Talkcast reminder: 10 pm ET roundup of the week’s news

iphone May 31st, 2009

Filed under: TUAW Business, Podcasts Talkcast time again! It’s been two weeks — we skipped last week’s show due to the Memorial Day holiday in the US, but you can always download past shows from Talkshoe or subscribe in iTunes. We’ll be back on the air and eager to hear from all of you for [...]

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Next-gen iPhone photos leaked?

iphone May 31st, 2009

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Odds and ends, iPhone, App Store The iPhone blogs says they’ve uncovered the very first photos of a brand new version of the iPhone (the pictures are watermarked from a site called UMPC Fever), and while there’s no actual indication that they’re real (at the very least, it wouldn’t [...]

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Spot the SPOD: Mac OS X rainbow cursor shows up in Pixar’s "Up"

iphone May 31st, 2009

Filed under: Humor, OS, Odds and ends Being the Disney-Pixar fanatics that we are, my wife and I went to see Up Saturday night (in Disney Digital 3D, of course) at our local theater. Remembering the appearance of the Mac startup sound as Wall-E‘s waking noise in last year’s Pixar epic, and the brief shot [...]

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Next Generation iPhone Auto-Focus, Compass, & More… Caught on Camera?

iphone May 31st, 2009

www.umpcfever.com [Google translation link] has posted what just might be the first pictures taken of the next generation iPhone… taking pictures. Highlights include the new auto-focus, both how it looks in action and the results of photos taken with it compared to the original iPhone 2G. The new digital compass, and a CPU log are [...]

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AppShopper.com, Evernote, TwitterFon, Air Mouse Pro, Pocket Tanks Deluxe, SpinRite –TiPb Picks of the Week

iphone May 31st, 2009

Every week a few of us from team TiPb, bloggers and forum crew alike, will bring you our current favorite, funnest, most useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone (or iPod touch) related, they’re fair game. [...]

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Regarding Steve Jobs and WWDC

iphone May 31st, 2009

There was some great news this week on the Steve Jobs front. According to the WSJ his Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak said Jobs sounded “healthy and energetic” while admitting he’d never asked directly about Jobs’ health. SetteB.it ran a story saying Jobs had gone into Apple HQ for a meeting. So, despite Apple consistently stating [...]

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Apple iPhone Activation Offline on Sunday, May 31?

iphone May 31st, 2009

TiPb just received a tip from inside one of Apple’s carrier partners on the memo reproduced below. We can’t verify it but are running it just in case anyone notices any problems and comes looking for potential causes. Our tipster thought Apple might be using the downtime to prep for some iPhone 3.0 and next-generation [...]

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The Future is Now: DSLR Remote for iPhone

iphone May 31st, 2009

The short of this one is that you plus your DSLR camera (Canon currently, Nikon in development) into your computer), run a server on your computer, and then run DSLR Remote on your iPhone and — Boom! — you can get the live preview right from the camera lens on your iPhone, adjust all sorts [...]

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Transformers 2 Wallpaper for iPhone

iphone May 31st, 2009

iphone news Transformers 2 Wallpaper for iPhone

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Photos Of Next iPhone Show Auto-Focus Camera, Compass, More?

iphone May 31st, 2009

Photos of what looks like the next iPhone running OS 3.0 have surfaced on a Chinese blog. The photos show how recording video and auto-focusing will work within the camera app. Auto-focus works by focusing on a point in the image, shown by a blue outline which can be moved by tapping anywhere on the [...]

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