Great news, jailbreakers: Apple released iOS 4.2.1 earlier today and it looks like we might be able to get our hands on fresh iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak material later today, or at least in a few days. While developers and tinkerers are already able to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 using the latest redsn0w beta, both the Dev Team and @p0sixninja (main developer of GreenPois0n jailbreak tool) confirmed a public solution for iOS 4.2.1 is on the way. Read more
iOS 4.2.1 Jailbreak Really Around The Corner
AirPlay Notes: Netflix, Hulu Plus, Youtube Website & App
With the release of iOS 4.2 today, Apple introduced one of the features they’ve been busy promoting in the past months: AirPlay. While based on complex technology and a variety of Apple’s proprietary frameworks, what consumers get is really simple: streaming of audio and video content from any iOS 4.2 device to Apple TV, an AirPort Express station with connected speakers or AirPlay-enabled speakers. It’s one-way streaming from iOS to other Apple “living room devices” made simple and fast.
AirPlay went through a complicated iteration during the iOS 4.2 developer betas and GM seeds, but what we have today is a fairly stable feature easy to use for anyone. Apple, however, was apparently forced to remove some functionalities and some content providers decided to exclude AirPlay’s streaming support from their apps. Read more
You Can Use Find My iPhone For Free On Older Devices→
You Can Use Find My iPhone For Free On Older Devices
Apple claims only iPhone 4, iPad, or 4th generation iPod touch owners can use Find My iPhone for free by logging in with their Apple IDs. It turns out, though, that enabling support on older devices is fairly simple. Lifehacker reports:
Once you’ve activated Find My iPhone on a newer iOS device, just repeat the steps above on a pre-2010 iOS device and it should work like a charm. I tested the process by turning on Find My iPhone on an iPad, then enabling it on an iPhone 3G.
Piece of cake. Just borrow an “officially supported” device from a friend, log in with your credentials to activate the feature, then delete the account from your friend’s device.
iWork Apps for iPad Updated to Support iOS 4.2, Now Available For Download
Just as expected, Apple has released an update for all the three iWork apps currently available on the iPad: Pages, Numbers and Keynote reach version 1.3, which adds support for iOS 4.2 and AirPrint. The updates are rolling out in iTunes now.
Support for iOS 4.2 and AirPrint has been deployed in all the apps, although each of them has got unique new features in the update, too. As far as AirPrint is concerned, version 1.3 includes slide range selection, number of copies, and duplex printing. The three apps also come with Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese localization, bug fixes and overall performance improvements. WebDAV server fixes have been included as well.
Numbers got an enhanced print preview to adjust the the way a sheet is printed across multiple pages, together with a predictive function selector and improved PDF export support. Keynote comes with an enhanced presenter that allows you to display on an external monitor the current slide, the next slide, or your notes. It also got the ability to import and add existing notes to slides. Pages got automatic pagination of tables exceeding page breaks and improved font size selection.
Pages, Keynote and Numbers are available here, here and here, respectively.Pages 1.3 still hasn’t made it through the App Store, we’ll update this post once it’s live. Check out the full changelogs below. [image via Macworld]
Update: Pages 1.3 is live in the App Store.
ForkLift 2 Now Available→
ForkLift 2 Now Available
Disklets, Synclets, new view modes, transfer queue, improved archive handling, new search modes and filters (with RegExp), improved Sync, Stacks, incredible speed!, integrated favorite manager, improved Multi-Rename, Workspaces, and a lot more to discover.
We reviewed the beta version back in May, but lots of things have changed since then. The app has been refined, tuned to be crazy fast and stable. A free trial is available, so check it out.
Amazon Releases Price Check for iPhone
The giant online retailer, Amazon, just released their new product scanning app for iPhone - Price Check. You can use your iPhone to compare prices with Amazon and its merchants wherever you are. You can search their online database using barcode, picture, voice and text search. That’s more options than what comparitive apps like eBay’s recently acquired RedLaser and the new ShopSavvy (which I like) apps.
Apple Releases iOS SDK 4.2 Final
Following the release of iOS 4.2 for all iOS devices (yes, Apple TV included), Apple just pushed an update to the official iOS SDK for developers. iOS 4.2 SDK final is now available, you can find it in the iOS Developer Center.
Apple also suggests you download and install the Application Tools package if you plan to submit apps to the Mac App Store after installing the new SDK.
GTA Trilogy for Mac Now Available
So you’re downloading iOS 4.2.1 for your iPad and the Apple TV is waiting an iOS 4.2 as well, but what about the Mac today? Well, there’s no software update in sight, but at least you can give it some Grand Theft Auto love.
As we previously reported, today Rockstar released GTA Trilogy for Mac, a package that contains the original GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas – all capable of running natively on your Mac. Read more
iOS 4.1 For Apple TV 2nd Gen Now Available
Together with iOS 4.2.1 for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, Apple also released an update to the 2nd gen Apple TV. Firmware seems to be iOS 4.2, build 8C150.
Here’s the direct link to download it.
This update enables AirPlay for video functionality, as announced this morning, although it’s not clear whether Apple managed to include a fix for color issues on Sony and Philips TVs or not.
Update: we’re getting reports from users about the Apple TV software update claiming an iOS 4.1 update is available, although the direct link version clearly says it’s iOS 4.2. Curious.
Update #2: We can confirm the built-in updater tool will install iOS 4.1 on the Apple TV. Guess someone messed up with version naming for direct download at Cupertino.