently nobody saw. It's like you've been cut off from your friends, and while they thought you'd fallen off the face of the planet you'd actually been waxing lyrical with nobody to read it. If it's happened to you, BookMarketingMaven knows how to fix it.
