If you are an iPhone or iPad owner and want to check your Xbox 360 profile you can do it now from your favorite iOS device. Microsoft has just pushed out their frist Xbox Live app for iOS devices named My Xbox Live.
Users can now exchange messages, manage contacts, edit their onlline profiles and view their gaming results directly from their iPad or iPhone. So wherever you are you can always check your status in the Xbox gaming community. Besides all this you will also receive a stream of gaming related news tips and tricks. This new app is created with the help of Microsoft’s new design which is known as ‘Metro’. Metro is a new user interface design concept which is pushed by Microsoft on their other platforms as well. Metro was already introduced on Xbox’s website, on the Windows Phone 7 and even on Microsoft’s latest Windows 8 operative system.
If you are a devoted gamer, My Xbox Live will be a great addition on your iPhone. While some people may look down on Microsoft made apps on their iOS device, if you are serious about your Xbox, you should definitely try out this app. You can get it right now as a free download in app store.
Read More
Itunes University now features another great series. This time Stanford University has decided to upgrade their already existing course for iPad and iPhone to be compatible with recently released iOS 5. The main instructor for this course is Stanford’s Paul Hegarty who delivers 9 interesting and immersing lectures which will teach you the bare bones of iOS app development. These lectures will delve into Objective C, controller life cycles, controller basics and much more. If you ever dreamt of making your own app, here is the way to learn it. The course is free and available for download from iTunes store. Are you a future app developer? Let us know did this course help you to learn the magic of app development!
Read More
It seems that Apple is working on another potentially highly interesting project, an iPad only app for video streaming which could directly compete with cable companies. This app which is rumored to be rather strongly influenced by Steve Jobs himself, will challenge established cable companies but with the video being delivered online. This new app could offer a large quantity of content which is an obvious requirement given the huge amount of video already available to cable subscribers.
Some analysts have already commented that this app should as interesting and similar to the concept of Direct TV which is already well proven in tough market competition. Given that Steve Jobs is personally involved with this app it could be expected that it will have some interesting peculiarities, as Steve Jobs never failed to create breakthrough ideas in any of the areas he was invested in.
This new project could be also related to Apple’s new data center, which to illustrate things a bit is almost double the size when compared with Facebook’s data center. In fact it could be that this heavy duty data center is purposefully created for video data sharing only. How will Netflix react to this new challenge?
Another interesting question is will iOS 5 and the next iPhone offer some clues on this new Apple project? We will have to see and wait as iOS 5 and the next iPhone are about to be released. What do you expect to see coming from Apple? Let us know in the comment section!
Read More
After a few arcade cabinets made by enthusiast makers, an reputable company Atari, has developed their own version of the the playing machine. Another company called Taito which became famous after their worldwide hit arcade game ‘Space Invaders’ has prepared to launch their own version of the iPad arcade machine. This new machine will have only one button and a joystick as controller.
The machine will feature a dock for charging iOS devices, high quality speakers and headphone jacks. Taito’s arcade machine will be available in Japan next month but so far there are no plans for launching the machine in US.
The price of the machine will be $200 which sounds quite affordable, at least to arcade game fans. If you want to try out Atari’s joysticks the price is $60. So what can we say: if you are one of our older readers which grow up during the last century, such a machine will certainly cause a big smile on your face and provide you with a lot of fun!
Read More
All in all most people would agree that Mobile Safari is a really good browsing app. But while it offers what most users need there are some drawbacks with Safari too as many functions which are normally available on every browser are lacking with Apple‘s official mobile browser. And if you are among iOS users which need more options available Dolphin could be a great choice. The only problem so far was tht Dolphin wasn’t available for iPad as it was an iPhone only web browser. But now, Dolphin developers have launched an iPad version of the app as well.
If you have already used Dolphin on your iPhone you will use it easily as it is really similar if not identical with the iPad version. As many similar apps ported to the iPad it also bears the HD label. And indeed because of Dolphins many features it is better suited to iPad than iPhone. One of the most sought options which is finally u available with Dolphin HD is tabbed browsing.
There are other interesting features coming with Dolphin such as opening your favorite website with prerecorded touch gestures. You could for example draw Y with your fingertip and open Yahoo mail. This feature works great and is what we liked the most.
Dolphin HD for iPad offers fast, agile and safe browsing and it will certainly be a strong contender for the title of the best iPad browser around. You can download Dolphin HD from iTunes App Store for free.
