| Time of iPhone 3G Launch Remains Unclear |
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Unconfirmed reports claim that the U.S. iPhone launch will take place starting at 8am, July 11th at AT&T stores nationwide. A screenshot posted to our forums claims to depict the actual email sent to AT&T managers. Even if you accept the letter as...
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| | 6/29/2008 3:59 PM (7d 5h 24m ago) |
| Apple Seeds iPhone 2.0 5A345, iTunes 7.7 Beta, SDK 8 |
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Apple has seeded developers with Beta 8 of the iPhone Software Developer's Kit (SDK) in preparation for the upcoming App Store. Alongside the latest SDK, Apple has also seeded a pre-release of iTunes 7.7 as well as a new version of the iPhon...
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| | 6/29/2008 3:58 PM (7d 5h 25m ago) |
| Apple Accepting iPhone Apps Into App Store |
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Apple has sent out an email notice to developers that they are now accepting applications to the App Store.Get started by downloading the eighth beta version of the iPhone OS, available in the iPhone Dev Center. With this ne...
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| | 6/29/2008 3:57 PM (7d 5h 25m ago) |
| Apple to Offer iTunes Remote Control App for iPhone and iPod Touch |
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iTunes 7.7 settings for iPhone Remote
Apple released a pre-release version of iTunes 7.7 for developers tonight. In the Read Me of the iTunes installer is a hint at a previously unannounced iPhone/iPod Touch application: |
| | 6/29/2008 3:55 PM (7d 5h 27m ago) |
| Me.com Email Addresses Now Working [For Some] |
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If you are a .Mac subscriber, Apple appears to have activated the corresponding @me.com email addresses. If your email address was username@mac.com previously, you can now use username@me.com and emails should arrive in your .Mac mailbox. In the ne...
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| | 6/29/2008 3:52 PM (7d 5h 30m ago) |
| MobileMe browser requirements page found |
| | Filed under: .Mac, MobileMe digg_url = 'http://www.tuaw.com/2008/06/23/mobileme-browser-requirements-page-found/';
Joining in on the conversation about tonight's .Mac outage, reader Chad sent us a link to a page he discovered on .Mac. He said that while trying to access his .Mac service on his iPhone, he was redirected to a MobileMe browser requirements page. One of the suspicious things on the page is the fact that "calendar" is spelled wrong (i.e. "calender"). You can see a screen grab of the page after the break.
The page in question shows Safari as the top browser to use, followed by Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7. On last night's talkcast (MP3 Link) Michael Rose, Robert Palmer, and I talked about the possibility of Apple marketing the Safari browser for Windows users through the MobileMe service. It looks as if that guess is true.Thanks, Chad!Update: Apple has updated the page (see new screenshot after the break).Continue reading MobileMe browser requirements page foundRead | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 6/24/2008 3:16 PM (12d 6h 6m ago) |
| MLB At Bat for iPhone |
| | Filed under: iPhone, App StoreWe've been running running a few App Store roundups covering applications announced for the iPhone App Store, but as TUAW's resident seamhead I can't help but call one out for special attention. It was demoed at the WWDC keynote and now Macworld has a close look at the upcoming MLB At Bat application. It will be available at launch and provide near real time "wireless score access and in-game highlights for every game on the MLB schedule" for only $4.99 for the rest of the season. Apparently the video highlights will be available in two versions: one high-bandwidth version for wifi and a lower bandwidth version for EDGE (they haven't said which version the 3G iPhone will load). For the future they're looking into bringing the Gameday service to the iPhone which opens the possibility of Gameday Audio. For the real baseball fanatics out there this would be an absolutely killer app, especially for those of us away from our home team's broadcast area. Imagine being able to listen to any game on your iPhone from anywhere; that's close to baseball nirvana. And though things are looking rather bad at the moment: Go 'Stos!Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 6/20/2008 4:30 AM (16d 16h 52m ago) |
| iPhone App News Roundup: June 19, 2008 |
| | Filed under: iPhone, App Store, SDKYeehhhhaaawww! It's time for the (almost) daily TUAW iPhone App News Roundup!
SplashData, a longtime and very popular developer for Windows Mobile and Palm, is bringing the SplashID (secure information manager), SplashShopper (list organizer), and SplashMoney (personal banking manager) apps to iPhone.
Fiery Ferret, AKA Bridger Maxwell, has ported his shareware game Lumen to iPhone. The iPhone version has access to 1,200 user-submitted puzzles.
MobileAge is readying Blackjack 21 and touchTile Mahjong for iPhone and iPod touch.
Hey Mac Software will soon let you move data between Macs by transferring files to and from your iPhone wirelessly. Briefcase is the name of this program, expected in the Fall.
Like Things, the task manager from Cultured Code? Think of Things touch on your iPhone or iPod touch. Nice.
MyMote is an open-source iPhone application designed to provide remote functionality for Mythtv front ends. What's Mythtv? An app to turn Linux computers into a Tivo-like DVR.
