Facebook launched Skype-powered video calling yesterday. The feature works on all major versions of Mac and Windows (Linux not supported), but doesn’t work on OS X Lion. Today, we’ll guide you on how to get Facebook’s video chat feature working on Apple’s latest version of OS X.
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.
This new patent submitted to the US Patent Office suggests that Apple might be looking into implementing 3D gestures into a future iOS device in order to allow effortless data transfers across devices.
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!
Fan-created concepts have always shun a light on what an upcoming product might look like, and this one isn't an exception. Brazilian Graphics Design student Schasiepen Guilherme Martins has created a concept of what the next iPhone should look like, based on the various reports that have come out of the rumor mill over the last few months.
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.
According to a new report, Apple is working on implementing a new way to charge the iPhone 6, the sixth-generation iPhone. While the source hasn't specified what such charging method would involve, or if it would replace the current USB charging method, many speculate that the iPhone 6 might be charged using "non-contact based platforms".
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.
According to Craig Berger, an FBR Capital Markets analyst, the successor the iPad 2 won't be an iPad 3. Instead, it will allegedly be a higher-end iPad 2, dubbed the "iPad 2 Plus", planned for later this year, according to Berger. Is Apple changing its iPad release cycle?
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.
