Turns out there an iTunes Dock setting for the Mac, hidden deep inside the new Lion OS. Once activated, the Dock will produce a pop-up notification of which iTunes track is currently playing. Although you can program Growl, a useful little utility, to show similar notifications, you may prefer having the native one found in Lion.
When Apple released the super slim line MacBook Air back in 2010, it was initially planned to be a three-pronged attack on the market, with an 11", 13" and 15" model of the company's thinnest notebook to date.
Steve Jobs' untimely death to pancreatic cancer has unquestionably left a glaring hole through Apple's core.
Apple rolled out yet another update to the Apple TV firmware. Many have asked if you could jailbreak the Apple device with the new 4.4.3 update. The short answer is yes. The long answer is that while you can jailbreak it, some of the optional apps used with a jailbroken Apple TV won’t work. The movie server, Plex, as well as Rowmote are not supported yet.
We’ve found yet another roundup of rumors confirming a March 2012 launch of new Apple Products. This time our information comes from iLounge, who bases their report on an unknown but “reliable” source. Remember that rumors are just that: rumors. Although sources are always claimed, or people that are close to the matter are cited, always take reports with a heavy grain of salt.
When Apple launched Game Center in iOS 4, one of the many arguments laid fairly and squarely at its feet was its severe lack of any sort of messaging system. When you look at similar services on other platforms such as PSN, Xbox Live or Steam then you'll see that sending messages between players is integral to the experience. Apple missed that, completely.
While Apple's fortunes are undoubtedly on the positive side these days, any good company is continually looking to the future, and trying to build a user base that will continue to grow is part of that strategy.
We previously reported how you can unlock your brand new iPhone 4S on any baseband, including 04.11.08 and 04.10.01, without any hardware or software modifications. Now, successful unlocking to T-Mobile in U.S. and other countries' networks have been reported using the iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS as well. The method may be a bug and could be fixed with the next iOS update.
There is no doubt that due to the highly successful nature of their products, Apple will continue to release next generations of their iDevices for years to come. The question is not if we’ll be seeing an iPad 3 and iPhone 5 in the future, but the when. Now thanks to some new info, we can shed a little light into the latter, at least as far as the iPad 3 goes.
Whenever Apple releases its latest 'next big thing', it tends to find its way into the tech news spectrum on a daily basis, and Siri - bundled with iOS 5 for early adopters of the iPhone 4S - has proved to be no exception.
