Apple has reached yet another milestone in its meteoric rise to mobile phone and application daddy, with the number of apps accepted into its App Store reaching the half million number.
Jeremie Francone and Laurence Nigay, two researchers from the Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble at the EHCI Research Group in France, have created a plausible system for viewing 3D images on iOS devices without glasses, all thanks to the device's front-facing camera. Interested?
FolderLock is an iOS mod that lets you password-protect some features in iOS, such as folders, Spotlight, multitasking and the phone's settings. If you ever wished to lock down your phone in order to stop others from changing your settings or accessing your background apps, this might be a good choice.
The iOS 4.3.x update has brought a fair amount of benefits, including an improved AirPlay featured, which allows users to stream content content from your iDevice to your Apple TV; and Personal Hotspot, allowing users to create a mobile hotspot they can use to connect other devices to the internet via the phone's network. Despite those enhancements, performance was heavily affected in some handsets. Thankfully, a topic at MacRumors has shined a light on how to fix this problem.
Hands up if you've ever restored your iDevice only to realize you hadn't saved your photos somewhere beforehand? Come on, hands all the way up. That means you at the back!
One of the most pressing issues when the iPhone came out was the worse-than-desired performance of the YouTube app, mainly concerning how long videos would take to load. Now there's a fix, named TCP Optimizer, and it's freely available if you're willing to jailbreak your phone.
We've all got drawers, cupboards and other nooks and crannies stuffed chock full of old technology, be it phones, games consoles or MP3 players. If only there was an easy way to get hard, cold cash for them. Granted there are solutions like eBay and Craigslist out there but there are various barriers to entry for both of those options. Now Amazon is joining the fray by adding electronics to their trade-in program - including iOS devices.
At about 7 PM local time, an explosion at a Foxconn factory killed 2 people and injured 12, 3 of those seriously. The building is located in Chengdu, a high-tech region in the South of China, and is known for manufacturing iPads. The explosion was first revealed to the world thanks to an amateur video. It's been reported that this incident might have been caused by fine powder used in the manufacturing process that somehow ignited.
Playboy magazine has arrived the iPad, at last, fully uncensored for your reading, and I guess viewing, pleasure. As with all good things in life, the app won't come for free: $7.24 a month if you commit to buy a yearly subscription, $17.95 a month for a monthly subscription and a whopping $0.95 if you just want to try it out for 3 days. No, there is no free trial.
Rumors have been abound for months now that Apple is looking to get into the online music locker game, and given they recently took over the domain name for iCloud then it's looking fairly certain the Cupertino outfit is planning something in the cloud space. Add the fact we still don't know what their infamous new data center has been built for and all signs point to something big.
