Web designers rejoice.
Great update to what I consider the best alternative calendar app for iPhone. Calvetica Calendar 3.0 comes with a grid week view, possibility to add attendees, improved dates on agenda view and several bug fixes. Seriously, just go buy it.
Word’s on the street that Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Group, will announce a magazine app for the iPad called “Project” (nice name) on Tuesday. Several European media outlets have apparently received invitations for a special event, but it’s unclear whether Branson will announce the launch of the app or just offer a preview. Actually, no one ever heard of Branson’s iPad “Project” before.
If Branson’s really working on a magazine app for iPad, it’d be interesting to know if Virgin is involved in anyway with Apple’s plans to launch app subscriptions for iOS. Will we see Branson, Murdoch and Jobs on stage at the rumored December 9th event?
Speaking of things we don’t like about iOS 4.2 for iPad: Apple changed the orientation lock button and made it a mute switch. Then, they put the orientation lock in the multitasking tray, which you can access with a single swipe to the right. Many users – MS staff included – asked: why? Why putting a mute switch on the iPad when you can get the volume down to zero by simply holding the volume key for a second? Why changing the behavior of that button when the iPad is clearly more a reading device and reading on a tablet requires orientation adjustment all the time? Read more
Everybody’s loving iOS 4.2 for iPad: it brought multitasking to the tablet, folders, AirPlay (sort of) and, ehm, AirPrint. Limitations aside, iOS 4.2 was needed. We have already talked about this. As more users upgrade to the new OS every day though, more issues Apple didn’t discover in the early developer betas and GM seeds start to appear. Read more
Even if I suggested waiting before trying to jailbreak your iPad running iOS 4.2.1 using redsn0w, I decided to go ahead to report back for all those who might be on the edge and don’t know if jailbreaking iOS 4.2.1 on the tablet is worth yet.
So is it worth it? If you depend on a very few tweaks and apps, the ones that are working right now, you can go ahead and jailbreak the iPad. The biggest obstacle, of course, is that this is a tethered jailbreak, meaning that every time the iPad will need a reboot or its battery will die, you’ll need to boot it into a jailbroken state using redsn0w from your computer. Sure, you can also boot in “normal mode” without resdn0w, but Safari and Cydia won’t work. The tweaks and apps you installed from Cydia won’t work, either.
With this is mind, I took a look at the current state of jailbreak on iOS 4.2.1 for iPad. Read more
Good roundup of what’s new in the latest Apple TV update over at iLounge.
Disappointed Apple didn’t enable AirPlay streaming for video on all apps on iOS 4.2.1 for iPhone and iPad? Well, we are too. We thought we’d be able to stream just about anything from our iDevices to the new Apple TV, but it turns out you can only stream video using AirPlay from Apple’s native apps. Streaming video in Safari isn’t enabled, nor is it in 3rd party apps and Apple’s own camera roll. Bummer.
Fortunately, TUAW’s Erica Sadun has done some good hacking to find out what exactly is going on under the hood. She decompiled the frameworks and got ahold of Apple’s APIs and, without entering the most technical details, it seems like the whole concept is still a little bit rough for the average developer.
So caveat hackteur – this isn’t going to be appropriate for the casual developer. Yet.
Having gotten this proof of concept working, there’s still a lot left to get done to transform this into a stable solution that works with general applications. Keep in mind that you’ll be working with unpublished APIs, so the above classes and code are not App Store Safe. That’s why we have a jailbreak world, after all.
Head over the video below and see what Erica got working on her iPad. AirPlay for video in 3rd party apps isn’t impossible, I guess we just need to wait for Apple to officially enable it. Maybe in iOS 4.3? Read more
With Thanksgiving just around the corner and that credit card already set up with your iTunes account, it’s impossible to resist the temptation to grab all those discounted apps in the App Store. Indeed, great deals have surfaced this past week and we’re also waiting for Apple to go public with its own Black Friday deals.
We don’t think you should force yourself to not buy all those discounted apps and gadgets because you have to save money for the iPhone 5. No, there’s time for that. We want to offer you a roundup of the best apps we think are currently discounted for Thanksgiving, great pieces of software we have reviewed in the past and you should go buy right now. We haven’t listed any app in here, we have simply collected the ones we love.
So jump after the break, fire up iTunes and check out these amazing deals from the App Store. Read more
