The official Flickr iPhone application was updated last night to include support for iOS 4 multitasking (fast app switching) and uploads in the background. It’s available for free here.
The 1.2 update also includes support for HD video uploads, Twitter integration with flic.kr short URLs and better full-screen browsing features. Sadly, there’s still no support for Retina Display.
What are you waiting for, Flickr?
Here’s an interesting story: when Apple officially announced the iPhone 4, they said they would release it in 8 countries first. Then, starting from July, it would be available in 18 more countries. These countries are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
So the rumors were true this morning: Apple has just pushed iOS 4.0.1 only for iPhone. It includes various bug fixes and improvements, including the signal formula one.
What we didn’t know, though, is that 3.2.1 for iPad was about to be released: the newest update of iOS for iPad brings many fixes, including the Wifi connectivity, video playback and PDF ones.
Some people just don’t know how to hold an iPhone. Go tell Steve about it. Truth is, everyone wants to make his own customized stand or case. But this one, this one…is made out of a credit card and a plastic bump.
What?
Whether iOS 4.1 fixes the iPhone 4 antenna issues or not (it did the trick for me), it’s very interesting to read the opinions of well-known industry personalities about it.
But Steve Wozniak is more than a personality - heck, he’s the guy who co-founded Apple with Jobs. He must know something about Apple stuff, right? It turns out he experienced reception problems, too, and he learned about them the hard way. He touched the spot and everything froze.
Read an excerpt of his interview with Dutch journalist Henk Van Ess after the break.
Last night a bunch of blogs reported that the latest iOS 4.1 beta didn’t fix the “Death Grip” problems with the iPhone 4 antenna. We linked to those reports because I had the chance to test the new firmware in a low-signal area and, apparently, the Death Grip was still there.
Today I woke up early and decided to go out for some field testing with my iPhone 4 running iOS 4.1 Beta 1. I took a walk in strong-signal areas (very strong-signal - Viterbo is covered pretty well by 3G and HSPA) and, surprisingly enough, I wasn’t able to reproduce the grip issue.
What happened with iOS 4.1?
Of all the bad habits I have, one I managed to kick is falling asleep with music. Yes, I used to go to bed with my earphones on and music playing until I was unable to listen to it. I read a lot of people do it - but I couldn’t stand waking up with cables all over my bed. I felt stupid for that habit.
Now we (I, actually) have a problem. There’s this new iPhone app, Decrescendo, which helps you falling asleep with your music, it’s “intelligent” and looks great on the Retina Display. Oh boy.
Another success story in the making, Archetype has managed to garner 160,000 players within a week of launch according to TUAW. Amidst a massive advertising campaign, Archetype has become somewhat of an behemoth in mobile gaming, delivering a “big budget” experience Apple’s mobile devices, directly competing with titles like Nova and ngmoco’s Eliminate.
There are so many apps in the App Store - can you remember when there was no App Store though? We all used to save webclips on our iPhone pages, Safari was the only way to let the iPhone see something new.Then the App Store launched and the rest is history. iFart. Pocket God. Weightbot. Tweetie. You know, apps changed our life.
But hey, there’s always place for creativity and I’m sure some developer out there is working in this exact moment on the app that will change the way we use our phone in the next months. That’s what’s great about the App Store - you don’t settle. There will always be room for a better app - one that didn’t even exist before.
That’s what David Pogue did with his latest NYT column: he asked for help to his followers in order to round-up great ideas for apps that don’t exist yet. It’s genius. Check out the most interesting ones after the break.
