When Facebook announced it would be launching 'something awesome' this past Wednesday, many in the industry thought that the mystery new product could be a music service. With Spotify reportedly in cahoots with Facebook, a new music streaming service wouldn't have been a huge surprise, but alas it was not to be.
Steve Jobs and his black turtleneck, blue jeans and sneakers have become a bit of a meme these days. We're racking our brains right now, and we can't actually remember a public appearance from the Apple CEO and co-founder where he hasn't been wearing his trademark outfit.
Those familiar with Mac OS X are probably aware of the platform's major flaw when it comes to media playback: there's no official Blu-ray support. Despite many requests for it to be supported, Steve Jobs has long dismissed it as a "bag of hurt", and therefore no Mac ships with Blu-ray drives or Blu-ray playback software. Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player will change all that: introducing the first Blu-ray player for Mac OS X!
Those who've spent some time on the Android platform are probably aware of Swype, a tweak that lets users type on their virtual keyboards without ever lifting their fingers, by simply quickly swiping their finger across the keyboard over any letter in order to form a word, and only then releasing it. Fans of this tool should now be happy to know that Swype has now been unofficially ported to iOS.
Despite being the world’s most popular smartphone, the iPhone is yet to make an appearance in the Chinese wireless carrier market. Today, an iPhone (5?) apparently running on China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA network has been caught in the wild, which is sure to give hope to those in China desirous of an iPhone.
In an official press release, the Cupertino-based Apple Inc. has announced that the iOS App Store has reached the 15 billion downloads milestone in just under three years since launch.
JailbreakMe 3.0 has now been used over 1 million times since it came out only 2 short days ago, according to Grant Paul (known as @chpwn on Twitter), one of the project's contributors. Since its inception back in 2007, JailbreakMe has allowed users to jailbreak their iOS devices by simply pointing Mobile Safari to a crafted web page.
It has now been confirmed that Apple is planning to release iOS 4.3.4 to fix a PDF Exploit that allowed JailbreakMe 3.0 to be applied. This vulnerability in Mobile Safari requires users to open a malicious PDF file before having the device taken over and ultimately jailbroken in JailbreakMe 3.0’s case.
Not quite sold on the iPad's on-screen keyboard yet? Wish you could use your iPad just like a plain old 10-inch netbook? Thanks to this very elaborate external Bluetooth keyboard, you'll now be able to.
At a Q&A session at today's Facebook's event, Mark Zuckerberg, the company's CEO and founder, was asked about his opinion on Google+. According to Mark, he simply sees Google's service as a validation for his vision, much like personal computing today is a validation of the vision of just a few people several decades ago.
