On January 9th of 2007, Steve Jobs unveiled the first ever Apple iPhone to the world. Adorned in his standard black-turtle-neck-and-blue-jeans attire, Jobs announced the new device to thousands of Macworld attendees.
The Apple CEO started off the epic keynote by saying the famous lines, "This is a day, I've been looking forward to for 2 and a half years. Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything..."
No, this is not my wedding, although the location strangely looks similar to where Tina and I got married. I had thought about having the person who married us read her speech on my iPad 2 but I believed it could have been a bit tacky.
What I hadn't thought about was to get our wedding recorded entirely on an iPhone 4. And that's what this couple did. They hired professional photographers and videographers that shot pictures and videos of the wedding using several iPhone 4...
About a year ago, iOS 4 became available to the public with Apple releasing it to iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 3G customers. It seems as if many iPhone customers are up-to-date with all of their software, as a whopping 95.59% of Apple iOS distribution by versions are already iOS 4.
Some people are still on iOS 3 - 4.22% of iOS devices in use are still running iOS 3 - but we presume that most of these are original iPhone owners (remember Apple left the 1st generation iPhone out of the picture for iOS 4)...
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...
Just before Apple's big iOS 5 reveal at WWDC a few weeks ago, rumors began circulating that Apple was planning to integrate Twitter right into the system. At the time we didn't know whether the rumors were true or not, let alone how deeply integrated it would eventually turn out to be.
When Steve Jobs and his band of merry men took to the stage at WWDC, we finally saw what Apple had in store for us, but despite iOS 5 largely hitting the spot we couldn't help but feel let down by the fabled Twitter integration, at least in its current form...
The iPad is so simple even a Pope can use it.
Watch this video of Pope Benedict launching a Vatican website, but also sending his very first tweet directly from his iPad. As you can tell, the Pope doesn't seem to be much impressed by what the iPad can do...
Google unveiled a new tool for developers today called Swiffy — a simple converter that takes .SWF Flash files and transforms them into iPhone-friendly HTML5 code. It's the latest experimental application to hit Google Labs, and while it works best with simple Flash animations, its results are rather impressive.
Anyone can use Swiffy by simply visiting swiffy.googlelabs.com. There you can upload an SWF file and quickly convert it into HTML5...
Today we're going to talk about something a little different in the theming universe. I'd like to introduce to you a DreamBoard theme called ErgoHD.
Now this isn't your typical iPhone theme for a number of reasons, and the first reason of course being that it's a DreamBoard theme and not your run of the mill WinterBoard affair.
Secondly, Ergo HD is aiming primarily at the non-ambidextrous demographic, seeing as its main selling point is being able to use it comfortably with either hand.
Sound interesting? Then check out this video walkthrough of Ergo HD...
AT&T's upcoming LTE network has certainly been grabbing headlines lately. AT&T claims that their purported 4G network is capable of real world download speeds in upwards of 28 Mbps. In comparison, Verizon's 4G network averages between 5-12 Mbps.
Thanks to LulzSec, we know that the carrier plans on rolling out their new LTE network in the first week of July. It also appears that another document has been found amongst the hacking group's stolen archives that helps shine some light on the 4G project...
The idea of an iPhone nano has been debated since the device's inception 4 years ago. Apple's conquest of the mp3 player market with multiple iPod models has had many folks wondering if Apple was going to do the same thing with their smartphone line.
While most people scoff at the idea of Apple producing a cheap version of the popular iPhone, Horace Dediu of asymco seems to think otherwise. Apparently, Apple has plenty of reasons to manufacture an iPhone "nano."
If you don't know what TweakWeek is by now, you haven't been paying attention. Jailbreak developer Ryan Petrich started the initiative earlier this month, by releasing 1 free, simple jailbreak tweak every day for a week.
After Petrich completed 7 tweaks in 7 days, he passed the torch on to other jailbreak developers, each one taking a week of their own. We are nearing the end of Dan Zimmerman's week, but the developer seems to be going out in style...
WebLeaps seems to be one of those tweaks that fell through the cracks. I'd honestly never heard of this tweak before Sebastien mentioned it to me, but I'm glad that he did.
That's because WebLeaps allows you to easily navigate some of the web's best sites by means of custom search shortcuts.
You can even create your own custom search shortcuts with a bit of plist editing know-how.
Check inside as I go one-on-one with WebLeaps. I even create my own custom iDB search shortcut...