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iPhone Firmware 3.0 Preview (liveblog)

March 17, 2009 By Douglas 60 Comments

Apple Today Apple will be previewing new firmware for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Apple has said nothing about features yet but there are lots of rumors including copy & paste and MMS (picture messaging). There’s also rumors of a better graphical interface to keep up with the new Palm Pre. The event will start at the following time: 7:00am Hawaii, 10:00am Pacific, 11:00am Mountain, 12:00pm Central, 1:00pm Eastern, 5:00pm London, 6:00pm Paris, 2:00am Tokyo (March 18th)

Firmware 3.0

10:53 About an hour to go!

12:03 Event has begun, info should start flowing here shortly

12:03 iPhone Sales = 17 Million, with iPod Touches total = 30 Million (in 80 countries)

12:04 800,000 downloads, 50,000 joined paid SDK
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iPhone Firmware 3.0 Poll

March 17, 2009 By Brooke 11 Comments

Apple What better day to get back into the groove of things than the day that Apple announces it’s 3.0 firmware for the iPhone. As many of you know, there are a ton of rumors of what the new firmware will bring…anything from picture messaging to new graphics to the ability to have apps run in the background.

Now for a poll. Below are a few of the rumored new features for firmware 3.0. Which one would you most like to see included in the new firmware?

If you could pick one new feature that firmware 3.0 would include...what would it be?

MMS Text Messaging (30%, 313 Votes)
Video Recording (17%, 175 Votes)
Copy & Paste (18%, 187 Votes)
Apps Running in Background (16%, 171 Votes)
New Graphics (9%, 98 Votes)
Tethering Ability (4%, 43 Votes)
Other (6%, 68 Votes)

Total Voters: 1,055

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Cydia Store Launching “Tonight”

March 6, 2009 By Douglas 32 Comments

Cydia According to a recent tweet from @Saurik, “Tonight (late) a new Cydia will come out with one package “for sale” (more over the next week): more details will be in Cydia.” This is also confirmed in an article from the Wall Street Journal that talks about the drama of Apple trying to call jailbreaking the iPhone illegal. I personally do not think it’s illegal to jailbreak the iPhone. The iPhone is a computer running OS X. Just like my iMac, I can install whatever I want on it. [Read more...]

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Saurik’s Letter to the US Copyright Office

February 21, 2009 By Brooke 32 Comments

Apple As many of you already know, Apple is trying to making jailbreaking your iPhone and/or iPod Touch illegal. Well, we ran across this letter that saurik (the developer of Cydia) wrote and submitted to the copyright office. Below is letter in it’s entirety.

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Commercial – Read

January 28, 2009 By Douglas 2 Comments

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Commercial – Fix

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Commercial – Check

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2.2.1 Firmware Update

January 27, 2009 By Douglas 53 Comments

Apple Apple has recently released an update for the iPhone firmware. If you update you will lose your jailbreak and/or unlock. Please wait for an update from the dev team. Here’s the official word on what was updated. Looks like mostly bug fixes…

iPhone 2.2.1 Software Update

This update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
• Improved general stability of Safari
• Fixed issue where some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll

Products compatible with this software update:
• iPhone
• iPhone 3G

I did have a picture get all blurry after downloading it from the Mail App this moring. Let us know if you see any changes not mentioned here.

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15,000 Apps & 500,000,000 Downloads

January 17, 2009 By Douglas Leave a Comment

Apple’s home page shows they have reached over 15,000 apps in the App Store and over 500 Million downloads. This shows that the App Store is growing at an incredible speed. In early December the app store had over 10,000 apps according to AppShopper.com.

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Apple Allowing 3rd Party Browsers into App Store?

January 14, 2009 By Brooke 12 Comments

Apple I found this to be an interesting development! It seems that in the last day or so, Apple has begun allowing 3rd party browsing applications into the AppStore. Apparently, these type of applications were not approved in the past due to “duplicating functionality.” However, it seems that someone has changed their mind because applications dating back as far as October are now being approved and added to the App Store. Gizmodo explains a couple of the new applications; [Read more...]

