News

iPhone

iPad

iOS 5

You can follow this same news source on Twitter at twitter.com/BreakingiNews

This Terrible Thief Used a Stolen iPhone to Take Pictures That Synced Back to the Owner’s Computer (http://gizmodo.com/5913463/dimwitted-thief-uses-stolen-iphone-to-take-pictures-that-sync-back-to-orignal-owners-computer)

Click here to read This Terrible Thief Used a Stolen iPhone to Take Pictures That Synced Back to the Owner's Computer

That’s Nelson above. That’s Nelson partying. That’s Nelson with his girlfriend. All those pictures were taken with an iPhone he stole. Pictures that were automatically sent to the phone’s original owner, Katy McCaffrey, through Photostream. McCaffrey posted a hilarious Facebook photo album detailing Nelson’s various adventures with her stolen phone. More »

Version 3.0 Available and What’s Next (http://ios.wordpress.org/2012/05/25/version-3-0/)

Swipe-to-moderate in version 3.0 of WordPress for iOS

Swipe to moderate comments

It’s that time again. Version 3.0 of WordPress for iOS is out and adds some exciting new features. Most of the changes have been under the hood so we can now start giving you great updates fast. Let’s jump into it.

What’s new?

Push Notifications for WordPress.com. If you have a WordPress.com blog added to the app, you’ll now be able to opt in to receive push notifications of new comments, which makes it easier than ever to keep up with your readers and moderate comments on the go.
Swipe-to-moderate Toolbar. Swipe over any comment in the Comments list to bring up a moderation toolbar – no need to use bulk moderation or go to the comment permalink. It’s right there, and it’s fast. Another nifty change is the highlighting of new comments in the Comments list when you’ve refreshed, it makes it easy to see what’s new.
Vastly improved performance, especially for iPad. Version 2.9.6 was the most stable version of WordPress for iOS ever, until now. Over 44 bugs and crashes were fixed in this release.
Translations added for Chinese (Taiwan), Hungarian, and Polish (thanks for the translation help!)

Download version 3.0 of WordPress for iOS today.

Contributors

The following contributors have worked on this release of WordPress for iOS: koke, irbrad, aerych, daniloercoli, mrroundhill, rhc3, boctor, isaackeyet - are you next?

What’s next?

Here’s what the rough road map looks like, find more and discussions on the dev blog.

Version 3.1

This release is tentatively scheduled for the end of June.

Sliding Panels are currently being implemented for iPad. This will allow for faster management and an easier overview of everything in the app – from posts and pages to comments, stats, settings, web dashboard access, and WordPress.com features.
A slide-out iPhone/iPod Touch Menu will allow for quicker access to the things you do the most in the app, and provide a great overview.
Post Formats is being added to the post editor so you can easily change the appearance of your published posts if your theme supports it.
A better Welcome screen to get you started quickly with the app and learn more about what it can do.
More iPad Stats than ever before, fully leveraging the screen space.

Version 3.x

These are some of the features/changes we’re considering for the upcoming versions of WordPress for iOS.

Image settings in post editor to set Title, Description, Alignment, Size, and more.
Simple visual editor for text formatting options.
Support for Galleries.
Improved post/page Preview.
Simpler access to Save Draft and other publishing settings.
Quick Photo with “advanced” fields such as tags, categories.
Push notifications for self-hosted blogs through Jetpack.
Support for setting Featured Images.

You should get involved right now. We’re looking for feedback on the planned features and help testing the releases with a new and active Beta Team. If you’re a developer you can get involved directly to help get these great features out quicker – learn more about how to get involved by visiting the Development section.

What are your thoughts on WordPress for iOS and the future? Tweet us @WordPressiOS or leave a comment below.

Absinthe 2.0.1 Download Now Available to Fix Hanging Issues (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/iphoneincanada/~3/ubLoU1lccJo/)

Earlier this morning we saw the release of Absinthe 2.0 to jailbreak your iOS devices on iOS 5.1.1. As always, initial releases always reveal bugs and updates get released to squash them.

