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Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

July 23rd, 2008

App Store versus Installer.app - The battle begins: With Handy comparison chart

Now that the iPhone Dev Team released its Pwnage 2.0 app for jailbreaking iPhone 3Gs, as well as anything with 2.0 firmware, the battle for superiority is about to occur. Will the incumbent Installer.app fall before the awesome might of the App Store, or will the underdog prevail against the galactic empire?
There are a multitude […]

By J.T Dabbagian -- 0 comments

July 14th, 2008

Developers: Why switch to the SDK from Installer.app

There are good reasons for this:
· Being able to legitimately offer a product for the iPhone – Jailbreaking an iPhone is technically illegal, and most definitely voids a warranty. No developer wants to be on the bad side of the company that their software would work under
· Ease of payment for software – Some of […]

By J.T Dabbagian -- 1 comment

March 20th, 2008

Flash on the iPhone

One of the features I have been long awaiting on the iPhone is Flash. Surrounding the release of the SDK, rumors were made regarding reasons Flash still wasn’t on the iPhone. These ranged from licensing issues to the current versions of Flash were not suited for the iPhone.
Tuesday we heard comments from Adobe’s Chief Executive […]

By Matt Pippen -- 1 comment

March 20th, 2008

The iPhone’s Safari Exploit

A Safari exploit has been discovered that stretches from the Mac/PC version of Safari to the iPhone/iPod version. For the Mac/PC version, the exploit would just cause Safari to crash, but the iPhone/iPod version causes your device to entirely lock up. Not the worst damage ever, but you could lose data.
What makes this exploit somewhat […]

By Matt Pippen -- 1 comment

March 9th, 2008

3G iPhone in 2nd Quarter

The latest news in the 3G iPhone pipeline comes from Richard Gardner after meeting with several Taiwanese electronic companies.
Gardner is claiming a 3G iPhone could be arriving April to June 2008, 2nd Quarter of this year.
We have been hearing announcements since last year of the announcement of a 3G iPhone, and news from the pipeline […]

By Matt Pippen -- 4 comments

March 9th, 2008

Safari Pad

Would you ever have guessed the iPhone began as a R&D device called Safari Pad? John Markoff from the New York Times is reporting just that.
Apple’s multitouch technology began life not as a cellphone, but as a notepad-sized skunkworks project internally dubbed Safari Pad, run by Tim Bucher, then Apple’s head of Macintosh hardware. To […]

By Matt Pippen -- 0 comments

February 11th, 2008

What Steve Jobs Might Say to Microsoft’s Bid on Yahoo

What might Steve Jobs think about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo? Here’s a hint.
Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Computer, has had his own experience of seeing Microsoft enter a market and overwhelm the original innovator (the Apple Macintosh) with a similar, competing product (Windows). Jobs regards the Web as “the defining social moment for computing.” […]

By Matt Pippen -- 0 comments

January 15th, 2008

Macworld Live Coverage [Update]

9:55CT: Apple Store is down.
10:57CT: Three minute warning!
11:14CT: Keynote started, and Steve’s on stage. A little behind schedule.
11:16CT: We begin by talking about Leopard.
11:19CT: New product: Time Capsule - A full blown Airport Extreme with Hard Drive built-in (internal).
11:21CT: iPhone up next. 4 million in sales.
11:24CT: 1.1.3 to be released. All features leaked seem to […]

By Matt Pippen -- 2 comments

December 31st, 2007

Penryn: 45nm

45nm - What exactly does that mean, and why does it matter?
When we talk about a chip being 65nm or 45nm we are talking about the size of the transistor, the foundation of modern computing - the thing that signals on and off, within a microprocessor. 1nm is 1 billionth of a meter to give […]

By Matt Pippen -- 0 comments

December 31st, 2007

To-Go Shopping

Forbes Magazine has reported on a new patent application by Apple to allow On-The-Go ordering over the iPhone or other mobile device.
For an example, think of your favorite restaurant. You could walk in to it, sit down, and order on your iPhone with the press of a single button. In addition you would be notified […]

By Matt Pippen -- 0 comments

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