Apple Inc. has been granted 14 new US patents today with design patents pertaining to the design of the MacBook Air, iPhone 3G, Apple TV remote and, you guessed it, their battery charger.
Have you ever sat there, staring at your Facebook stream, Twitter page or Google+ account and thought - 'I wonder how long I actually spend on this web site?’ You know you have.
According to inside information gathered by MacRumors, it appears that Apple is currently in the late testing stages of a 15" ultra-thin Mac notebook. After quietly axing it's 13" plastic MacBook just last week in favor of the 11.6" MacBook Air as it's basic, entry-level portable Mac, it seems as though Jobs and Co. are are already looking to fill in the void left by its departure.
Fans of the messaging tool WhatsApp should know that the only iOS device it's been designed to work on is the iPhone, leaving the iPad and iPad 2 completely out in the cold, unnecessarily. Thankfully there's WhatsPad, a jailbreak tweak that fools WhatsApp into running on 3G-capable iOS devices other than the iPhone.
A major milestone for Windows Phone 7 has been reached, as officially announced by Microsoft today: WP7 has been released to manufacturing (RTM) for optimization on different phones and networks meaning it is code-complete.
Apple has recently released iOS 4.3.5 and you might be wondering what the best way to jailbreak it might be. Thankfully, we have made custom PwnageTool bundle that allow users who rely on carrier unlock to jailbreak iOS 4.3.5 on iPhone 4. Why use PwnageTool over Redsn0w for 4.3.5 jailbreak? well by using this method, you'll be able to preserve your old iPhone baseband which is useful if you're looking to unlock your device using Ultrasn0w afterwards.
Mozilla appears to be attempting at entering the already tight mobile operating system market with their Boot to Gecko project, which was proposed today.
Online movie streaming service Netflix today confirmed that Facebook integration is on the horizon, and will most likely be implemented within the next three months. However, the company has rather cautiously not decided to launch Stateside just yet, due to the legalities surrounding video sharing and will only launch in Canada and Latin America.
With Apple's attention very much turned to OS X 10.7 Lion, they could be forgiven for giving Snow Leopard (10.6) the cold shoulder. The latest release of Snow Leopard, which brought the version number up to Mac OS X 10.6.8, has been out for a few weeks now and those not upgraded to Lion have been using it with relatively little issues.
Those who own an iPhone 4 are probably aware of its extremely high resolution display that makes text and images appear crisper than ever. This feature, known as Retina Display, has been rumored to be coming to the next-generation iPad and has now been spotted in the final version of OS X Lion.
