iPad By Davis: “Cut the Rope celebrates the Chinese New Year with new Lantern Box” plus 17 more |
- Cut the Rope celebrates the Chinese New Year with new Lantern Box
- RunKeeper tracks all your running, walking, and cycling
- ZEN & TECH live! 7pm PT/10pm ET: Fitness Month special!
- evasi0n 1.1 released with bug fixes for Weather app problems and reboot issues
- Twitter for iPhone and iPad improves Search and Discover
- iPad accounted for 1 in 6 PC shipments in Q4 2012
- mophie announces the juice pack helium for iPhone 5
- Dropbox announces an easier, more constrained way for developers to implement sync
- Apple releases iOS 6.1.1 beta to developers
- How to delete reminders on iPhone and iPad
- I Welcome Our Tiny New Overlords Who Clean iPad Screens
- Did you jailbreak iOS 6 with evasi0n? [Poll]
- Apple announces 25 billion songs sold via iTunes, tells recording industry they're welcome
- Reseller claims Apple preparing new Mac Pro for spring release
- Garmin navigates the social at Macworld|iWorld 2013
- Deal of the Day: 43% off Krusell Avenyn Mobile Pouch L Long for iPhone 5
- WordPress iPad App Updated – Adds Push Notifications & More
- Apple updates its jailbreak Knowledge Base article after the release of Evasi0n
| Cut the Rope celebrates the Chinese New Year with new Lantern Box Posted: 06 Feb 2013 10:33 PM PST
In celebration of the Chinese New Year, Cut the Rope has been updated with a new Lantern Box featuring 25 new levels. In these new levels, Chillingo has introduced new floating paper lanterns as the new gameplay element. What do you think of the new levels? Have you earned 5 stars in all 25 of them, yet?
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| RunKeeper tracks all your running, walking, and cycling Posted: 06 Feb 2013 08:30 PM PST
RunKeeper, the popular running, walking, and cycling tracking app for iPhone, has gotten even better recently with a whole new design, and funner, easier to use experience. And since it's Mobile Nations Fitness Month, the time couldn't be better to give it another look! Thanks to last month's update, you can now add a photo showing your complete exercise activity, and share it with your friends. You can also share goals to Twitter and Facebook, and can even broadcast your activities live from the RunKeeper Start screen. Live broadcasting requires RunKeeper Elite, however, but you can now sign up with RunKeeper Elite right from within the RunKeeper app. If you haven't used the RunKeeper app before, it is certainly worth checking out. It's a free download, so you have nothing to lose, and since it lets you track your runs, walks, bike rides, hikes, and more using the GPS in your iPhone, it can fit itself to any number of activities. RunKeeper Elite, their subscription service, costs $4.99 a month or $19.99 a year. You don't need it to use RunKeeper for iPhone, but if you're really into RunKeeper, it offers some nice extras, like the aforementioned live streaming. If you are looking for an app to help you get fit in 2013, you should really check out the new improved version of RunKeeper. I put on quite a few pounds over the holiday period so I have RunKeeper all set and ready to go. Hopefully I will be able to burn off those unwanted pounds sooner rather than later; I bet that losing them is nowhere near as much fun as gaining them! Give it a try and let me know what you think!
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| ZEN & TECH live! 7pm PT/10pm ET: Fitness Month special! Posted: 06 Feb 2013 06:36 PM PST
February is Fitness Month at Mobile Nations, and this week is all about exercise. To help motivate us and get us going, Georgia's doing a special edition of ZEN and TECH, with special guest CrackBerry Kevin Michaluk. We kick things off at 7pm PT/10pm ET, be here! 