Tebeka Software Developments is porting Pocket Luach to the iPhone. Pocket Luach is a Windows Mobile application that allows users to browse a Jewish calendar, create and manage Jewish events (wedding dates, Bar Mitzvahs...), and do date conversions between Jewish and civil dates.
If you have an iPhone app that's on its way to the App Store, let us know about it.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 6/20/2008 4:30 AM (16d 16h 53m ago) |
| Apple has Sold Over 5 Billion Songs on iTunes |
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Apple announced today that they had sold over 5 billion songs on iTunes. According to data from the NPD Group, iTunes remains the number one music retailer in the US. iTunes features the largest online music catalog with over eight million songs. |
| | 6/20/2008 4:27 AM (16d 16h 55m ago) |
| Apple posts WWDC 2008 keynote in HD |
| | Filed under: WWDC, Steve JobsFirst you could stream the yesterday's keynote, then you could download it via iTunes, and now you can stream it in HD. Nothing beats seeing an Apple presentation in HD, you can almost smell the Old Spice on Phil Schiller.Thanks, Jeff.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 6/11/2008 3:24 PM (25d 5h 58m ago) |
| iPhone Calculator gets scientific in 2.0 |
| | Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Odds and ends, Apple, iPhone
It probably wasn't the most consequential update of the day, but we did get one big question answered from the iPhone SDK event in February: why the iPhone's calculator icon got changed from round buttons to square ones. Apple apparently had a lot of requests for a scientific version of the calculator, and so in iPhone 2.0, you'll be able to rotate the calc to landscape mode for a sci calc, including squares and square roots, sin, cos, and tan, factorials, and everything else you use to use the old TI-85 for back in the lab.As we noted, probably not a huge sales point for people planning to pick up a new iPhone (which, at $199 for the 8gb, is pretty much everybody), but the added functionality will be a nice bonus for those of us require a calculator for every little bit of math that needs doing.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 6/10/2008 2:17 PM (26d 7h 5m ago) |
| TUAW WWDC 2008 Day 1 coverage roundup |
| | Filed under: WWDC, Internet Tools, Apple, Leopard, MobileMeThat was a heck of a way to start off WWDC 2008, don't you think? Just in case you didn't get a change to read all of our 40 or so posts today, I thought I would highlight a few.Be sure to check out our WWDC 2008 coverage page for lots more info.The StevenoteTUAW Meta-Liveblog of WWDC 08 Keynote: Our award winning coverage of other sites' live coverage of the WWDC keynote iPhone 2.0 firmware will ship in early July, touch users pay $9.95: iPhone users get the 2.0 firmware for free, while iPod touch folks have to pay Apple ten bucks.iPhone 3G announced: Did you know Apple makes a phone? The new iPhone, dubbed the iPhone 3G, sports faster networking, longer battery life, GPS, and a flush headphone jack. All of that, and it costs much less ($199 for an 8 gig and $299 for the 16 gig model).MobileMe announced: .Mac is dead, long live MobileMe. Well, at least that will be the case on July 11. The .Mac replacement offers up push email, calendaring, contacts as well as Web 2.0 apps for checking said things. It still costs $99 for an individual account and $149 for a family subscription (all subscriptions last for a year). WWDC Reader Q&A Liveblog: You had questions, and we tried to answer them.Apple posts video of WWDC 2008 keynote: Watch it in the comfort of your own Mac.iPhone 3G 3G iPhone: What it means - a look at the hardware: Cory checks out what comes in the iPhone 3G box.Where can I buy an iPhone 3g?: Christina whipped up a very cool map showing you all the countries that Apple will be selling the iPhone 3G in.AT&T talks iPhone 3G plans, apps: AT&T spills the beans about the new iPhone service plans (spoiler alert, they are more expensive) and talks about the Yellowpages.com app they are working on.Confirmed: GoPhone is No Go and in-store Activation only: Erica confirms that the iPhone 3G will have to be activated in store, no more iTunes activations for you! Also, the GoPhone plan won't be available... |
| | 6/10/2008 2:13 PM (26d 7h 9m ago) |
| iTunes 7.7 |
| | iTunes 7.7 will debut in July (July 11th) when the 3G iPhone ships. It will handle app store functionality, the new iPhone 3G update, the iPhone 2.0 software update for existing iPhones, and the new MobileMe cloud syncing features. You'll note that its a "requirement" for new iPhone, http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone?mco=MTE2NTQ.Apple - iTunes - iTunes(iTunes) |
| | 6/09/2008 9:30 PM (26d 23h 52m ago) |
| Announcing the MobileMe Internet service |
| | The new MobileMe Internet service delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars to native applications on iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs. A subscription-based service with 20GB of storage for $99 (US) per year for individuals and $149 (US) for a Family Pack, MobileMe provides a suite of elegant, ad-free web applications — Mail, Contacts and Calendar, a Gallery for viewing and sharing photos, and iDisk for storing and exchanging documents — that deliver a desktop-like experience through any modern browser. |
| | 6/09/2008 8:25 PM (27d 57m ago) |
| Apple Previews iPhone Firmware 2.0, Additional SDK Notes |
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At today's Worldwide Developer Conference Keynote address, Apple previewed iPhone Firmware 2.0 and highlighted some additional features of the developer SDK.
