Win a copy of Distant Suns for your iPhone and show us your Perseid meteor shots
Filed under: Cool tools , iPhone , iPod touch The Perseid meteor shower should peak tomorrow, August 12, and stay spectacular for a few days after. If you’ve got the means, I highly recommend you check it out. Quite a show. I’m not sure an iPhone camera would do it justice, but you can prove me wrong by submitting your Perseid meteor shower shots on our TUAW tumblr page . They don’t really have to be taken with the iPhone, so if you have a nice telescope, don’t be shy.
Safari 4.0.3 is available for your software updating pleasure
Filed under: Software Update Hot off the Software Update express it’s Safari 4.0.3 , which Apple’s verbiage states: This update is recommended for all Safari users and includes improvements to stability, compatibility and security including: Stability improvements for webpages that use the HTML 5 video tag Fixes an issue that prevented some users from logging into iWork.com Fixes an issue that could cause web content to be displayed in greyscale instead of color For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222. Go on, download it and let us know if unicorns appear in your browser. The update requires a restart. TUAW Safari 4.0.3 is available for your software updating pleasure originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Sponsored Topics: Apple – Safari – Update – Web browser – TUAW
Pocket Universe ups the astronomy app ante
Filed under: iPhone , App Store , iPod touch , App Review When the fireworks stop and the smoke clears , it would be a great weekend to look at our beautiful summer skies. Pocket Universe [App Store] is a US$2.99 app that has been updated to make star finding easier for those that have a new iPhone 3GS. The app uses the position sensors and the compass to orient your phone to match the real sky. As you turn or tilt the phone, the sky map changes to give you a very accurate picture of where you are pointing, with lots of labels and links to more information. This is one of the first examples of an augmented reality app to hit the platform since the introduction of the 3GS. If you have an older iPhone or iPod touch running OS 3.0, you can tilt the phone to match where the real sky is, but you’ll have to manually set the direction you’re facing
