Apple News and Rumors
New iPad parts Still have Camera Holes
Previously a Mac repair company revealed evidence of a font-side camera on the iPad. And now another repair company claimed they have recieved photos of the final revision iPad midframe. Like the ones that come from Mission repair the new iPad parts have holes that could fit in an iSight camera, but other than that [...]
Sing with the iPad Ad First Appeared During the Oscars
Played with the background song “There Goes My Love” by the Blue Van, the first iPad ad aired in a 30-sec spot during the academy awards.
The short ad reveals the the iPad will be released on April 3. I must say the music is perfect, together with clips of iPad’s user interface demo, the ad [...]
Mobile Safari SDK 3.2 reveals built-in Wikipedia Search and Safari QuickLook
Soon the default iPhone/iPad browser Safari will support Wikipedia and Yahoo search right within the search bar. Mobile Safari SDK 3.2 beta 3’s application code reveals the following line:
-(id)googleSearchURL;
-(id)yahooSearhURL;
-(id)wikipediaSearchURL;
-(id)searchURL;
Aside from Wikipedia and Yahoo searches, plugins could also be created to do Amazon and Bing queries within the search bar.
TESO’s iPad Clone is More iPhone than iPad
TESO a Shaizan based company created an iPad clone that’s worth noticing, at first look this tablet computer is more iPhone than iPad. It have bigger round corners, speaker which resembles like the ones on the iPhone and it also have that chrome bezel. Many iPad critics taunts the iPad as a magnified iPod Touch, [...]
Could The Mio Moov V780 Hurt the iPad Market?
Announced at CeBit, the Mio Moov 780 is much smaller than the iPad. It have a smaller 80×480, 7-inch wide capacitive touch screen. It features a 3D multi-touch enabled multimedia browser, YouTube application, and an email client that supports exchange, aside from the usual and unlike the iPad it have a web browser that supports [...]
Jim Reekes – Apple Startup Sound Creator and the Story Behind Ear-conic Sosumi
Here’s an interview of Jim Reekes an Apple Sound Engineer who created that chime you hear when your Mac starts up. In the interview conducted by OneMoreThing (a dutch Apple Blog) Jim told the story how the sound originally called “Chime” renamed to “Sosumi”. It appears that they cannot use the word “Chime”, he might [...]
Louie Sulcer – Georgia, Won the iTunes $10,000 Gift Card
Finally, Apple reached 10 Billionth song download from iTunes. The Cupertino company celebrates the event by conducting a contest in which the person who Downloaded the 10 Billionth song will win a $10,000 worth of iTunes gift card.
And the winner is Loui Sulcer, 71-years-old, retired real estate broker of Woodstock, Georgia. The Song? It’s Jonny [...]
Apple’s Third New iPhone Ad Pushes Home Automation
Earlier Apple released two TV ads entitled “On Hold” and “First Steps”, like the later the third new Ad is family oriented. Entitled “Family Travel” it suggest that the iPhone beefs up family travel by using it to book airline ticker, finding snacks, movies for the kids, and lastly home automation. Apple is just saying [...]
Microsoft is Giving Away MS Office Themed MacBook Pro via Twitter Contest
Microsoft recently announced Office 2011, and now their giving away a couple of MS Office themed 15″ MacBook Pro configured with 2.53 Ghz processor, covered with custom PMS in MS Office Colours (Blue, Orange, Green, Purple). They also included a copy of Office 2008 for Mac. Not sure if it’s pre-installed or not.
Apple Posted Two New iPhone Ads
The two new Ads seems to target the average person.
The first one entitled “On Hold” shows a guy doing lot’s of things while a phone call is being on hold – although the iPhone doesn’t do multi-tasking the ad somehow says you can multi-task with the iPhone.