New Features
In addition to features that were previewed at the iPhone...
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| | 6/09/2008 8:21 PM (27d 1h 1m ago) |
| iPhone Apps Announced: Super Monkey Ball, Loopt, Pangea games |
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During today's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Apple showed off some of the applications that have been developed using the iPhone Software Development Kit. We've highlighted some apps of interest here.
Sega Super Monkey Ball...
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| | 6/09/2008 8:20 PM (27d 1h 2m ago) |
| Apple Revamps .Mac: Mobile Me Announced |
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As rumored, Apple has announced Mobile Me, described by Apple Vice President for product marketing Phil Schiller as "Exchange for the rest of us."Not all of us work in an enterprise... Not all of us have access to an exchange server....
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| | 6/09/2008 8:19 PM (27d 1h 3m ago) |
| Apple Announces iPhone 3G |
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After months of anticipation, the heavily rumored 3G iPhone was announced today during Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference Keynote.
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- 3G-capable. 2.8 times faster than EDGE.
- GPS built-in
- Thi...
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| | 6/09/2008 8:19 PM (27d 1h 3m ago) |
| Analysis: WWDC ’08 the most significant in years |
| | Analysts expect WWDC '08 to be one of the most significant in the company's history, whether or not Apple releases a new iPhone at the event.
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| | 6/07/2008 1:44 AM (29d 19h 38m ago) |
| OS X iPhone and OS X Leopard Banners at WWDC [More Photos] |
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CrunchGear has posted the first banners at WWDC which promote both "OS X Leopard" and "OS X iPhone". The "OS X Leopard" banner reads "The world's most advanced operating system," while the "OS X iPhone" banner reads "The world's mos...
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| | 6/07/2008 1:44 AM (29d 19h 38m ago) |
| Wingnuts Moto Racer for the iPhone |
| | Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Odds and ends, iPhone
Our friends over at Freeverse have been working on a racing game (undoubtedly going to be one of a few released by different companies) for the iPhone called Wingnuts Moto Racer, but various NDAs, game mechanics secrets, and developer confidentialities have kept them from being able to talk about it too much, with us or anyone else. Still, demand has apparently pushed them to release something, and so they have posted this heavily-edited- with-red ink "review" of how the game plays.It sure sounds like, as expected, you use the accelerometer to drive, and while their intern says that it controls beautifully, of course he'd say that -- he's their intern. The art looks good, though -- there's a highway at sunset, some Oriental and Forest style racing, and even a Miami-style tropical cityscape. Unfortunately, that's the extent of news here -- no idea how many tracks or vehicles there are, or if there are any other iPhone-specific innovations.Not that the game still doesn't look like fun -- it does, and if you're a racing game fan, you'll definitely have plenty of games to choose from in the early days of the App Store. But NDAs aside, we'd sure like to hear something new about Freeverse's iPhone games.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 6/07/2008 1:43 AM (29d 19h 39m ago) |
| Ambrosia teases new iPhone game |
| | Filed under: Gaming, iPhoneAre we the only ones unnaturally excited for the iPhone App Store? We don't know how distribution will work, but imagine great applications available from top-notch OS X developers at the touch of a finger. Bored in a waiting room? Try out a new game, buy it and play it right then and there. You know it's not a piece of junk because it's been approved for the store. We can't wait.Ambrosia is teasing one of their future offerings this week with Aki Mobile Mahjong. It's a take on the ancient Chinese game that features cool graphics and nifty sound effects (check out the screenshots and game play video). Ambrosia notes that their aim is to create games that can be launched and quit quickly and easily (for instance, when that important call arrives).Also interesting is this little tidbit: "Download additional custom levels via EDGE/Wi-Fi...." Cool!Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 6/07/2008 1:42 AM (29d 19h 40m ago) |
| Now Playing on iTunes U: the University of California TV |
| | From “Babies by Design” to “San Diego Opera Talk” to “Health Matters,” the University of California Television delivers a wealth of highly informative programming to iTunes U. Explore the hundreds of audio and video podcasts you can enjoy on your Mac or PC or take with you on an iPod or iPhone. |
| | 6/04/2008 1:16 AM (32d 20h 6m ago) |
| Third-party iPhone applications to arrive Monday |
| | Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the App Store in March, and third-party applications delivered through the store should arrive Monday.(Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks)
The era of officially sanctioned iPhone applications should kick off on Monday.
