The launch of the new iPhone 4 featured a new version of the iOS 4(formerly iPhone OS). Steve Jobs claimed the new iOS to be the “most significant update since the release of the original iPhone OS”. Well, we here at the Geek engineer review the latest OS to find out if the Steve is [...]
Foursquare, the popular iPhone app has just been revised to version 1.9.0, bringing iOS 4 optimizations to the application. This version brings a new map view where you can see all your friends, Retina Display upgrade for the interface, and the usual slew of performance improvements and bug fixes.
The iTunes Appstore leaked accounts storm is brewing, but Boy Genius Report claims that Apple has far bigger ambitions with its App store. The report claims, courtesy some leaked slides, that the iTunes could soon offer a cloud based service. The slides show a three-fold strategy by Apple to conquer the clouds.
whoa, this is the kind of thing that really makes one think that the future has arrived, with the electronic banking taking another step into the real world. most banks now allow you to deposit checks into your account just by sending them a few pictures of the check. The hassle of going to the [...]
After the iPhone 4 signal issues, the iPhone 4 quality control issues, the pre-order debacle, it seems the flood gates have finally opened on a potentially much bigger problem for the guys at Cupertino. So far, the one vindication of Apple’s apps model has been the iTunes appstore itself, raking in billions for Apple and [...]
Apple’s iAds began to appear in some App Store software on Thursday, bringing the dynamic, interactive in-app experiences to users on the scheduled July 1 launch date.
The Mozilla foundation has submitted Firefox Home, its first official iPhone app, to Apple’s App Store. It may be the closest thing we ever see to Firefox on the iPhone. Unlike Fennec- the official mobile version of Firefox for the Android platform- Firefox Home allows Firefox users to sync their Firefox bookmarks, browsing history and [...]
The iWork suite will most probably grace the iPhone, in the process filling one of the most glaring productivity gaps on the smartphone, namely the ability to make and edit documents on the fly. It might even be an iPhone 4 exclusive (a la iMovie). But a Dev/hacker seems to have the iPad version of [...]
Among all the bad air that has been created between Apple and Google, you would think that either company wouldn’t do any favors to the other, but you’d be wrong, as I think Google is in one of its “Do no Evil” moods again. This time they have released a full resolution version of Google [...]
As Steve Jobs promised at the WWDC 10 conference that apps designed for the higher resolution of iPhone 4 (on iOS 4) will run on iPad without much modification needed on the developers’ part. And with only “a little effort”, developers’ can make current apps look amazing on the new iPhone 4. Well, it seems [...]
Apple has now launched a new app for their US based customers which allows them to browse and shop items from the Apple Store. They can view all the latest product, their prices, images and other details right from their iPhone. Apple is calling this app “Apple Online Retail store application”.
New details have emerged of the new iMovie app that was launched on the WWDC alongside the launch of the new iPhone 4 and iOS 4.0.
A positive avalanche of apps for the iPhone and iPod touch allows us to upload and share our video or photos on facebook, alongwith a host of other popular social networking sites. Nevertheless, native support for these oft-used functions will be a welcome addition to the new iOS 4.0. It has emerged that a new [...]
Although we have been posting numerous ways to use the soon-to-be-available iOS 4 from apple(we have even detailed how to jailbreak it) but we still haven’t been able to use one of the most eagerly anticipated features of the new OS, multitasking, as the apps that make support this new feature haven’t been available yet. [...]
After the announcement of the iOS 4.0 gold master candidate at the WWDC by Steve Jobs, it was only a matter of time before the release candidate was leaked for consumption by other enthusiasts, and this time insanelyiphone obliged us with a leak for all the different iDevices that the new iOS will support. The [...]
For all of the iPhone enthusiasts out there who have already managed to jailbreak their iPhones and iPod touches onto the latest firmware 4.0, AppSync has released its latest version so that you can install jailbroken apps via the Cydia sources library. For those of you not in the know, AppSync patches MobileInstallation file on [...]
As expected, as the developer’s conference draws to a close, new updates of various Apple software are beginning to see the light of day, mostly for developers’ to sample for now, with expected release around the time that the iOS 4.0 is released on June 21st. The latest to see the light of day, is [...]
Next up, some iPhone warm-up pitches, like the fact that Netflix is finally headed to the iPhone, in an app exclusively optimized for the device, rather than a rehashed iPad version.
The Sleep Blaster for the iPhone is another in a long line of alarm apps for the app store. To stand out from the crowd in a field so crowded, you have to bring something unique to the table. The Sleep Blaster does indeed bring two very unique features to the appsphere, one of them [...]
