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Apple posts iPhone 3GS-ready user guide

I droped my iphone in water and now it only sometimes works? what do i need to do to fix it

Posted by Amanda on May 26, 2012 at 11:06 PM (PDT)

Apple device poll ends, computing poll begins

What about people like me who use Windows and OSX about equally as much?

Posted by Dave on May 25, 2012 at 6:41 PM (PDT)

ColorWare now offering customized iPod touch 4G units

Hi is it a case or actual skin for the iPod touch 4g

Posted by Sayid on May 24, 2012 at 9:06 PM (PDT)

Spotify adds iPad support, Gapless playback

spotify is easily the most amazing free music player out there. check out their top 10 promotion going on right now.. it’s awesome! top10.com/mysound

Posted by kevincorcoranjr on May 24, 2012 at 3:31 PM (PDT)

Apple removes Airfoil Speakers Touch from the App Store

Good riddance, wish they’d removed it before I bought it.  Very confusing, extremely inconsistent and when you can get it to work, terrible sound quality…

Posted by benjitek on May 24, 2012 at 1:23 PM (PDT)

Netflix streaming issues persist on Apple TV

I have the ATV2 and have the same streaming issues for Netflix. It’s gotten so bad that I watch Netflix through my PS3 with NO problems whatsoever. Done the unplug thingy but that’s only temporary.

Posted by Rick on May 24, 2012 at 1:18 PM (PDT)

Facebook releases Facebook Camera

FB camera posts to your timeline but doesn’t seem to be posting to the newsfeed.  I’ve made multiple attempts.

Are u seeing this?

Posted by Ken Guie on May 24, 2012 at 11:29 AM (PDT)

Apple SVP Jonathan Ive receives knighthood

Ive’s comment about the next one being the one he is most remembered for reminds me of another visionary in a different field - Akira Kurosawa. Whenever he was quizzed about what he felt was his best work, he always said it would be the next one (until he finally made Ran, which he maintained was his best work).

It is really great the Ive is now a Knight. There is something remarkably grounded about him, despite what he has achieved. The Ive-Jobs combination was lightning in a bottle and it will be a very long time until something as magical happens again.

Posted by sreedhar on May 23, 2012 at 11:59 PM (PDT)

INRIX Traffic adds Personalized Traffic, Map Enhancements

@2: Yeah maybe my comment was a bit rosy, but I assure you I’m not a plant   I just think for a free app it is outstanding for a commuter—much better than station-hopping to get to the next traffic report.  The location tracking has always worked for me, perhaps you did’t know how to get it back to track your position if you drag it off-center. Also, the $25 for the in-app purchase is entirely optional (and not worth it IMO).

@3: Not sure what to tell you, I have no trouble killing the app, or turning off location services for it, even with yesterday’s update.  I have an iPhone 4 w/ iOS 5.1.1 BTW.

Posted by rockmyplimsoul on May 23, 2012 at 10:26 AM (PDT)

INRIX Traffic adds Personalized Traffic, Map Enhancements

Looks like it has a pretty bad bug actually.  Even after killing the application via the multi-tasking bar (double tap, hold, click x) the location services icon/arrow in the upper status bar is still on, and you can see why by looking in the Settings… Location Services—the arrow icon next to Inrix is still there.  There is no way to cleanly quit out of the application either, so once you run it, you’re screwed.  Suspect it will come back even if you soft reset your phone actually the way its coded.  Pretty bad since any knowledgeable iPhone user has location services locked down via restrictions so its difficult to do this.

I wouldn’t install it until they fix this bug.

Posted by Fanfoot on May 22, 2012 at 10:53 PM (PDT)

INRIX Traffic adds Personalized Traffic, Map Enhancements

I used this some time back then deleted it after an upgrade removed the ability to track your location as you drove.  Not sure whether they’ve restored that or not.

Also note that while the app is free, there is a premium upgrade that costs $24.95 (yes, TWENTY-FOUR DOLLARS AND NINETY NINE CENTS) that “provides access to traffic cameras” and the ability to have more than two destinations (home, work).

I plan to try it again but wary.  Looks like a lot of the positive reviews are plants or something.

Posted by Glenn on May 22, 2012 at 10:16 PM (PDT)

Google Earth adds Earth Gallery, KML support

It’s a great app. But they really need a Historical Imagery slider like in the desktop version. Some of the most recent imagery has much worse spatial resolution in places compared with the previous imagery, especially in parts of the western US.

Posted by Mark on May 22, 2012 at 9:56 PM (PDT)

Purported iPod touch 5G panel points to larger screen

Did it occur to anyone to include a current iphone model in the photo for scale and size comparison.

