Apple Teases Black Friday Sale

We were browsing the Apple Store online, and look what we found. Apple is having a Black Friday sale of some kind, but the details won’t be announced until Friday, it seems.

The special one-day Apple shopping event.

November 26.

Come back to the Apple Online Store this Friday for a special one-day-only shopping event. You’ll find dozens of great iPad, iPhone, iPod and Mac gifts for everyone on your list.

Still, take a look at the teaser page and start making a list of the new Apple products you might want to purchase. We think some sweet deals will be available on the 26th.

So That Phil Schiller Twitter Account Was Real, After All

As noted by 9to5mac, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller has a Twitter account. You can follow him as @pschiller. What’s interesting is that I’ve been personally following this account for quite some time now (three months, I believe), and I thought it was fake – like the popular @CEOSteveJobs one. Schiller’s account, however, is now verified so yeah, he’s the real Schiller.

Senior Vice President of iPhone Software Scott Forstall joined Twitter in July, but never tweeted. His account is verified as well, and gained thousands of followers without posting a single message. In his Twitter bio Schiller wrote he loves “Apple, Sports, Cars, Science, Rock & Roll”, and he actually replies to people making app recommendations and such. He also posts pictures taken with Instagram.

This is really cool. Could Twitter be Apple’s next thing for consumer communication? We hope so. [via 9to5mac]

Safari on iOS 4.2: Much Better HTML5 Support, Accelerometer→

Safari on iOS 4.2: Much Better HTML5 Support, Accelerometer

Today, iOS 4.2 appears as a free update for every iPhone, iPod or iPad device. This release provides some major changes on HTML5 support, like WebSockets and Accelerometer support, new events, print support, new JavaScript data-types and better SVG support.

Apple didn’t update yet Safari documentation to reflect new APIs in iOS. This information is based on JavaScript research and testing over Safari itself.

iOS is a “closed” platform, right?

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TikTok & LunaTik For iPod Nano Raise $300,000 In One Week→

TikTok & LunaTik For iPod Nano Raise $300,000 In One Week

Initially, Wilson was hoping to raise $15,000 in 30 days, to get the watchbands into production. But guess what? The watch has become a bona fide Internet sensation, raising over $275,000 on Kickstarter in just a week, from 3,700 backers – and $180,000 in the first three days alone.

Remember the TikTok+LunaTik project? It has become one of KickStarter’s most successful campaigns ever. Even better than The Glif. I guess there is a market for well-realized iPod Nano wristbands, after all.

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iOS 4.2.1 Jailbreak Really Around The Corner

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

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.

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