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Conan pokes fun at Samsung copying Apple

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:54 AM PDT

Conan pokes fun at Samsung copying Apple

The Apple vs Samsung trial is apparently mainstream enough now that even Team Coco's own Conan O'Brien is lampooning it on his late night talk show -- or at least lampooning Samsung's attempts to claim they're not a copyist.

Samsung might actually be better off at this point just admitting to the copying and arguing that it's not illegal or infringing...

Here's the video:

iOS App Review: Personal Capital a great way to manage personal finance

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:30 AM PDT

iOS App Review: Personal Capital a great way to manage personal finance iOS apps enhance the capabilities of a powerful online financial tool.

Poll: Do you want an LED notification light on the next iPhone?

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 09:08 PM PDT

The iMore forums are hopping over a post from sparro who wants nothing more than an LED notification light on the iPhone 5.

Sparro wasn't satisfied with the LED camera flash accessibility feature added in iOS 5 and is hoping for a full on, front-facing, blinking, bugging notification light in the next iPhone.

BlackBerry lovers consider it part of what puts the crack in CrackBerry and some obviously feel lost when they switch to iPhone and lose it. Even Android seem content when their phones blink and beep at them like R2D2 with something stuck in his holo emitter.

So does the iPhone need it? Is it not enough that the whole display lights up when a new alert hits the lock screen? Do we need a blinking light as well? Or is getting away from the LED the whole reason you switched to iPhone to begin with?

Vote up top, and then head on over to the iMore forums and let sparro know how you feel about the notification LED!

Apple and Amazon respond to account security concerns

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 08:23 PM PDT

Apple and Amazon respond to account security concerns

This weekend, Wired's Mat Honan had his internet accounts hacked and iPhone, iPad, and Mac erased, thanks to his own linking of accounts, lack of two-factor authentication, and lack of backups -- but also because of severe problems with both Apple's and Amazon's online security policies and procedures. Basically, with an internet connection and a social engineering attack, anyone could get at least partially into anyone else's stuff.

Amazon was the first to respond, according to Wired's Nathan Olivarez-Giles:

On Tuesday, Amazon handed down to its customer service department a policy change that no longer allows people to call in and change account settings, such as credit cards or email addresses associated with its user accounts. Amazon officials weren't available for comment on the security changes, but during phone calls to Amazon customer service on Tuesday, representatives told us that the changes were sent out this morning and put in place for "your security."

And Apple followed up, again according to Wired:

Apple on Tuesday ordered its support staff to immediately stop processing AppleID password changes requested over the phone, following the identity hacking of Wired reporter Mat Honan over the weekend, according to Apple employees. An Apple worker with knowledge of the situation, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Wired that the over-the-phone password freeze would last at least 24 hours.

Both of these reactions sound like triage -- getting some pressure on the exploit to stop the bleeding so they have time to do a proper follow up and, hopefully, change their policies to something a lot more secure.

It sucks that this happened to Honan, but it's good both Amazon and Apple are taking action, and the attention needs to stay on them until a better solution is in place, and the idea of continually appraising and updating the policies going forward is embraced.

And while Apple and Amazon are in the hot seat this time, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and ever other player large and small would do well to take this as a cautionary tale and examine and re-examine their own policies so they're not ever next.

You've all gone and set up two-factor Google verification, realistic back up strategies, and good, strong passwords for all your other accounts, right?

Source: Wired + Wired

Apple releases new "All on iPad" commercial

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 07:32 PM PDT

Apple releases new All on iPad commercial

Apple has launched another new iPad commercial, this one called "All on iPad" and once again focusing on the many things you can do with the many different apps available for iPad. The ad copy says:

Read it. tweet it. Be surprised. Be productive. Make a sale. Make some lunch. Make it movie night. Play a game. Or an old favorite. Do it all more beautifully with the Retina display on iPad.

And the description:

From reading a magazine to helping your business run smoothly, you can do just about anything on iPad. And with Retina display, it's all more beautiful than ever.

It showcases someone reading an article on Jamaica, tweeting from Safari, engaging in a FaceTime call, working on a Keynote, using Square for a transaction, checking out recipes, watching a video via AirPlay to an Apple TV and HDTV, playing Real Racing 2 HD, listening to Coltrane, and editing photos in iPhoto.

It's another solid, product and "what you can do with it" spot from Apple, and keeps up their long-going iPad theme of it not being about the technology, but the delight and value of using it. Which makes it a stark contrast from Apple's new, star-study iPhone Siri ads, and Genius-charicature Apple Store ads.

Check it out and let me know -- which type of ad do you prefer?

