Archive for the ‘firmware’ Category

New in iTunes 8.0 “Genius” and HD TV programs?

Posted on September 4th, 2008 in Apple Special Event, firmware, iPod Touch, iTunes | No Comments »

There are many music recommendation services out there like Pandora and Last.fm, these programs look through your music and pick songs that will go well with them. Apple is suspected to be releasing a similar feature in iTunes version 8.0.

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Apple Event September 9th?

Posted on August 26th, 2008 in Apple Special Event, firmware, iPod Touch, iTunes | 1 Comment »

Apple is known to have special events around a year apart from each other and releasing “refreshed” products in their current line up and occasionally releasing a brand new device for the market.

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Steve Says Fix for iPod Touch and iPhone 3rd party Apps Crashing Coming in September

Posted on August 19th, 2008 in firmware, iPhone, iPod Touch, iTunes | 1 Comment »

Ever since the 2.0 Firmware update many have been complaining of the overall stability of 3rd party iPhone and iPod Touch Apps. Most of the updates, Similar to 2.0.3 released last week, have led people to belive they are working on this problem. Some of the general stability issues has been solved, however, this update promised to be released in September with the next firmware update might finally be the stability we have all been waiting for.

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Copy and Paste in iPod Touch Firmware 2.1?

Posted on July 25th, 2008 in Apple, firmware, iPod Touch, rumor | 3 Comments »

The new iPhone Beta Firmware was released to some developers on Thursday, July 24th. In this beta there was many new interesting features for the iPhone and its location services. However, the long anticipated Copy/Paste feature may be hidden in there as well…

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Highlight: WeatherBug App

Posted on July 15th, 2008 in firmware, iPhone, iPod Touch | 1 Comment »

WeatherBug, the leading provider of live, local weather information for consumers around the world, announced their App for the App Store on Friday. Since then the public reaction has been extremely positive, WeatherBug offers many features the Apple Weather App does not.

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Google Apps from Day One of Software Version 2.0

Posted on May 20th, 2008 in Google, firmware, iPhone, iPod Touch | No Comments »

Google has always been a firm supporter for Apple and their iPhone, They provided the main Apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch from day one, and now they plan to do it again. Google has announced they plan to have more Apps ready from day one of the iPhone and iPod Touch software version 2.0

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Java is still trying to port Java on Touch devices

Posted on April 1st, 2008 in firmware, iPhone, iPod Touch, media | No Comments »

The major disappointment to developers when the iPhone SDK was released was how it has many unexpected limitations including how a 3rd party application terminates when closed. This means when you are using an application and want to take a phone call, when you answer the phone the application quits, does not store any data in memory and can not run in the background. This will result in opening the application again and start all over.

JAVA2

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iPhone and iPod Touch SDK Beta 2 Released

Posted on March 27th, 2008 in Apple, firmware, iPhone, iPod Touch, third-party software | No Comments »

In the ongoing wait until June for iPod Touch and iPhone version 2.0 there has been a update to the beta SDK. While Apple is still limiting many companys access to the App Store and the included $99 dollar fee the beta seems to be coming along great.

SDK 2

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Flash for iPhone and iPod Touch Confirmed by Adobe

Posted on March 19th, 2008 in Apple Special Event, firmware, iPhone, iPod Touch, media | No Comments »

Yes you read correctly Adobe has officially made comments about bringing flash to the iPhone and iPod Touch. They have said they have downloaded the SDK and found a plausible way to deliver this into the devices.

flash iPhone

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New Features in iPod Touch version 2.0

Posted on March 18th, 2008 in firmware | 1 Comment »

Engadget has now released a gallery of images of the upcoming firmware version 2.0. In the pictures they prove some unknown assumption and show all of the new features. For a list of new features check after the jump.

2.0 firmware

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