When the MyGreatFest idea first came into existence towards the end of 2010, it was nothing more than a pipe dream, imagined by one person who felt an affinity with a company and the wonderful products that they provide the world with. The whole concept of MyGreatFest (now known as JailbreakCon or WWJC) was centered around the art of jailbreaking, which led a lot of people to believe that the proposed event must be against Apple but this couldn't be further from the truth.
As children - even those raised in an era bereft of much in the way of technology and electronic gadgets, most of us will remember having played some variation of a memory matching game.
There are approximately half a million babies born across the world on a daily basis, bringing joy to their family and those around them. But out of those half a million which are born everyday, maybe only one or two of them will go on to not only change their parents’ or guardians’ lives forever, but will actually change the world. Steven Paul Jobs, born February 24th 1955 in San Francisco, California was one of those newborns who was destined to bring about change in the world and boy did he fulfill his destiny.
Apple's new CEO Tim Cook held his first shareholder meeting yesterday, and it seems the guy is pretty bullish on what his company is going to offer to us gadget junkies over the coming months.
As the days and week progress, it would seem that the ongoing legal animosity between Apple and Motorola will continue to grow and cause disruption not only to both companies but also to their customers. This time, it is the turn of German users of Apple’s iCloud and MobileMe push services to suffer, thanks to a patent lawsuit which is currently going through proceedings between the two companies.
Notification Center is coming up to its fifth month anniversary in the public eye and I think all iOS users would agree that it has been a very welcome addition indeed to Apple's mobile operating system. The powerful notification enhancement gives users quick access to all device notifications as well as providing extensive customization options over what actually appears in the dedicated Notification Center screen. However, like most offerings on most operating systems, it isn't entirely perfect and that is where the jailbreak development community comes in.
The jailbreak community is always coming up with some awesome, and some plain old whacky ideas. Looking at this latest jailbreak tweak we have to say that we think it may land bang square in the middle of the two extremes.
The debate over whether iOS or Android is the best home for smartphone app developers is one that has been raging for some time, and one that shows no sign of abating.
If there's one thing that's guaranteed about a new iPhone, it's that designers and developers the world over will have an idea of how it should look. Sometimes, they get it more right than others.
This post could easily just be an embedded YouTube video alongside just one word - "WOW" - and that would probably suffice. That said, we like to offer a little more insight than that here at Redmond Pie so here goes.
