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Apple Seeds New GM Build of iOS 4.2 for iPad

rorypiper — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:40:06 +0000

So, you may have heard that there have been some WiFi issues with the latest build of iOS 4.2 on the iPad. Well, Apple has quietly responded, by releasing a new build of iOS 4.2 for iPad. It, apparently, fixes these issues.

So, this means we have to wait just a bit longer for iOS 4.2 to go public, but we’re better off, if this serious bug gets worked out. iOS 4.2 isn’t really a big deal for iPhone and iPod Touch, but it brings Folders, Multitasking and more IOS4 features to the iPad, for the first time.

Apple Update iTunes to 10.1

rorypiper — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:21:06 +0000

Apple has released version 10.1 of it’s popular media client, iTunes. This latest update brings a few fixes, as well as compatibility for the upcoming iOS 4.2. It is available now via Software Update, or the iTunes download page.

What’s new in iTunes 10.1:

Use AirPlay to instantly and wirelessly stream videos from iTunes to the all-new Apple TV.
Sync with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 4.2.
Provides a number of important stability and performance improvements.

The release of iTunes 10.1 today, brings the release of iOS 4.2 even closer! Stay tuned!

OS X 10.6.5 Released!

rorypiper — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:37:41 +0000

Apple has released an update to Snow Leopard, in OS X 10.6.5. It is available now, via Software Update.

With this update to Snow Leopard now in the wild, we should expect an iTunes update and an iOS update. iTunes 10.1 and iOS 4.2 have been in beta, for a while now. The GM of iOS 4.2 was seeded to developers not too long ago, so we should see that go public soon. Some speculate that we will see both of these by the end of the week.

Apple Releases New iPad Commercial – iPad Is Electric [Video]

Dusty — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:07:54 +0000

Apple has released its latest iPad commercial upon the world called “iPad is Electric”.

From watching movies on its brilliant 9.7 inch screen to plugging in your guitar and jamming out, iPad can be just about anything. Go to apple.com/iPad to learn more.

iOS 4.2 GM Released To Developers. Public Release Soon!

Dusty — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:46:29 +0000

Apple is now allowing access to Xcode and iOS 4.2 SDK GM Seed, build 10M2423, and firmware build 8C134. Registered developers can head over to the Apple iPhone Dev Center to download. The final version of iOS 4.2 is expected to be available sometime this November.

WARNING: If you jailbreak/unlock your iPhone, DO NOT UPDATE right away. iOS 4.2 cannot be jailbroken properly yet, and the baseband that comes with it cannot be unlocked yet. Just be patient, and wait for the tools to be updated. The iPhone Dev Team will have an update for us, shortly after iOS 4.2 is public, and then we’ll know where we stand.

As always, make sure you back up your iDevices SHSH blobs! Follow the guide below using TinyUmbrella:

How To: Save Your SHSH Blobs with Tiny Umbrella v4.1.2

Useful Apps: VoodooPad and VP Reader by Flying Meat

Dusty — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:20:09 +0000

Sometimes I can remember the most obscure detail from the remote past. Sometimes I can’t remember what I was doing yesterday. How do I remember all the insignificant trivia that I need to do my job or use my computer?

VoodooPad by Flying Meat is a notepad with hierarchy, links, search, relationship, and paste capabilities. You can record web links in a context that you will remember why you saved it in the first place. Maybe add a reminder why. The coolest part is it is completely unstructured. You don’t have to organize your thoughts to save it. You just dump it onto a page as if your were creating a webpage or using a private wiki. You can paste in parts of web pages (from Grab.app) or spreadsheets or documents or parts of PDFs. Supposedly you can import whole documents, but I don’t.

It works on a Mac. And you can replicate all your data on your iPhone with VP Reader in the App Store. So as you store important information, you can look it up on the phone when you are away from your mac. The export to iPhone only works via WiFi.

Turn on WiFi on your Mac and iPhone
You open VP Reader on the iPhone and press “Sync”
In VoodooPad on the Mac you “File,” “Export Document,” and “Export to iPhone”
VoodooPad “sees” VP Reader and you hit the Export Button.

Right now, you can’t edit on the iPhone. But you can write notes and then cut and paste them into VoodooPad when you are back at the Mac.

What do I use it for?

How do I login to my health benefits and check Explanation of Benefits?
What is the office phone list?
What books did I mean to read?
Tips on writing a good resume.
What CDs did I loan to my kids and never got back?
Who did that video on LinkTV that I liked?
How do I change the path on my Mac?
How do I cpio directories?
How do I login to this WordPress and write this article?

And I have to admit, I still can’t remember why I saved half this stuff.