Vaja Matelasse Lucy Clutch for iPhone

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 06:48 PM PDT

Oh yeah. This is totally decadent. Totally. But that's how Vaja does things,right? And the Matelasse Lucy Clutch for iPhone is the opposite of an exception. A combination iPhone case, wallet, and carry bag, it's hand crafted like all of Vaja's creations, but is it practical?

The Vaja Matelasse Lucy Clutch is small, easy to hold, easy to zip and unzip, and yet still has plenty of space for all of your cards, your money, and any other small item you may want to cary for example, lip gloss. There's a dedicated iPhone pocket, 2 general purpose pocket, and card holder good for 3 cards. None of the pockets zip or otherwise close, however, so loose change and other small items can tumble around as you go.

Taking your iPhone in and out is also easy. It slips into the dedicated inside pocket so you can keep it safe and secure, and slips right back out again when you want to use it. If you're the type of person who uses your iPhone constantly to game, text, etc., it might be inconvenient compared to a pocket case, but if you use your phone mostly as a phone -- or you just want to enjoy a night out in style -- it's perfect.

Now If you're worried that you might not hear your iPhone rings when it's inside the Vaja Matelasse Lucy Clutch, don't. There's a special mesh on both sides designed to make Marimba -- or whatever ringtone you so wish -- come through loud and clear. And because it's on both sides, it doesn't matter which way you insert your iPhone.

The Vaja Matelasse Lucy Clutch is made of premium Caterina leather with a distinctive quilted finish. It's well padded, so your precious iPhone and any other valuables are safe and secure. It's also available in a wide variety of colors so you can customize it pretty much anyway you like.

A sturdy strap lets you carry the Vaja Matelasse Lucy Clutch easily, either in your hand or around your wrist. Unfortunately, it's not quite long enough to comfortably cary around your shoulder and keep your hands free, which I prefer. The zipper is also heavy duty, and works without a hitch. It does, however, open along the bottom of the clutch, which is a little worrisome -- if I leave it partially unzipped, I may not notice, and things may fall out.

The hand crafting results in spectacular quality as well, with every stitch contributing to a functional, long lasting design. The leather comes in azalea (pink), rosso (red), birch (off white), nautical blue, and black. The padded interior comes in over 20 different colors -- several shades of the entire rainbow. That means you can get the Vaja Matelasse Lucy Clutch in just the right colors for you (or for your someone special.)

The good

  • Classic design
  • Incredible quality
  • Excellent protection
  • Easy to open and close
  • Multitude of color options

The bad

  • iPhone not as accessible as regular case
  • No shoulder strap option
  • No inside zippers/closures

The conclusion

The Vaja Matelasse Lucy Clutch is positively luxurious. It's soft, protective, easy to use, and offers space beyond what it's small size would suggest. If you're looking for a high-end, premium carrying bag for yourself or for someone you love, I highly recommend the The Vaja Matelasse Lucy Clutch. Fashion may change but the Vaja Matelasse Lucy Clutch is beautiful and built to last.

$240 - Buy now

Remains of the Day: Sleight of hand

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 04:30 PM PDT

Remains of the Day: Sleight of hand One site pulls more evidence of a taller iPhone screen out of its hat, the Apple's Genius ads pull a disappearing act, and Apple's next magic trick may be holograms.

Four things Apple will eliminate with iPhone 5 and iOS 6

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:35 PM PDT

Four things Apple will eliminate with iPhone 5 and iOS 6 The next-generation iPhone is rumored to bring some radical changes for users, and it will also mark a very public break-up between Apple and Google. Much-loved Google products on iOS will now disappear or be replaced with Apple variants, while hardware design changes will bring long-term improvements, but short-term headaches for some users.

iOS 6 could point to new, smaller Dock connector sporting 9-pins

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:11 PM PDT

iOS 6 could point to new, smaller Dock connector sporting 9-pins

Back in February, iMore reported that Apple would be switching away from the traditional 30-pin Dock connector currently found in all iPhones, iPods, and iPads, to a new, miniaturized Dock connector, both to save space inside new, battery-needy devices, and in recognition of wireless technologies like AirPlay and Wi-Fi sync replacing some of the old Dock requirements. Now 9to5Mac's Mark Gurman has gone digging inside iOS 6 beta 4 and found reference to a 9-pin connector.

The reference comes as a new iOS hardware feature called "9Pin," so we're assuming this has to do with the dock connector. [...] This reference comes in a part of the operating system that details general hardware features in iOS devices. That mean this new 9-pin connector may not only be implemented into the iPhone.

TechCrunch has previously reported on a 19-pin connector and iLounge on an 8-pin connector. Both have had good sources in the past, though the code strings found by 9to5Mac, if indeed they refer to the new Dock connector, would be the least opaque to date.

