TagsTagsI guess everyone knew this was coming when Steve Jobs had to step down as head of Apple. The sad announcement arrived tonight that Jobs has died at the age of 56.
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PBS recently launched a great new iPhone app (also available for iPad) that lets you watch full-length episodes, segments, and previews of upcoming shows. Many of PBS's top programs are available, including Nova, Austin City Limits, Frontline, and PBS NewsHour, as well as original online programming from Nova ScienceNOW and ...
An awesome iPhone hack that I'm definitely going to try, via Gizmodo: How To Turn Your iPhone Into A Microscope For Only $10. These odd images were all taken using an iPhone cleverly equipped with a 45x microscope. The best part though? You can add such an upgrade to your ...
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Apple’s Steve Jobs announced today that they will provide free cases for iPhone 4 owners to address the antenna signal problem that caused a slip in Apple’s stock price this week, after a negative review in Consumer Reports. MacRumors has an interesting interview with Jobs about this and other topics: ...
As an iPhone geek, I’m suffering today from serious gadget lust. Here’s Apple’s promotional video for the newly announced iPhone 4. [Video]
LGF lizard Thanos pointed out this page at Amazon where you can get their Free Kindle Reading Apps for a variety of computers and mobile devices. I installed the Mac and iPhone versions and they both work well, with a few caveats. The Mac version isn’t very Mac-like; it looks like ...
The iPhone OS 4 event held this morning had some fantastic news for iPhone owners (which includes me), with a host of great new features including the big one: true multitasking. Apps running in the background will be able to use system calls to provide multitasking services, avoiding the performance ...
Here’s an interesting article at MacWorld on the Apple A4 microprocessor, the CPU for the iPad and the first Apple-branded system-on-a-chip: Apple inside: the significance of the iPad’s A4 chip. With the A4, Apple still maintains its long-standing relationship with ARM while delivering on performance, with a design that no ...
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TidBITS has an interesting overview of the features of Apple’s new iPad device: Hands-on Impressions of the iPad.
The technoidosphere is buzzing about the fact that Apple’s new iPad doesn’t support Flash. Adobe, being the maker of Flash, is unhappy about this; so unhappy that yesterday they played the porn card.
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Apple’s new tablet computer, dubbed the iPad, was announced today; the device looks like an oversized iPhone or iPod Touch, runs iPhone Apps, and will be shipping later this year. It weighs 1.5 pounds and has a 9.7 inch display, Bluetooth, 802.11n wireless, a battery life of up to 10 ...
A day after a major security issue was annnounced in the iPhone 3.0 software, Apple has released version 3.0.1: Apple Fixes Serious iPhone SMS Attack. The SMS-based attack described at the Black Hat security conference allows a bad guy to gain complete control of an iPhone by sending a barrage of ...
The latest version of the iPhone operating system is now available with some big enhancements. To install the latest version connect your iPhone to the computer, launch iTunes, click on your iPhone in the Devices menu in the sidebar, and use the “Check for Update” button in the iPhone’s ...
Here’s an open tech thread — I’ve been testing the LGF Spy with my iPhone and it turns out to work really well for posting comments. In a regular comment thread, when the HTML page gets very large the iPhone’s Safari browser bogs down, and even crashes; makes it not ...
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Apple’s WWDC conference keynote speech is due to begin at 10 am Pacific time, and it’s being liveblogged at Engadget and Gizmodo. (Looks like Gizmodo’s page is Ajax-driven for auto updates...) Apple’s expected to announce new versions of the iPhone, the new iPhone OS 3.0, and possibly the latest upgrade to ...
An accidental iPhone photograph with a curvy thing to it.
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Photos you won’t believe were taken with the iPhone’s underpowered digital camera, at Chase Jarvis Photography. Also see: The Art of iPhone Photography.
TidBITs has a detailed summary of the new features announced in the iPhone 3.0 Software. At a special press event at its headquarters today, Apple previewed the new iPhone 3.0 software, which adds the long-awaited push notification capability, support for subscriptions and purchases within applications, and copy and paste, among ...
Engadget is liveblogging the iPhone 3.0 software preview event: Live from Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 preview event. Looks like almost everything iPhone users have requested is in there...
Apple is previewing (not releasing) version 3.0 of the iPhone software tomorrow, and hordes of iPhoniacs are clamoring for copy-paste features, with smaller hordes muttering about “push notification” (a type of mobile device multi-tasking). Kevin Rose of Digg.com says copy-paste is a done deal, and MacWorld lists 15 iPhone 3.0 features ...
When Amazon announced the Kindle 2 in early February they dropped hints about reading Kindle books on an iPhone, and here’s the reason for the hints: Kindle for iPhone. (iTunes App Store link.) Once you install this free application, all you have to do is enter your Amazon account’s email address ...