By now, I’m sure readers of Redmond Pie have heard of Google’s answer to the Facebook phenomenon: it’s called Google+ and the social network, as we’ve written before, is seeing extremely fast growth.
Our friends over at 9to5Mac have received photos of what looks to be either the face of an old iPod touch 4G prototype or, as we believe, the face of the next iPod touch: the iPod touch 5G which is expected to come with 3G-connectivity built-in.
Facebook users have long been able to embed media on their profile pages through statuses and wall posts, but now the possibility has been added to embed photos, videos and web links through its comment feature.
It's Apple patent time again, while watching the inventions and innovation coming out of Cupertino often proving to be a bit baffling - and almost impossible - job in itself.
A few days ago, it was reported that the FBI had arrested several hackers associated with the online activism group Anonymous/LulzSec. As expected, the arrests didn't sit in well with the group which has now issued a rather defying statement.
These days, in order to downgrade an iOS device to a previous version of iOS, you need to have an old SHSH blob of that version, and the only way to do that is to back it up ahead of time, that is, when Apple is still signing the firmware. iSHSHit is a tool that backs up the firmware's blob for later use right on the device itself. The said app has now been updated to work with iOS 4.3.4 and 4.2.9 (for CDMA iPhones), which were both released to the public last week.
One of the most interesting advertisement campaigns we’ve ever seen, Glacéau's Vitaminwater Energy Bus Shelters let you give your iOS device (or other, supported devices) a juice-boost before you set off on your commute.
The number one reason why people jailbreak their iOS device is for the experience-enhancing tweaks. From little tweaks like MultiIconMover to the big, game-changing ones like Winterboard, SBSettings etc; all tweaks help make iOS an even more powerful mobile OS.
Apple set free OS X Lion to the general public yesterday. The only way to upgrade to the new OS was by way of downloading it from the Mac App Store. Apple has received its fair share of criticism for making Lion download-only. This limitation makes it so that if you have multiple Macs at home, you have to download Lion on each PC (yes, they are personal computers after all) separately. We’re going to solve this issue for you today, by making a Bootable Flash Drive of Lion!
The world’s most popular fruit company has topped Nokia to take over the title of World’s Top Smartphone Vendor. I am, of course, talking about Apple Inc. whose iPhone, with its 3GS and 4, its only smartphones, has shipped more units than Nokia in the second quarter of 2011.
