26Nov2010
‘SlingPlayer Mobile for iPad’ Now Available in App Store
Written by Eric Slivka Earlier this year, we reported that Sling Media was "hard at work" on an iPad version of its SlingPlayer Mobile application, which offers iOS device compatibility with the company's service designed to "sling" television content from a set-top box connected to a user's television to computers and mobile devices. Sling Media today announced that SlingPlayer Mobile for iPad [App Store, $29.99] is now available in the App Store, offering higher-resolution video
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U.S. Regulators Investigating Research Analysts Over ‘Channel Checks’
Written by Eric Slivka Research analysts have gained significant attention over the years for their predictions of Apple's production plans, with "channel checks" frequently being cited as the basis for their assessments. These checks involve receiving information, often secondhand, from representatives of Apple's manufacturing partners. The Wall Street Journal reports, however, that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is now investigating the legality of such channel
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iPad Writing Apps: PlainText vs. Writer
Among the minimalist writing apps for iPad, two have come out on top: Hog Bay Software’s PlainText and Information Architects’ simply named Writer (an app which Om clearly enjoys). Both do basically the same thing: create plaintext files that sync to Dropbox. Their approaches to the writing itself are very different, however. Writer will cost you $5.00, while PlainText is free. If cost is important, then you should definitely go with PlainText. But if you’re not concerned about
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iOS 5 Wish List
Let’s be honest: iOS 4.2.1 only really mattered to iPad owners who were just aching for a bit of that good old multitaskin’, folder-makin’ magic. If you own an iPad, you’re probably still enjoying all that the latest upgrade gave (and lamenting what it took away), but the rest of us are already looking ahead to the future and dreaming of what the next major revision of iOS might bring. So here are the 10 features I’m hoping for in iOS 5, listed in no particular order: Honestly,
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Avoid jailbreak detection?
Posted by tomybomby: I'm traumatized after plugging in the iPhone to my macbook. Last time it detected the jailbreak and it became unusable for a while. Is there a way to disable this auto-detect feature in macbook? Would you please elaborate on "detected the jailbreak?" What exactly happened and how was the phone unusable? As a point of reference, Mac OS X 10.6 and iTunes 10.1 do not detect and block iOS devices that have been jailbroken purely because they are jailbroken--the
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Carbon Star HD
Textured UI Navigation Buttons!.. Full Status Bar Icon Set!.. Carbon Fiber Everywhere! Carbon Star HD Yes, one of the first themes to bring Carbon Fiber to the UI with a whole different perspective. The screen shots hardly do any justice, as the detail of this theme has such a brilliant greyscale UI with minor hints of color, topped off with old school icons to change it up from the constant flow of picture icons. I must give thanks out to my biggest influences, both whose themes
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iOS 4.2 iPhone 4 1013 error
I had the same problem this morning. After going through these steps the update was succesfully. Find the solution here: Apple - Support - Discussions - Upgrade to iOS 4.2 1013 error ... 1. Go to your "Applications" folder 2. Go to your "Utilities" folder 3. Launch "Terminal" 4. Type "sudo nano /etc/hosts" (without quotes) and hit return 5. Enter your password 6. Use the down arrow key to find the "gs.apple.com" entries. Once the cursor is in front, make sure you comment out the
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iOS 4.2.1: Why did Apple cripple AirPlay?
"Apple's big new iOS 4.2 software update for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch includes a sexy feature called "AirPlay," which lets you wirelessly stream video, photos, or audio to an Apple TV," Dan Frommer reports for The Business Insider. "But the way AirPlay was released by Apple yesterday, it's crippled." "AirPlay only works for video in Apple's iTunes movies app and the built-in YouTube app... it does NOT support video AirPlay in Safari (for web video), in third-party apps, or for video
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Mac shipments outpace PC market 3 to 1; Mac business sales growth nearly 8 times that of PC market
Mac shipments are outpacing the PC market as a whole 3 to 1 and "in sales to business, the Mac's year-to-year growth last quarter was nearly eight times faster," Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune. "Needham's Charlie Wolf found lots of good news for Apple (AAPL) in IDC's report on the state of the worldwide PC market for Q3 2010," P.E.D. reports. "At 28.5%, Mac shipment growth in the September quarter easily outpaced the PC's market growth rate of 9.7%... The Mac became the dollar share
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Why I’m skipping AirPlay
by Victor Agreda, Jr. It's pretty simple: I want to stream music from my Mac to my iPad or iPhone. Why? Because I sometimes connect one of those iOS devices to a home stereo. Those devices do not contain my entire iTunes library. Unfortunately, AirPlay won't let me stream my iTunes library to my iOS devices. Thus, I'm not able to use AirPlay in my home. I don't own an Apple TV. The Airport Express I have is an older model that causes my Airport Extreme Base Station to freak out, requiring
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