There's never a dull moment in the world of Apple patents. We've seen sneak peeks of many new pieces Apple kit in the past, and we've seen some things that have never made it into real world. Looking at the two latest patent applications from the boys in Cupertino, we're really not sure which category they fit into.
In what could turn out to be the biggest thing to happen to mobile phone gaming since the addition of the touch screen, Touch Arcade speculates Bungie is working on a new iOS game.
Apple is the target of another lawsuit over the company's collection of location data, writes The Loop. Filed in the United States District Court for the District Of Puerto Rico the suit claims Apple, The Weather Channel and Pandora Media are intentionally intercepting personally identifying information.
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?
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.
It's taken much, much longer than we ever expected but three new Photoshop companion apps are now available for the iPad, and by all accounts they're as good as we'd hoped.
Just like how it was when iOS 4.3.2 was released, it seems like some iPhone users are having trouble when restoring their device to either stock, or custom iOS 4.3.3 firmware.
Hot on the heals of the iPhone location fiasco (or 'locationgate' for those with a flair for the overly-dramatic) comes Footprints, an application for tracking iOS devices, but in a good way.
After all the furore surrounding the revelation that iOS devices have been keeping tabs on where they've been and saving the information to various log files both on the device and the computer they're synced to, Apple released iOS 4.3.3 to rectify the issue. But did it do the job? According to PCMag, it did indeed.
Cydia, the jailbreak App Store of choice is home to thousands of apps, tweaks and themes for jailbroken iOS devices, but it can be a little too busy, making discovery nigh-on impossible. If you know what you're looking for though, you're golden. If you're thumbing through the categories though, wouldn't it be easier if you could do it from the comfort of your desk on a nice large screen? Enter Cydia Search, from Planet-iPhones.
