Dec 19 2011
Santa Claus Using Siri – New iPhone 4S TV Commercial
Apple has just released a new iPhone 4S Ad just in time for Christmas.
Check it out below:
Dec 15 2011
Microsoft Studios Kinectimals Released for iOS Devices
Looks like Microsoft is doing what the big software companies do,make software !Even if the company is one of the toughest competitor,that doesn’t stop them from releasing their beautiful line up of softwares and games.
Last week we saw the release of X box Live app for the iOS devices release from Microsoft and now Microsoft has released their first Game for the iOS platform with the launch of the Microsoft Studios Kinectimals.Kinectimals originally an Xbox 360 title which was recently released for the Windows Phone platform not long ago is now available for download over the iTunes for a price tag of 2.99$.
Dec 15 2011
iPhone 4 Jailbreakers Safe To Update to iOS 5.0.1, Reportedly Untethered
Chronic Dev-Team member and iOS hacker Pod2g, who has been in the spotlight following his exploits of an untethered iOS 5 jailbreak, claims to have successfully developed an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1 and says it’s safe to update.
Pod2g confirmed the news in a message posted on Twitter (above), which he follows up with a post on his blog:
It’s late, time to pass out.
I just want to let you know my iPhone 4 (iOS 5.0.1) is untethered.
Some progress today heh
Next :iPod 3G, iPod 4G, iPad 1.
See ya.
Dec 15 2011
Mac App Store Downloads Reach 100 Million Mark
Today Apple announced in a press release that, over 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store in less than one year. With thousands of free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the App Store experience to the Mac so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes account, and download and install them in just one step.
Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing Philip Schiller said,
“In just three years the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the Mac App Store is changing the traditional PC software industry.With more than 100 million downloads in less than a year, the Mac App Store is the largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world.”
The Mac App Store offers thousands of apps in Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity, Utilities and other categories. Users can browse new and noteworthy apps, find out what’s hot, see staff favorites, search categories and look up top charts for paid and free apps, as well as user ratings and reviews. The Mac App Store is included with Mac OS X Lion and is available as a software update for any Mac running Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Dec 12 2011
Disable Spotlight In Mac OS X Lion [How To]
You can disable and re-enable Spotlight in Mac OS X Lion with the help of Terminal. The following command unloads the Spotlight mds agent from launchd, preventing the daemon from running or indexing any drives entirely.Open up the Terminal (found in /Applications/Utilities/) and enter the following commands based on the need to either disable or re-enable Spotlight indexing. This will effect indexing on all drives connected to the Mac.
Disable Spotlight
The primary method is using launchctl, this will require the administrative password:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
Re-enable Spotlight
The assure way to reenable Spotlight is to reload it into launchd using launchctl:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
With Spotlight reloaded launchd, the mds agent will immediately start running again to reindex the filesystem. This may take some time depending on the amount of changes and new files since the last time MDS ran. You can verify that MDS is running through Activity Monitor or by pulling down the Spotlight menu to see an “Indexing Drive Name” progress bar.
Dec 11 2011
Flight Control and Mirror’s Edge Totally Free for Limited Time – Grab Them Now!
With Christmas right around the corner and so many apps to choose from, it becomes increasingly difficult for users to choose from such an array of apps. Also, many of these apps are charged and that makes even more challenging to choose from. However there is some good news for iPhone and iPad users who are into gaming. Earlier, games which were charged, now are available for free for some limited time.
Dec 10 2011
Watch this Hilarious Video of Siri Rapping to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody
Notorious Siri from robb on Vimeo.
Video Info: SiriProxy is used to intercept the communication with Apple’s servers. Based on your song request, Notorious Siri then sends your choice of Notorious B.I.G.’s Hypnotize and an a-cappella rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody to the device (the latter requiring 4 iPhones 4S).
Siri’s speech synthesis is synced to the beat using the timestamps obtained from the Echonest API which were then manually tweaked, to smooth out delays in the text-to-speech engine.
Dec 10 2011
Aircel Luring Customers With New Zero Rental Plans
Yesterday Aircel introduced all new zero rental plans for its recently introduced Apple iPhone 4S .With these plans Aircel is offering free usage worth Rs 15000 to Rs 19000 with one year validity depending on the iPhone 4S model, for example, the iPhone4S 16GB plan has 300 minutes of free calls, 2GB of 2G data, 1GB of free Wi-Fi data and 350 free text messages.
According to Aircel the overall estimate of this free usage is at Rs 1,315 per month or Rs 15,000 in a year. Free benefits come in the form of voice minutes, free 2G data, WiFi data and SMS. Last month Aircel had introduced 3G plans for iPhone 4S customers when it was launched in the last week of November. Aircel offers customers to purchase their dream iPhone at 0% EMI. This being anoher ploy by the company to incresase its sale of the new iPhones.
Following is the list of what Aircel offers its customers for each model: