How to Unlock Your Mac With Your iPhone

by Cody on Jul 3, 2011

Imagine walking up to your Mac computer and watching it unlock on its own as you approached it. I’m not talking about retina or fingerprint scanners. I’m talking about Bluetooth proximity. If you have an iPhone on you at most times, and you also happen to own a Mac, you’re going to love this trick.

RedmondPie passed on this interesting tip this morning, which allows you to unlock your Mac computer simply by having a Bluetooth-capable device on you. It’s easy, completely free, and you aren’t even required to be jailbroken. Here’s how… Read More

 

Apple to Ship 30m iPads, 17m Macs in 2011 Claims Analyst

by Oliver Haslam on Jun 29, 2011

Those analysts do just love to analyze, and once again we’re faced with one such guesser expert and his estimates for Apple’s iPad, iPhone and Mac sales as well as the big one – how much money will the boys in Cupertino rake in this year?

The analyst we’re looking to this time is Needham and Company’s Charlie Wolf, who believes both iPad and Mac sales will be higher than first anticipated, while iPhone sales will actually be lower than originally forecast… Read More

 

Apple Readying Moscone West For WWDC 2011

by Oliver Haslam on Jun 1, 2011

With Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference just a few days away, the Cupertino outfit has begun preparations by decking out its Moscone West venue with a large Apple logo. While the logo isn’t yet complete – these people do have to eat and sleep apparently – we’re sure everyone can see the finished article will show Apple’s iconic logo cover two sides worth of windows… Read More

 

Photo Rescue Helps You Save Deleted Photos From iOS Backups

by Cody on May 21, 2011

Although we’ve shown you multiple ways to avoid your iPhone photos getting deleted, what about if your device gets stolen? The Find my iPhone service will allow you to wipe the device of personal data, but can you ever get your pictures back?

If you’ve ever lost a device, or feel like you’ve lost photos that were taken with your iPhone, you might want to check out Photo Rescue. The new Mac app will dig through all of your iOS backup files for you, and retrieve the photos you thought were goners… Read More

 

App Picks of the Week: NoSpot, Grades, Witness

by Alex Heath on Apr 10, 2011

Every week, we select a few apps that catch our eye. These apps can be from the App Store, web apps, or jailbreak apps.

This week, we have a nifty jailbreak tweak for disabling Spotlight, an App Store app, and another iOS companion app for the Mac. Hope you enjoy this week’s picks! Read More

 

Stream and Manage Podcasts On the iPhone With Instacast

by Alex Heath on Mar 25, 2011

Do you like to listen to podcasts? Do you subscribe to multiple podcasts in iTunes? If so, you realize how much of a pain it can be to manually transfer your podcasts from iTunes to your iPhone. Perhaps you don’t even sync podcasts to your iPhone to conserve disk space.

Podcasts can take a considerable amount of memory on a device with limited storage, not to mention the time and hardrive space it takes to download each episode in iTunes. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a robust streaming solution for podcasts?

Instacast can best be described as Netflix for podcasts. As a cloud-based podcast streaming solution, Instacast is a fantastic stand-alone app for any podcast enthusiast… Read More

 

‘Banana TV’ Aspires to Turn Your Mac Into an Overweight Apple TV

by Jeff Benjamin on Mar 21, 2011

As you may have figured out from its play on words, Banana TV is an app for the Mac that mimics some of Apple’s $99 Apple TV functionality.

Banana TV is a client that runs on your Mac that transforms it into an AirPlay recipient. This means that when you tap the little AirPlay icon on your iPhone, you’ll see the name of your Mac along with any other AirPlay enabled devices.

But is there really a need for such software? Check inside for our thoughts on the matter…

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Apple’s New Thunderbolt Technology Could Eventually Come to the iPhone

by Alex Heath on Feb 25, 2011

Apple recently introduced a new connection technology dubbed “Thunderbolt.” In Apple’s MacBook Pro refresh, the Thunderbolt port has been added as a new wired connection architecture that Apple hopes will unify its connection technologies.

The key feature for the Thunderbolt architecture is speed. Thunderbolt promises to be lighting fast (pardon the pun) and offer incredible speeds for data transfers. The need for Thunderbolt is evident for the desktop, but it’s not a stretch to imagine that Thunderbolt could eventually make its way to iOS devices.

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Today is Steve Job’s Birthday!

by Alex Heath on Feb 24, 2011

It’s a big day for Apple. The industry titan has released new MacBookPro models, an OS X Lion preview has been seeded to develepors, and the man himself, Steve Jobs, turns 56 years old today!

The world would be a much different place without Steve’s influence on the technology sphere. He has been quoted admitting he never knew he would have such success when he started Apple with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in a garage circa 1976.

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The iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup

by Alex Heath on Feb 19, 2011

Rumors regarding the next iteration of the iPhone have been flying left and right. If you’ve been following the rumor mill, you know that there’s a lot of potential innovations to be implemented into Apple’s next iPhone.

Will Apple release several different iPhone models at once? Will the next iPhone be considerably smaller than its predecessors? Will Apple release the iPhone 5 on all carriers with a universal baseband?

These, among others, are all questions being asked about the next iPhone. Let’s examine the rumors and try and make sense of it all…

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