It’s getting close! With Apple set to hold its next media event on Tuesday, the folks in Cupertino have already put up a “Let’s Talk iPhone” banner outside of the Apple campus auditorium. The icons on the banner match the invites that were sent out to the press last week. As you can see, the venue resides at 4 Infinite Loop. Apple’s auditorium only holds between 200-250 people, so expect Tuesday’s keynote to be an intimate affair. [Read More...]
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Apple and Facebook are two tech titans that have been known to butt heads every now and then. When Apple introduced the Ping social network in iTunes, Facebook denied Apple access to integrate the two networks. And that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Ping is just one example — there have been multiple talks behind closed doors that have resulted in the two companies almost parting ways for good. Over the [Read More...]
The Mac and Mac OS X have changed tremendously in their nearly three-decade long existence, but some problems stand the test of time. Finder Error Code 36 has plagued Mac users since the Beige Days: My girlfriend and I have matching 13? MacBook Pros (4Gigs RAM and both with ample HDs) and are the same “age”. We both are music nuts and have tons of music and [Read More...]
Preview in OS X Lion has been updated to include a helpful magnification tool that follows the mouse cursor. To activate it, just hit the ~ (tilde) key with an image open in Preview, then by using the trackpad you can pinch or spread to increase or decrease the size of the magnifier. This is pretty useful and offers a much more precise option than zooming in [Read More...]
Now that questions over when the iPhone 5 will appear seems to be settled, new speculation has shifted to whether former CEO and Apple stage-master Steve Jobs will show up on what was supposed to be new CEO Tim Cook’s day. Jobs “is expected to make an appearance, though a no-show by the Apple co-founder will not be a major disappointment,” Reuters reports Monday. An Apple investment fund manager is quoted [Read More...]
Analysts foreseeing Apple introduce two iPhones at Tuesday’s event should get their eyes fixed. That’s the message from a Wall Street expert predicting the tech giant will unveil one new handset, but reduce prices on the iPhone 4 to $ 99 and the iPhone 3GS to free with carrier contract. Apple will announce a new smartphone – either the “iPhone 5? or “iPhone 4S,” RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky writes Monday. [Read More...]
Verizon Wireless has reportedly offered staff at its call centers ‘unlimited overtime’ this Tuesday — the day Apple is set to announce its fifth-generation iPhone. Although recent reports claim the device will launch a week or two after the event, Verizon is “expecting something big to drop THAT DAY.” Macgasm has received information from several sources who claim that Verizon is encouraging its call center staff — those in Salt Lake [Read More...]
Want to learn something new? Stanford’s world-renowned School of Engineering is offering a free “Introduction to Databases” online course, available to anyone worldwide. The class will cover relational databases, XML data, relational algebra, SQL, and database design with UML, here’s the full course description: This course covers database design and the use of database management systems for applications. It includes extensive coverage of the [Read More...]
Sometimes when you’re driving in your car, or just feeling lazy, it can feel like an over-exertion of energy to double tap the home button to bring up your music controls on your lockscreen. Luckily, there’s a tweak for that! Previously known as LSMediaControls, LSMusicGestures allows you to perform gestures on your lockscreen to pause, play, and navigate through your music library. This tweak was made by @Fr0zenSun and is currently free on the BigBoss Repo in Cydia. Source code [Read More...]
Apparently Apple TV users are facing several issues today as they try to play movies and TV shows, originally purchased from iTunes. There has been several complains on the Apple Discussion forums, including this large thread and complaints on various forums around the net. According to the AppleCare representatives, the issue is due to an iCloud server update. Needless to say, an iCloud server update doesn’t warrant for Apple TV owners to be unable to play and watch [Read More...]
