Category: iOS

Dec 31 2010

Amazon: Lend a Friend an eBook

By Boydo in Amazon, Android, Apple, Content & Search, Copyright, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Legal, MacOS, Operating Systems, Technology

For those of you that use the Amazon Kindle platform or are in the market for a new eBook reader and have yet to make up your mind then this development may pique your interest. In a nutshell, one Amazon Kindle user can lend out a book to another Amazon Kindle user for a period …

Amazon, Android, Apple, Blackberry, eBook, ipad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindle, Mac OS X, PC
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Dec 29 2010

Beware of Changes to Android Market Refunds

By Boydo in Android, Apple, Connectivity, Consumer Rights, Google, iOS, iTunes, Legal, Mobile, Operating Systems, Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless

Whilst this news is a few weeks old I thought it was still important to bring to the attention of those of you with Android devices. In conjunction with an update to the Android Market application for the platform, Google also changed the arrangement when it came to automatic refunds for undesired applications. Originally, Google …

Android, Android Market, App Store, Apple, consumer rights, digital, digital goods, Google, iTunes, Wi-Fi
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Dec 16 2010

iOS 4.2.1 iPad Bug – Background Video Playback Broken

By Boydo in Apple, iOS, iPad, Operating Systems, Technology

After coming back from a holiday in Cairns (where I had forgotten to pack my earphones and putting a dampener on my ability to listen to my podcasts) I updated my iPad to iOS 4.2.1 to finally access features that had been available on the iPhone for months – primarily the folders feature so I …

Apple, bug, iOS, ipad, podcast, video, Words with Friends
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Nov 30 2010

“Switch” for iPad – There Shouldn’t Be An App For That

By Boydo in Apple, Browsers, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iTunes, Operating Systems, Technology

My wife and I came across this article at SMH which skims over the prospect offered by yet another web browser for the Apple iPad. In a nutshell, Switch offers the ability for multiple users to maintain separate web browser profiles including bookmarks, passwords and history as well as a guest account for irregular users …

A9, App Store, Apple, ARM, CPU, iOS, ipad, iPhone, iPod Touch, iTunes, Switch
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Nov 26 2010

Free Scrabble Derivative for the Masses

By Boydo in Apple, Gaming, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Operating Systems, Technology

Another quick blog for tonight. If you like scrabble but don’t feel like forking out for the paid app on your iOS device there is a similar version called “Words with Friends”. There is one difference compared to Scrabble (presumably to avoid litigation) which is the placement of the bonus tiles on the board (for …

Apple, games, Gaming, iOS, ipad, iPhone, iPod Touch, scrabble, Words with Friends
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Nov 10 2010

Phone Disk – Use Your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch as a Portable Drive

By Boydo in Apple, Connectivity, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iTunes, Macintosh, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Wi-Fi, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Wireless

Ever since the original iPhone came out, people have complained about Apple’s decision to prevent its use as a portable drive. Apple’s original iPods (excluding the iPod Touch) all supported the use of the device as an external drive which would show up in Windows or MacOS as another disk drive. There have been a …

Apple, FTP, iOS, ipad, iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, iTunes, jailbreak, Mac OS X, Macintosh, Phone Disk, Wi-Fi, Windows
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Oct 10 2010

Google Engineer on Windows Phone 7: The World Doesn’t Need Another Mobile Platform

By Boydo in Android, Apple, iOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows Phone 7

In a PCMag interview, Andy Rubin (a Google Engineer) made a statement in response to Windows Phone 7 in that “the world doesn’t need another mobile platform”. Of course, a statement like that is like rattling a hornets nest for fun and has certainly created some conjecture about the topic in general. What has drawn …

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