26Nov2010
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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Minimal Folio: Your live portable portfolio
I quote Simon Heys, the developer: When I first got my iPad I thought it would be brilliant for showing my portfolio or presenting work to clients. I couldn’t find any apps that were simple enough or worked the way I wanted, so I made one myself. It’s called Minimal Folio. That’s how the best apps are created. The iPad sure ships with a slick photos experience, very fluid and touch friendly. It’s probably enough for a photographer or artist to carry along his portfolio with
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iOS 4.3 rumored for December?
MacStories is claiming a “reliable source” has told them Apple was targeting a December release for their next update, iOS 4.3 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad: when Apple didn’t know about the WiFi issues in the GM seed of iOS 4.2, the OS was scheduled to be released weeks before Nov. 22nd. Apple found out about the WiFi issues, released a second GM build and iOS 4.2 came out yesterday. It came out in November, but it should have been out in the first half of November. Anyway,
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‘Pocket God’ Coming Soon to Facebook?
Bolt Creative's Pocket God [99¢] has been a smash hit on our forums since it was released in early 2009. Since then, it's received 35 individual updates, or episodes, each implementing a new feature or two. The latest episode adds even more customization via DLC packs and the ability to draw double rainbows all the way across the sky. In addition, there's also a Pocket God Comic [99¢] that chronicles the adventures of the inhabitants of the game's island. Soon, Pocket God will be
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Fining Terrorists
The day before Thanksgiving will be the pre-holiday ritual of long lines, frustration -- and National Opt-Out Day, a movement calling on alrline passengers to forego the controversial new body scanning machines in favor of manual security pat-downs. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says it can fine individuals up to $11,000 for walking away from the airport security process. But will it? People in government say the fine is mostly a deterrent so that terrorists cannot back
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Gameloft Reveals First Trailer For ‘Shadow Guardian,’ An ‘Uncharted’-Like Game
Gameloft is at it again, borrowing popular ideas, concepts, and mechanics from established franchises and dropping them into an iOS release. This time the studio is setting it sights on Naughty Dog's Uncharted series, which has shown other big-time studios how to combine good action, adventure, reality, cinematics, fantasy, and superb writing elements into a single, mind-melting package. The Gameloft game we're referring to is called Shadow Guardian, an upcoming iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch
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Apple Reportedly Targeting Mid-December for iOS 4.3 Release
Written by Eric Slivka Earlier today, we noted increasing rumors regarding Apple and News Corp working together to launch a tablet-focused news product, with John Gruber weighing in to suggest that Apple is tentatively planning for a December 9th media event to introduce the new offering. Gruber noted that Apple's key role in the product's development has been the creation of APIs to support recurring subscription billing via iTunes Store accounts, functionality that would presumably
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No new text tones in iOS 4.2 for iPhone 3GS. why?
We mentioned this back during the betas, but it’s worth a mention again as many iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS owners out there finished their iOS 4.2 update yesterday only to discover something missing — the new text tones! Yes, for some reason Apple has chosen to only make those available on iPhone 4. No iPhone 4, no new text tones. But why, you ask? We’re wondering the same thing. We know this can’t be performance-related, that’s for sure. This makes us curious about what an email
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