Posts tagged Applications

Apple Quietly Changes In-App Subscription Requirements For iOS Apps

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June 10, 2011
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Apple recently changed a rule that previously prevented publishers from charging more for content via the iTunes store than they do outside of Apple’s store. The rule before the change, which was apparently accepted by a number of publishers, stated that all in-app subscriptions, and purchases could only be available for purchase outside of the iTunes store and outside of iOS applications for the same price inside the store. This was an attempt by Apple to assure that they would receive their 30% cut that all publishers have to agree to when selling content through Apple.

The change to the More >

Redsn0w 0.9.8b1 Released; Offers Tethered Jailbreak For iOS 5.0b1

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June 10, 2011
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iPhone Dev Team has released RedSn0w 0.9.8b1 which is now available for download. Redsn0w 0.9.8b1 can jailbreak iOS 5 beta which was released to developers at WWDC. You can download Redsn0w 0.9.8b1 jailbreak from below.

Supported devices:
  • iPod touch 3G
  • iPod touch 4G
  • iPad 1
  • iPhone3GS
  • iPhone4 (GSM)
  • iPhone4 (CDMA)

UNLOCKERS AND THOSE PRESERVING THEIR UNLOCKABLE BASEBANDS SHOULD STAY FAR AWAY FROM THIS! You will very likely lose your unlockable baseband if you try to install iOS 5.

THIS JAILBREAK IS INTENDED ONLY FOR DEVELOPERS OF JAILBROKEN APPS! There are just too many broken components More >

Hands On Demo Of iMessage On iOS 5

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June 10, 2011
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If you have been following along with WWDC 2011 and all of the iOS 5 news, you already know that apple’s newest release of iOS is currently in beta form. Steven Chi, a reviewer from the member of the Redmond Pie family, got his hands on iOS 5 and put together a video showcasing iMessage, one of the major new features in iOS 5, which overall went pretty smooth. The video might show you a few things you might not yet know; for example, iMessage is actually integrated into the iOS messages app, meaning it will automatically switch to SMS mode, which looks and feels identically if the recipient More >

Facebook Updates Privacy Settings; Enables Facial Recognition For Tagging Photo’s By Default

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June 9, 2011
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Facebook seems to constantly be in the middle of privacy issues recently and as Mashable reports, the social networking side could be steaming headlong into another, with its facial recognition system. The new system, which set many alarming bells ringing for many privacy-conscious people when it was first discussed back in December, offers people’s photos and suggests the names of friends they should be tagged as.

The feature basically means that whenever you’re offered the chance to tag groups of your friends in an album, Facebook will use its facial recognition technology to group More >

Apple Releases iTunes 10.3.1, Fixes Syncing Issue

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June 8, 2011
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Just a day after releasing iTunes 10.3 to support some early iCloud features such as automatic downloads and access to previously purchased content, Apple has released iTunes 10.3.1, to fix critical issues in the application.

The documentation accompanying the release and Apple’s support page merely offer the same information as found with the original iTunes 10.3 release, providing no word on exactly what is addressed in what is presumably a minor bug fix update. It is believed to fix the “unknown error (-50)” some users would get while syncing iOS devices. No fixes were found as of More >

Mac OS X Lion – 10 Upgrade Worthy Features

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June 7, 2011
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There are a slew of new features available in the OS X Lion, 250 to be exact. Phill Schiller, at the Worldwide Developer Conference 2011 demonstrated 10 of the larger and upgrade worthy features.

  • Better touch gesture – Almost everything in Lion will be controllable by touch. You can use a three-finger swipe to cycle through apps, double tap to zoom, or pinch to zoom. If you’re used to using iOS, this should come naturally.
  • Full-screen apps – Here’s another feature that iPad and iPhone owners will love. Apple made it easy for developers to make their apps full screen. You can swipe More >

Apple Releases iTunes 10.3 To Get iCloud Related Features

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June 7, 2011
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Steve Jobs recently unveiled a minor upgrade to iTunes at WWDC 2011; iTunes 10.3. The release, which is currently in beta form, will allow users to take advantage of iCloud, which will become available in the fall as well as “iTunes in the Cloud,” a feature that is available starting today. iTunes in the Cloud will allow users to have all their purchased content including songs, apps, books, and more synced across up to 10 devices of their own, including both Mac and Windows computers, and all iOS devices with firmware iOS 4.3.3 or higher. Users will also be able to download any of their More >

iOS 5 Features List; What Will Apple Think Of Next?

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June 7, 2011
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The next major firmware release for the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Apple TV 2G has been unveiled at WWDC 2011. iOS 5 will bring 200+ new features to the iOS devices. The new iOS 5 features include Notifications, Newsstand, and several others. Check out the fill list of the big features below:

iOS 5 Features List Notification Center

The first of the big iOS 5 features is Notifications. Apple is finally getting rid of the annoying popups and replacing it with an Android-like notification center. It resembles Mobile Notifier, the iOS notification jailbreak application. Notifications also More >

iH8sn0w Releases World’s First Public SHSH Dumper: iFaith

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June 3, 2011
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Popular iPhone hacker, iH8sn0w recently released iFaith, originally codenamed Project iF, after his first live demo of the application. A previous announcement  gave information on where to watch for the release of iFaith but it was unknown about what the project consisted of and what its true name was. Today’s livestream by iH8sn0w showcased the world’s first public SHSH dumper. iFaith is the first application to have the utility to dump SHSH blobs onto your physical device. On the livestream, iH8sn0w elaborated on how iFaith works and reasons why it is a useful tool:

Apple’s iOS App Store Experiencing Issues

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June 2, 2011
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Apple’s iOS App Store, which is home to over 500,000 applications is currently down according to many tips we are receiving from our readers. Reports of the first outage came in shortly after 2:00 PM Eastern time. Some users are reporting that the store is accessible and app pages can be opened but apps cannot be installed on any of the iOS devices (iPhones, iPads, or iPod Touch units). It appears that app updates are not being downloaded either although they appear to be available under the Updates tab.

We also confirmed these issues on several iOS devices. Strangely enough, there are More >

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