The WWDC is 6 days away now, but the rumors don’t stop. They never stop. And now it’s time for some more images of the white iPhone 4 / 4G / HD (seriously, the best thing about the WWDC is that Steve will officially give a name to this thing), courtesy of Modmyi.
“The digitizer (glass) is much thinner than the 3G/3G[S], and the mid-frame is a solid piece of aluminum pre-cut for inner components.”
Cool. Check out the images after the break.
Weave was a quite popular extension for Firefox coming from the Mozilla Labs which allowed you to create an online identity and sync bookmarks, passwords, tabs, history and preferences across multiple computers and Firefox installations. I personally used the service many times back when I was a Firefox user and it saved me many hours of boring export / import. It was useful.
With 2 million units already sold in less than 60 days, it’s no surprise that companies are starting to look at Apple’s new toy with some sort of interest. Mercedes Benz, the popular automaker, will indeed start to use the iPad as a sales tool to bring a better experience for customers in its showrooms.
MacStories reader Nik Treiber (@treibercc) has found out something very interesting in the latest OS 4 beta: if you try to push the sleep / wake button for three times in a row when in the lockscreen, the iPhone goes in Flashlight mode.
Could this be a feature or a simple bug of the beta? It’s very useful for sure.
Check out the video he recorded after the break.
Yesterday Cody reviewed Dapp, a powerful iPhone application that lets you build…your next iPhone application.
“Dapp allows developers to easily create multiple pages of application designs via multiple projects, the ability to add objects, and manually build their application via a drag and tap of the finger. It’s quite powerful, and I decided to whip up what a MacStories application might look like.
Dapp is a seriously powerful application which makes editing rather simple. With various export options that allow you to share designs with clients or prepare it for code, Dapp should be an essential part of every developer’s toolkit.”
Now you can get the chance of winning one of the 5 copies of Dapp we have up for grabs. To enter the contest, leave a comment below, tell us what kind of iPhone application you’d like to develop someday and let us pick the winners on Thursday, June 3rd.
Good luck!
It is common understanding that the iPad is the perfect reading device. Whether it’s about long reading sessions (iBooks, Kindle app) or news reading (Pulse, Instapaper, the upcoming Reeder for iPad) the iPad is proving itself to be just great when it comes to sit down and read. Books and iBookstore aside, what we’re seeing today is a slow shift away from typical RSS applications, and even if some great software is coming our way in the future weeks, developers are focusing on finding new solutions to let users catch up with the latest news. Pulse, which we reviewed here, is a good example: a customizable visual news reading app that lets you pick up your own sources and browse news in a visual way that no one has ever accomplished before, not on the iPhone OS platform at least.
The idea of enabling readers to choose their own way to stay updated with what’s going on isn’t new, but sure the iPad is helping in implementing this idea and turn it into great software. The Early Edition from Glasshouse Apps has just been updated to 1.1 version, and it’s about time to talk about this app, which allows you to create your personalized daily newspaper within a great looking interface.
Elastic Threads has written an interesting post about the way Apple is slowly changing the way iTunes handles music synchronization between desktop computers and iPhone OS:
“What I’ve noticed with the OS 4 betas is that when I delete a track from my iPod Touch, it merely gets hidden from the Music app. I’m sure that if I changed enough data on my iPod that the actual blocks of memory in my iPod got written over, then the mp3 would be lost and to get the song back on my iPod, then iTunes would have to re-copy the mp3.
Instead, what happens is that if you delete a song, and then later have iTunes add that song back to your iDevice, it checks first to see if that song is actually still on your device’s SSD (just invisible to the Music app), and, if its still there it just un-deletes the track. Much faster. When I upgraded my iPod to OS 4 beta 4 and it deleted the 4,000 tracks that were currently on my iPod, it only took between an hour to two hours to sync all 30 GB of data back to my iPod; in OS 3 it took a whole night.”
We don’t know whether this is just a small change to optimize the sync process or a first step towards a real cloud sync, but sure Apple is thinking about it, now that Google has announced OTA music sync for Android and Lala has been shut down this morning. We just have to wait.
