Phone Disk, from Macroplant, is a utility for Mac OS X (and Windows) that runs quietly in the background on your computer until you plug-in an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad using a USB sync cable. Plugging in your favorite iDevice causes Phone Disk to seamlessly mount the iOS file system on that device to
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Posted by on August 4, 2010 in
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iPhone Apps In order to save battery life, Apple very intelligently limited the kinds of API calls multitasking apps could make in the background under iOS 4 to audio, VOIP and location. It’s a clever compromise, but it leaves a lot of common multi-tasking applications in the lurch: for example, your newsreader can’t update your list of
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Posted by MacMan on August 4, 2010 in
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Top stories For all those who took the liberty of running the ridiculously simple JailbreakMe 2.0 installer over the weekend (before having second-thoughts based on the security hole it exposes), the accompanying package to unlock your iPhone to run on any GSM carrier worldwide has dropped. Ultrasn0w 1.0-1 is the first baseband unlock for iOS 4 phones,
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Perhaps it took a little longer than expected, but promise of background VoIP via the Giant Blue S has finally been fulfilled: With the Skype app’s 2.0.1 update, it’ll now run in the background (on any iPhone updated to iOS4, of course). Launch it, leave it running, and it’ll function just like your AT&T account
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T-Mobile USA is very close to getting the iPhone in the fall, ending Apple’s exclusive relationship with AT&T, according to a highly placed source at the wireless company. Talks between Apple and T-Mobile are at an advanced stage, our source says, and it’s 80 percent likely that the iPhone will be coming to T-Mobile in Q3. The source works at T-Mobile
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Skype’s iPhone application has received a much-anticipated update today, bringing support for multitasking in iOS 4. – Run Skype in the background with multitasking in iOS4. Receive Skype …
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I gawped in disbelief at this picture in the New York Times of Apple’s new store in Shanghai. At fist glance, I thought it was a special effect from a sci-fi movie. The spaceport-looking thing in the background is the Oriental Pearl Tower. New York Times: Apple Making New Push Into China
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Posted by MacMan on July 8, 2010 in
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iPad We’re not the only ones to think the iPad isn’t just for kids: a growing number of big US businesses are arming their employees with the handy device. Recent corporate converts include Wells Fargo, SAP, Telllabs and Mercedes are using the iPad in the workplace. “This iPad thing has taken the world by storm,” Ted Schadler, vice
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the long-term future of the iPod line. Long the key driver of Apple’s revenue growth, since the launch of the iPhone, it has slipped into the background. Now, the conventional wisdom goes, Apple is going to run out the life of the scrollwheeled wonder until the entire line goes
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Posted by MacMan on June 30, 2010 in
Apple news Filed under: App Review When I used to read OMNI magazine I remember getting into the whole subliminal and self-hypnosis fad. I bought a few cassettes but didn’t wind up seeing a ton of results. Maybe I was doing it wrong because there’s some research that points to the possibility that positive affirmations, voiced while you sleep, may have an effect on your conscious thoughts. If someone whispered in my ear all night that I was a super guy, I could see how that might wind up making me feel a little better. Enter The Mind Medic , an app to whisper in your ear through the night and provide you with affirmations designed to change behaviors.
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