Posted by Eugene Hulbert on May 22, 2012 at 9:21 PM (PDT)

INRIX Traffic adds Personalized Traffic, Map Enhancements

INRIX is a fantastic app (even the free version), one that I consistently recommend to new iOS users.

Posted by rockmyplimsoul on May 22, 2012 at 6:43 PM (PDT)

Apple posts iPhone 3GS-ready user guide

How can i reccuperate a phone number that I deleted by mistake.

Posted by Tammy on May 22, 2012 at 8:40 AM (PDT)

ColorWare now offering customized iPod touch 4G units

I saw a few of your products on youtube and I thought it was really cool how panoply could customize their beats or iPod and a lot other things and I want to try it. I was wondering: if I send in my iPod touch to you guys, do I have to send all the original things with it; manual, stickers, box, ear phones because I really don’t like the apple ear phones and never really use them so do I have to send them in with my iPod touch?

Posted by Timmy on May 21, 2012 at 8:16 PM (PDT)

DataMan update adds per-app data usage tracking

just and FYI The App is $2, not $1.

Cheers

Posted by MikeH on May 21, 2012 at 3:41 PM (PDT)

SRS Labs launches MyTunes Pro

I have been trying to use this app for several months.  I am using a 3rd Gen iPod Touch and the playback seems okay for a while.  Then it begins to stutter.  Eventually the player dies and the device returns to the iPod home screen.  Sometime it never starts playing and simply jumps back to the home screen.  The audio processing it does is interesting when it works but I always end up going back to the basic player that comes with the iPod so I can listen for more than ten minutes at a time.

Posted by Gary Duck on May 21, 2012 at 9:31 AM (PDT)

iSkin rolls out Fuze, Fuze SE for iPhone 4, 4S

I know every company deserves to make a buck… free market and all that… but $60 for an iPhone case? I know there are many that cost that much and more but… wow. That is a lot of money for a piece of plastic and/or rubber.

Posted by dav on May 20, 2012 at 7:05 PM (PDT)

Apple censors 'jailbreak' on iTunes Store

UK store even sells an App called Jailbreak still. And the Thin Lizzy album.

Posted by Jon Myles on May 20, 2012 at 10:19 AM (PDT)

DataMan update adds per-app data usage tracking

Interesting how no tech journalists are questioning how this app works and if it will stick around considering it likely violates Apple’s wishes for how its backgrounding APIs work. Apps can’t run in the background, even to monitor iOS’s own data counters, for more than 10 minutes unless they’re VOIP, TCP/IP connection or Location Services related. So, this app must have either found a way to trick these APIs or is using some feature (such as the GPS tagging feature) to allow it to be registered with Location Services even though it really doesn’t use such services for its core functionality.

Posted by David on May 18, 2012 at 5:04 PM (PDT)

Apple updates 2009 iPod classic 160GB software

I have been here before about my ipod classic 160 GB late 2009 model!

I REALLY NEED SOME HELP/ADVICE ON DIAGNOSIS OF THIS BEAST!
I DID A FORMAT ON THE HD, USING THE FAT32 FORMATTER 1.1 FROM TOKIWA - THIS FORMATTER BYPASSES THE XP OS RESTRICTION OF 32 GB APPARENTLY.
THE REASON I FORMATED WAS BECAUSE THE CLASSIC WOULD NO LONGER SYNC ALL MY MOVIES-BOOKS ETC - PODCASTS WERE ALL NORMALLY SYNCED?  BUT BOOKS AND MOVIES (CONVERTED) WERE CUT DOWN TO THREE OR FOUR RANDOMLY? SELECTED.  THIS FORMAT DISN’T FIX THE ISSUE!
HELP!  ANYONE OUT THERE HAVE AN IDEA OR SIMILAR EXPERIENCE/FIX PLEASE CONTACT MIKE .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Posted by MIKE on May 18, 2012 at 11:25 AM (PDT)

Apple censors 'jailbreak' on iTunes Store

Apple uk still showing Jailbreak on itunes store maybe just the tossers in the US

Posted by Gildermesh on May 18, 2012 at 1:08 AM (PDT)

Apple censors 'jailbreak' on iTunes Store

This isn’t new for the App Store. I had to change one of my app’s descriptions years ago because it referred to jailbroken phones (and that the app might not work on one).

Posted by Danny Goodman on May 17, 2012 at 10:45 AM (PDT)

Verizon to end grandfathered unlimited plans with LTE switch

This is nothing new with Verizon, when a family member migrated from their Android phone to an iPhone 4S last year they lost the unlimited data that they had as part of our plan. Going to LTE is just another reason (excuse) to eliminate this feature.

Posted by rockmyplimsoul on May 16, 2012 at 11:27 AM (PDT)