@pimskeks tweeted out that Absinthe 2.0.1 has been released with to fix a hang in certain situations:

#Absinthe 2.0.1 is out fixing a hang that could occur in certain situations. Get it from greenpois0n.com

— Nikias Bassen (@pimskeks) May 25, 2012

If you have had some difficulty with your jailbreak, try the new download links below (or wait a few hours to try as servers are being crushed, alongside Cydia as well):

Let us know how this updated version works for you.

Absinthe 2.0.1 Download Now Available to Fix Hanging Issues is a post from: iPhone in Canada Blog – Canada's #1 iPhone Resource

Related posts:

How an iPad Speeds Reporting from NASCAR’s Pit Row (http://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/25/how-an-ipad-speeds-reporting-from-nascars-pit-row/)

Dave Burns has been covering stock car racing from pit road for seventeen years, including spending the past twelve covering NASCAR’s premiere Sprint Cup Series. These days he’s a Pit Reporter for ESPN, covering Nationwide and Sprint Cup practices, qualifying, and races, all over the course of a single weekend — every weekend — for months at a time.

Burnsusingipad
Working the pit lane means dealing with dozens of teams, drivers, mechanics, and more; all while keeping viewers informed across hours of live programming. When he started covering NASCAR for NBC in 2001, Burns developed a sophisticated note-taking system that “catered to our programming, the way my brain worked, and portability.” He started with half-sized legal pads and advanced to custom-bound pads that he would print and bind at home. He has since accumulated hundreds of binders filled with information.

“I have boxes and boxes of notepads that impressed the crew chiefs and race engineers every time,” Burns said. Enviously, the teams would ask “Who does that for you?” Burns response? “I do, with a laser printer and a big ol’ stapler!”

Oldnotebook

One of Burns’ old notebooks
When the iPad was released in 2010, Burns instantly saw the potential. He could digitize his notepads, drop the pen and paper, and carry all his reference material with him to every race. After addressing concerns about size; durability; using it outside in the bright summer sun; and, perhaps most importantly, which apps to use; Burns arrived at his perfect setup:

For taking notes, both hand-written and typed, he uses Note Taker HD, a $4.99 iPad app [App Store]. “Note Taker HD has gone through a couple of valuable updates and has been rock solid all the way. I appreciate the “output” feature which allows me to save or email myself a copy of the weekends’ work.”

For downloading and storing statistics as well as the weekly NASCAR Media Guide, he found the $1.99 app Simply PDF works best [App Store]. “Simply PDF has been solid as well, never balking at NASCAR’s 100+ page per weekend update books. In addition, I permanently store 1-page race results for Nationwide and Sprint Cup, for every event, dating back to 2004.”

Originally, Burns used the Boxwave Active Field Case to carry and protect the iPad, but discovered that because it covered the entire iPad, it overheated in the sun. Burns says the first time it happened, he “calmly shut it down and scrambled for pen and paper.”

To avoid more heat-related complications, he switched to the FreeOneHand iPad holder and avoids holding the iPad in direct sunlight for too long. It has since “endured countless days out in the 90 degree heat of summer.” He uses Boxwave’s ClearTouch anti-glare screen protector to cut screen glare.

I upgraded to the iPad 2 over the winter for the weight break and camera, and all has gone smoothly in 2012. I no longer bring my MacBook Air on the road, and am thrilled that the TSA doesn’t require that the iPad be removed from my carry on! Using the iPad for what I do has proven to be efficient and entertaining. And, as usual for an Apple product, IT JUST WORKS. I’ve had to put a baggie over it a time or two in a rain situation, but other than that it absolutely does the job.

And once again the crew chiefs and engineers ask, “who does that for you?”

Burns developed his system personally, using his own iPad, and says that iPad use isn’t widespread among the on-air talent at ESPN. “Almost every pit reporter developed a system that fits their way of thinking,” Burns said. “As a pit reporter on television, you cue up a lot of things to say in your brain, but as the action on the track moves, so must your story.”

