Month: August 2010

MIDI gear makers embracing new iOS SDK terms

August 21, 2010 admin

Makers of MIDI gear, including Akai and Line-6, have begun taking advantage of changes to the iOS SDK terms regarding third-party app development. The initial agreement restricted developers to creating apps for hardware they have licensed under Apple’s Made for iPod program. The new terms have been adjusted to allow third-party developers to create apps…

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OWC claims fastest $100 solid-state drive

August 21, 2010 admin

OWC finished the week this afternoon by cracking a price barrier with the Mercury Extreme Pro. The new 40GB hits the $100 price mark but still uses a high-speed SandForce memory controller that should make it the fastest at its price. Read and write speeds can both last as high as 260MB per second, a…

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Apple may be looking to lock out unauthorized iOS users

August 21, 2010 admin

Apple has applied for a patent on a method to protect mobile devices from unauthorized access, including automatic data wiping, alerting the device owner of trouble, and photographing and geolocating an “unauthorized” user. More: continued here

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iOS: Birthdays Calendar does not display Birthdays starting more than 77 Years ago

August 21, 2010 admin

iCal, iOS 4, and MobileMe all offer a Birthdays Calendar. This calendar is automatically generated from birthday information found in your Address Book contacts. Contacts whose first birthday is more than 77 years ago do not display when viewed in the Birthdays Calendar on an iOS Device, such as an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. The Birthdays…

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Apple Applies for a Patent to Remotely Disable Jailbroken / Unauthorized iPhones

August 21, 2010 admin

Jailbreaking may have gone completely legal in the United States but that doesn’t stop Steve Jobs and Co. in their fight against unofficial / unauthorized use of iOS based devices. Apple today has applied for a new patent which will allow the Cupertino based company to remotely disable any iOS based device (iPhone, iPad and…

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Software Update to Fix iPhone 3G Performance Issues is Coming Soon, Confirms Steve Jobs

August 21, 2010 admin

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has confirmed that a new software update for iOS 4.x will be rolled out soon to fix performance woes on iPhone 3G, running iOS 4.x. He confirmed this in a reply to an email, sent to him by a user who expressed his frustration over the performance of his iPhone 3G…

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White iPhone 4 Unboxed, Hands-on Video !

August 21, 2010 admin

Here is what appears to be a leaked late production unit of a white iPhone 4 which is officially scheduled to launch “later this year”. 9to5Mac site which got the scoop on it believes that this might be one of those units which have been “scrapped by Apple at the last minute after defects in…

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Canon intros PowerShot S95, SD4500 IS and SX130 IS

August 19, 2010 admin

Canon tonight launched a trio of higher-end compact cameras today highlighted by a refresh of its cult favorite low-light camera. The PowerShot S95 still thrives on a 10-megapixel high sensitivity CCD but improves its image quality further: it now builds in Hybrid IS from pro lenses that can compensate for angular and shifting shaking, theoretically…

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Chinese iPhone-maker Foxconn rallies workers after suicides

August 19, 2010 admin

Young workers who normally spend their days assembling iPhones and other high-tech gadgets packed a stadium at their massive campus Wednesday, waving pompoms and shouting slogans at a rally to raise morale following a string of suicides at the company’s heavily regimented factories. More: continued here

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Facebook Launches Location Service Called “Places”. Update Coming to iPhone App Tonight !

August 19, 2010 admin

At the Facebook HQ in Palo Alto, CA, Facebook CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg, along with other developers, engineers and partners at Facebook announced a new location based product called Facebook Places. This is essentially a check-in service like Foursquare and Gowalla that allows you to check-in to places that you have been to share…

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Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse Has Been Finally Unveiled !!

August 19, 2010 admin

Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse has been finally been unveiled to the world. It is one sexy looking mouse by Microsoft with a design very similar to the last-generation Arc Mouse by Microsoft, except that this one has touch-sensitive shell on top, and you can curve and straighten it anyway you like! kinda combination of Magic…

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“Well known” TCP and UDP ports used by Apple software products

August 19, 2010 admin

Learn more about TCP and UDP ports used by Apple products, such as Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, AppleShare IP, Network Assistant, Apple Remote Desktop, Macintosh Manager, and MobileMe. Many of these are referred to as "well known" industry standard ports.Note: Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard and later includes the Application Firewall, which…

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Apple Releases New “iPad is Delicious” Commercial [Video]

August 19, 2010 admin

One thing which Apple never fails to do is to impress us all with awesome new ads for their products. And so going by the trend, Apple today has released a brand new ad for iPad which is dubbed as “iPad is Delicious”. What is so delicious about it? Well you can check out the…

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Nikon D3100 official: 1080p video for $700

August 19, 2010 admin

Nikon tonight confirmed the existence of the D3100, a major revamp of its entry-level DSLR. The camera in some ways is Nikon’s best as it’s the first mainstream model to shoot above 12 megapixels, at 14, and its first to shoot 1080p video. A new EXPEED 2 processor both improves image quality and switches on…

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EffectiveSoft made its iPhone game East Indian Tycoon available on iTunes App Store

August 18, 2010 admin

EffectiveSoft, Ltd. now announces its free iPhone game East Indian Tycoon is live on iTunes App store. The iPhone game came out strong for players, it is compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, and it requires iOS 3 or later versions. Game amateurs can download the game from iTunes App store and enjoy easy to use interface, improved game controls, rich graphic design and interactive features.

iPhone game East Indian Tycoon was created by the experienced team of EffectiveSoft’ s iPhone programmers, who leveraged the power of Apple XCode, Adobe Photoshop, Objective-C and Cocoa Touch API development tools and technologies. EffectiveSoft’s programmers adopted Agile methodology to iPhone game development process to divide tasks into several parts and to discuss them during meetings in the sake of project success.

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