The Original iPhone Film Festival set out to find the best movies shot using an iPhone throughout the year of 2011, and they have just announced the winners across a selection of categories.
Apple's iOS isn't exactly a cutesy operating system. Steve Jobs and co set out to make the iPhone, iPod and iPad OS as usable as possible without adding unnecessary bells and whistles. In the main part they succeeded, but it's hard to deny that there are a couple of areas where it could do with that personal touch - something to make the whole experience feel a little more like home.
Music is big business. I wanted to start this article of with something very 'matter of fact', so there it is. There is no getting away from the fact that music is a huge industry, popular all over the globe. When I talk about the music industry though, I don't just necessarily mean the production or the sale of music singles or albums. The popularity of personal music players, music software and things like headphones has skyrocketed in recent years and become a multi billion dollar industry.
Despite Apple maintaining a closed-source stance with its iOS mobile software, jailbreaks from the various dev-teams have allowed an abundance of useful, unregulated apps to be installed onto our beloved iDevices.
There is no denying that one of the most commonly used applications on any iPhone will be the default Messages application which ships as part of iOS. The app itself is extremely simple, and whilst it is functional and does everything it needs to do, it has been said that Apple should have maybe added a little bit of additional functionality to it over the years.
If you take the time to sit back and draw up a list of the best, most functional tweaks which exist for jailbroken iOS device, then chances are that the list would contain a number of releases created by developer Grant Paul, a.k.a. chpwn.
The Apple iPhone is currently into its fifth production model and has been purchased by hundreds of millions of people around the world since its first release in 2007. The iPhone is known the world over as one of the, if not the most advanced smartphone in existence thanks to the iOS operating system that powers it.
The "another day, another tweak" cliché has never been more relevant than in the current state of play. Last weekend saw the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S join every other iDevice in the iOS 5 untethered jailbreak wonderland, and developers have been pushing those tweaks through the Cydia store at an incredible rate ever since.
In a similar fashion in the cat and mouse game between Apple and the jailbreakers, I am pretty sure that this back and forth saga between Apple and Samsung is likely to continue for quite some time. The two companies have an extremely turbulent relationship, with Apple on one hand being Samsung's largest components customer, but the two companies are also dragging each other through different lawsuits claiming the other has infringed upon certain patents.
I remember watching an episode of The Outer Limits about seven years ago, and although a purely fictional televisions series, this particular episode focused around the creation of humanoid life forms using what they called nanobot technology aimed to create intricate Androids in the form of humans. The whole premise of the show was that these robots could then be used to carry out the more menial tasks associated with everyday life.
