Once you get on Apple’s bad side, it’s hard to climb back into its good graces, and AppGratis is starting to learn that the hard way. After pulling AppGratis’ app from the Apple Store last week, Apple has also decided to kill push notifications on the app for users that still have it installed.
This is the first time we’ve seen Apple kill certain functionality on an app after [Read More...]
Foxconn may be hiring less workers because existing workers are more willing to stay on.
Apple stock plummeted recently after a rumor went around that Foxconn had instituted a hiring freeze based upon a slowdown in iPhone 5 production. Foxconn quickly and emphatically deniedthat the freeze had anything to do with the iPhone 5… but what was [Read More...]
If you’ve already jailbroken an iOS device running the latest iOS 6.1 software using the tethered jailbreak, then you won’t need to restore it and perform the whole process again to get an untethered jailbreak later today when evasi0n drops. Although this is recommended, you will be able to convert your existing jailbreak into an untethered one using a simple tweak available through Cydia.
According to iDownloadBlog, there’s an as yet unnamed [Read More...]
If you upgraded to iTunes 11 you know the default view removed the sidebar with its playlist view. Sure it’s easy to show again, but if you’d rather keep with the new simplified user interface, don’t miss this simple trick to make a new playlist or add songs to a playlist, without using the standard sidebar ever again.
Click and hold on any song to [Read More...]
The Tweetbot for Mac saga continues, and this time the guys at Tapbots have come out of left field to release the official beta of their Mac client. The app is available for free now, but there’s a catch: you have to already be a Tweetbot user.
Multiple updates have been released for the alpha version of Tweetbot for Mac, but Tapbots announced earlier this week that it would be discontinuing public [Read More...]
Is it 4G or is it LTE?
Now that Apple’s brought LTE to the iPad, it seems a certainty it’ll come to the next iPhone in October as well. Lurking deep in the iOS 5.1 plist files, though, may be proof that Apple’s already building support for LTE into their mobile operating system. Or it might just be more confusion over what 4G actually means: LTE or HSPA+. Over at [Read More...]
Mac OS X Lion’s Terminal includes a new feature that lets you quickly access new manual pages from any existing Terminal window. Right-click on a command or process name and select “Open man Page” from the contextual menu, this will create a new terminal window with the manual page of that command, outfitted in the lovely yellow man page theme. Because [Read More...]
A new tool has been released that untethers existing tethered jailbreaks for iOS 5.0.1. This means that if you are using a tethered jailbreak right now, you can download a free package from Cydia to untether your jailbreak and never have to boot with redsn0w assistance again. The package is called Corona and it’s very easy to install. The current version of Corona untether is compatible with [Read More...]
Microsoft recently pushed out a native iPad version of the company’s OneNote productivity app along with enhancements to its existing iPhone version. The popular note taking utility gives users the option to create and edit documents on the popular tablet and then sync them across devices via the cloud by way of Microsoft’s SkyDrive feature. OneNote goes much farther than just offering checkboxes and bulleted items, it allows for an easy composition of to-do-lists and gives [Read More...]
Worried your nice new Mac won’t support those upcoming fiber optical cables? Well, worry no more. Intel has confirmed that the current range of Thunderbolt-capable Macs will indeed support fiber optical cables, which should be ready by next year. Dave Salvator, an Intel spokesman, told Macworld: Circuitry will ensure compatibility of optical cables with existing Thunderbolt ports, Salvator said. Copper cables provide adequate data transfer for use over short distances of up [Read More...]