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| evasi0n 1.1 released with bug fixes for Weather app problems and reboot issues Posted: 06 Feb 2013 03:34 PM PST
evasi0n has just been updated to version 1.1 to address issues some concerning long reboot times and problems that were causing the Weather app to crash. If you've already jailbroken on iOS 6 or 6.1, there's no need for you to do anything if you aren't having issues. If you, however, haven't jailbroken yet, you'll want to download the new version first. Over on Twitter, planetbeing has pointed out that if you're already jailbroken, there isn't anything new that requires you to rerun evasi0n -
If you haven't already jailbroken but plan to do so, just make sure you download the updated version before performing the process. If you've already been to the evasi0n website, you may need to clear your internet cache to see the update or you can grab it from our downloads page linked below. Source: evasi0n.com Additional resources: 
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| Twitter for iPhone and iPad improves Search and Discover Posted: 06 Feb 2013 02:35 PM PST
Twitter for iPhone and iPad has been updated with improved Discover, Search, Connect, and more. Discover now suggests Tweets, Activity, and Trends, Search has improved relevancy, Connect now focuses on interactions, and links in Tweets are directly tappable. The Tweets, Activity, and Trends in Discover appear in a single stream with previews at the top and suggested users to follow at the top. Search results are also displayed as a single stream and the search button has been added to all the screens making it easy to search regardless of where you are in the app. When you visit the Connect tab, Twitter now displays all interactions including new followers, retweets, and mentions. This is pretty cool, but if you prefer to only see mentions, you can change the default in Twitter's settings. Lastly, before this update, if you tapped on link in a Tweet, it would first expand and require a second tap to visit the website. Now, you only need to tap the link once. Less taps is always better! There are also various bug fixes and improvements included in this update. Twitter for iPhone users, what do you think of this new update?
Source: Twitter blog 
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| iPad accounted for 1 in 6 PC shipments in Q4 2012 Posted: 06 Feb 2013 02:29 PM PST
One in six personal computers (PCs) shipped in Q4 of 2012 was an iPad. That's according to Canalys, who also reported that worldwide PC shipments were up 12% over the same quarter in 2011, with 134 million PCs sold. Canalys counts tablets in the PC category, and those devices made up one third of all PC sales in Q4. In total, Apple shipped 27 million units, with HP in second at 15 million PCs shipped. Canalys attributes Apple's tablet growth to strong demand for the iPad mini:
There is still debate about whether or not tablets like the iPad should even be counted as PCs. Apple has argued for the past few years that we are in the 'Post-PC' era with devices like the iPhone and iPad. If we stick to a decidedly narrow definition of what a PC is -- a screen with a mouse and keyboard -- then maybe the iPad doesn't fit in that category. Then again, people once said the same thing about Mac and Windows in an age of Apple II and DOS. When we look at what most people use their computers for, things like reading and replying to email, browsing the web, or listening to music, then the fact that the iPad is a PC becomes obvious. It's an even more personal personal computer than ever before. Where do you stand? Are we at a transformative stage, where one day tablets will dominate PC sales, or should they be broken apart, with traditional PC "trucks" measured separately than new fangled tablet "cars"? Source: Canalys 
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| mophie announces the juice pack helium for iPhone 5 Posted: 06 Feb 2013 02:00 PM PST For those whose iPhone batteries lived -- or died -- on the extra power provided by a mophie juice pack case, good news -- mophie has just announced the juice pack helium. Why helium? Because it's lighter than air, as in the previous generation juice pack air, of course. It's a 1500mAh battery, which will replenish an iPhone 5 up to 80%, but it's packed in a case that's svelter than ever before. The mophie juice pack helium will retail for $79.95. The dark metallic version ships on February 19, the light metallic in March. Pre-orders are available now via the link below. More: mophie
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| Dropbox announces an easier, more constrained way for developers to implement sync Posted: 06 Feb 2013 01:36 PM PST
Dropbox, folder sync darling of iOS developers and users alike, has announced a new Dropbox Sync API that aims to make implementing in-app sync easier, but also safer and more constrained. The Dropbox blog announced three key parts of the API:
