When Tim Cook took over Apple, one of the major questions that came up was how the company would change. In his first letter to the company, Cook emphasized that Apple would not be changing at all form the culture that Jobs put forth. While we all expect for Apple to continue to be astronomically successful, it was always a question how Cook would present new products and how he would lead....
Despite the idea of iMessage on the Mac seeming like a no brainer type idea, there is yet to be no function for this in OSX. Chatting back and forth with the different iOS devices is incredibly easy now. With the Messages app running on all the devices, sending messages back and forth using your email address or Apple ID, is as simple as sending a text message. Earlier this summer I know....
While many of us Apple fans expected iTunes Match to launch alongside iOS 5 and the iPhone 4S last week, it was for some reason missing. Why, you may ask? Perhaps nobody will ever know. But now we have a more likely timeframe. But first, maybe I should explain exactly what iTunes Match is, for those of you who may not know. iTunes Match is Apple’s solution to music streaming. For....
There has been a desire for a jailbreak to be released for both the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running on iOS 5. There seems to be major progress made in that process. From iDB: Hot on the heels of MuscleNerd’s status update on the iPhone 4S jailbreak, a short video of the iPad 2 has surfaced showing the tablet jailbroken and running Cydia on iOS 5. No ETA has been given for the iOS 5 untethered....
People have been clamoring for one of the prominent developers in the jailbreak community to get Siri to port to the iPhone 4 or iPod Touch 4th generation. Now, you can get Siri on your iPhone 4 or iPod Touch 4th generation, kind of. You can get the whole user interface on the device, but none of the voice control works. If you are interested, here is the tutorial. Step 1: Jailbreak your....
One of the signature thing about Steve Job’s life was that he always had a car that did not have a license plate. How was it possible for somebody not to have a license plate? Did he get fined every time he ran into the police? Did he get a special permit? Was he just flat out lucky? Turns out there is an amazing explanation for this. iTWire explains (via The Loop): Steve (or....
One of the bigger let downs of the iPad 3 announcement was the lack of a retina display on the new tablet. The retina display is widely regarded as the best mobile phone display, with a really high pixel density, allowing for crispness for everything you do on the phone. people have been clamoring for a retina display for their tablet and it appears they may be getting their wish sometime....
Over the past few days, I have taken quite a few shots with my new iPhone. The camera is impressive enough that I suddenly want to take pictures of everything around me. For the first few days, I was constantly plugging in my phone to sync the photos with iPhoto. It took me a few days to realize that I was forgetting something about iOS 5. Photo Stream is a pretty cool feature. I didn’t....
Rumors of an Apple LCD TV have been going around in the rumor mill for years and years. Apple has always doubted whether or not it would be smart to go into the market because it is expensive, risky, and there might not even be a big market for the product. In addition, the market is less controllable than the manufacturer than the current smartphone and tablet market. Jobs always felt that....
Until now, iOS 5 jailbreaks with RedSn0w have been only tethered, meaning that we would have to reconnect our phone every time we wanted to turn our device on after a reboot or turning it off. Untethered jailbreaks are what most people desire, the ability to turn on and off you iPhone at will without having to worry about connecting your phone to your computer every time you want to turn....