That's the same day Apple CEO Steve Jobs is expected to take ... |
| | 6/03/2008 6:06 PM (33d 3h 16m ago) |
| iPhoneBrowser: browse your iPhone's file system |
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Getting access to your iPhone's file system can be pretty difficult. But if you're a Windows iPhone user, you can take advantage of the free BSD-licensed IPhone file system browser iPhoneBrowser. You can browse your IPhone's files, drag and drop stuff onto it, and copy your MP3s and movies back to your hard drive. iPhoneBrowser also offers a backup system for keeping your iPhone files safe.It even works with non-jailbroken iPhones, but as the developer says, you won't get very far with one, thanks to Apple's file system "sandbox".[via Lifehacker]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 6/01/2008 8:44 AM (35d 12h 38m ago) |
| Apple's Back to School Promo Kicks off June 3rd |
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Apple is planning on launching their annual Back to School promotion on Tuesday, June 3rd. Last year, Apple offered a free iPod Nano ($199 value) or a $199 credit against a more expensive iPod for eligible customers. The iPhone was specifically exc...
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| | 6/01/2008 8:43 AM (35d 12h 39m ago) |
| Apple Bought Me.com? .Mac's New Name? |
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Earlier today, John Gruber of DaringFireball.net suggested that Me.com might be the name for Apple's .Mac rebranding. There was no real evidence, however, except that Me.com was registered under MarkMonitor's domain service. MarkMonitor is a domai...
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| | 6/01/2008 8:43 AM (35d 12h 40m ago) |
| Report: Apple to be hub of the digital home by 2013 |
| | With a clock radio and a network-enabled digital frame are among the items that will propel Apple to rule the digital home by 2013, according to a report from Forrester.
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| | 5/23/2008 3:31 PM (44d 5h 51m ago) |
| Apple and the future of DRM |
| | Filed under: Odds and ends, AppleOver at the Guardian there's an interesting article on How Apple is Changing DRM. While there's not a lot that's new here, it does usefully cover what has happened over the last few years with Digital Rights Management and how DRM has basically come to bite the record companies in the, um, keister. Way back when the iTunes (Music) Store started, the record companies were clamoring for DRM to protect against Napster and other P2P sharing, and Apple obligingly complied with FairPlay. Over time, as the iPod became the portable device of choice, the record companies basically found themselves beholden to Apple, painted into a corner by that self-same DRM. Now they're giving up DRM on services like Amazon MP3 precisely to get access to the iPod without Apple. The question for the future of DRM is whether subscription models like Rhapsody will take off and whether a hitherto reluctant Apple might embrace the subscription model as a response to the rise of other DRM-free download stores. In any case the article is worth a read for anybody interested in the future of digital media.[via Digg]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 5/19/2008 3:46 PM (48d 5h 36m ago) |
| iPod Touch dock is surprisingly normal |
| | (Credit: Pocket-lint)
If there's one accessory that seems to have reached near-ubiquity in record time, it would be the iPod speaker dock. But most of them have been made for earlier generations of the media player, not the Touch or the iPhone. And even when they are, manufacturers for ... |
| | 5/16/2008 1:34 PM (51d 7h 48m ago) |
| Atom-powered Mini-tablet Confirmed By Intel Germany CEO? |
| | Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Rumors, iPhoneWas it a slip of the tongue? ZDNet.de reports that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer, speaking at an Intel 40th anniversary event at Munich's BMW World, confirmed that there is an iPhone that will be using Intel's new Atom processor. The new device is "slightly larger" than the current iPhone, raising speculation that this new member of the iPhone family may be the long-rumored Apple mini-tablet with a 720 x 480 display. Schwaderer also mentioned that an upgraded version of the current iPhone with the same form factor would be a 3G model. With iPhones out of stock in the US and UK, and Steve Jobs scheduled to give the keynote at WWDC 08, new iPhones and the mini-tablet might be right around the corner.What do YOU think about Herr Schwaderer's comments and the rumored mini-tablet? Take our poll! A big thank-you hug to Erica Sadun for the poll answers!View PollUpdate: If you had "Intel disavows knowledge of future iPhone products" for $200, you win.[via ZDNet.de, MacRumors]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 5/15/2008 2:29 PM (52d 6h 53m ago) |
| Intel Confirms Atom-based Larger iPhone (Mini-Tablet)? |
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According to ZDNet.de, Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that Apple would be using the Intel Atom processor in a future version of the iPhone. The new model will reportedly be a larger model with a larger display, correlating with circul...
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| | 5/15/2008 2:20 PM (52d 7h 2m ago) |
| Steve Jobs and Apple Executives to Keynote WWDC (Officially) |
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Apple officially announced today that "a team of Apple executives, led by CEO Steve Jobs" would kick off Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address starting at 10 a.m. on Monday, June 9th.
This year's WWDC w...