The Dropbox SDK has examples of a notes app for iOS that includes just such Sync API integration, to help developers jumpstart their efforts. I'm not a dev, so I can't claim any deep insight into the challenges of mobile sync. However, having spoken to numerous Dropbox developers in the past, it sounds like the seamless experience users have enjoyed in North America hasn't been easy to implement on their side, and hasn't been as seamless internationally. Obviously, Dropbox's hosts building more data centers outside U.S will help with the latter, while the Sync API is aimed squarely at the former. That said, for those developers who have already spent time and effort building against the old API, there doesn't seem like there's any reason for them to considering a switch to the new API any time soon. Justin Williams, the developer of Elements, an enormously popular Dropbox-based Markdown text editor, told us:
Denys Zhadanov of productivity powerhouse, Readdle shared:
So we may well see more apps with Dropbox sync in the future, but not necessarily anything transformative-ly better. That means, for me, it still doesn't solve the biggest problem with Dropbox. But I'll save that for a later article. If any developers are giving the new Dropbox Sync API a whirl, let me know your thoughts. For Dropbox users, let me know what you'd like to see improved in the Dropbox apps you're using. Source: Dropbox blog 
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| Apple releases iOS 6.1.1 beta to developers Posted: 06 Feb 2013 12:04 PM PST
Apple has released a beta for iOS 6.1.1 for iPhone, iPad, iPad mini, and iPod touch to developers. The beta is available at developer.apple.com. Make sure to download the correct version for your device(s). Seeing an x.1.1 beta does seem a little out-of-the-ordinary, especially when there aren't any show-stopper level bugs gaining wide spread attention in the just-released iOS 6.1 but according to numerous supports, Maps in Japan are getting a lot of attention and that could require some testing before release. Any developer playing around with the evasi0n jailbreak, who wants to continue playing around with it, should, of course, avoid any software updates, beta or otherwise, for now. More: developer.apple.com 
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| How to delete reminders on iPhone and iPad Posted: 06 Feb 2013 10:31 AM PST
Once you've started creating reminders, you'll also start marking them as complete once you've finished with a task. If there's ever a time that you've created a reminder for a task that you later don't need to perform, you could always mark it as complete to get rid of it, but there's actually a better solution. The Reminders app also gives you the option to delete it.
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| I Welcome Our Tiny New Overlords Who Clean iPad Screens Posted: 06 Feb 2013 10:39 AM PST  Do you like tiny, clever robots? Hate having to clean your iPad screen? Got some time to kill? If you answered yes to all three, then the AutoMee S robot may soon be your new BFF. This little guy resembles a (very) mini version of a Roomba floor cleaning robot – but built to clean our iPad and iPhone screens. TUAW describes go it cleans a little: The miniscule bot's underside is adorned with two motorized, replaceable cleaning discs, so it's not simply dragging a cleaning cloth around and it's "smart" enough to recognize the edges of your device and do an about-face so as not to drive off. It's due out in March, will cost around $17 and will run on a single AA battery. Here's one aspect of the Auto Mee S that may make it quite a tough sell: it's said to take about 8 minutes to clean an iPad screen. I believe the phrase we're...         Related Stories
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| Did you jailbreak iOS 6 with evasi0n? [Poll] Posted: 06 Feb 2013 09:40 AM PST [evasi0n], the iOS 6 and iPhone 5 jailbreak, has been live for a couple of days now, so we want to know: did you pull the trigger? And if so, why? For some, jailbreak makes the mainstream iOS decidedly more pro-friendly, adding numerous tweaks, themes, and other features that not only round out, but complete the experience. For others, it makes a stable system just as decidedly unstable. If you did jailbreak, tell us the features you couldn't live without, and what you've done to make your iPhone or iPad perfect for your needs. If you didn't jailbreak, tell us what concerns you have, or why the jailbreak features aren't, or are no longer, compelling for you. I haven't jailbroken yet, though I'll jailbreak my secondary phone as soon as I have time so I can play around with it. Prior to iOS 5 I was jailbroken almost all the time, primarily for LockInfo and BiteSMS. iOS has come a long way now, often by copying jailbreak features. There's enough there that I don't feel the urgency any more. What am I missing out on? There's no wrong or right answer, no one and only way to go. We just want to know which way you went and why? 
