Is Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek huffing the magic hallucinogen jay bone? He claims that Apple canceled an iPad 2 HD, despite having already built a million of them, but also, that Apple will be launching the iPad 3 in January. What? In a research note posted today, Misek said that the iPad 3 would have a “sooner-than-expected” launch in late January. It’s not exactly clear why he thinks [Read More...]
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Of all the Apple stuff I’ve ever owned, only an iPod Mini and my beloved 3rd-Gen iPod and maybe a few stickers have ever been stolen; I consider myself lucky. If MacBook Pros come with slots to keep them locked down, why not the iPad? Griffin says “why not, indeed” with their new TechSafe Case ($ 80). The case comes with a polycarbonate case — which has two foldout stands for both portrait [Read More...]
When downgrading from an iOS 5 beta back to the last firmware that supports an untethered jailbreak, users have been reporting strange iTunes errors. One of the rarer errors is the one shown above; it will leave your device in a recovery loop and can be very frustrating. Here is a guide for Mac users explaining how to get out of this recovery loop and get your device up and running on the latest firmware that supports an [Read More...]
A Polish newspaper reports that Apple’s iTunes Store is set to open up to another ten countries in the European Union. A launch date for the service is still unknown, but sources have reportedly indicated that it could come “at any time.” Rzeczpospolita [translation] names the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland as three of the ten countries to finally get the iTunes Store, while the other seven have not been specified. MacRumors notes that [Read More...]
Once is a new photography magazine for iPad, but it’s one with a nice twist: the publishers plan to share income with the contributors. I’ve just spent an enjoyable hour going through the first (free) edition and I’m impressed. Much thought has gone into making sure that this is more than just a slideshow of photographs. The three photo stories in this edition include plenty of [Read More...]
Apple is known for quality. Quality products, quality design, quality talent — Apple has it all. Unsurprisingly, Apple also serves quality food to its Cupertino employees. Apple’s main 1 Infinite Loop campus is home to a world class cafeteria called Caffe Macs. An Apple employee named James at Caffe Macs has spilled the beans on everything you could every want to know about Apple’s cafeteria, including lots of yummy food and a run-in with Steve Jobs [Read More...]
Akitio’s pretty new alloy enclosure has a back full of inputs: eSATA, USB 3.0 and two FireWire 800 ports. There’s no way to jack in a Thunderbolt connection, though. The SK-3501 Super-S3 is stackable and fanless, with a perforated front panel and heat sink providing cooling duty. The enclosure sells for $ 150, and you’ll still need your own 3.5? drive to pop inside; luckily, storage guts are fairly inexpensive these days.
Amazon just announced its long anticipated tablet, the Kindle Fire. And while the hardware doesn’t compete with iPad, the price certainly is: it’s a fully-featured tablet with access to millions of apps, games, songs, movies, TV shows and books, all for just $ 199. Running a custom version of Android 2.1, the tablet exists as a way of consolidating all of Amazon’s incredible libraries of content: shopping, streaming, music, [Read More...]
Apple has been on quite the winning streak lately. With the next iPhone announcement on the horizon, things are only looking up for the folks in Cupertino. With Apple set to reveal its last quarter financial results on October 18th, predictions are that the company will see growth in Mac and iPad sales, with a slight decline in iPhone sales. Analyst Charlie Wolf with Needham Research predicts record sales for both the Mac [Read More...]
The JayBird Freedom JF3 ($ 99) Bluetooth wireless headphones are a successful attempt to build upon a paramount technological concept: take something good and make it great — or in this case, take a good pair of IEM headphones and ditch the cord. It’s like a musical bris without the rabbi — or the baby. The Good: When testing any Bluetooth stereo headphones, comfort and loudness are key. and JayBird [Read More...]