He said that with his paper notepads, he would constantly be flipping back and forth from a “driver page” with prewritten story notes to a “race tracking page” where he jots down details mid-race. He says that he runs into the same problem on the iPad and he has needed to train himself to remember the tricks that get him from app to app, and this “may be a process that would distract others rather than help them.” He says that ESPN isn’t requiring reporters to work a certain way, as these note taking systems are extremely personal.

Most importantly, so far as Burns is concerned, the system “really works” for him. Side effects, such as saving resources by not needing to print hundreds of pages each week, are a benefit, but weren’t his primary motivation. “I can do a lot of things on the fly and easily incorporate items into my notes.” Having a connection to the Internet helps too. Burns uses the personal hotspot feature on an Android phone on Sprint because, being a prime NASCAR sponsor, they have the best coverage at the track.

Burnstalkingtostaff
He shared a sample PDF to show the kind of notes he takes. This is from the Pioneer Hi-Bred 250 this past weekend at Iowa Speedway. It includes the race tracking system he developed, post-race NASCAR stats pasted in for future reference, and individual pages for the drivers he covered during the race.

Burns does have some visions for the future. He’d love to add live race timing and scoring, as well as the ability to scan driver’s radio frequencies. He currently has a radio scanner hooked up to a Bluetooth transmitter attached to the back to the iPad. “NASCAR keeps close control of their timing and scoring,” Burns noted, but they haven’t provided that to mobile users except for an app that Sprint, as a primary sponsor, provides to their customers. That app is Android-only at the moment, but is coming to Sprint iPhone owners later this year.

“I may not want it,” Burns noted. “I don’t know if I want my note-taking iPad tied up with scanning frequencies or showing a screen of scoring” or a live ESPN video feed. That said, he would “always like to try.”

This weekend, he’ll be covering the NASCAR Nationwide race live from the pit road at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Coverage of qualifying begins at 11AM Eastern on ESPN, with the race beginning at 2:30PM Eastern on ABC.

Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories
• Apple Stores to Sell Nest Thermostat
• New iPad Launching in Philippines and Guam on May 29
• Autodesk Releases 'Sketchbook Ink' iPad Drawing App Demo'd at New iPad Launch
• Indie Developers Support Flexible Pricing with 'Because We May' Sale
• Apple Releases Aperture 3.2.4 Update

App Store’s new sections still don’t solve discovery problems (http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/apple/~3/J9s0mfNLGrI/)

Apple's new "Editors' Choice" banner

Apple is trying to help its users sift through the mountains of available apps by adding two new sections to the App Store and Mac App Store: “Free App of the Week” and “Editors’ Choice.” As expected, the two sections are meant to highlight high-quality apps for iOS and the Mac that users might otherwise miss due the sheer number of other apps being added to the two stores each day. But while the new sections are a welcome addition to the app stores, they still don’t do much to improve the app discovery problem when users try to search.

Some current Editors’ Choice picks on the iOS App Store include the new Facebook Camera app, Extreme Skater, Sketchbook Ink, and Air Mail. As for the Free App of the Week, the company is highlighting Cut the Rope: Experiments, which is free for a limited time as part of the new promotion. On the Mac App Store, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Cobook are being highlighted as Editors’ Choices.

The new sections are helpful to a degree—users are always looking for new apps that rise above the rest in quality, and the new sections will help to promote those apps. But as pointed out by our friends at The Apple Blog, this is largely just a band-aid solution when viewed in the larger scope of app discovery. Even the most specific search terms, when plugged into the App Store, can turn up thousands of hits for other apps that may not even be relevant to what the user wanted. Digging through page after page of results can be tiring, and users are unlikely to have the patience or attention span to spend more than a few minutes trying to find what they want before giving up.

Related posts:

PayPal lines up 15 retailers for mobile payments, will let you buy Jamba Juice smoothies with a smartphone (http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/25/paypal-lines-up-15-retailers-for-mobile-payments/)

Although PayPal’s mobile payment system started out small with a Home Depot deal, that snowball is quickly rolling itself into a boulder. Starting next month, 15 extra US retailers will be happy to see you slap down your smartphone (not literally, we hope) instead of a credit card. The selection leads us to think a lot of smartphone owners like to shop for wearables — Aéropostale, Foot Locker and JC Penney are in the batch, along with others — but there's a few useful exceptions, like Barnes & Noble, Jamba Juice and TigerDirect. At least a total of 20 merchants are expected by the end of year, and as with Home Depot, you won’t need special hardware besides an Android or iOS device to spend your hard-earned cash. We’ll just be thankful we won’t have to buy our yogurt with actual cash, like savages.

