iOS Archive

  • The holidays just passed, and that means a whole lot of people just bought the wrong iPhone for a family member or friend. All of my friends know me as the Apple Guru, and all of them come to me with questions about Apple products. Lately, the number one question...

    Should I buy an iPhone 3GS, 4 or 4S?

    Posted on January 2, 2012 | 2 Comments
    The holidays just passed, and that means a whole lot of people just bought the wrong iPhone for a family member or friend. All of my friends know me as the Apple Guru, and all of them come to me with questions about Apple products. Lately, the number one question...

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  • When I initially heard about TweetBot, I thought, “Dear, God… another Twitter client for the iPhone?” After reading tweet after tweet coming through our @socialapples twitter account, I finally decided to take it for a spin. I didn’t know what to expect. I heard that the user interface design was amazing; that...

    TweetBot: a Twitter client with functionality and style

    Posted on April 16, 2011 | No Comments
    When I initially heard about TweetBot, I thought, “Dear, God… another Twitter client for the iPhone?” After reading tweet after tweet coming through our @socialapples twitter account, I finally decided to take it for a spin. I didn’t know what to expect. I heard that the user interface design was amazing; that...

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  • Were you wondering where the Guitar input came from during Apple’s Keynote on Wednesday, we were. Gizmodo dug it up and determined that it is the Apogee Jam: studio quality guitar input for iPad, iPhone and Mac (we assume they’re including the iPod touch as well). The adapter converts your signal from...

    Apogee Jam available March 31st

    Posted on March 4, 2011 | No Comments
    Were you wondering where the Guitar input came from during Apple’s Keynote on Wednesday, we were. Gizmodo dug it up and determined that it is the Apogee Jam: studio quality guitar input for iPad, iPhone and Mac (we assume they’re including the iPod touch as well). The adapter converts your signal from...

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  • A large portion of Apple’s Keynote this morning was a demo of iMovie and GarageBand for iOS. On Apple’s iMovie page, it states specifically that it is only compatible with iPad 2, iPhone 4, and iPod touch 4th generation. There are no requirements listed for GarageBand, but we’d assume that...

    GarageBand and iMovie coming to iOS

    Posted on March 3, 2011 | No Comments
    A large portion of Apple’s Keynote this morning was a demo of iMovie and GarageBand for iOS. On Apple’s iMovie page, it states specifically that it is only compatible with iPad 2, iPhone 4, and iPod touch 4th generation. There are no requirements listed for GarageBand, but we’d assume that...

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  • Apple's posted the keynote from the iPad 2 announcement this morning. We've pulled out the device-specific URLs for your viewing pleasure. You can open these in quicktime so you don't have to view them in the browser. Just remember to grab the right version.

    iPad 2 keynote now available

    Posted on March 2, 2011 | No Comments
    Apple's posted the keynote from the iPad 2 announcement this morning. We've pulled out the device-specific URLs for your viewing pleasure. You can open these in quicktime so you don't have to view them in the browser. Just remember to grab the right version.

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  • Apple’s announced a live event for March 2nd, 2011. Everyone’s assuming that we’ll see the next generation iPad at the event. We’re not going to speculate on products with this post… we just wanted to let you know that we’ll be covering it live. Hit the “Live” button in the...

    March 2nd Apple Event Liveblog

    Posted on February 25, 2011 | No Comments
    Apple’s announced a live event for March 2nd, 2011. Everyone’s assuming that we’ll see the next generation iPad at the event. We’re not going to speculate on products with this post… we just wanted to let you know that we’ll be covering it live. Hit the “Live” button in the...

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  • With the introduction of Apple’s new subscription/in-app purchasing rules, you’re going to see many developers jumping ship. We’ve been stewing on this all day but ran into this Gizmodo post by Matt Buchanan that literally says everything we wanted to say. Seriously, give it a read… we’re not usually Gizmodo...

    Say goodbye to your favorite apps

    Posted on February 15, 2011 | No Comments
    With the introduction of Apple’s new subscription/in-app purchasing rules, you’re going to see many developers jumping ship. We’ve been stewing on this all day but ran into this Gizmodo post by Matt Buchanan that literally says everything we wanted to say. Seriously, give it a read… we’re not usually Gizmodo...

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  • **** Updated 1/15/12 **** Most of you are coming into this post with the latest 5.0.1 jailbreak because it broke your iBooks app just like the 4.2.1 jailbreak in 2011. Thankfully, there’s a fix for you too. Just today, @saurik put out an update to Corona in Cydia. Version 1.0-4...

    Apple cripples iBooks for jailbreakers – Updated

    Posted on February 15, 2011 | 22 Comments
    **** Updated 1/15/12 **** Most of you are coming into this post with the latest 5.0.1 jailbreak because it broke your iBooks app just like the 4.2.1 jailbreak in 2011. Thankfully, there’s a fix for you too. Just today, @saurik put out an update to Corona in Cydia. Version 1.0-4...

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  • We tried to come up with a movie reference that compares Apple to the popular kid who loses all of his friends due to poor choices but we failed to think of one. Obviously, they have the hottest items on the market, just like the cool kid in high school…...

    Apple is slowly alienating its friends

    Posted on February 14, 2011 | No Comments
    We tried to come up with a movie reference that compares Apple to the popular kid who loses all of his friends due to poor choices but we failed to think of one. Obviously, they have the hottest items on the market, just like the cool kid in high school…...

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  • Sure, jailbreaks have been around for a long time now, but there hasn’t been a good, untethered jailbreak for the current iOS software until Chronic Dev released their updated greenpois0n tool last week. This Jailbreak even works with the newly released 4.2.6 Verizon iPhones. We’ve had the opportunity to put...

    Jailbreak your iOS device with greenpois0n

    Posted on February 10, 2011 | No Comments
    Sure, jailbreaks have been around for a long time now, but there hasn’t been a good, untethered jailbreak for the current iOS software until Chronic Dev released their updated greenpois0n tool last week. This Jailbreak even works with the newly released 4.2.6 Verizon iPhones. We’ve had the opportunity to put...

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