The reference being part of the general OS, and not iPhone specific, could be an indicator that Apple will indeed be updating the entire iOS product line this September when iOS 6 launches.

Last month iMore learned Apple will be providing an adapter for accessories that use the old Dock connector, so does the exact number of pins make a difference to you? More the merrier or the fewer the better?

Source: 9to5Mac

Sprint CEO says paying over $15 billion for the iPhone was money well spent

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:19 PM PDT

Sprint CEO says paying over $15 billion for the iPhone was money well spent

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse spoke with a group of reporters touring Sprint's headquarters, and told them that the deal to get the iPhone on the Sprint network was too good to pass up; even though Sprint had to commit over $15 billion in purchases to Apple over the next four years. The news comes from a report by Ina Fried of All Things D.

"I think the No. 1 thing was getting the call from Apple that they were interested in at least having the opportunity," Hesse said. Of course, the company and its board had to take a hard look at the economics. Selling the iPhone is good for the long term, Hesse said, noting that customers are more valuable in the long term. But, in the short term, it is costly, as the company spends more in subsidies to attract those iPhone buyers.

"We committed to $15.5 billion over four years in purchases," Hesse said. "That's a large commitment. "He said Sprint looked at Apple and its popularity, and "we saw no reason to bet against Apple."

Hesse also talked about Sprint's other gamble with its investment in WiMax rather than LTE. Hesse claimed that the choice to run with WiMax was all down to timings. If Sprint ran with WiMax it would be the first network with an operational high speed network. If it had chosen to run with LTE, it would have been last to offer LTE; as it didn't have the spectrum to launch a reliable service.

Sprint may have the iPhone on its network but the iPad has remained elusive. When Hesse was asked about the possibility of having the iPad on the Sprint network, he declined to make any comment.

If an when Sprint gets their LTE network up to speed, and they offer the iPad, would their unlimited data plans entice anyone to switch over from AT&T or Verizon?

Source: All Things D

Verizon Wireless reveals 20GB shared data plan, and four others

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:45 PM PDT

Verizon Wireless reveals 20GB shared data plan, and four others Verizon Wireless Tuesday revealed that there are five additional data tiers over and above the six tiers announced with its Share Everything plans earlier this summer.

Review: Krusell Luna Mobile Undercover for iPhone 4

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:30 PM PDT

Review: Krusell Luna Mobile Undercover for iPhone 4 With a lightweight polycarbonate shell and man-made leather backing, the Krusell Luna Mobile Undercover case keeps the back and corners of your iPhone 4 safe, but little else.

iOS 6 preview: Siri knows sports

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:15 PM PDT

iOS 6 preview: Siri knows sports

Siri, as introduced in iOS 5 on the iPhone 4S, is an able if not particularly well-rounded personal assistant. With iOS 6, however, Siri is expanding to the iPad, and adding sports to its repertoire. Now, in addition to keeping you in contact, on time, on course, and on schedule, Siri will also serve you up the latest scores.

Here's how Apple describes it:

Sports fan? Siri knows baseball, basketball, football, soccer, and hockey. Ask Siri for game schedules, scores from the current season's games, or up-to-the minute scores from live games. Tell Siri to show you player stats and compare them against other players' stats. Siri tracks team records, too, so you'll always know how well your team is doing (or not doing).

Siri sports scores are only available to beta testers right now, but Apple did show them off during WWDC 2012, so we have some idea how they'll work. According to their presentation, Siri sports will support looking up information on:

  • Soccer: Italian Seria A, English Premier League, Dutch Eredivisie, Major League Soccer, French Ligue 1, Spanish La Liga, and German Bundesliga
  • Baseball: Major League Baseball
  • Football: NCAA Football, NFL
  • Basketball: NCAA Basketball, NBA, WNBA
  • Hockey: NHL

For each of those sports, Siri can provide:

  • Scores
  • Standings
  • Schedules
  • Team rosters
  • Player stats

Taken together, here's what you'll be able to do with Siri and sports:

  • Ask "what was the core of the last Giants game?" and get a new scoreboard widget showing the results.

  • Ask "what is Buster Posey's batting average?" and get a new player card widget showing you the stats.

  • Ask "what are the national league standings?" and get a scrollable widget with up-to-date team standings.

  • Ask "who is taller, Lebron or Kobe?" and not only get both player cards, but a comparative assessment.

  • Ask "when is the San Francisco 49ers first game of the season?" and get a new schedule widgets giving you the data and time for the appropriate game.

And that's just what's been shown off so far.

