loves to show their artsy and imagination fueled designs whenever they can from Ads, subliminal messages and all the way into the en user experience. Some of Apple’s creative side always leaks into their assortment of wallpapers which surely have made your Windows lovin’ friends jealous so why not spread the desktop glorifying love by making a ZIP Archive of OS X’s wallpaper set to email your Mac-less buddies.
Go on down to your main Hard Drive and navigate into “Library > Desktop Pictures.” In there you’ll find the current assortment of wallpapers available for selection in System Preferences. Of course you can import these into iPhoto to resize and edit for your iPhone as well, just make sure the resolution is set to 480 x 320.
Written by Tanner Godarzi on December 15th, 2008
Posted in: Tip Stash
Macworld 2009 will mark the iPhone’s second birthday but just like any toddler, the parental nature of Apple is always looking forward. Sure, Steve Jobs doesn’t have to be burdened with diaper changing and whatnot (disgruntled interns take up that responsibility) but he does baby the iPhone too much and there will be a day when the App Store will be outside of Apple’s parental supervision.
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Written by Tanner Godarzi on December 15th, 2008
Posted in: Opinion, iPhone
Digital sales have continued to grow annually with iTunes being the biggest of them all. But what exists outside of the digital space will soon be Apple’s biggest competitors as downloads start to outpace store bought items. Taking in a little more than 1/10th of music sales in the US is a good start but it will take some time before Apple can knock down the monumental retail chains. Meanwhile, Apple has enjoyed a comparable amount of growth with the iPhone surpassing Windows Mobile phones in terms of sales. But these sales could blossom if rumors of a $99 iPhone 3G ring true.
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Written by Tanner Godarzi on December 6th, 2008
Posted in: News
Despite managing to ship their newest iPods introduced during the fall 2008 media event, Apple has slipped on delivering their newest earbuds which bring mic and playback controls buttons (but are only supported on the 4G Nano, 2G Classic and Touch) alongside new in-ear headphones. However, shoppers visiting the online store will notice the in-ear headphones can be ordered and will ship soon. Meanwhile, Apple has started to ship out the newest addition to the Cinema Display line and the lucky Bloggers of Apple Insider have posted unboxing pictures.
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Written by Tanner Godarzi on December 3rd, 2008
Posted in: News
Apple has always put its weight behind a mass marketing campaign for any new product but it seems to be more aggressive when it comes to the iPhone as detailed in recent ads for the latest iteration of the hot selling device. While claims of doubled Internet speeds have been rebuked and called out for deceptive marketing, Apple has closed in on the Smartphone market taking an impressive 16% share.
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Written by Tanner Godarzi on December 2nd, 2008
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One of the cooler features in Firmware 2.2 is Over The Air Podcast downloading makin it easier to get your daily fix of The Onion, TWiT and other obscure, niche Video Podcasts. It’s only made easier since the iTunes App on the iPhone now allows you to queue up downloads but if your bits be bigger than 83,886,080 (10 Megabytes) then you’ll be forced to download your content off WiFi. Common sense would then say “Since my iPhone is restricting me to WiFi for this download, it would be irrational for iTunes to continue again over the Cellular network.”
However, the download doesn’t actually continue. The mobile iTunes Store continues the download only to be met with a denial. You’ve surely seen the pop up saying “This item is too big to download” within the App but it rarely shows up outside. This is the cause of a few network slowdowns so be sure to remember that if you leave a WiFi connection and have a download running in the queue, be sure to pause it and it will prevent a lot of headache.
Written by Tanner Godarzi on November 25th, 2008
Posted in: Tip Stash
Within days of arriving in the hands of iPhone and iPod Touch owners everywhere, Firmware 2.2 has been quickly dissected and reviewed. Thanks to a prolonged testing period, the iPhone Dev Team was able to perform a Jailbreak on the still in development Firmware and perfect it once Apple made it available for download. While available for all generations of iPhone and iPod Touch, there are some key differences between the two such as the lack of Google Street View on the later and lack of Emojicon support on non Japanese iPhones. With a simple hack and a quick Jailbreak, all of this can be remedied.
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Apple has rolled out a recent update for the AppleTV shortly after the iPhone Firmware 2.2 upgrade and iTunes 8.0.2 update bringing it up to version 2.3. The newest update for Apple’s little bundle of media streaming, popcorn inducing box of wonders brings a few features streaming junkies will love. Meanwhile, this update breaks any third party hacks forced on to the AppleTV which also means the popular media center Addon, Boxee, was broken for a while but a fix pushed out by the company patches things right up.
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Written by Tanner Godarzi on November 24th, 2008
Posted in: AppleTV, News
Introduced at this year’s “Let’s Rock” media event hosted by Apple, all range of iPods were updated and much to the glee of sloganeers, the iPod Touch was befitted with a new design and heralded as the frontman of the portable family. If the “Funnest iPod Ever” wasn’t enough to motivate you to get your game freaking on, then you’ll be absolutely enthralled to know that the latest generation iPod Touch sports a higher clocked CPU and beats out the iPhone 3G for gaming.
Touch Arcade, a Blog dedicated to iPhone and iPod Touch gaming reported the speed advantages of the 2G touch when Thomas Fessler, CEO of Handheld Game Corp noticed the rendering capabilities of the latest touch and how drastic it was when compared to the iPhone. Handheld’s 3D intensive game, TouchSports Tennis, renders differently on the iPod Touch 2G smoothly pushing 1,500 Polygons in a single character but when the same scenario is used on an older Touch, it lags and crashes, the iPhone 3G barely passes.
“Where we can easily display two 1500 polygon tennis players with 32 bones each on the iPod touch 2G and maintain fast and fluid game play, the original iPod touch just chokes, and in some instances so do the iPhones. To speed up the touch, we reduced the players to 800 polygons in farther away moments of gameplay, and are now using 1000 polygon models for close ups, bringing the original iPod touch game play performance level close to that of the iPhone 3G.”
The newest generation iPod Touch’s CPU clocks at 532 MHz up from the 412 MHz clock of the iPhone and iPod Touch but still down from the ARM 1176 CPU’s native 620 MHz speed. However, the 2G iPod Touch could also contain a newer GPU but that has yet to be revealed. A side by side comparison video on YouTube clearly shows the impressive load times of the 2G Touch and in terms of load times, it ranks the highest followed by the iPhone 3G, original iPhone and original iPod Touch.
Via: Macworld
Apple’s 2.2 Firmware update for the iPhone came and went leaving for us Over The Air Podcast downloads, Google Street View and a streamlined Safari interface. Amongst the major additions and bug fixes, Apple included a minor, although useful feature that will help you traverse the many Homescreens that populate your iPhone.
It’s great to see Apple is starting to use the Home Button as a shortcut method for Applications but still has room to grow. This tip will make using your iPhone a bit more productive. While away from the default Home Screen which is indicated by the row of dots above the Dock, tap the Home Button once and you’ll be taken back to the default screen containing either the ore chosen Apple Apps or varied with your selection.
Written by Tanner Godarzi on November 23rd, 2008
Posted in: Tip Stash