The folks at Flying Meat have added the ability to sync your documents (the whole hierarchy) between your Macs using MobileMe or any WebDAV server. And you can publish your whole hierarchy on your MobileMe or another web server and make it available to anyone via a web browser. Not smart if you don’t want people to see your Explanation of Benefits. But if you wanted to use it to distribute reference information to your workgroup, or if you wanted to access the data from a non-Mac computer it is a great feature. Supposedly you can serve the web page with your MobileMe password as security. But it takes some extra steps so don’t do the publishing thing if you are planning to keep private information.

I have been using this for so long, I can’t imagine functioning without it. Now if I could only find an app that will help me forget pesky memories….

Apple’s Ingenious Plan To Make More Money

Dusty — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:28:27 +0000

The company who changed the way we listen to music, reinvented the phone, brought the internet in the palm of our hands has finally dropped the ‘i’ bomb on Earth. As a result, every household nowadays has at least one Apple product. So what’s the secret? Well… a few days ago, while I was about to go to sleep, I thought how the world would look from Steve Jobs eyes. I realized what a fool we iDevice owners are. I did some research, and now I’ve come to the conclusion that Apple played us all along. THIS IS JUST A THEORY… NONE OF THE INFORMATION BELOW IS CONFIRMED TO BE TRUE.

Earlier this year, a leaked prototype of the new and upcoming iPhone was lost in a bar. Gizmodo some how got their hands all over the new iPhone and leaked the specs and pictures. When Apple found out, Steve Jobs commented that humans make mistakes and to make a new product, you gotta test it…. but in this case, things are fishier than it seems.

Now back to the point, how did this happen? Apple, a huge company, can’t handle their upcoming products? And with the built in GPS, Apple could easily track and recover the iPhone before it got in the wrong hands.

Here’s how it goes; Apple changed the iPhone design to a flat glass surface on the front and back. What would you do, if you changed the design of a product so popular that a new design could risk the sales? And if the public didn’t approve of the new design, how do you find out their opinion? You leak the design and review the publics comments. That’s what I would do if I was Steve Jobs.

Everybody loved the new design and Apple decided to go with it. The police raided the house of the editor of Gizmodo and seized some of his stuff. When Steve Jobs was asked about this, he said that this story has a lot of criminal activities. So why didn’t he sue him? Apple, a tech giant could easily sue a tech writer any day… Why didn’t it happen? Why did the editor of Gizmodo get off to this day? This leads to the conclusion that this whole drama was planned. I can’t say that the editor of Gizmodo was in on it or not but Apple definitely had tricks up their sleeve. This leads to Apple’s publicity and more people were now into iPhones. More publicity = More customers. As a result, the company sold 14.1 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 91 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter.

Now you’re going to say “nahh… Apple would never do that”… ok … read on.

iPhone 4 has a major issue. Antennagate. If you hold your iPhone 4 firmly from the left hand corner at the bottom, the signal drops. Why? We know that iPhone 4 has a completely new antenna system but come on… how can Apple even do such a thing, and not find a cure for it. Something is fishy.

After this whole antennagate buzz happened, the antenna design team of the iPhone 4 admitted that they knew there was a fault in the antenna system, but Steve Jobs didn’t mind and nothing was done to fix this issue. Really Steve Jobs? You’re not that stupid… even a 2 year old knows that. So why didn’t he fix the antenna issue before releasing the iPhone 4?

Well, here’s what I think. Apple releases new iPhones every year in June at the WWDC. Apple showed off the iPhone 4 both in black and white. White was delayed even to this day. According to sources, the white iPhone 4 is planned for the holiday season. Today news spread out that the white iPhone 4 is delayed to spring of 2011…. Why the delay? According to Engadget, a person was spotted with a white iPhone in New York. When asked how he got it, he said his friend from the Apple family got it specially for him. When asked why isn’t it publicly released, he said the colour of the home button does not match with the colour of the body. Seriously? It takes 6 months just to fix a small colour problem? NO! What Apple is planning is, that since iPhone 4 in black is such a hit, the white iPhone 4 would bring a lot of revenue too. If both of these were released together, the sales would somewhat be normal for 2010. Apple wants to increase the sales. If both colours were released together and you would go buy an iPhone 4, you’d have a choice either black or white. Lets suppose Apple manufactured 100 iPhones both in black and white, with both assuming 50% of sales was of black, and 50% for white in 2010. Where as if only the black colour iPhone is released, all 100 iPhones would be sold whenever its available. Get the picture?

What Apple planned is that if the white is released later in 2010 and now 2011, their revenue would increase in such a way that if you bought a black one, you would want the white so bad, that you’d buy the iPhone 4 again.

Here’s where antennagate comes in. It seems like the antenna issue didn’t effect the sales in the iPhone 4 anyway. If a fix for this released in another iPhone, you’d definitely buy the new one because it fixes the problem. More buyers = More Revenue… get it?