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| | 5/13/2008 4:13 PM (54d 5h 9m ago) |
| HBO programming now available on iTunes |
| | HBO and Apple today announced that customers can now purchase and download critically acclaimed HBO shows — including such Emmy Award-winning programs as The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Deadwood, and Rome — from iTunes. “We’re very excited to make these legendary HBO programs available on the iTunes Store,” said Henry McGee, president of HBO Video. |
| | 5/13/2008 1:55 PM (54d 7h 27m ago) |
| TUAW preview: Schmap for iPhone & iPod Touch |
| | Filed under: Internet, iPhonePlanning some activities out on the town this weekend, or searching for a Mother's Day dining option? The fine folks at Schmap have a treat for you -- they'd like TUAW readers to have the first whack at their new iPhone City Guides and Local Search before the Mobile Safari-optimized site goes into official beta on Monday, May 12. Point Safari on your iPhone or iPod Touch to www.schmap.com, then enter the pre-launch preview access code: 724627. Once you're in the site, pull up a Schmap Guide for your favorite city for info, maps, and more. Some of the search features aren't wired in yet, but they should be done soon.Schmap's website has several Flash demos of the features of the Schmap Guides for iPhone. Check it out!Thanks to Donald at Schmap for the invitation, and Kyle for the tip.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 5/10/2008 9:26 PM (56d 23h 56m ago) |
| Digital Wrongs Management |
| | Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Multimedia, iTunesI don't think anybody likes DRM. Customers certainly don't like it: they want to listen to music and watch video where and when they please. I don't think it's that popular with the content providers, either, because it's not a perfect solution. It might cut down on some piracy, but by no means eliminates it entirely.
DRM has come up recently in a few places, and companies have set up camps at two ends of the spectrum. Amazon.com is doing a booming business selling DRM-free music, sometimes for better prices than at the iTunes Store. On the other hand, we have NBC, who may or may not be partnering with Microsoft to create device software that (somehow) determines if a particular music or video file has been stolen.
As much as I'm sure that both Zune users would appreciate having access to NBC's video library, the problem remains of how exactly Microsoft would do that, aside from splashing giant watermarks across everything. My money's on unicorn tears.
How much more investment will there be in DRM before content providers realize it's an inefficient, ineffective way of deterring piracy? Sound off in comments.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 5/09/2008 5:33 PM (58d 3h 49m ago) |
| iPod Touch/iPhone Music Round-Up |
| | Filed under: Audio, iPod Family, Multimedia, iPhonePeter Kirn over at Create Digital Music has posted a great round-up of all the tools people have put together to make music with the iPod Touch and iPhone.The post touches on some of the more technical aspects of music app development on the iPhone and iPod Touch, and there's a great list of links to cool apps you can download and mess around with.Music apps are still in their infancy on the iPhone, but hopefully, as the SDK gets out there to more developers, we'll begin to see more robust and feature-heavy apps.Me? I want to see Ableton Live on the iPhone.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 5/09/2008 1:47 PM (58d 7h 36m ago) |
| Details emerge on Apple's acquistion of chip designer P.A. Semi |
| | Filed under: Cellphones, Misc. Gadgets, Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable VideoThere weren't a whole lot of firm details on the reasons behind Apple's acquisition of chip designer P.A. Semi to be had back when the deal was announced last month, but it seems that a bit of the veil of mystery may now be lifting, at least if the word EETimes is hearing from its unnamed source is to be believed. Apparently, Apple was keen to have P.A. Semi's crack chip-making team design a new chip for them, but P.A. Semi had "more or less burnt through its venture capital funds," leaving them unable to take on the project. According to EETimes source, that meant that the only way to get P.A. Semi involved was for Apple to pay off all of P.A.'s investors and bring the company in-house, something they were able to do for a mere $280 million or so. Of course, as EETimes points out, the big question remaining is exactly what it is that Apple wants P.A. Semi to help it out with, and that's a detail we'd expect to take considerably longer to trickle out.[Via Mac Rumors]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 5/08/2008 5:02 AM (59d 16h 20m ago) |
| Report: Chinese character recognition on iPhone |
| | (Credit: Crave Asia)
A day really doesn't go by these days without some kind of news involving the iPhone. The latest comes from a Chinese blog called Wretch.cc, which posted screenshots of a Chinese handwriting recognition function in the handset. This function was reportedly included in the new ... |
| | 5/08/2008 5:00 AM (59d 16h 22m ago) |
| Apple Refused to Build Copyright Filters for iPod [Updated] |
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The New York Times reports on NBC's recent decision to publish their television shows on Microsoft's video store for use on their Zune media player. NBC was once a content provider for Apple's iTunes but after months of negotiations, NBC and Apple p...