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| Apple announces 25 billion songs sold via iTunes, tells recording industry they're welcome Posted: 06 Feb 2013 09:19 AM PST
Apple announced today that iTunes, the little digital music store that dared to think different-ly, has now sold over 25 billion songs. Billion. With a B. Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services had this to say:
No one imagined it. Back when iTunes launched, technology allowed anyone and everyone to rip and illegally share music, threatening it as a commercially viable business. At least as it was structured at the time. Many, burned by years of greed -- CDs that cost double what tapes had for the same content, artists who'd been cheated out of their work -- had little sympathy for assault on the plastic printing, truck hauling, store shelve filling oligopolies of record labels. But Apple and Steve Jobs offered them a way out. A tiny platform with no market share to speak of, the record labels agreed. They hated him and Apple for it, of course, for de-bundling the album model that fetched them big bucks for 2 good songs and a bunch of filler, and for flattening their price structure so they could effectively compete with free-as-in-Napster/torrents. And iTunes grew. Based on a new model of paying a fair price for a good product, iTunes exploded. Fearing Apple's dominance of online music, the record labels offered DRM free music to Amazon and other competitors, and allowed them to sell it for a lower price, but their spite was too little, too late. Eventually iTunes struck the same DRM-free deal, and exchanged more flexible pricing for cellular downloads, and competitors failed to match their international distribution, or simply failed. Wesley Schultz, guitarist and lead vocalist of The Lumineers:
For forward thinking musicians, for customers who love music, for everyone but those who built empires by artificially intermediating the industry in an age that required enormous resources to record, ship, and sell product, iTunes has been a huge boon. And in spite of the lamentations of those dinosaurs, iTunes has let them salvage what business they could, often in spite of themselves, when the brief window that allowed for their exploitation snapped shut. My most-played song last year was Airplane Mode's Epilogue, something that I would never have heard of before the modern, digital, age of music. That's not all due to Apple, of course. Many have found success selling directly, outside any iTunes-like store system. But iTunes played a huge part in the disruption that set music and musicians free. Congrats iTunes. Here's to 25 billion more. Source: Apple 
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| Reseller claims Apple preparing new Mac Pro for spring release Posted: 06 Feb 2013 09:17 AM PST
An Apple reseller is claiming that Apple will begin shipping a new version of its Mac Pro line of desktops starting this spring. After a decision to discontinue the sale of the Mac Pro in the EU due to regulatory restrictions, many were worried that this was the end of the Mac Pro line. But France Systems claims that Apple has assured them that a new model, one that is probably be more compliant with new regulations, is on track for a spring release:
If this information proves accurate -- and it's a big if at this point -- worst case Apple provides a simple revision of existing hardware that falls in line with EU legal requirements. Best case, we finally get that all new Mac Pro we've been waiting years for. While Apple doesn't have a habit of leaking future product details, they confirmed last year that they were working on a new Mac Pro that would be released in 2013. It sounded at the time as though this new or updated product would arrive towards the end of 2013, but if this letter is accurate, that the new Mac Pro could be launched this spring. As rumors go, it's incredibly thin, but Mac Pro lovers have had little to hang their hopes on as of late, so in this case, maybe something is better than nothing. Either way, what kind of Mac Pro update would you like to see? Internals only, or is it long past time for a new casing as well? Source: France Systems via Mac4Ever, MacGeneration, MacRumors 
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| Garmin navigates the social at Macworld|iWorld 2013 Posted: 06 Feb 2013 08:21 AM PST When last I met Bernd Hahn, he was the product lead on NAVIGON for iOS, one of the best turn-by-turn navigation apps on iOS in an era when neither Apple nor Google offered any such functionality. Now Garmin has bought NAVIGON but luckily they were smart enough to not only keep Hahn on, but put the Garmin for iOS app firmly under his passionate, creative control as well. At Macworld|iWorld 2013, Hahn tells me how he keeps both apps, and lovers of both apps in harmony. Garmin, which looks and feels like a traditional, stand-alone turn-by-turn device interface, and NAVIGON, which more enthusiastically embraced iPhone design and interface qualities, give their customers a choice. This year, they've also gone social. They make it easier now to share location, but to control for who and how long. They've also added foursquare, but not only check-in -- their database as well. It's still early days when it comes to exploring the real potential of social, integrated location, however, so for now Garmin is working on showing people the difference between their apps and the free alternatives from Google, Apple, and others. And they've got some pretty cool stuff in the pipeline for 2013. 
