With this tweet, Saurik has just given us a peek of a jailbroken iPad running Winterboad, the tweak that lets you customize interface design elements of the iPhone.
Since the Spirit jailbreak for iPad was released, people has been asking for a compatible version of Winterboard, especially people from Apple-customization communities like MacThemes and Macristocracy. So, jailbreakers: good news, Cydia is getting better and better every day.
Is there something cooler than Apple in his glory days of rebellion back in the ’80s? Is there even someone cooler than Steve Jobs back when he was 30? I have the answer, maybe: what about taking today’s technology back to those days? Like, an iPad with a classic 1984 calculator?
I’m telling you, this thing is completely unnecessary, and if you look closer - it’s awful. But for the Apple Vs Big Brother geek in you, it’s an awesome calculator that puts the Mac OS’ classic graphic style on the iPad, for $0.99 in the App Store.
And bought.
Together with the May 28th release date, here’s how much the iPad will cost in Europe.
Finally, Apple has announced the release date for the iPad in nine more countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK will get their iPads on May 28th.
Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore will follow in July.
Press release follows after the break.
Ever wondered what could happen with an iPad, the Camera Connection Kit, SSH, a USB drive, a Macbook and GoodReader all rolled into one?
A 20 steps tutorial to mount an external hard drive on your iPad happens, and unless you really have some good spare time - maybe it’s better to hold on for a more “user friendly” hack to show up. The result is impressive anyway, be sure to check out the text guide here or the video after the break.
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“The Omni Group today announced that it sold its five thousandth OmniGraffle for iPad on Wednesday, just 32 days after its introduction on April 3.
“We strongly believe in the iPad’s potential as a productivity tool, and it’s a fantastic endorsement of the product category that OmniGraffle is still on the App Store’s top grossing list a month after its release,” says Ken Case, founder and CEO of the Omni Group. “People are clearly interested in using the iPad for more than media and entertainment. We are thrilled and grateful, and we hope to keep pleasing our customers as we continue in our iPad development efforts.”
You do the math. What was the problem with expensive apps not selling, again?
If you still don’t get it, iPad users want to be productive. And Omnigraffle is just a great app.
As Patently Apple reports, Apple has been granted a new patent and this time is all about making the next iteration of Mac OS X go 3D. Well, the patent is actually about three-dimensional widgets, and we’re just speculating that something like this will come to Mac OS X in the future, but from what we can see in the patent - it would be amazing.
Basically, you see these widgets with multiple surfaces (like, say, a cube) and each one has a different “view”: a weather widget, for example, would have one surface for forecasts in Cupertino and one for those in New York. You get the hang of it.
“In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification could be embodied in methods that include defining a viewing surface; modeling a depth axis extending from the viewing surface; generating a plurality of three-dimensional widgets disposed along the depth axis, each three dimensional widget being a three-dimensional representation of an object and having a plurality of application surfaces; and for each three-dimensional widget having a plurality of widget functions, associate the widget functions with corresponding application surfaces. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer program products.
Another aspect of the subject matter described in this specification could be embodied in methods that include defining a viewing surface; defining a back surface disposed from the viewing surface along a depth axis; and generating a widget receptacle disposed along the depth axis, the widget receptacle and having a plurality of receptacle surfaces, each receptacle surface being associated with a widget and being actuated by a selection of the receptacle surface, and upon such actuation causing an instantiation of the widget associated with the receptacle surface. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer program products.”
Check out the patent details here, and a couple of screenshots after the break.
Italian iPhone blog iSpazio has posted two photos of what they claim to be the frame and screen of the next iPhone, which they’ve got from a reliable source.
As you can read in the post (here’s the Google Translation) the frame has the same corners and little hole for the front facing camera as Gizmodo’s prototype, but what’s interesting is that they’ve been told from their source that Apple won’t use the much rumored AMOLED screens for the next iPhone, which will have a LCD screen, like the current generation.
Also, it seems like the screen connector is bigger, and this would confirm the alleged higher resolution of the new device.
Check out the photos after the break.
Apple’s patents are fascinating, and the one Unwired discovered is just insane: an iPhone with built in cardiac sensors that can monitor heart rhythm and identify who’s holding the device.
