April 11th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
The Wall Street Journal reports that while Steve Jobs remains home on leave of absence, with chief operating officer Tim Cook managing the day to day business, Jobs is still keeping active tabs on the greater strategic vision, including iPhone 3.0:
He regularly reviews products and product plans, and was particularly involved in the user interface of the new iPhone operating system that Apple unveiled last month, these people say.
While Jobs is expected back at Apple in June, it’s unknown if it will be in time for the big next generation keynote, and whether or not he and Apple will decide it’s in either of their best interests to put him on up stage and under the spotlight so soon upon his return (especially considering how stock manipulators and blogeratti both have reacted to his health and appearance in the past.)
Of course, that won’t stop many of us, myself included, from creating elaborate, heroic return fantasies for Jobs, live on the WWDC stage, iPhone HD pulled casually from his jean pocket and held up with a trademark “boom!”
[via MacRumors]
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Steve Jobs was “Particularly Involved” in iPhone 3.0 Interface Design
April 11th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Very little is known about Apple’s next iPhone, but screens and files hidden in the handset’s latest beta software are providing some major clues.
IPhone 3.0 beta testers are stumbling upon menus, system preferences and text strings that Apple tried to keep secret — presumably because they give away features that will appear in the next upgrade to the iPhone hardware, which will probably be released this summer. Highlights include a video recorder, an auto-focus camera and a digital compass. Beta-testing sleuths have also found tantalizing suggestions about the operating system, including an unannounced tethering capability, voice control and a “find my iPhone” feature.
April 10th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
iPhone 3G uses Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, but it seems like the folks behind the BT standard are ready to release the next big version, coincidentally sharing the same 3.0 version number as the next iPhone firmware update, coming this summer.
There’s been no word on Apple adopting Bluetooth 3.0 for iPhone OS 3.0 or the next generation iPhone hardware expected to be previewed at WWDC in June, but according to BGR, it will be landing on April 21st and will enable:
Ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless technology to achieve transfer speeds of up to 480Mbps. No, seriously. Higher transfer speeds are actually achieved by enabling 802.11 standards when heavy lifting is involved and then switching back to an older, slower standard when big transfers are completed.
Of course, Apple’s track record when it comes to BT is not good, so there’s no saying whether or not they’ll make the jump to Bluetooth 3.0 now… or wait for 2015 to roll around…
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Bluetooth 3.0… in Time for iPhone 3.0?
April 1st, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Bellevue, WA, USA - Eltima Software, a global software Development Company, has released Flash’in’App 2.0 version, a Cocoa framework which lets load and fully manage Flash movies right within Mac applications. This framework contains a set of classes, which provide application with the ability to load, play and manage any SWF files right within this application. Application can communicate with SWF file via External API, FSCommands and Variables.
Implementing Flash’in’App in application extends its functionality in several time. Flash is able to handle sounds, video and images. With Flash’in’App application will be able to work with all these media files too. Additionally, Flash’in’App allows creating custom-shaped windows and running your Windows Flash-enabled applications’ GUI on Mac.
With Flash’in’App users can easily create amazing Flash interfaces for any of Mac applications, add a tutorial or anything else. In fact all the advantages of adding Flash files can be used in application. Flash’in’App lets completely re-design an application using the latest possibilities of Flash, make it stand out and match exquisite design&user-interactivity requirements without the need to develop custom controls.
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End users will need at least Mac OS X 10.4 and higher and Flash Player 8 or newer to run applications that are developed with Flash’in’App. The only one demo limitation is a nag screen shown when opening a SWF file. As for the other features, it is a fully functional framework, which lets test all of its features and abilities for free. Additional information about Flash’in’App, along with detailed technical documentation, online help and changelog as well as demo installation package can be found at our site.
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March 31st, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Ekero, Sweden - Maintain has announced the release of Cocktail 4.3.3 (Leopard Edition). This version contains major improvements on the clear potentially harmful files procedure, adds clearing of the latest (F and G) variants of the RSPlug trojan horse and clearing of the Inqtana.C worm. The update is highly recommended for all users of Cocktail (Leopard Edition).
Cocktail 4.3.3 (Leopard Edition) is distributed as a Universal Binary and runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. Cocktail 4.3.3 (Leopard Edition) requires Mac OS X / Mac OS X Server 10.5 or later and is tested for compatibility with Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server 10.5.7.
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