Take your happy little self on over to JailBreakMe.com and remove the limitations from your idevice of choice (as long as it’s not a 1st gen iPhone or iPhone 3G) Here’s a photo of cydia running on my personal iPad 2 ATT 3G 64GB 🙂 Have fun.
Man I was so excited to get my son the LeapFrog LeapPad and then…I decided to skip it. It’s advertised as an iPad for your kid and with a 5” screen, camera and accelerometer I thought it had that type of potential. Then I saw this hands on video from Engadget: What happened there? Watch … Read more
Is there anything you can’t do with a mobile device? The answer is pretty much no, but the real question is there an app for that? So say you are looking for that first new home to start a family and you and your blushing bride find that perfect palace with the white picket fence. … Read more
Apple had filed suit against Amazon for use of the word Appstore in their…uhm app store. It’s still in litigation but the judge has let their opinion be known. From Bloomberg: U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton said today after a hearing in Oakland, California, that she is “probably” going to deny the motion because Apple … Read more
You can almost hear the moans coming from almost every high end smartphone manufacturer in the world. After years of legal wrangling, Apple was awarded U.S. patent number 7,966,578 for: "[a] computer-implemented method, for use in conjunction with a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display, [that] comprises displaying a portion of page content, … Read more
We’ve seen browser wars and search engine wars and mobile operating wars and it’s pretty clear where the next battle will be fought – your TV. And expect the same players to be there – it’s Microsoft, Google and Apple coming right at you. Microsoft is continuing to show off Kinect and Xbox and how … Read more
Just thinking about the integration taking place across devices these days and it’s amazing how much more software goes into the OS these days and what this means for devs. I mean, we used to get a phone with a calendar, email, SMS, phone, calculator and a browser and add a few games and we … Read more
This will make a lot of devs happy. ExEn is a project by Andrew Russell that was community funded (so those that contribute get the benefits) that let you port XNA games to iOS and Silverlight and an Android port is going to follow shortly. And this will eventually become open-source. So a developer that … Read more
Google just announced three updates to Google Sync for iPhone and iPad users: We don’t have to tell you that the workforce is increasingly mobile, and that workers on the go expect to be fully productive on email and calendar from their mobile devices. But we do want to tell you that we have a … Read more
The year was 2007 and Apple had released the iPhone to great reviews but was lacking features. Many brushed aside Apple’s chances to be a serious contender to Microsoft’s mature Windows Mobile platform. Apple had complete faith in its product and what they wanted to change about the smartphone. It wasn’t until several updates later … Read more