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Macworld 2009 Keynote

January 6, 2009 By Douglas 8 Comments

Apple Looks like this will be the last time we’ll be doing this :( This is Apple’s last time at Macworld. Today’s iPhone rumors include iPhone nanos, larger storage, cellular downloads for iTunes, larger iPod Touch (Tablet), etc… We’ll find out soon enough! ~~Keep refreshing for the latest info!~~

New iLife 09

iPhoto 09 with face recognition called “Faces”; also includes “Places” organized by geotagging; support for facebook and flickr in iPhoto, also intergrates with Facebook and Flickr; iPhone helps you create photo slideshows with themes; slideshows created automatically with face detection, sync slideshows right to your iPhone.

iMovie 09 with themes, auto stalilization, animated travel maps, new effects, chart animations, and more.

iWork.com online version of iWork.
Garageband 09 teaches you how to play music called “Learn to Play.” Also uses famous artists to teach you their songs for $4.99 per lesson.

New iWork 09 – $79

Keynote 09 with magic move, object zoom, perceptive move, text transitions, and more transitions. Keynote remote – control your keynote with your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Pages 09 has a few updates like intergration with numbers, templates, full screen view.

Numbers 09 adds new formulas and functions, templates.

iWork.com web based iWork.

New MacBook Pro with new Battery that lasts up to 8 HOURS; 9400M and 9600M graphics cards, 256GB SSD upgradable drive; Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93 GHz Dual Core, 6MB L2 Cache, 8GB memory at 1066 MHz DDR3; glass trackpad, four-finger gestures and multi-button support; .98 inches thin, 6.6 pounds, and is the world’s lightest and thinnest 17-inch notebook

iTunes new pricing, $0.69 & $1.29, 8 million songs DRM Free, iTunes works on cellular network for the iPhone!

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Macworld & CES 2009 Rumors & Coverage

December 30, 2008 By Douglas 12 Comments

Apple Next week there will be many announcements coming out of Macworld and CES. We will be monitoring all of the iPhone and iPod Touch related news and will keep you up to date on all the breaking news. There are lots of rumors but of course, nothing confirmed yet. Here’s the rumors so far:

- iPhone Pro: an iPhone with 60GB of storage, true 16:9 aspect ratio, slide-out keyboard, one megapixel front camera for iChat, and a high quality camera, with good lenses, optical zoom, and video capability.
- iPhone Nano: Smaller and lower priced.
- iPod Touch 7″ or 10″: Possibly only announced at Macworld but released in fall of 2009.

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Walmart Selling $99 3G iPhones?

December 4, 2008 By Brooke 18 Comments

Apple Ok, ok….I can’t take it any longer!! All this talk about Walmart selling a $99 iPhone 3G, I just have to write about it!! It seems that the guys over at TBG have received information that leads one to believe that Walmart might, in the near future, be selling 4GB iPhone 3G’s for $99 (with a 2-year agreement). I will say that the picture of the 3G activation guide with Walmart’s logo on it could be a little bit convincing. Though, I’m honestly in a quandary over this one. Would Apple really start production of a 4GB iPhone 3G when the 8GB iPhone 3G is doing so well? Would Apple really start selling the iPhone at Walmart? And lastly, would people buy an iPhone at Walmart (assuming the monthly plan rates would not change)? I do not have anything against Walmart but, I’m not sure how I would feel to walk by and see my beloved iPhone on display (though, we already see them on sale at BestBuy). I guess we will just have to wait and see…I have given up on trying to guess what Apple is going to do next…they are so unpredictable!! :) Let me know in the comments what you think about Apple, a $99 4GB iPhone 3G and Walmart. Images below. [Read more...]

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Warning – MobileMe Trial Subscription Ending

November 30, 2008 By Brooke 22 Comments

Many of you know that when MobileMe (me.com) was launched, you were able to sign up for a free trial to test out the new service. When you signed up for the trial subscription you were required to enter credit card information. Well, it seems that the MobileMe trial has come to an end. We received an email today, from Apple/MobileMe, stating that our credit card will be charged $95.00 on December 7th. So, as we warned you in our post about signing up for MobileMe’s trial subscription, you will need to go into your MobileMe account and cancel your subscription in order to avoid being charged the yearly fee. However, there is one catch that we were not expecting. [Read more...]