iOS 6 Beta 3 Released to Developers as OTA Download

Jul 16, 2012 - 3 Comments
iOS 6 Beta 3

The third beta of iOS 6 has been released to developers running compatible iPhone, iPad, and iPod hardware. The new build is 10A5355d and contains many bug fixes and improvements over beta 2, pushing the newest version of iOS closer to it’s public debut later in the year. For developers already running iOS 6 beta … Read More

iPad Mini Priced “Significantly Less” Than iPad To Be Announced This Year

Jul 16, 2012 - 10 Comments
iPad Mini Mockup

A smaller 7.85″ screened iPad will be announced this year and cost much less than the current $499 iPad, according to a new report from the New York Times. The iPad mini is anticipated to arrive later this year, according to NYT’s sources. There also seems to be a suggestion that Apple is releasing the … Read More

This iPhone Case is a 650,000 Volt Stun Gun

Jul 12, 2012 - 10 Comments
Yellow Jacket is an iPhone stun gun case

Yellow Jacket is an all new iPhone case that doubles as a powerful stun gun, zapping potential threats with 650,000 volts of electricity. Not only that, the case also doubles as an additional battery for the iPhone itself, providing up to an additional 20 hours of use – assuming you don’t use the stun feature … Read More

OS X Mountain Lion GM Released to Developers

Jul 9, 2012 - 11 Comments
OS X Mountain Lion GM

The Golden Master seed of OS X Mountain Lion has been released to developers. Golden Master (GM) builds are typically the release version of software, indicating that a public version will arrive very soon. The GM build is 12A269 for Client and 12S302 for Server. Registered developers can get a download code for Mountain Lion … Read More

What Would a 7″ iPad Mini Feel Like? Now You Can Get an Idea

Jul 8, 2012 - 11 Comments
iPad mini mockup on an iPad

With so many rumors of a smaller iPad mini floating around, it’s sounding increasingly possible that Apple may indeed make such a device. Assumed to have a 7.85″ vertical display, it would be about 2″ smaller than the current iPad, so how would that feel and what would it look like?

iPhone & Mac Apps Crashing on Launch? Delete & Re-Download Them

Jul 5, 2012 - 12 Comments
Resolve crashing apps by deleting and re-downloading them

If you updated or downloaded an app from the iOS App Store on the iPhone and iPad, or an app from the Mac App Stores recently and it crashes immediately on launch, there’s a fairly easy solution that should be able to resolve the crashing app issue; you should delete the app and re-download it … Read More

iPad Mini to be Released by October?

Jul 3, 2012 - 14 Comments
iPad mini mockup

Apple will release a smaller and cheaper iPad “mini” before the years end, according to a new report from Bloomberg. Citing two people with direct knowledge of Apple’s plans, the screen is said to be between 7″ and 8″ diagonally, as opposed to the 9.7″ screen that exists on current iPad models, and the device … Read More

Google Releases Nexus 7″ Tablet to Compete with iPad, Surface, Fire

Jun 27, 2012 - 14 Comments
Google Nexus 7 tablet

Google has jumped into the hardware game with their new Nexus 7 tablet, aimed squarely at competing with the iPad, Microsofts Surface, and Kindle Fire. The tablet is very competitively priced starting at $199 for the 8GB version and the 16GB version coming in at $249, and features some fairly solid tech specs: 7″ display … Read More

OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 4 Update 2 Released

Jun 26, 2012 - 2 Comments
OS X Mountain Lion DP4 Update 2

Pushing towards next months public release, Apple has released a second developer update to OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 4. The new build is 12A256 and the update appears to focus primarily on security features and updates, and 9to5mac points out the latest build will check daily for security updates. Developers running OS X … Read More

iOS 6 Beta 2 Released as Over-the-Air Download

Jun 25, 2012 - 7 Comments
iOS 6 beta 2

iOS 6 continues it’s march to a fall release with the freshly released second beta version. iOS 6 Beta 2 comes as a delta update available to those running the prior beta build through OTA (Over the Air) update and weighs in around 300MB. Beta 2 IPSW will likely appear on Apple’s Dev Center with … Read More

Silence Annoying Notification & Alert Sounds in iOS

Jun 21, 2012 - 3 Comments
Silence Notification Sounds in iOS

Just about every iOS app wants to send notifications and alerts to your iPhone or iPad. Twitter, Skype, Game Center, Instagram, all these are great services that have one thing in common: their notification sounds can be annoying, and arrive in huge bursts. Instead of muting an iPhone or iPad constantly, you can selectively silence … Read More

Microsoft Surface Tablet with Windows 8 Takes Aim at iPad

Jun 18, 2012 - 52 Comments
Microsoft Surface tablet

Microsoft released Surface today, their direct competitor to the iPad and Android tablets. As you’d expect, the device is a touchscreen tablet but differs from the iPad in that it comes in two distinct versions; a traditional tablet model based on ARM architecture and runs only Windows RT – that’s Metro for those who don’t … Read More

Downgrade iOS 6 Beta to iOS 5.1.1

Jun 18, 2012 - 88 Comments
Downgrade iOS 6 beta to iOS 5

If you went ahead and installed iOS 6 beta and determined the buggy nature of the first developer release isn’t for you, it’s time to downgrade. Most developers should know how to do this already, but if not this process is easy and you’ll be back to running iOS 5.1.1 in no time at all. … Read More

Change Regional Settings, Measurement Units, Date Formats, & Currency in Mac OS X

Jun 16, 2012 - 3 Comments
Change Regional Settings in Mac OS X

If you travel internationally with a Mac or you split life between different parts of the world you can make your computing life easier by adjusting regional settings based on your current location. Mac OS X makes this very easy to do and you can switch from US to metric, change currency, and set the … Read More

Install & Run iOS 6 Beta Without UDID Activation or a Developer Account

Jun 16, 2012 - 72 Comments
iOS 6 Beta

Though we certainly wouldn’t recommend this, it turns out you can install iOS 6 beta onto an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, without using a developer account and without having to deal with UDID activation. It’s actually a lot easier to do than you’d think, and as long as the iOS device meets the compatibility … Read More

iOS 6 Jailbreak Already Available with Redsn0w 0.9.13dev

Jun 14, 2012 - 15 Comments
Redsn0w jailbreak for iOS 6 beta

The first beta of iOS 6 has only been in the wild a few days but has already been jailbroken. The DevTeam released a dev build of Redsn0w 0.9.13 to handle the jailbreak which works on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch 4G, though each device is tethered for the time being and there … Read More

iOS 6 Compatibility & Supported Devices

Jun 13, 2012 - 45 Comments
iOS 6 Compatible devices

iOS 6 comes with over 200 new features that will make the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch even better, but there’s a few caveats: first, it doesn’t run on all hardware, and second, on some of the supported devices the feature set will be limited. We’ll sort all of that out. Devices Supported by iOS … Read More

WWDC 2012 Roundup: Retina MacBook Pro, New Macs, OS X Mountain Lion, iOS 6, etc

Jun 11, 2012 - 11 Comments
WWDC 2012

If you don’t have time to watch the WWDC 2012 keynote video, here’s a quick summary of everything major that was announced at WWDC and also a few things that were quietly updated behind the scenes. New Macs, new operating systems, new apps, it was a big day for Apple. Macs & OS X Mountain … Read More

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