The Philadelphia PowerBook User Group (PPUG) meets tomorrow in Philadelphia. I’ll be on had to talk about the iPhone 4, iOS 4.0.1, Antennagate, the new Magic Trackpad and the best of the App Store.
Month: July 2010
Yesterday, the cool cats at iFixit posted their complete teardown report of Apple’s new Magic Trackpad input device. The unit, which retails for US$69, is just 0.5mm thick and iFixit had to slice its way through adhesive to disassemble the hardware. Inside, the device includes a spacer, which prevents the lower panel from squeezing against […]
Video Lan Client, the nigh-indispensable open source media player for multiple audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Divx, ogg, etc.), was updated to version 1.1.2. The new version, a 39.6 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – TS and DVB demuxing fixes. – Audio filters fixes to solve the “mono” bug. – […]
Apple is reportedly investigating complaints from users that iOS 4 runs very slow on its iPhone 3G handset. Per the Wall Street Journal, complaints from iPhone 3G users began to surface soon after iOS 4 was released, but those complaints were quickly overshadowed by the iPhone 4′s antenna woes. With the antenna crisis behind them, […]
Late Tuesday, Apple released the second beta version of the pending iOS 4.1 firmware, although the company has not said when the firmware will be generally available for its iPhone and iPod touch products. Per Cult of Mac, this beta release of the iOS 4.1 software development kit, available at Apple’s iPhone Dev Center, comes […]