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[16 May 2011 | No Comment | ]

Earlier this month Apple acquired Nuance Tech, dedicated to speech recognition and the infamous Apple fanboys never cease to imagine how these new options will be implemented by Apple. In the following video we have a concept that shows how the system could be implemented in iOS 5. Apparently  you may have to use the Home button to activate the function, but from there it becomes easier, just speak the command and iPhone will do the rest of exercise for you. Of course that will open applications with voice commands …

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[14 May 2011 | No Comment | ]
iPhone 4 vs Samsung Galaxy S II, S2 | Video

Samsung S Galaxy II is by far the most powerful competitor to the iPhone. Galaxy S2 bagged 3 million orders, even before it’s launch. Samsung Galaxy S2 is built on a 4.3-inch screen and dual-core processor, 2X faster than the iPhone with a whooping 640MB RAM.

Folks from gsmonline.pl did a little test between iPhone 4 vs Samsung Galaxy S II. Since this is a test of browser you can imagine how poor was the iPhone 4. The difference between the two terminals in terms of web browsing, this clip is …

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[14 May 2011 | No Comment | ]
Apple Released Mac OS X 10.6.8 Beta to Developers

Apple just released the very first developer build of Mac OS X 10.6.8 build 10K521, short after two months of the public release of Mac OS X 10.6.7. Apparently, 10.6.8 is the last update before the arrival of Mac OS X 10.7 aka Mac OS X Lion.
The download is available as a combo (1.01 GB) and as the Delta Update (508.11 MB). The update is marked with “no known issues” and the release notes need to focus on:

AirPort
Graphics Driver
Mac App Store
Networking
QuickTime
VPN

We can expect a public release of OS X 10.6.8 …

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[13 May 2011 | No Comment | ]
Apple Released Updates for Apple TV and iPhoto ’11

Yesterday, Apple issued a couple of software updates for the new Apple TV 2G (Black) and for iPhoto ’11. Latest iOS update for Apple TV brings the software to version 4.2.2 aka iOS 4.3, identified with the build number 8F30. You can download Apple TV iOS firmware from here.

From the release notes showed that the changes affect the following areas :

Audio : Fixed a problem whereby the audio does not play when you view some content.
Video playback : Fixed a problem that does not allow the proper display of some …

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[7 May 2011 | No Comment | ]
Jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 | iPhone, iPod and iPad

Last week Apple released iOS 4.3.3 in response to controversial locationgate issue, but in the rush of release Apple skipped to fix i0nic’s untethered jailbreak exploit. Good news is that iPhone Dev team also released updated version of Redsn0w to include the support of iOS 4.3.3 jailbreak. The 4.3.3 untether works on all devices that actually support 4.3.3 except for the iPad2. following is the list of supported models.

iPhone3GS
iPhone4 (GSM)
iPod touch 3G
iPod touch 4G
iPad1
AppleTV2G (v4.3 8F202)

iPhone Dev team also updated ultrasn0w, making it compatible with iOS 4.3.3 Unfortunately, as the …

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[3 May 2011 | No Comment | ]
Apple unveiled iMac 2011 with Thunderbolt and SandyBridge

The rumors were true, Apple today launched a new line of iMac, the same way that the MacBook Pro lineup renewed last February. Latest iMac ships with Thunderbolt technologies and Sandy Bridge processor but the surprises do not stop there. The new iMac’s will have HD webcams compatible with FaceTime HD technology, new graphics cards will have three times faster than older versions but will also have prices to match. All iMac’s have ports Thunderbolt 27-inch versions, but each have two ports. Prices start at $ 1,199 for the version …