Taken together, those sports sources, combined with Siri's almost Pixar-like persona and natural language, context aware search capabilities, should make it a surefire hit for everything from keeping up with games on the road to finding out who wins a bar bet.

iOS 6 is scheduled for release this fall, perhaps as soon as September 19. For more on iOS 6 and Siri, check out:

How to configure Google's two-step authentication

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 01:40 PM PDT

How to configure Google's two-step authentication Enabling Google's two-step authentication comes with a few complexities. But it also might save your data from nefarious folks out to steal or delete it for fun.

Evernote for iPad Updated – Finally Gets Rid of Its Most Annoying Feature

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 01:25 PM PDT

Evernote for iPad

Evernote – the excellent, feature rich note-taking app for iPad and iOS – has been updated this week, to Version 4.3.

There's only a single new feature listed in the change list for this update, but what a sight for sore eyes it is:

• Start editing a note simply by tapping into the note body

To which I say … Hurrah! Prior to this update you had to type on a little pencil icon to edit a note. For me, that was always by far and away the most annoying feature of the Evernote app. Now you just tap anywhere in a note to start typing, just as in nearly all the other good notes and writing apps for the iPad. This makes it so much faster and nicer to work with.

Evernote was a recent (and long overdue) pick as Best Free iPad App of the Week, and it's great to see this feature finally addressed.

Here's an App Store link for Evernote; it's a free app and a universal app designed for both iPad and iPhone.

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TechHive: Fitbit Ultra fitness training tool for iOS

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 12:45 PM PDT

TechHive: Fitbit Ultra fitness training tool for iOS The slick little Fitbit Ultra is more than just a pedometer: It can track your mileage, calories burned, altitude, sleep patterns and has a full suite of fitness tools behind it.

iOS App Review: Solar takes a colorful approach to weather

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 11:10 AM PDT

iOS App Review: Solar takes a colorful approach to weather Most weather apps add more features to get you to ditch the built-in iOS offering. Solar takes the opposite approach with a minimalist, but eye-catching use of color.

Review: Lexmark C748de color laser printer boasts speed, capacity, quality

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 10:15 AM PDT

Review: Lexmark C748de color laser printer boasts speed, capacity, quality Outstanding speed and output quality highlight this high-capacity, 1200-dpi color laser printer.

iOS 6 is scalable to 640 x 1136, possibly the dimensions of the next gen iPhone

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 09:48 AM PDT

iOS 6 is scalable to 640 x 1136, possibly the dimensions of the next gen iPhone

Of all the rumors thrown around in regards to the next generation iPhone, a larger display is one of the most interesting and persistent. And now there may actually be evidence in iOS 6 that points to a taller display, and a pixel count measuring 640 x 1136. 9to5Mac's Mark Gurman did some digging into the iOS simulator -- the program that lets you test iOS apps on the Mac -- and found that that resolution not only works, but seems programmed in.

Thanks to some tweaks to the iOS Simulator application that is included in the iOS development tools, we were able to run the simulator at the rumored next-generation iPhone display resolution of 640 x 1136. We did this running both the current public release of iOS 5.1 and the upcoming iOS 6.0 The iOS 5.1 simulator displayed the home screen with a stretched set of four rows of icons. On the other hand, iOS 6 displayed five complete rows – as our sources said Apple was testing for taller iPhone displays.

Under iOS 5.1.1, scaling to a larger display result only in the same 4 rows of icons that we currently see on the iPhone Home screen. The difference in iOS 6 is that the iOS simulator will actually scale to fit a full 5 rows of icons on a display sized at 640 x 1136.

iOS 6 scaleable icons from 9to5mac

9to5Mac has also confirmed that no other combination if display size will scale correctly. At this stage it's unlikely that Apple is still testing prototypes. It may be more likely that we'll see a taller iPhone with these dimensions come Apple's official announcement this Fall.

We've seen tons of leaked parts assembled that support that type of display, and we've previously gone over how Apple could implement a 4-inch, 16:9 iPhone.

Having the 640 x 1136 resolution supported in the iOS 6 simulator is just one more piece of the puzzle. We'll only know for sure when Apple updates all of their iOS products this Fall. In the meantime, hit the link below to read more and see more images.

Source: 9to5Mac

iPad Apps Gone Wild: Time for Some Housekeeping

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 10:26 AM PDT

iPad Storage Space Bar

Yesterday I was doing some routine testing of iTunes sync and I happened to glance down at the storage bar – and see that my constant accumulation of iPad apps had reached a crazy level. To the tune of more than 42GB of storage space being used by apps, and only 6GB of free space left on my 64GB iPad.

A quick look at Settings > About on the iPad confirmed that there was just 6GB of available space and I had 267 apps installed. To say I had some apps housekeeping to do would be a big understatement.

I started by taking a look at the Usage section of Settings (Settings > General > Usage) to identify which apps were chewing up the most space on the iPad.

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