Apple has announced that its 2.2 iPhone firmware has a new feature for its fully virtual QWERTY keyboard: the keyboard will behave more like a real, physical keyboard than a software application interface.
The new firmware version--expected to be released by December-- adds a little intelligence to the iPhone keyboard, allowing it to keep track of usage: how many times a key has been used, and even how hard specific keys are pressed.
Donald Lindsay, Interface Designer at Apple, explained: the technology was always in place--we can track keyboard usage, and the multi-touch screen can also be told to measure the pressure Read More...
The Apple Commission
I have come across many silly write ups, including mine of course, but never a sillier article like the one recently penned by Ted Dziuba. The article is not only baseless but also is the most mis-conceptualized cracked bunch of assumptions for all times to come, without doubt. Ted labeled Apple as a gangster and App Store as a classic protection racket for retaining 30% from applications sold through App Store. We all know that Apple retains 30% and 70% percent goes to the developers. We also know that the deducted 30% is about enough to maintain the Read More...
It didn't use sex, it didn't use money, it used the buzz around the iPhone, the one gadget that everyone wanted
Graham Cluley , senior technology consultant at Sophos.
The iPhone and the App Store has been a runaway success, the biggest blockbuster of 2008 that shows no signs of slowing down. However, someone took advantage of the amazing popularity of the iPhone and sent out a really well-disguised Trojan Horse. What they did was to start a hoax email campaign. The e-mail featured a Trojan Horse in an attachment masquerading as the Penguin Panic game for Apple's iPhone.
Would you open an Read More...
There is a pretty simple way to customize your iPhone ringtones. Go to the iTunes and customize your iPhone ringtones for free. However, there is a small glitch – you can create ringtones only with MP3, ACC, and AIFF files and only with the DRM (Digital Rights Management) free songs. That does close down the scope a bit, but till, it’s a very good deal to choose from. So use either songs from your own library or from DRM free sources like Amazon.com
How to do this? Go to iTunes and select a song. Then right click on it to go Read More...
Jonathan Ive is a great designer and knows that color attracts people, so there are many colors to choose from if you are buying an iPod nano. Steve Jobs is holding back Jonathan’s idea of bringing out iPhone in many colors. The reasons for Jobs' objection are not known, though. I am fed up with all these black and white business, but cannot hate the iPhone.
Apple is obsessed with the number 2, when it comes to the iPhone. Think of the iPhone, the black and white motion pictures of the 60s come into our minds, the two primary colors on Read More...
A dream and a promise has come true. AT&T is going to provide free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users.
AT&T finally realizes that Wi-Fi is hot and is hotter if it comes free of cost, so reads the announcement from AT&T. If you have an iPhone this announcement will let you rethink about your earlier complaints against AT&T. Well, if you don’t have an iPhone, I think this is the right time to catch hold of one.
The offer here covers 17,000 hot spots across US, covering more than 8000 Restuarants or Starbucks, more than 700 bookstores, and more than 50 super Read More...
With the iPhone 2.2 firmware update about to come, the world wide web is again hotting up with rumors about what Apple has up its sleeve. Initial takes show three major enhancements – addition of more geo features, podcasts and as usual with Apple, something weird.
The good: You will love the iPhone even more if you are a fan of travel, virtual tourism and geography. The Maps app for instance will now be updated to include the Google street view as well. Public transit and walking directions will also be available.
E-mailing your location from the same app will also Read More...
While doing all iPhone and App Store we thought we will take a break from that and see what happens on the other side of the smartphone space. Not surprisingly, we decided to go to the Android sphere.
Surprise, surprise, surprise? Absolutely none. Whether it’s a Gphone or a iPhone, an App Store or an Android Market, people are still installing the same app goodies. The top spots are shared by the goodies from application categories like games, tools and some multimedia widgets. And all of them are the ones you will find in the App Store.
The top honors are shared Read More...
What apps do you have on your iPhone? Super Monkey Ball? A word game? Some calculators and flashlights? While the whole process of getting a new app on your iPhone seems devilishly simple—tap on the app store icon, confirm purchase, and wait for a minute—things aren’t always so simple and straightforward for the developers who are working hard to bring you these cool apps. A number of my developer friends have been writing in, eagerly but so far unofficially listing out the problems they have faced.
This article offers a detailed list of all the problems that have plagued the App Read More...
The idea is simple. It's a globe that sits inside your PC . You point and zoom to any place on the planet that you want to explore.
Google earth has been there for about three years. It has been downloaded just around 400 million times on PCs across the globe. But now, for the first time, it goes mobile and through Apple’s iPhone. The original Google Earth rhetoric is just about to change. The idea is still simple. But now the globe sits on your palmtop. Google Earth is now available for your iPhone/iPod touch.
Google Earth is one of my Read More...