iPhone OS 4.0, The User Centric OS

To tell the truth, I didn’t have God knows how big expectations for the iPhone OS 4.0 keynote. Sure I was hoping that Apple would announce new features and functions, but I actually didn’t really expect the event to turn out this good. Because yes, in my opinion the latest keynote has been one of the most important since years, which is gonna be remembered in the future as the day Apple marked the path for something new and revolutionary. Yesterday, Apple showed us  that there could…there should be a better way to work with a mobile phone. To use a mobile phone. To enjoy the web on a mobile phone.

Apple has reinvented mobile operating systems.

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You Can Enable Multitasking on the iPhone 3G

Right after Steve announced yesterday that iPhone OS 4.0 multitasking is going to be exclusive to iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 3rd Gen., people started complaining. Steve said that due to hardware limitations these devices won’t be able to support multitasking, but it turns out that some people have started looking into the OS beta and found out that, actually, it’s possible to have multitasking on the iPhone 3G.

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Twitterrific for iPad, Reviewed.

When I was waiting for my iPad to arrive in Italy, I spent a good amount of time browsing the iPad App Store looking for some great apps to install and try. Of course I searched for RSS apps, word processors, PDF readers but most of all, Twitter clients. As I started looking for decent Twitter apps to install and review, the most obvious choice was to give a try to Twitterrific from the Iconfactory already out in the App Store in its free version with the possibility to upgrade in-app to the premium version.

After 24 hours of intensive usage of the app, here are my thoughts about it.

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Mail.app, Replicated In Browser

In the past months we’ve seen many tech demos trying to experiment the concept of desktop-class applications running inside a browser, as a webapp. Safari 4 running inside Safari is a perfect example for this.

Today’s experiment is another webapp that tries to replicate the functions of a Mac desktop app, this time using UKI, a simple JavaScript UI toolkit for desktop-like webapps. The app is the popular Mail.app, and the web version is absolutely stunning: it looks the same, works the same and acts the same. You can drag messages around, expand and collapse folders, navigate with your arrow keys. Clearly it’s just an experiment that shows what’s actually possible with modern technologies, but the result is impressive nevertheless.

Check out the screenshots after the break, and the try the app here.

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iPhone OS 4.0 Is Already Jailbroken

It happened in less than 24 hours. A few minutes ago, MuscleNerd from the Dev Team posted this tweet that proves that the jailbreak for iPhone OS 4.0 is already possible.

There’s a video after the break, with Cydia and Veency running on a 4.0 device. Now we only have to wait and see what the jailbreak community will come up with, considering all the features that Apple apparently “borrowed” from Cydia, like multitasking and inline spell check. We’ll see.

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Droid: From a Mac User’s Perspective

Being a Mac review site, Federico and I own some pretty serious Mac hardware. He with a 15” Macbook Pro and iPhone, and I with my 13” Macbook and Droid. It’s a pretty wonderful relationship, Apple products and us.

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Webkit 2 Released, Puts Web Content In A Separate Process Like Chrome

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“WebKit2 is designed from the ground up to support a split process model, where the web content (JavaScript, HTML, layout, etc) lives in a separate process. This model is very similar to what Google Chrome offers, with the major difference being that we have built the process split model directly into the framework, allowing other clients of WebKit to use it.”

Way to go. Great news.

Spotted into iPhone OS 4.0: iChatAgent, Flash Camera References, MultiCore Support

We all knew this was gonna happen. People have started analyzing the latest beta of the iPhone OS, and as TUAW is reporting, there’s an iChatAgent showing up in activity monitor. At this point, I think it’s quite fair to say that the next iPhone will have video conferencing capabilities, or at least a dedicated iChat app.

Also, MacRumors has discovered flash camera and multicore references in OS 4.0. Now we only need a date for the next event, Apple.