The three productivity apps from Apple for the iPad has been updated today, that’s Pages, Keynotes and Numbers. I’ve had the chance to work a little bit in all of them (before the update today) and they’re pretty cool, considering what it is they actually do. What’s new… Pages – new in 1.2 – Copy … Read more →
Sony is busy at the moment, yesterday introducing a new speaker dock for iPhone/iPod, the RDP-X50iP, and today they’re giving us a brand new Walkman music player, the S750. This colourful video MP3 player lets you enjoy your music, videos and podcasts in unmistakeable style. Key features of the WALKMAN S750 are: Superb Walkman sound … Read more →
Well, you don’t have to do anything, really. It’s just a matter of hitting that “Update”-button in your shiny new iTunes 10 and you’re good to go. But now that you’re here anyway, let me just real quick highlight some of the new things you can look forward to trying out sometime during tomorrow once … Read more →
Apple introduced Ping as part of iTunes 10 on September 1st, explaining how Ping is a social media network that’s all about music. You can follow updates from both your friends and from your favorite music artists and keep up-to-date with more than 17,000 concert listings. According to Apple, 1/3 of the users who downloaded … Read more →
iTunes 10 was announced and launched yesterday at the Apple music event and I’ve been playing around with it a little bit for today. The first thing I noticed was how the left navigation sidebar now looks gray and dull. The colored icons are gone and replaced with color-less gray icons. Next after, I noticed … Read more →
Steve Jobs and Apple just wrapped up their September 1st music event in San Francisco, showing us the next two updates to iOS, new iPods, new AppleTV, new iTunes, new AirPlay (previously AirTunes) and a new social media site called Ping. Here’s a complete overview of all that has happened in the 1.5 hour long … Read more →
iFlicks is a neat little application that I found while searching for an alternative to VideoMonkey which is still a bit too buggy for my taste. Basically, I’ve had it with the monkey and I wouldn’t mind paying a small fee for an app that just works. iFlicks is such an app. It was designed … Read more →
Today is June 21st and that means iOS 4.0 will be released by Apple to the masses. iOS 4 0s the new name for “iPhone OS 4”. iPhone 1st gen. and iPod Touch 1st gen. will not work with iOS 4, iPhone 3G will work but it will not have multitasking. All other iPhones and … Read more →
TUAW reports today that Apple announced through iPhone Developer News that the iTunes App Store is now available in 13 more countries: “You can now distribute your apps to more customers with the addition of App Store support in Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda.” If you’re … Read more →
In my last post I introduced you to my little experiment of replacing my beloved iPhone 3GS with a HTC Tattoo running the Android operating system. Now I’d just like to touch some of the things that “switchers”, with a Mac, might come accross, especially when switching from an iPhone to an Android based phone. … Read more →
Apple quietly updated Apple TV software to version 3.0 and it now supports new stuff such as Genius Mixes, Internet radio, iTunes Extras and LP support. Press release: Apple Introduces Apple TV 3.0 Software With Redesigned User Interface. The iTunes 9.0.2 update also breaks Palm Pre sync capability (again). Engadget: iTunes 9.0.2 adds support for … Read more →
A lot of great news and interesting products came out of Apple in Cupertino over the last day or so, I’m not even sure I actually managed to grab it all – but I did write a few summaries about what I found interesting. Note that the links below leads to my Apple-related blog, ApplePatio.com, … Read more →
The battle between Apple and Palm for the Palm Pre phone to be allowed iTunes synchronization has been going on for a while now, but it might finally have come to an end. The last attack out of the Palm camp was to identify the Palm Pre as an iPhone by using Apple’s “USB ID”, … Read more →
The recent iPhone OS 3.1 release just a few weeks ago seems to have made things worse for a bunch of iPhone 3G/3GS users: Their battery drains really fast (warning: almost 1000 posts in that thread, might take you some time to read through all of them…). The problem is apparently so huge that Apple … Read more →
The small Apple TV 40GB has been removed from the Apple Store, leaving only the 160GB version available for purchase, which also saw a price cut, now down to $229. If you’re satisfied with just getting content from the iTunes Store (or converting your stuff to an iTunes compatible format), the Apple TV is a … Read more →
iPhone users with a Facebook account, launch your App Store and download the latest release of the Facebook app for the iPhone. It has just been released in a 3.0 version. Facebook app developer, Joe Hewitt, has been working on Facebook 3.0 for quite some time. He submitted it to Apple for review on August … Read more →