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iOS 5 supports over the air iOS updates via 3G
One of the more welcome new features in iOS 5 is support for over the air system software updates. To help streamline things, the updates will be delta updates so that users will only need to download portions of the iOS codebase that’s been changed. When Scott Forstall first introduced the feature, he didn’t clarify […]
Continue reading...Apple issues iOS 5 beta 2 with slightly tweaked notifications, iMessaging, and more iCloud integration
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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Apple this weekend released to developers the second beta of iOS 5 and the update brings with it a few notable, albeit minor, changes. AppleInsider is able to give us the skinny. First is a slight adjustment to how the lockscreen in iOS 5 displays notifications. First, the font is slightly bigger and the notification […]
Continue reading...Latest iOS 5 build unleashes over the air Wi-Fi syncing [Video]
Monday, June 27, 2011
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Apple this past Friday released the second beta of iOS 5 to developers. One of the newly included features is support for over-the-air WiFi syncing.
Continue reading...iOS 5 beta 2 becomes more email friendly in China with support for QQ, 163.com and 123.com
Monday, June 27, 2011
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A lot of news coming out of this weekend’s release of the second beta of iOS 5 with the latest being that the latest OS update includes support for China’s QQ, 163.com, and 126.com email services via the same accounts pane users currently call up to set up their email accounts via Gmail, Yahoo etc.
Continue reading...Dynamic Icons in iOS 5 – Concept Video
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Yet another intriguing concept video courtesy of Jan Michael Cart, a college student from the University of Georgia with a talent for interesting iOS concept videos. In the one below, he outlines how dynamic icons in iOS might be implemented. We can’t lie, it looks pretty cool and is clearly a blend between iOS’s standard […]
Continue reading...The most common iPhone and iPad passcodes
Thursday, June 16, 2011
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Unfortunately, the battle between picking a strong password and picking one that’s easy to remember isn’t much of battle at all. The number of people who still choose weak passwords to access their email, for example, is astonishing. When it comes to iPhone passcodes, things are decidedly worse to the extent that guessing someones iOS […]
Continue reading...How many iPhone customers sync their devices? Less than you think
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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Some of the biggest iOS announcements Apple made last week have to do with cutting the proverbial cord. For the first time since the original iPod debuted in 2003, Apple’s portable devices can now be activated without first tethering it to a computer. More than that, iOS 5 will now enable over the air updates […]
Continue reading...LED call alerts and Vibration options in iOS 5 [Video]
Monday, June 13, 2011
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Video of some new features in iOS 5, namely LED flashing for incoming calls and Apple’s intriguingly revamped vibrations pane.
Continue reading...iOS 5 supports 1080p video output for video files
Friday, June 10, 2011
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iOS 5 reportedly supports full 1080p output playback for video files. While the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 don’t have 1080p displays, the ability to output 1080p video opens the door to a number of possibilities.
Continue reading...iOS 5 comes with custom vibration settings, LED flash alerts
Thursday, June 9, 2011
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iOS 5 is chock full of new goodies, and with Scott Forstall only taking time to go over 10 of them during this week’s WWDC keynote, a ton of newly discovered features are starting to come to the forefront. One particularly cool new feature centers on accessibility and the degree to which Apple now lets […]
Continue reading...Verizon not part of the iCloud treatment just yet
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
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There were so many announcements of note at this year’s WWDC keynote that we’re still digesting some of the minutae and finer points from the multitude of new features and services. One tidbit of note is that Apple is offering users a sneak peak at iCloud via iTunes 10.3 and iOS 4.3.3. With that tandem, […]
Continue reading...iOS 5 already jailbroken
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
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Despite iOS 5 incorporating a number of features that made jailbreaking the iPhone so attractive, the jailbreak community remains alive and well, and more importantly, committed. Within 24 hours of its debut, iOS 5 has already been jailbroken. TUAW reports: According to iOS hacker MuscleNerd, the exploit uses limera1n and is a tethered boot on […]
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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