Apple

No confirmed news of it yet (of course, it’s super early), but rumor has it that iOS 4.1 is coming out today. Who’s excited?
When I first heard the news, I got a little giddy, but I wasn’t sure why. GameCenter seems neat in theory, but I’m not really sure how much I’ll be [...]

Along with the desktop version of Ping, you can also utilize Apple’s new social network on your iPhone. It’s actually proven to be my favorite method of using the service.

However, Apple does make it a bit difficult. At this time, you can’t activate a Ping account from your phone — it must be done through [...]

iPhone developers report that Apple’s Game Center has finally gone live. Formerly limited to a sandbox-only development environment, accounts and friends that were created for the sandbox will not apply to the live production system on Apple’s servers. Game Center is now prompting for new credentials — and developers are sharing usernames on Twitter. Older [...]

One of the things that was widely rumored to appear but ultimately absent from Apple’s music event last week was an extension of song previews on the iTunes Store from their current 30 seconds to 60 or even 90 seconds. According to CNET, we can blame the Byzantine licensing arrangement of the music industry (surprise, [...]

Apple’s new social network, Ping, has been around for about a week now, and all of the pundits have had their chance at weighing in on what Apple got wrong and right. And what’s the result? Not bad, but not great — more than a million people joined the network in just 48 hours. That’s [...]

Drop that curling broom and get downloading! Reader Jacques writes in to let us know that the Canadian edition of the App Store has begun accepting iTunes gift cards as payment for app purchases, a policy change that seems to have quietly taken effect back in June of this year.

You may recall (or maybe not) [...]

Apple – Apple Remote remote control

Remote control any application by remote keystrokesCall AppleScripts for finer controlUse your Apple Remote for iTunes, then for iPhotoUse multiple Apple Remotes, one for Keynote, another one for VLCTeach your programmable RC to simulate multiple Apple Remotes

The Apple Remote operates on an infrared-based transmitter. If it has an unobstructed line-of-sight [...]

When Twitter bought Tweetie, I wasn’t sure what to think. I was a big fan of the iPhone app, and I wasn’t exactly positive how they could improve it. A few months later they made a bunch of improvements, and I now use it multiple times a day. Once I got the iPad, I realized [...]

Holiday weekend or no holiday weekend: we’re live tonight on Talkshoe, so call in and chat with us. Of course, there were a few announcements of note this week, but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about anything besides iTunes 10 or new iPods! Bring your interests, your questions and/or your gripes and we’ll lay [...]

Along with the up-front iTunes 10 changes (social awareness, monochrome sidebar, new-attitude icon), it looks like Apple has quietly dropped one store-centric feature from the latest version. Roberto Baldwin at Mac|Life notes that the feature allowing users to buy a section of a track from the iTunes Store for use as a custom ringtone has [...]