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| | 5/08/2008 12:24 AM (59d 20h 58m ago) |
| BREAKING: New iPhone SDK & Firmware released |
| | Filed under: iPod Family, Developer, iPhone digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_SDK_beta_5_released'; Word is out: new versions of the iPhone SDK and firmware are available for download. Word about the details are still trickling in from developers. This is Apple's fifth beta release since the iPhone SDK was released in March. There's just under a week left until the end of the Apple Design Awards submission period. No word if iPhone developers who submitted under earlier firmware will be able to re-submit outside the 72 hour period that Apple allots for "re-dos".Readers report that this is a smaller download (just over 1 GB) and details are trickling in through the comments.Thank you everyone who sent this in!Continue reading BREAKING: New iPhone SDK & Firmware releasedRead | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 5/07/2008 3:14 AM (60d 18h 8m ago) |
| Apple Includes Chinese Handwriting Recognition in iPhone 2.0 Beta |
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Apple has quietly included handwriting recognition for Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) into the latest iPhone Firmware 2.0 beta. When you select Chinese input, you are given the option to use handwriting recognition allowing you to draw charact...
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| | 5/07/2008 3:11 AM (60d 18h 11m ago) |
| AT&T disables free iPhone WiFi? |
| | Filed under: Internet, iPhoneLast week we posted about AT&T offering free WiFi access for iPhone customers at several of their hotspot locations, including a few Starbucks stores. According to MacRumors, AT&T has disabled this free service. However, since AT&T never made an official announcement of this service, it seems possible that the free service was launched early (possibly for testing). AT&T representatives have declined to comment on the issue.If you got a glimpse of the free future and have now seen that wireless door slam shut again, let us know.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 5/05/2008 4:05 PM (62d 5h 17m ago) |
| Purchase New Movies on iTunes Same Day as DVD Release |
| | Starting today, movie fans can purchase new releases from major film studios and premier independent studios on the iTunes Store on the same day as their DVD release. New releases and catalog titles will be available from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and First Look Studios. |
| | 5/01/2008 3:07 PM (66d 6h 15m ago) |
| iTunes Movie Releases Same Day as DVD Release |
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Apple announced today that new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios are now available for purchase on iTunes on the same day as their DVD release. The studios involved include 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studi...
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| | 5/01/2008 1:55 PM (66d 7h 27m ago) |
| Remote Buddy 1.10 offers iTunes streaming to iPhone / iPod touch |
| | Filed under: iPod Family, iTunes, iPhoneI've long been a fan of Remote Buddy, which originally started as an Apple remote utility. Over time, however, it's developed considerably and some time back added support for controlling your Mac with the iPhone / iPod touch via a built-in web server. Version 1.10 takes this to the next level and offers iTunes streaming to your iPhone or iPod touch via wifi (among the changes). While there have been several ways to accomplish remote playback on the iPhone, Remote Buddy works particularly well with playlists and albums. In addition, the new version improves support for controlling playback to multiple Airport Expresses.Remote Buddy is €19.99 (~$31) and a demo is available.[via iPhone Atlas]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 5/01/2008 5:42 AM (66d 15h 40m ago) |
| New iPod ad, now featuring silhouettes |
| | Filed under: iPod Family It's been a long time since we've seen new iPod ads featuring the old silhouettes. Well, after taking a break from them, Apple has decided to release a new silhouette ad. It was shown on TV in the US today and can be seen by going to the Apple iTunes page and clicking "Watch the new ad" underneath the "Featured on iTunes" section. The music is apparently "Shut Up and Let Me Go" by UK band the Ting Tings.Thanks for the tip, Bren.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 4/29/2008 3:49 AM (68d 17h 33m ago) |
| Jobs to Intel: she means nothing to me |
| | Filed under: Hardware, Steve JobsAs we noted earlier this week Apple purchased of the chip design firm P. A. Semi and speculation has been rampant about what it all means. Well the Journal is reporting that Jobs spoke recently about Apple's relationship with Intel saying: "We have a great partnership with Intel. We expect that to continue forever." He further suggested that the acquisition was mainly to improve chips to go in portable devices and dismissed speculation about a return to the Power PC platform (the technology on which P. A. Semi's designs are based).[via MacNN]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 4/28/2008 12:55 AM (69d 20h 27m ago) |
| MySpace web app on the iPhone |
| | Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Multimedia, Software, Developer, iPhoneJake Marsh sent along this neat screencast of an iPhone web app for MySpace that he's working on. Facebook basically seems to be the gold standard of social networking web apps these days, and this looks basically just like that one. It is cool that you can look up people right away, but the real improvements are on MySpace's Music pages -- not only can you subscribe directly from the profile, but he's also got it working to play all the music there (usually trapped in Flash, though there is a less easy way around it already). He also says that it might eventually be possible, for songs that are available for download, to get them with one click into the iPhone's iPod library.Yes, it looks just like Facebook (in fact, it looks like a rip of the mobile site), but why fix something that's not broken? Unfortunately, Marsh is just showing off -- he says that it's just for him right now and he's aiming for an open beta in August. He should probably aim for a little sooner than that: after June, we might all be saying "what web apps?"Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 4/24/2008 3:42 PM (73d 5h 40m ago) |
