Apple has finally released the long awaited iPhone firmware 2.2; it is now available for download. Connect your device to iTunes and check for software update or go to Apple website and get the update. Here is the list of the features that comes with iPhone 2.2.
1. Google Street View: This includes coverage of public transits and walking directions, address display, and sharing location via e-mail.
2. Email enhancement: This includes fixing the issue of fetching scheduled email.
3. Safari performance becomes more stable.
4. Call drop and call set up issues fixed.
5. Direct download of podcasts via Wi-Fi or cellular network Read More...
Looks like everybody’s favorite innovation vendor is Apple Inc. more precisely, these days, the iPhone. Following in the Footsteps of Snow Patrol and other similar apps, Fall Out Boy, is releasing an iPhone app ahead of the December 16th release of their new album - “Folie a Deux”.
This artist branded applications will be available for the iPhone (now, and may be for the Android legion later).
How is it different? As pointed out in Red Orbit:
New technology is being used to fill a glaring omission that has existed since the beginning of downloadable music: the lack of liner notes, lyrics, photos Read More...
A really challenging task is waiting for the iPhone Dev team, Apple is trying it’s best to make jailbreaking a very tiring process. The new MacBooks are already giving tough time for iPhone jailbreakers. Pwnage tools are not running well on the new aluminum MacBooks. The new MacBooks do not recognize an iPhone or iPod touch when booted into DFU mode.
The error message reads:
An iPod has been detected, but it could not be identified properly. Please disconnect and reconnect the iPod, then try again. An unknown error occurred (2001).
Apple really is tightening it’s grip. It won’t be very surprising if 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...
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...
This is not the time to let down your best performing employees, there never was a good time to let down good people actually. Losing your most trusted customers will be very tragic at this troubled times, things are going wrong for almost all business establishments across US, but the holiday season comes as usual nevertheless. Listen to what Apple has to say regarding customer and employees care program.
Apple as an innovative company has something to suggest how best we can retain and appreciate our best performing employees and customers. Sounds something like a promo kind of lecturing, but is Read More...
Lie to your iPhone and make it believe that it is synced/authorized on only one machine when in fact you are using it on two computers. Of course you always had the choice to sync contact, mails on one machine, songs, movies, applications, podcasts, etc on another machine. That was a long workaround as you have to manually select the content you want to sync. There is always this boring warning message “an iPhone can be synced with only one iTunes Library at a time. Erasing and syncing replaces the contents of this iPhone with the contents of this iTunes Read More...
The report that iTunes will shut down if the royalty rate paid to music artists is hiked was some sort of a joke. Apple’s threat of shutting down the iTunes got deep into the brain Copyright Royalty Board, so the three panel of judges thought it best not to listen to the voice of National Musical Publishers Association. There will be no hike in the present royalty rate (9.1 cents) paid to Music artists. So, iTunes will not shut down.
The decision came out on Thursday and left National Musical Publishers Association to bite the dust. There was not much rejoicing Read More...
It seems competition for digital dominance is gaining speed. Up there in the clouds of the Internet. And it’s all going mobile. After Android and the “futuristic” Skymarket, Nokia and Sony Ericsson too are joining in the fray.
Nokia is launching its own digital shop for music, aimed at giving access to millions of tracks right at your palmtop, provided you own any compatible Nokia phone. You will in fact own the music forever, even if you decide to do away with your Nokia handset. But when ?
The first Nokia Comes with Music phones are expected to hit shops in time Read More...
There is another thorn in the flesh of Apple after the anti trust action against iTunes in Norway. The controversy this time is between Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), Digital Media Association (DMA) represented by Apple, National Music Publisher’s Association and song artists over the proposed hike of royalty fees paid to music artists.
The National Music Publisher’s Association earlier submitted a proposal to Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC to raise the royalty fees paid to music artists from 9 Cents per song to 15 cents. Digital Media Association including Apple (iTunes) finds this demand as a direct threat to take Read More...