Read More
Every day we are witnessing some new ingenious jailbreak tweak and app. Here is another small but potentially very useful tweak for your device. If you ever heard about Google’s audio recognition services you will know it can convert your speech into text. So now we have a new jailbreak tweak which does something similar for your jailbroken iPhone. Voice Keys is available for your device in the always useful Big Boss repository. When you install it you will be able to convert your spoken words and sentences into text for yor SMS or email. The conversion isn’t done by this tweak, instead it captures your audio and then uses Google’s own services for this. As always you should keep your voice slow and clear if you want to get a decent result with this.
At the beginning you will get strange results but after some time your experiences will approve as the app will adjust to your voice. This wont be helpful if you are in hurry and need to get something written down fast, but if you have plenty of time you could easily make a good use of this particular tweak. It works for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. You can download it for free if you have Cydia installed, just make sure that you add Big Boss repo to your iPhone sources list. It comes as a free download and it is a great excuse for trying something new with your iPhone.
Read More
A new jailbreak tweak for enhancing SMS capabilities for your devices has surfaced in Cydia. Cydia is available only for already jailbroken iOS devices like iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. SMS builds on what the native iOS Messages app offers and improves your texting experiences. Something similar was already previously available with Bite SMS but if you like your native Message app more than other options, SMS + could be just what you needed.
And there is another good reason to choose SMS + instead of the competing texting apps: it’s fairly reasonable price of $1.99. When you download and install SMS + from Cydia, jump over to the Settings app and simply adjust and customize the app according to your own preferences. No new icon will appear on your overcrowded home screen.
Here are some of the interesting features of this jailbreak tweak:
- Text to speech capability.
- Read messages later.
- Notifications in the status bar.
- Time stamps for all text messages.
- Quick Replay.
- And more.
You can get SMS + in Cydia App Store. Recommended for heavy text users.
Read More
Mark Zuckerberg has recently in an interview promised many new surprises coming from his company. And indeed Facebook is improving its offer at least in Apple‘ iOS world. Facebook has just launched an interesting endeavour, and separate app for instant messaging for iOS devices including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
We are not sure why should many users leave already established apps and change move their communications channels to Facebook Messenger, except the fact that Facebook has already more than 700 millions of users with your friends most probably already among them.
Here a re some of the features of this app:
send messages to your friends, groups or any other contact
share your map location and find the location of your friends
receive mobile notifications
add friends photos so you wont send messages to wrong people
and much more
This latest app from Facebook can be downloaded from App Store and it is available as a free download. This app is also available for Android devices.
Read More
While Apple‘s iOS, Nokia’s Symbian and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS are completely or almost completely free from malware apps, Android is under heavy attack. There is a new kind of a malicious software which can record and share your calls without your consent. The app looks like a normal, safe app but after you install it, the app downloads an additional file. Afterwards the app will start recording your calls. It is also capable of saving the file in .amr format which can later be uploaded to remote online servers of course without you knowing what is going on. Earlier we have seen troyan apps which have gathered logs on your calls, like the number dialed, duration of the call and so on.
This is certainly a great weakness for Android, as you know there is almost no restrictions for apps entering Android Market, which is the opposite of Apples policies. Apple has strict policies regarding malware apps, and none have being allowed to enter iTunes App Store so far.
You can protect you Android device if you install some anti virus app from the market, but be very very careful, as many malicious apps infect computers and mobile platforms under the guise of security apps! Do your homework carefully before installing an app on your device. Read reviews, ask friends and members of Android user forums, about experiences with apps before you finally install them. otherwise you can easily loose a lot including your privacy and sensitive data.
Read More
We are glad to report that a great browser among others in the iOS world is being upgraded and improved with some new nice features. It is a good idea to have Opera installed on your iPhone or iPad especially if you are away from your home wifi network, as Opera is known as a fast browser. The reason for its speed is that powerful computers at Opera headquarters are compressing the data before downloading them on your device therefore loading websites much faster than what you are used to.
Here are some of the great possibilities Opera Mini offers for your iPhone or iPad:
- Opera is almost 6 time faster than other browsers which is important if you use slow networks.
- Less data expenses: 90% of the data is compressed.
- Speed dialling: you can visit your most visited websites with one tap only.
- Tabs: you can see all your tabs and navigate through them easier and faster than with other browsers.
Here are some improvement introduced with this upgrade:
- Better Youtube integration
- Opera Mobile Store icon
- Bug fixes
- Other small improvements.
You can download Opera Mini for free from the iTunes App Store.
Read More