| Get widgets for your iPhone from Widgetbox |
| | Filed under: iPod Family, iPhoneMy name is Lisa and I'm a widget junkie. I love having widgets of all kinds on my iMac -- even things like the Ski Report (I live in Florida), ESPN (it's not football season), and Flight Tracker (I rarely fly). I even have similar ones (though Apple calls them webapps) on my iPod Touch. Since I've exhausted all the webapps for the touch that I'm interested in, I was glad to hear Widgetbox announced a gallery of widgets just for iPhone and the iPod touch users. Check it out via any browser, or right from your iPhone.Now, most widgets are Flash-based, but these aren't and therefore don't use Apple's SDK, but they're cool and work well nevertheless. Among my favorites are the Yahoo! News RSS feeds, Random Quote Generator, and the Flickr slideshow.While there's not a ton of widgets available just yet, there are around 32,000 developers in the Widgetbox community so I suspect the gallery will be populated pretty quickly. There's even a short video tutorial on how to make the iPhone widgets, in case you're curious -- or motivated.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 4/24/2008 3:42 PM (73d 5h 40m ago) |
| Apple iPhone SDK Beta 4 |
| | Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_SDK_beta_4_released'; Apple released the fourth version of the iPhone SDK beta today. The iPhone SDK now includes OpenGL ES support for the iPhone (Aspen) simulator. Here's what Apple's developer website says about the update: The fourth beta version of the iPhone SDK includes Xcode IDE, iPhone simulator with Open GL ES support, Interface Builder, Instruments, frameworks and samples, compilers, and Shark analysis tool.You can download the SDK update by logging into the iPhone Dev center and clicking the download link.Thanks to everyone who sent this in!9:31p New beta build is called 5A258f9:31p SDK download is 1.15 GBs9:32p No word yet as to whether pwnage will work with the new firmware--probably not. The last time it took almost a week for pwnage release to catch up (that was version 1.1).9:34p We're getting tips that Apple is sending out e-mails to developers enrolled in the SDK beta. The e-mails include the same message as above,9:35p Firmware sizes about 200+MB each for iPhone and iPod touch9:36p Apple continues with its beta pre-installation advisory. Testing devices may be locked permanently into testing mode.9:37p If you're new to the SDK program, make sure you phone has been pre-activated with AT&T before you attempt to load the beta software. Once the beta firmware is loaded, you may not be able to activate with AT&T's network.9:38p No word yet on any other changes, other than those mentioned in the e-mail / website.9:39p Apple just put the release notes on their website. You can find them here: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/navigation/index.html9:40p Code signing is now ENFORCED by Apple.9:41p SDK no longer uses the Aspen code name for the simulator. 9:42p Audio Toolbox got a big load of new stuff9:42p NSXMLParser support9:43p UIFont is re-done with ascender and other professional font support that has been long missing. 9:46p Please keep sending in info as... |
| | 4/24/2008 3:57 AM (73d 17h 25m ago) |
| Apple: 200,000 iPhone developers so far |
| | Apple has signed up 200,000 iPhone developers so far, and that number is still growing week to week, according to the company's CFO.
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| | 4/23/2008 11:41 PM (73d 21h 41m ago) |
| Apple Reports Record Second Quarter Results |
| | Apple today posted revenue of $7.51 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share, for its fiscal 2008 second quarter, which ended March 29. “We’re delighted to report 43 percent revenue growth and the strongest March quarter revenue and earnings in Apple’s history,” said Steve Jobs. During the quarter, Apple shipped 2,289,000 Mac computers (representing 51 percent unit growth and 54 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter), sold 10,644,000 iPods, and reported quarterly iPhone sales of 1,703,000.
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| | 4/23/2008 11:34 PM (73d 21h 48m ago) |
| Apple Reports Record Second Quarter Results: Revenue Up 43 Percent Year-Over-Year |
| | Apple today posted revenue of $7.51 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share, for its fiscal 2008 second quarter, which ended March 29. “We’re delighted to report 43 percent revenue growth and the strongest March quarter revenue and earnings in Apple’s history,” said Steve Jobs. During the quarter, Apple shipped 2,289,000 Mac computers (representing 51 percent unit growth and 54 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter), sold 10,644,000 iPods, and reported quarterly iPhone sales of 1,703,000. |
| | 4/23/2008 8:35 PM (74d 47m ago) |
| Apple Buys Boutique Microprocessor Design Company Called PA Semi. |
| | Forbes reports late Tuesday, in response to questions from Forbes.com, an Apple spokesman said Apple has agreed to buy a boutique microprocessor design company called PA Semi. The company, which is known for its design of sophisticated, low-power chips, could spell a new future for Apple's flagship iPhone, and possibly iPod products as well. The 150-person chip company, P.A. Semi, was founded in 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl, who was a lead designer for the well-regarded Alpha and StrongARM microprocessors developed by Digital Equipment in the 1990s. |
| | 4/23/2008 3:01 PM (74d 6h 21m ago) |
| Apple looks toward iPhone chat app |
| | At its iPhone SDK event last month, Apple touted an adaption of AOL's instant-messaging client for the iPhone. Now comes news of Apple's own patent application for a chat feature.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published the application, titled "Portable Electronic Device for Instant Messaging," on ... |
| | 4/23/2008 4:52 AM (74d 16h 30m ago) |
| NY's Museum of Modern Art gets Wi-Fi and podcasts, courts iPhone users |
| | The legendary Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan just got a bit more...modernized.