Apple made a special antenna lab worth $100 million USD where the antenna is tested. How could antennagate be missed during the antenna test? How could such a big issue not be fixed from such a big tech giant?

In other news, the Apple store app was updated that displays the booking for white iPhone 4 available… If Apple wants to release the white iPhone 4 in 2011, why did they update the app with the option for white iPhone 4?

This whole scenario has more twist and turns than roads on mountainous areas…I mean seriously…why can’t Apple make up their mind? What’s stopping them? The answer lies in the mind of Steve Jobs.

Now to the jailbreak scene. When Apple releases a new firmware, they patch the previous jailbreak exploit. The hackers get to work again and create another jailbreak. Why play like cats and dogs? If Apple wanted they could permanently block Jailbreak exploits…. Apple can’t keep up with the hackers? WOW! Im shocked! Apple, such a big tech giant, can’t defeat individual hackers. It’s kind of hard to swallow.

According to Jay Freeman, the creator of Cydia, 10% of all iPhones are jailbroken. People mostly jailbreak so they can get access to 3rd party development that Apple doesn’t approve, one of them pirated apps.

Recently someone told me that he downloaded a pirated version of the app, NanoStudio. He said he couldn’t get that app to work. Whenever he launched NanoStudio, it would load and give the error ”This app is already downloaded on anothet iPhone. Please don’t download pirated version of NanoStudio”.

Then I thought to myself that if one app can’t be pirated, why cant all? This could be applied to every app if Apple wanted. So why doesn’t Apple do it?

In my opinion Apple wants this piracy to continue as it is. Why? Well here’s the statistics:
Apple keeps 40% of the revenue and gives 60% to developers. If piracy attracts people to buy iPhones, more revenue for Apple in a big way. What if Apple doesnt get the 40%? They’re getting more from the sales of iDevices. Lets say I don’t buy an iDevice because apps can’t be pirated. But if piracy is present, I’d buy the iDevice. Which means I’ll pay atleast $100 directly to Apple for the new iDevice. This way Apple gets more revenue, get it?

Now its up to you to decide what’s truth and what’s fiction.

Leave us your thoughts in the comments below.

We Have the White iPhone 4! Kind of…

rorypiper — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:28:23 +0000

With all the recent talk of the mysterious white iPhone 4 being delayed again, or possibly even cancelled, it seems folks who have been patiently waiting, are now out of luck. Well, if you’re willing to put out a little extra money and a bit of work, you can have your very own white iPhone 4. Kind of.

The iPhone 4′s back battery cover is very easy to replace. If you could get your hands on a white one, it’s just a matter of removing 2 screws, sliding off the cover, replacing the cover, then replacing the screws. Head over to Mobile Parts Discount, to find all the replacement parts you might need for many different Apple iDevices. They were nice enough to build this back cover for me, with the frame from a black iPhone 4, and the glass of a white iPhone 4. You may have to order the parts separate, and build it yourself. You could just order the white glass, and build it into your existing frame. We did not attempt replace the front, but I prefer to have the front in black, anyway.

Here’s a quick video showing how to replace the back cover of the iPhone 4. Typically, the only reason you would want to do this, is if you dropped your iPhone 4 and the back glass cover broke. In my case, I’m just trying out the white back cover.

Here’s a couple of “after” pics:

Remember to check out www.mobile-parts-discount.net for all the iPhone parts you may need.

Security Flaw Found in iOS4.1 to Bypass Passcode Lockscreen

rorypiper — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:06:28 +0000

Oh man, this is not good. An iPhone 4 user, by name of Salomão Filho, has discovered a security bug in iOS 4.1, that allows you to bypass a passcode protected lockscreen.

From the passcode lockscreen, go to the emergency call screen.
Dial a fake number. Any number, doesn’t matter what.
As soon as you see the red End Call button, tap the sleep/wake button. You gotta be quick!
You will then be taken right to the iPhone app, and free to view all the contacts on the device and make calls to any of them.

We did our own tests, and found the same bug:

Not sure if this will work from a non-activated device, as we didn’t have one to test. Apple will most likely have this fixed in iOS 4.2, which comes out in November. Let us know you can reproduce this, and comment below! - rorypiper

iPhone Version of VLC Player Now Available On App Store

Dusty — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:45:39 +0000

The moment you’ve all been waiting for, VLC Media Player is now available in the iTunes App Store as an iPhone application and free. “VLC is a free and open source multimedia player. It reads almost every video file, yet it’s very powerful and simple to use.” (iPad users read here).

VLC features:

Runs on the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and the recent iPod touches
You can now delete files from the application, without having to go through iTunes
Many more extensions are being recognized.
Much faster decoding thanks to assembly optimizations