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Found Footage: iPhone firmware 1.2 hacked

by Stephen Chinnadorai on Mar 18, 2008 at 11:03 AM

The iPhone hackers just won’t take a break; it appears iPhone firmware 1.2 has been somehow found and hacked already. It has all of the features that Steve demonstrated in the iPhone SDK Roadmap event. The features you’ll notice in the video include: New calculator design with squared buttons The… Continue Reading »

iPod 5G gets an update to 1.3

by Stephen Chinnadorai on Mar 14, 2008 at 03:47 PM

It’s been a while since anyone has talked about the 5G iPod. But today, the 5G iPod gets a new firmware update: 1.3.  Of course, this update contains the usual “bug fixes” - that’s about all we know about the update so far - no new features have been discovered.… Continue Reading »

Apple posts iPhone SDK Roadmap event on iTunes

by Stephen Chinnadorai on Mar 8, 2008 at 06:02 PM

The QuickTime stream of Apple’s iPhone SDK Roadmap event was available not long after the event itself. But some people like to have a download copy of the event, rather than streaming - usually because of slow internet connection, or because they want to watch it on an iPod. Like… Continue Reading »

BBC iPlayer for iPhone launches

by Stephen Chinnadorai on Mar 7, 2008 at 11:43 AM

The earlier leaks are now confirmed to be true by the BBC themselves, who have launched a special version of the iPlayer website for the iPhone and iPod Touch. As of today, users on an iPod Touch or iPhone can browse to bbc.co.uk/iplayer through Safari, and view specifically-encoded videos for… Continue Reading »

YouTube re-encoding videos for iPhone?

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Mar 4, 2008 at 01:13 PM

YouTube has been quietly re-encoding some of its videos, users have found. Where possible, they have increased the videos’ resolution from 320x240 to 480x360. They have also made improvements to the sound, including AAC audio instead of the mono sound on previous encodings. These up-conversions are happening mainly to newly… Continue Reading »

Macintosh Plus - 22 Years Later

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Feb 24, 2008 at 11:11 AM

Every couple of years, I take out my old Macintosh Plus to boot it up and play with it. It is, quite frankly, amazing how many things are exactly the same in OS X today as they were in System 6. For instance, I couldn’t find an OS X Finder… Continue Reading »

BBC shows coming to Apple’s iTunes Store this week?

by Stephen Chinnadorai on Feb 19, 2008 at 08:40 PM

We know they’re coming, but just not when. The UK iTunes store is finally catching up with the USA store with the amount of content on it. We now have Music Videos and (a few) TV Shows - but still no movie purchases - let alone rentals. Currently, you can… Continue Reading »

Appletell Review: Vuzix iWear AV920

by Stephen Chinnadorai on Feb 18, 2008 at 02:46 PM

I bought an iPod Touch mainly because it brought a decent-sized widescreen display to the iPod - something that my old iPod 5G was missing. But what if you could extend your iPod’s viewing potential to 60 inches in front of your eyes? Well, that’s probably what Vuzix was thinking… Continue Reading »

Apple cancels NAB appearance, nothing new this year

by Michael Yurechko on Feb 10, 2008 at 10:48 AM

Okay, so the title I put out there may not be exactly true, but what is true is that TVTechnology.com has received confirmation that Apple will not have a booth at NAB this year. NAB, the National Association of Broadcasters show, is a show packed full of video-related product releases… Continue Reading »

Apple unveils more video on the UK iTunes Store

by Stephen Chinnadorai on Jan 25, 2008 at 08:00 PM

The iTunes UK store may not be the farthest behind in terms of content, but it is still behind the US store. We haven’t got movies at all yet - let alone movie rentals. Hopefully that will all change some time this year, when we receive the movie rental treatment.… Continue Reading »

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