MoMA announced Monday that it has installed a museum-wide Wi-Fi network so that visitors can access a mobile Web site on handheld devices with HTML browsers, which basically means Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. ... |
| | 4/23/2008 4:51 AM (74d 16h 31m ago) |
| Apple 2Q 2008 Results, 3Q Preview |
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Tomorrow Apple will announce its financial results for the second fiscal quarter of 2008 spanning January through March and give its guidance of what it expects in the third fiscal quarter. What should we expect? Let's recap what has happened this ...
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| | 4/23/2008 4:45 AM (74d 16h 37m ago) |
| Apple files for iPhone instant messaging patent |
| | Filed under: Internet Tools, Apple, iPhoneThe one feature that most of us iPhone owners want is native instant messaging. With the upcoming SDK release, instant messaging apps will most likely not be able to run in the background (in other words, they may not receive messages when the phone is sleeping or doing other things). However, AppleInsider is reporting on an Apple patent for instant messaging on the iPhone that was filed in August of last year, but just granted in March of this year. The drawing included with the patent filing looks identical to the SMS application on the iPhone, with some key differences, one of which is word suggestions that appear as bubbles above the keyboard. AppleInsider also reports that this service could be used as a substitute for MMS (multi media messaging) which the current iPhone is lacking. You can read the full patent filing on the USPTO's website. [via AppleInsider]Thanks, James!Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 4/22/2008 9:30 PM (74d 23h 53m ago) |
| Twinkle: location-aware Twittter client for iPhone |
| | Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone
According to Installer, Twinkle from Gogo Apps is "Twitter plus Location." It's a Twitter client that adds photos and geolocation as well as clickable URLs and Follow / Stop Following control within the app. With it, you can find people twittering near you -- in fact it seems to be using my findme utility to power its location-awareness. And no, I have no financial interest in this thing -- I gave permission for them to use the utility so long as the app remains non-commercial.
I logged in, entered my Twitter account info (yes, the account information is stored in clear text in ~mobile/Library/Preferences) and within seconds, it found tweets within 50 miles of my location.
You can tweet directly from Twinkle. Tap the pencil button at the top-right corner (it's the one that for quite a while I mistook for a mis-shaped lower-case "i"). From there, you can enter your tweet, specify whether to tag with a location and optionally snap a photo.
Twinkle offers a professionally designed interface and good ease of use. The only negative occurred after I mistyped my password. I ended up in an infinite loop of authentication errors and had to force-quit the application.
Gallery: TwinkleRead | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| | 4/22/2008 9:20 PM (75d 2m ago) |
| iPhone on the Road: a substitute for paper boarding passes |
| | Filed under: iPod Family, Cult of Mac, iPhoneSome things sound really cool -- until you actually have to step up and do them in real time. TUAW reader Gerald Buckley's story about traveling with his iPhone strikes me as belonging to this class.
When he approached the American Airlines counter to use his iPhone as a boarding pass, the coolness quotient for his entire trip got bumped up several notches. It seems that he navigated over to AA.com using Mobile Safari, signed in and displayed a PDF of his boarding pass on-screen. The American Airlines counter agent in San Antonio "humored" him and scanned the barcode as displayed on his iPhone. The scan worked, and Buckley proceeded with his travels (much to the envy and amazement of his fellow passengers, no doubt).
Here's the thing though. If it were me, this would have totally gone another way. First, while waiting on line, I would have had bad WiFi. It would have taken me about 20 minutes to type in my information and the people behind me on line would have been coughing *significantly* to get me to keep moving along with the line as I tried to type, move all my luggage and possibly keep three extremely rambunctious children in order. Finally, I would get to the gate agent and I would have gotten the snarky impatient version -- somehow I always do. Assuming that I could even get all the typing and navigation done, I know in my heart that the response would have been "you need a printed boarding pass, ma'am."
Of course, this is entirely academic because I have not been granted a boarding pass for the last 5 or 6 years due entirely, I'm sure, to my last name. It's always "You must check in at the counter" -- which is way easier than even a boarding pass because I just swipe my credit card.
All that having been said, TUAW congratulates Mr. Buckley's ingenuity and offers the example of his experience to speed you your travels in a uniquely geek fashion.
If you've got the travel bug (with or without your iPhone), be sure... |