Archive for November 8th, 2009

Gigabyte Releases Beta BIOS Update for iPhone Syncing Problem

A few days back, we had written about a problem faced by some users who had trouble syncing their iPhones to iTunes 9 on Windows 7.

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Is the Magic Mouse a dog?

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Hardware , Peripherals , Bad Apple For some Magic Mouse users, the streamlined human interface device is not only a dog, but a dog that pees on the carpet, smells bad, and barks continuously. Apple support boards are beginning to fill up with complaints about tracking issues and Bluetooth disconnects

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First look: Viewfinder supercharges Flickr search

Filed under: Software , First Look The new Mac app Viewfinder by Connected Flow (developer Fraser Speirs is the man behind the FlickrExport plugins for Aperture and iPhoto ) is designed for browsing/searching images on Flickr . This application provides many ways to work with the service’s photos; you can select licenses to constrain your search to images you can use (such as Creative Commons or commercial use images), or search through the full text of tags and descriptions

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Killer Edge Racing Pulled From App Store Due To Spurious Trademark Claim by Tim Langdell

Tim Langdell’s back, and this time he’s mad(der than a bag of spanners). Today, Nalin Sharma’s Killer Edge Racing is the victim. The short version: like with Mobigame’s Edge, Langdell claims Nalin’s game is riffing off Edge’s ‘famous’ marks; additionally, Pocket Gamer reports that Langdell’s moved to register Killer Edge Racing and Killer Edge Racers, despite

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NBA League Pass Mobile

Get a 2009-10 regular season league pass and watch LIVE NBA games on your iPhone using the NBA League Pass Mobile iPhone app. While watching live games you also get access to live player stats and scores right on top of the video just by tapping a few buttons. The main screen gives you access

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Verizon Calling: Apple Rumored To Bring UMTS/CDMA Hybrid iPhone in 2010

Late last month, Ivan Seidenberg, the CEO of Verizon Communications had expressed interest in working with Apple and had said that it was up to Cupertino to move forward on that. Now, it looks like Apple has already taken the step forward.

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Yes, the Apple Store is down up

Filed under: Apple Yep, the Apple Store is down (all over, it seems) and our inboxes runneth over.

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Worm rickrolls unsecured jailbroken iPhones via SSH

Filed under: Security , iPhone , Jailbreak/pwnage For the last few days, some jailbroken iPhone users have found their home screen background a little different than they remembered . A hacker, going by the name “ikee,” created a worm that changes the home screen background on jailbroken iPhones whose owners failed to change the default password after installing SSH. Simply jailbreaking your iPhone will not make you vulnerable to this sort of hack

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Heads Up: Update your Apple TV to 3.0.1 ASAP, says Apple

Filed under: Bugs/Recalls , Apple TV We’ve heard a few reports of sync issues with the new Apple TV 3.0 software over the past few days, and apparently the chatter on the Apple support boards was on the mark : Apple has shipped 3.0.1, which is supposed to fix problems where 3.0 units would unexpectedly dump all their loaded content. You can get all the details from Apple’s tech note . Since it’s a giant pain to resync gigabytes of media over the network link, it’s nice to see this fixed promptly…

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