AirPlay Mirroring displays anything that appears on your iPad 2 onto your TV screen, wirelessly via the latest Apple TV box (the small black one). It works with the core iPad 2 interface as well as any apps, games, videos, and so on. It even adjusts for portrait or landscape mode, completely mirroring everything you… →
How to close, quit and restart apps on iPad and iPhone
This is a classic: an app stops working correctly, so you hit the home button and open the app again thinking: “I restarted the app but this didn’t fix the problem”… But the truth is that iOS on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch handles multiple apps running at the same time (multitasking) by saving the… →
Will Apple iCloud API support Android, Windows?
At WWDC 2011 Steve Jobs introduced iCloud and mentioned a couple of things while doing so that made people wonder if iCloud will be an iOS an OS X specific technology or if it will be made available to 3rd parties platforms and establish itself as an industry standard instead. Apple’s CEO mentioned iCloud would… →
Apple’s future secret plans revealed? iPhone 5, iPhone Nano, iPad 2 and 3, new Apple TV, new MacBook Air
As rumors multiply in anticipation of Apple’s March 2nd event we see the full 2011 pipeline of Apple products being listed and lots of details leaking about each of these products. This doesn’t really sound like Apple does it? Still, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the Daily Mail, eastern manufacturers, and more of those anonymous… →
Mac App Store: a win-win scenario for developers, users and of corse, Apple.
“With the Mac App Store, getting the apps you want on your Mac has never been easier. No more boxes, no more disks, no more time-consuming installation. Click once to download and install any app on your Mac. The Mac App Store is now available as a software update for any Mac running Mac OS… →
5 tips to reduce memory issues in iOS apps
Our recent game development experience with Letter Blocks 3D has shown once again that shared RAM system is one of the biggest bottlenecks on iOS devices. This became even more relevant with iOS 4 and its multitasking support. Careless users tend to leave a lot of apps and browser tabs to stay in background and… →
Xcode 3.2.5 in iOS SDK 4.2 finally uploads a binary to the App Store in the background!
Developers rejoice! Xcode finally submits your binaries to the App Store in multi-threading, allowing you to continue to work with it while you upload your apps. This has been a feature I’ve been waiting for ever since we started working with iPhone apps: back when the App loader was in its early stages, we were… →
iPhone & iPad Apps on Apple TV? Dreaming of a less conservative Jobs
Steve Jobs is doing that all over again. He’s releasing a new cool product without unleashing its full potential, in a proven strategy of adding obviously missing features to a product with a follow up update — if the product sells well enough. He did it with the iPhone, the iPod Touch and the iPad… →
iPod Touch 4th Generation, iPad revision and new mysterious iDevice coming in autumn
A lot and a little at the same time is known about the next generation iPod Touch. Rumors are everywhere already, but we really don’t know for sure any of its specs. The new iTouch will likely rely on the A4 CPU, feature a camera and a front-facing camera, gyroscope and a higher resolution display…. →