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- Some iPhone 5s owners plagued with blue screen of death
- iPad and iPad mini found to have most responsive tablet touchscreens
- iPad event pegged for October 22
- Beautiful Jony Ive-designed Leica M camera revealed ahead of charity auction
- Calendars 5 updated with simpler task creation and date showing on icon badge
- Infuse iOS media player updated with gesture control, teases iOS 7-ified 2.0 release
- Office for iPad coming after touch-enabled Windows version, says Ballmer
- Obama refuses to veto Samsung import ban, deciding effects would be limited
- Nest launches Protect, jaw-dropping smoke and carbon monoxide detector
- Yahoo totally revamps Mail, now with 1TB of free storage
- Screenies of WhatsApp iOS 7 update leak
- Apple starts work on iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 Syrah
- Google’s Eric Schmidt says Android is more secure than the iPhone
- Nat Geo photographer commends iPhone 5s camera
| Some iPhone 5s owners plagued with blue screen of death Posted: 08 Oct 2013 03:02 PM PDT
In the past week or so, we have been inundated with numerous tips about an apparent issue with Apple’s iWork productivity suite running on the iPhone 5s. Folks have been emailing us about their top-end iPhone abruptly restarting each time they’d fired up Apple’s Pages, Numbers or Keynote app. Digging deeper, the problem raises its ugly head not just with iWork but some third-party apps as well. I’m just scatter-shooting here, but this could be due to the iPhone 5s’s A7 chip and the transition to 64-bit computing. Sure enough, a quick hop over to Apple’s support forums revealed a thread with similar complaints where the iPhone 5s goes into a blue screen prior to respringing - hence the Blue Screen of Death moniker. As this issue continues to persists, I though you should know about how it manifests itself and tell you about a band-aid solution. Apple of course is cleverly keeping mum on the matter and is yet to respond with a software fix for the glitch. Read on…(...) "Some iPhone 5s owners plagued with blue screen of death" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| iPad and iPad mini found to have most responsive tablet touchscreens Posted: 08 Oct 2013 02:15 PM PDT
Apple’s iPad mini has the most responsive tablet touchscreen, according to some new tests by Agawi. The app-streaming company recently ran it and several other slates through its rigorous TouchMark benchmark to measure the field. The mini registered a 75ms delay on the latency test, coming in just 6ms ahead of the iPad 4, which posted an 81ms lag. And the rest of the competition was pretty far behind, with the Surface RT at 95ms and the Kindle Fire HD at 114…(...) "iPad and iPad mini found to have most responsive tablet touchscreens" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| iPad event pegged for October 22 Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:47 PM PDT
According to AllThingsD, the reliable technology blog operated by The Wall Street Journal, Apple will be holding an iPad focused event exactly two weeks from today, on October 22. Now, Apple typically likes to run its big media events on Tuesdays and October 22 is a Tuesday. It’s also six days before Apple’s upcoming fiscal 2013 fourth quarter earnings release so it should be a boon for the stock price. And as per the obligatory “people familiar with Apple's plans” (read: Apple’s public relations department), the invitation-only event will focus on new iPads, though new Mac Pro and OS X Mavericks should get some stage time as well…(...) "iPad event pegged for October 22" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Beautiful Jony Ive-designed Leica M camera revealed ahead of charity auction Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:00 PM PDT
It’s been more than a year since we first received word that Apple’s design wizard Jony Ive was going to be helping Leica design a limited-edition camera. The device, along with many others, was to be auctioned off for charity. But the radio silence on the project ended today, with the German optics company revealing the ‘The Leica M for (RED).’ It’s a one-of-a-kind camera, designed by Ive, and it’s set to be auctioned off at Sotheby’s late next month…(...) "Beautiful Jony Ive-designed Leica M camera revealed ahead of charity auction" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Calendars 5 updated with simpler task creation and date showing on icon badge Posted: 08 Oct 2013 11:49 AM PDT
If you ask me, Calendars 5 currently is the best calendar application for iOS 7. It’s simple, elegant and works just as you would expect from an app that has been redesigned from the ground up for Apple’s latest mobile operating system. Today the app was updated with a couple of new features, making the app an even more solid alternative to the stock calendar application…(...) "Calendars 5 updated with simpler task creation and date showing on icon badge" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Infuse iOS media player updated with gesture control, teases iOS 7-ified 2.0 release Posted: 08 Oct 2013 10:01 AM PDT
One of my favorite iOS media players, Infuse by jailbreak developer FireCore who brought you the aTV Flash Black for Apple’s $99 “hobby” box, has just received a nice little update bringing the software to version 1.5. Today’s update has brought out two new noteworthy enhancements: gesture-based controls and TV show groups which basically cleans up your library by grouping all TV shows together by season. FireCore also confirmed that a major Infuse 2.0 update is “coming this Fall”. I’ve included additional tidbits concerning both Infuse 1.5 and 2.0 right after the break so give it a quick read…(...) "Infuse iOS media player updated with gesture control, teases iOS 7-ified 2.0 release" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Office for iPad coming after touch-enabled Windows version, says Ballmer Posted: 08 Oct 2013 09:46 AM PDT
Earlier in June of this year, software maker Microsoft finally posted its long overdue Office 365 for iPhone (Jeff reviewed it here). The native iPad build, however, was nowhere to be seen. Speaking at a Gartner event in Florida today, Microsoft’s outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer slipped in that Office for iPad is indeed being worked on. He also cautioned that his company will first release touch-optimized version of Office for Windows before unleashing the iPad edition. In case you’ve been wondering, touch-optimized Office is currently “in progress”…(...) "Office for iPad coming after touch-enabled Windows version, says Ballmer" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Obama refuses to veto Samsung import ban, deciding effects would be limited Posted: 08 Oct 2013 08:57 AM PDT
U.S. President Barack Obama is opting to let stand a ban on Samsung product imports. The South Korean firm had requested the American president overturn an earlier decision by the US International Trade Commission. The failure to veto the import on Samsung products follows a last-minute veto of an import ban on Apple’s iPhone 4S in August…(...) "Obama refuses to veto Samsung import ban, deciding effects would be limited" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Nest launches Protect, jaw-dropping smoke and carbon monoxide detector Posted: 08 Oct 2013 08:03 AM PDT
Former Apple hardware engineer Tony Fadell needs no introduction. After leading iPod development and helping build the iPhone, he left Apple for his own startup, Nest. There, the brilliant engineer banded together with a talented team comprised of former Apple wizards to create the Nest learning thermostat (Jeff had to say a bunch of nice things about it). That was just the beginning of Nest’s journey to the app-enabled, connected home. Today, the startup unveiled its second major product, a smart and gorgeous smoke and carbon monoxide alarm dubbed Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide. Like the Nest thermostat, the Protect takes everything that we hate about existing smoke detectors and re-imagines what those life-saving appliances should be and how they should function…(...) "Nest launches Protect, jaw-dropping smoke and carbon monoxide detector" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Yahoo totally revamps Mail, now with 1TB of free storage Posted: 08 Oct 2013 07:09 AM PDT
Yahoo’s beleaguered Mail has long given up its leadership position to Gmail although many people would agree that Yahoo’s web-mail service is far more elegant, sophisticated and streamlined compared to Google’s Gmail, which often times looks very much like work in progress. Taking another crack at dethroning Google, Yahoo today started rolling out a significant Mail makeover across the web, mobile and desktop. Further sweetening the deal, the company has raised the storage cap so everyone now gets one terabyte of free storage. The new design looks absolutely gorgeous, jump past the fold for the full reveal…(...) "Yahoo totally revamps Mail, now with 1TB of free storage" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Screenies of WhatsApp iOS 7 update leak Posted: 08 Oct 2013 06:22 AM PDT
As WhatsApp continues to shrug off competition from not only Viber, but also Apple’s iMessage, Microsoft’s Skype and even Google’s Hangouts, the instant messaging space continues to burst with activity. However, WhatsApp – arguably the most popular cross-platform instant messaging solution – has yet to update its iPhone client with iOS 7 look and feel. Even though we don’t know when that update might drop, we have a pretty good idea of how the iOS 7-inspired application might look like thanks to iOS developer @HackiPhone who tweeted out a couple of work-in-progress screenies…(...) "Screenies of WhatsApp iOS 7 update leak" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Apple starts work on iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 Syrah Posted: 08 Oct 2013 05:39 AM PDT
Apple is fast-tracking OS X Mavericks, a tenth major update to its desktop operating system for Macs. Four days ago, the software reached a Golden Master status indicating it’s now reached the stage where it’s good enough to be distributed and installed on everyday computers. The company has also reshuffled its software teams to focus on its next major releases, iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 code-named Syrah after a dark-skinned grape grown throughout the world and used primarily to produce red wine…(...) "Apple starts work on iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 Syrah" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Google’s Eric Schmidt says Android is more secure than the iPhone Posted: 08 Oct 2013 03:04 AM PDT
Back in August, an unclassified US government report on mobile security surfaced with data showing the various malware threats discovered on different platforms. And Android took the top spot, accounting for nearly 80% of all threats. With that in mind, it’s not surprising that Eric Schmidt garnered some laughs yesterday during a question-and-answer session at the Gartner Symposium, when he said that the Android platform was more secure than Apple’s iPhone…(...) "Google’s Eric Schmidt says Android is more secure than the iPhone" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Nat Geo photographer commends iPhone 5s camera Posted: 08 Oct 2013 02:19 AM PDT
During his latest trip to Scotland, National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson snapped over 4,000 photos using his new iPhone 5s. And he had nothing but good things to say about the smartphone and its camera. In a Nat Geo blog post, Richardson shared some thoughts on using the device, noting that what surprised him most was picture quality. He never felt like he was settling for photos because he was using a mobile phone…(...) "Nat Geo photographer commends iPhone 5s camera" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
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