News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
In the good old days, you could download any app you wanted onto your iPhone—provided it wasn’t more than 10MB while you were using the 3G network. But that was the old Apple—this is the new Apple: no limits. Well. Larger limits, anyway. As the folks at Pocket Gamer mention, Apple’s raised the limit on App Store downloads over the 3G network to 20MB.
Apple’s already promised to reveal its “latest creation” this Wednesday at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and pundits and professional guessologists are already predicting that the company will unveil the much-rumoured tablet. Or perhaps two tablets. Or some new software. Or a designer clothing label. Point is: something. But what could the much ballyhooed event mean for Apple’s so-last-year device, the iPhone?
There comes a point in many epic stories where the hero must team with its erstwhile rival to take on an even greater threat. For Apple, that time may be now. A report in BusinessWeek on Wednesday suggests that Apple may be in talks with Microsoft to replace the iPhone’s default search engine, Google, with Microsoft’s own offering, Bing.
Apple’s rearranging boxes on its retail shelves again. The company tweaked the layout for App Store entries late last week, bringing the appearance into line with the rest of the iTunes Store, which was overhauled in September with the introduction of iTunes 9.
Last week, Apple approved its first live video-streaming app, Knocking Live Video; this week, Ustream Live Broadcaster followed closely on its heels. On Thursday, an update to a development application called iSimulate entered the store. All three of these apps have one thing in common: they use private APIs, a violation of the iPhone developer agreement. And yet, they’ve all been approved.
The iPhone’s address book, which is accessible through both the Phone application and the Contacts application, helps you keep all of your contact information organised and easily at hand. But what if you want to enter information that’s not just a name, address, phone number, or e-mail?
Telstra has released The Official AFL App to coincide with the start of the 2010 football season, but while this is likely a welcome addition to any footy fan’s iPhone, t...
This morning Apple released a new version of its iPhone SDK for developers. iPhone SDK beta 2 includes Interface Builder, a component of Apple’s development tools that lets developers create the interface for their applications. That seems to be the only major change in the latest build, according to the SDK’s read me, which continues to list some known issues. Apple says “this second beta is known to be incompatible with installation folders other than the default /Developer.” Given the importance of UI on the Mac, Interface Builder is a pretty critical tool in the development process, and some developers had chosen to hold off on their efforts until the SDK was revised. Apple unveiled the iPhone SDK at a special event earlier this month, allowing developers to begin building applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Several high-profile companies have already jumped onboard, demoing their applications at the event. Highlighting the demos was AOL with a native AIM client; other applications from Electronic Arts, Salesforce.com, and Apple were also shown.
