Despite the fact that it’s been abandoned for years, Techspansion has released a free update to its popular VisualHub and AudioHub apps, making them fully compatible with OS X Lion. What prompted them to dust off the moribund software after so long? A weird altercation with a Californian company that was trying to sell the same patch for $5 a pop!
Ever wonder why iOS 5 features built-in Twitter integration but not Facebook, the largest social network on Earth? It’s because Steve Jobs thinks Mark Zuckerberg is a “f*cking a**hole,” according to tech evangelist Robert Scoble.
Verizon Wireless introduced a brand new data plan late last week that gives customers 300MB of data for just $20 per month. It’s available to customers in the mid-Atlantic region from August 18 to September 30, but is expected to roll-out permanently by this holiday season. For those who aren’t massive data consumers but would like to get a little bit of browsing for their bucks, it seems to be a great deal.
According to our own dear Mike Elgan, Apple is through creating new devices and will continue to coast on the product categories they currently have.
Not so fast, though! According to a Japanese site, component suppliers are gearing up to help Apple create new Macs that are “absolute different from current products,” with a debut as early as the end of the year.
Well, what a start to the week! Following those iPhone 5 prototype battery images we published earlier today, we have more photographs of iPhone components, including the rear-facing camera, an audio flex cable, and another of its battery.
As the launch of Apple’s iPhone 5 looms closer, components for the device have been cropping up all over the place. The latest provides an indication that the device is close to launch, with a prototype batter labeled ‘DVT_B3’.
We’re all excited about Notification Center, Twitter integration, iMessage, and all the other wonderful features that will come with iOS 5 later this year. But for Japanese users there’s one feature that may be far more useful than tweeting a picture of your cat directly from your camera roll: quake alert warnings.
A slew of rumors have surfaced this weekend that point towards Apple currently field-testing 4G iDevices in the wild running the latest builds of iOS 5. LTE code has been uncovered in recent beta builds of iOS 5, and speculation is that Apple could release the iPad 3 with LTE capability in early 2012.
Reports have already come out that Apple is testing LTE iPhones in the wild, and it was recently uncovered that AT&T was installing 4G equipment in Apple stores. Will we see the first 4G device from Apple in early 2012?
It’s time for the second round of the “Cult of Mac’s Readers Have The Coolest Mac Setups” gallery. We’ve already shown you the first round of awesome setups that have been sent in, and we’re back with another collection that’s sure to inspire.
Enjoy round two!
There are a lot of changes being made by Apple to iOS 5. Each new beta reveals a little more about the changes everyone can expect after iOS 5 is released to the public in a few months. There is one big change that Apple hasn’t said a lot about publicly and developers might be surprised by it.
Apple has notified developers via a recent update to iOS 5 documentation that they will be removing access to the unique device identifier (UDID) on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
It looks like HP isn’t waiting to long to get rid of TouchPad stock since sales are cropping up with prices starting at $99. The fire sale comes just one day after HP announced that it would stop production of webOS devices. If you want one it might be time to head to the bargain section of your local electronics store or online retailers website.
Lion’s the best operating system that Apple has ever released, but that’s not to say it doesn’t have its sticking points… the little tweaks and changes to default OS X behavior that really sticks in some people’s craw.
There’s ways to fix these little irritants, of course, but most of them involve delving into Terminal and deploying write commands. There’s got to be an easier way, right?
Yup. It’s called LionTweaks and it allows you to tweak OS X Lion’s default performance just by clicking a yes or no button.
You might think the financial climate in America is bad now that we’ve had our credit downgraded by S&P, but we’re in good shape compared to Europe, where EU ministers have spent much of the past year playing whack-a-mole with member nations credit problems. In fact, all it will take by many estimates is one European country to default on its debt for the whole Eurozone to collapse.
Here’s how dire it is. For a brief spell earlier this afternoon, Apple was worth more than all 32 of the biggest Eurozone banks… combined.
Proving the rule that Downfall makes any tech story better, here’s Adolf Hitler reacting to the news that HP is killing the TouchPad after just a month on the market.
“They told me it would get faster and that I could bump my friends TouchPads to share music. How can I do that if no one has one?!?!?”
This is one of the best “Hitler reacts…” videos I’ve seen. Make sure to stay to the end.
[via Obama Pacman]
Alongside posting up iOS 5 Beta 6, Apple has released a few other goodies to registered developers: a new iTunes, new Apple TV software, Xcode 4.2 Developer Preview 6 and iWork for iOS Beta 2.
Wow, that came up on us fast: Apple has just released iOS 5 Beta 6 to registered developers.
Jeez, Apple, this is starting to really look bad. Just a few days after it was revealed that Apple filed misleading evidence claiming that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10,1 shared the iPad’s physical dimensions in a German court comes word that they’ve done it again in the Netherlands, this time with Samsung’s Galaxy S smartphone.
Do you prefer iOS 5’s rounded buttons while a friend prefers iOS 4’s rectangular ones? Well, as it turns out, there’s a scientific reason why you’re right and he’s just a total idiot and needs to just talk to the hand, and it all has to do with the shape of your eyeball.
When Apple finally rolls out the iCloud this fall, you’ll be able to backup all of your music on Apple’s own iTunes servers through iTunes Match. If iTunes Match recognizes your tracks, it’ll automatically mirror them in the cloud; otherwise, you’ll be able to manually upload them. If you ever have a devastating system crash, you’ll be able to just slurp them all down again.
But what if you’ve got a massive media collection too big to mirror on Apple’s iCloud servers? What if your Internet connection can’t handle uploading and downloading multiple gigabytes at a time. Well, at least you have iTunes “Back Up To Disc” functionality to fall back on, right?
Wrong. It’s been removed in iTunes 10.4.
iFixit is famous for its gadget tear-downs and repair guides. Every time Apple releases a new piece of tech, iFixit gets hold of it and pulls it apart for our pleasure. The company is now about to branch out — starting up a new cloud-based service called Dozuki that will provide technical documentation to hardware, appliance and chemical manufacturers.
The pranksters at Scoopertino are at it again, with breaking news this week of Apple’s newest dream product, iToke. Getting stoned has never been simpler.
Sporting such features as a USB-powered heating element for instant-on performance, an Apple-sanctioned walled ghanja garden, and iWeed available in 10-packs or by weekly subscription, iToke promises a higher high and munchier munchies.
AT&T’s Vice President has reportedly confirmed to a number of the carrier’s employees that the iPhone 5 is “slated to launch in October,” and that it’s time to get ready for Apple’s fifth-generation device.
Can’t wait to get your hands on Steve Jobs official biography later this year? How about biding your time with a tome of wisdom handed down from The Man himself? Then Steve Jobs Gives 11 Advices To Teenager! by Steve Jobs might be just the book for you!
Google, along with a number of other companies who distribute the Android operating system, could be without the necessary license required to distribute Linux-based software and may therefore be using the operating system unlawfully, potentially at the risk of a complete shutdown of the Android OS.
HP announced this week that it would spin off its PC division as a separate company and terminate its Palm hardware business. The software platform that runs Palm phones and tablets may be licensed in the same way that Android is. But HP is getting out of the PC and mobile computing hardware racket.
How did the industry’s number-one PC maker, and long-time leader in mobile computing come to the decision to exit those businesses?
Did Apple kill HP’s PC, phone and tablet businesses?
The answer is: What, are you kidding?