PayPal lines up 15 retailers for mobile payments, will let you buy Jamba Juice smoothies with a smartphone originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 May 2012 06:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments

First impressions of Facebook's Instagram camera app clone (http://dvice.com/archives/2012/05/first-impressio-1.php)

As Facebook gets larger, the amount of spin-off apps grow, too. Released today, Facebook Camera is the social network’s third iPhone app. Facebook Camera borrows heavily from Instagram, despite the fact that it was created before the now infamous $1 billion acquisition. So, how does it stack up?

Apple in Talks to Bring ‘WatchESPN’ App to Apple TV (http://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/15/apple-in-talks-to-bring-watchespn-app-to-apple-tv/)

Bloomberg briefly reports that Apple and Disney are in talks to bring sports network ESPN’s WatchESPN application [App Store] to the Apple TV set-top box.

ESPN subscribers with AppleTV would gain access to the network’s Internet service on their TV sets. [Sean] Bratches, the network’s executive vice president of affiliate and advertising sales, spoke in an interview today.

The brief report doesn’t specify exactly how access to the WatchESPN functionality on the Apple TV would work, but currently customers of a number of cable and Internet companies have varying levels of access to the app’s content on iOS and other platforms, which includes nearly all of ESPN’s live broadcasts including online-only ESPN3 content.

Currently, cable subscribers through Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon FiOS, and Bright House have full access to WatchESPN content, while subscribers on a host of other Internet services can receive access to the ESPN3 content through the app.

WatchESPN being sent to Apple TV via AirPlay

iOS device users who are eligible to access WatchESPN content can currently send the content to an Apple TV via AirPlay, but including the app directly on the Apple TV would streamline that process.

Update: Bloomberg has expanded its article with additional comments from Bratches:

“We’re a platform-agnostic content company,” Bratches, the network’s executive vice president of affiliate and advertising sales, said today in an interview. “To the extent that in the future there’s an opportunity with Apple to authenticate through the pay-TV food chain as we’re doing with Microsoft, that’s something that we will participate in.”

Update 2: Bloomberg has updated its article once again, citing comments from an ESPN spokesperson backtracking from Bratches’ statements by noting that there are no active talks with Apple underway.

No deal is imminent with Apple, said Amy Phillips, a spokeswoman for Bristol, Connecticut-based ESPN.

“We’re not having conversations with Apple about authenticating WatchESPN,” Phillips said.

Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories
• Google Chrome Browser Coming to iOS?
• Book Pricing Lawsuit Reveals More Details of Apple's Negotiations, Including Steve Jobs Email
• Time Warner Cable CEO Hasn't Heard of Apple's AirPlay
• Apple to Continue Offering Support for Me.com Email After MobileMe Discontinuation
• Sparrow for iPhone Adds Swipe Navigation and Landscape Mode, Push to Require Subscription

Pod2g Posts Progress List of Jailbroken iOS 5.1.1 Devices (http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/jailbreak/pod2g-posts-progress-list-of-jailbroken-ios-5-1-1-devices/)

Jailbreakers all around the world are closely watching pod2g’s progress of his untethered, iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak. He has given an eta of 2 weeks, or so, with speculation that the new jailbreak will be debuted at the HITB SecConf, in Amsterdam. This conference takes place between May 21st and May 25th.

In pod2g’s latest blog post, he shows us a list of what devices they have tested, what devices they have not tested, and what devices will not be supported.

This is an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1. There is no word if the final product will support earlier versions of iOS 5. Also, it should be noted that this is not an unlock for the iPhone 4 or 4S. If you need your phone unlocked, you will want to stay away from this jailbreak, as you will most likely have to upgrade your firmware This will upgrade your baseband, therefore, losing your unlock.