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Apple Day – everything about Apple, iPod, iPhone, iTouch, iMac, iBook

Entries for January, 2009

Yellowsn0w Warning

The iPhone Dev-Team issued a warning to yellowsn0w users yesterday with a video on MuscleNerd’s Qik page. As you can guess, Apple’s 2.2.1 iPhone software update doesn’t favor jailbroken iPhones.
According to MuscleNerd, the update will “remove your ability to inject yellowsnow, possibly permanently. Your soft unlock will go away, possibly forever. The only [...]
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App Store Rumored To Receive A Premium Games Section

 
 
Apple’s App Store is a mishmash of high caliber, engaging games and low quality shovelware. It’s difficult for developers to get their games noticed when they deserve to be and it is just as difficult for consumers to find these gems.
Apple is rumored to be working on a premium games section that would only [...]

Installing Windows 7 beta on a Mac with Sun VirtualBox

Microsoft’s public beta of Windows 7 is similar enough to Vista that it is fairly easy to install on a Mac, either using BootCamp to install it natively, or within a virtual environment. Here’s what’s involved with obtaining the beta and installing it using Sun’s free VirtualBox software.
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Next Generation iPhone Evidence In Firmware

An iPhone hardware upgrade is inevitable, we all know this. The question is what will the upgrade contain? Phil Schiller has previously stated that the iPhone’s usual upgrade cycle occurs in the month of June so even though it is only January, we can still speculate.
MacRumors has uncovered a possible confirmation of an [...]

15+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps For Freelance Web Designers

In today’s post you will find 15 incredibly useful Mac Apps for freelance web designers to get their website or application styled in a fraction of the time it took before and help them manage their project efficiently to get their job done.
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Apple pulls NVIDIA graphics update, reasons unclear

Apple has yanked a software update that was intended to fix graphics-related issues with its latest notebooks just two days after pushing the patch to users via its Software Update mechanism
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Radio On Your iPhone?!

How many times have you wished that you could listen to the radio on your iPhone, and instead you had to settle for some boring, old pristine mp3 you had in your library? Life can be hard, I know. But now you can can do just that! There are a lot of apps that allow [...]

iPhone: A web developer’s new best friend

iPhone is not going to become the way developers create new sites from scratch (yet, anyway). But a lot of iPhone apps can make it easier to fix and manage things on the fly.
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Apple Gets Sirius

Several unnamed sources are telling the satellite radio news site that the uSirius Starplayr program is being submitted to Apple over the weekend. The third-party application will then be just a head nod away from its official release through Apple’s App Store.
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AT&T and Apple Discussing 3G-Ready MacBooks

AT&T is hoping to make 3G-enabled notebooks a staple of its cellular business, and in an executive interview hints that it may be chatting with Apple to extend its reach into MacBooks or other non-iPhone devices.
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Boobs And Booty Banned From The App Store

Breasts and the iPhone have had a tumultuous relationship. Last month, an application that allowed users to shake a pair (possibly NSFW) of 3D breasts was banned from the App Store for being apparently too risque for its audience.
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Yet Another iPhone Commercial

 
In just three short days, Apple has released three new iPhone commercials. Each commercial has showcased different applications all using a common theme. Monday was all about reading, Tuesday had applications that fixed things and today we have a brand new commercial about checking. Not like the balancing numbers sort of checking [...]

20 Helpful iLife ‘09 Tips and Tricks

Every year Apple rolls out another version of iLife. While iPhoto and GarageBand got major updates, some apps, like iWeb and iDVD, ended up being nearly forgotten about. Still, with updates come new features to figure out and a navigation that’s changed ever so slightly.
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Bill Introduced To Ban Silent Camera Phones

Silent photographs from your camera phone may soon be a thing of the past. A bill has been introduced to the House of Representatives by Congressman Pete King (R-N.Y.) that would ban camera phones that include a silent photograph mode.
Beginning 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, any mobile phone containing [...]

iPhone Sales Helped AT&T In Q4 2008

AT&T recently posted their fourth quarter 2008 earnings, and according to the numbers, the iPhone had a lot to do with their success. AT&T reported that they had activated 1.9 million iPhone’s during the fourth quarter, down from the third quarter numbers of 2.4 million. The third quarter was the iPhone 3G’s first [...]