iOS

Want to project holographic text and graphics over anything using your iPhone or iPad? Grab Holographium and your digital camera. Combining the two, you can create the appearance of 3D text and images by using the app and then dragging an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch in front of a camera with a long exposure. … Read More

For whatever reason, the Mac OS X 10.6.5 update did not include AirPrint shared printing support (meaning you can’t print from an iOS device to a shared Mac printer). But, you can unofficially enable AirPrint by downloading a few AirPrint files from 10.6.5 beta releases and then putting them in the appropriate location on your … Read More

Update: The update has been released, get the iOS 4.2 download now. Late last week we heard that the public release of iOS 4.2 was waiting on enough third party applications to be accepted into the App Store, this was to insure that users have immediate access to apps that take advantage of new features … Read More

Do you rely on your iPhone or iPod touch to wake up in the morning? Unless you want to wake up an hour late this coming Monday morning, listen up. The iPhone Daylight Savings Time Alarm Clock Bug You may have heard of the iPhone DST bug by now, but if you haven’t here’s the … Read More

If you need to download iPad firmware and IPSW files, here are the links to do so. These are the original unmodified IPSW files, for versions 3.2 and up for iPad. You can also download iPhone firmware or iPod touch firmware if you need to. iPad Firmware & IPSW Downloads These .ipsw files are hosted … Read More

The GM release of iOS 4.2 is now available to download through Apple’s Developer Program. GM stands for Golden Master, which generally means the software release is ready to ship. The iOS 4.2 update is hotly anticipated for iPad owners in particular, since it will bring multitasking abilities to the device. The update also installs … Read More

You can have your iPhone display the character count of text messages by enabling an option within the settings, here’s how to do this in iOS:

This is a comprehensive download list of all the firmware files for iPod touch 2G, iPod touch 3g, and iPod touch 4G, with IPSW from 3.1.2 to the current 4.1.0. All of these IPSW files are hosted with Apple and direct linked to their servers. If you have an iPhone, you can download iPhone firmware … Read More

Note: You can reset an iPhone passcode but you will lose data on the iPhone. This works on all iPhone and iOS versions, whereas the tip below describes a vulnerability in iOS 4.1 only. There’s a significant security hole that effects iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS users running iOS 4.1. The hole allows a user … Read More

So now we know that “Back to the Mac” refers to iOS coming back to it’s parent operating system, Mac OS X. Basically Apple is deciding to take some of the good ideas of the iOS experience (the iPad received particular emphasis) and bring them to the Mac Desktop. Apple provided a limited sneak peak … Read More

The iPhone Dev Team just released Pwnage Tool 4.1 for download. The latest PwnageTool update works to jailbreak the following devices with the 4.1 firmware: new Apple TV, iPad, iPod touch 3G & 4G, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 3G. Why is the PwnageTool 4.1 release useful? Pwnage Tool allows you to restore to … Read More

So you installed the limera1n jailbreak and now you want to use greenpois0n instead (or vice versa), what do you do? Using a tool called APTBackup, we can backup all your jailbroken apps, and then reinstall another jailbreak complete with all your previously installed jailbroken apps. Yes, this process works to uninstall greenpois0n and install … Read More

If you had any doubts that Apple and Verizon were working together, this should quiet them. Verizon will begin offering the iPad in their stores starting on October 28. The iPad model offered will be the WiFi model, but each iPad will be bundled with a Verizon MiFi mobile hotspot to insure wireless data coverage. … Read More

I recently discussed the Apple Store Pay scale for several positions within Apple’s retail stores. It is my opinion that if you are highly knowledgeable with Apple, to the point of being a developer, you should aim to be an engineer and skip the Apple Store completely. Some of the best salaries working for Apple … Read More

Apple has just released iOS 4.2 beta 3 for download at the iOS Dev Center. The latest beta version of iOS 4.2 works for iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPod touch 4g, iPod touch 3g, and iPod touch 2g. Alongside the iOS 4.2 beta 3 is the newly released Xcode and iOS SDK … Read More

The greenpois0n download was just released and runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It’s a pretty straightforward jailbreak that will work on iOS 4.1 with the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 3g, and iPod touch 4g. The procedure is identical on the Mac and Windows so this guide is the same regardless … Read More

Update: A new version has been made available, Download GreenPois0n Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 The greenpois0n Jailbreak is now available to download. The release is available for Mac, Windows, & Linux (much like the earlier launched limera1n jailbreak). If you’re into jailbreaking and held off from limera1n, greenpoison is probably why.

This is the first commercial for Windows Phone 7, which was announced on 10/4/10 at a press conference from Microsoft. In case you didn’t know or don’t care, Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft’s new foray into the mobile world. They’re getting a bit of a late start, but Windows Phone is hoping to compete directly … Read More