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| Deal of the Day: 43% off Krusell Avenyn Mobile Pouch L Long for iPhone 5 Posted: 06 Feb 2013 06:41 AM PST | ||||||
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WordPress iPad App Updated – Adds Push Notifications & More
Posted: 06 Feb 2013 06:58 AM PST
The WordPress app for iPad has been updated this week, to Version 3.4. The big new feature in this update is push notifications – 'for everything happening on your blog'.
Here's the full change list for this update:
New: Notifications for WordPress.com blogs and self-hosted with the Jetpack plugin.
★ Get Push Notifications for everything happening on your blog.
★ View, moderate, and reply to Comments from one screen – independent of blog.
★ View comment threads and easily access the original post.
★ Know about new Notifications instantly regardless of where you are in the app.
★ Set Push Notification settings for each notification type, and select which blogs you want to receive notifications on in the Settings panel.
★ WordPress.com blogs: get notifications about Likes, Reblogs, Follows, and Badges/Stats Highlights.
This release also...
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Apple updates its jailbreak Knowledge Base article after the release of Evasi0n
Posted: 06 Feb 2013 01:54 AM PST
Apple has issued an update to its previous Knowledge Base warning regarding problems that jailbreaking your device can bring. The update was obviously needed after the high profile release of the Evasi0n untethered iOS 6 jailbreak earlier this week. The Knowledge Base article warns about device instability, security vulnerabilities, shortened battery life and unreliable voice and data.
As designed by Apple, iOS and iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch are designed to work together reliably. Unauthorized modifications to iOS ("jailbreaking") can cause numerous issues to the hacked iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Examples of issues caused by these unauthorized modifications to iOS have included the following:
Instability: Frequent and unexpected crashes of the device, crashes and freezes of built-in apps and third-party apps, and loss of data.
Security vulnerabilities: Security compromises have been introduced by these modifications that could allow hackers to steal personal information, damage the device, attack the wireless network, or introduce malware or viruses.
Shortened battery life: The hacked software has caused an accelerated battery drain that shortens the operation of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on a single battery charge.
Unreliable voice and data: Dropped calls, slow or unreliable data connections, and delayed or inaccurate location data.
Disruption of services: Services such as Visual Voicemail, Weather, and Stocks have been disrupted or no longer work on the device. Additionally, third-party apps that use the Apple Push Notification Service have had difficulty receiving notifications or received notifications that were intended for a different hacked device. Other push-based services such as iCloud and Exchange have experienced problems synchronizing data with their respective servers.
Inability to apply future software updates: Some unauthorized modifications have caused damage to iOS that is not repairable. This can result in the hacked iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iOS update is installed.
Apple strongly cautions against installing any software that hacks iOS. It is also important to note that unauthorized modification of iOS is a violation of iOS end-user license agreement and because of this, Apple may deny service for an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that has installed any unauthorized software.
This sort of warning from Apple is nothing that we haven't seen before so those of you that have jailbroken your device shouldn't be too alarmed. Having said that, the warnings are reasonable in as much as any form of hacking to any device may cause it to become unstable. If you take a sensible approach to installing jailbreak apps and tweaks it should minimize the chance of you having any problems. If you do run into problems, our jailbreak and unlock forums are a great place to look for help.
Source: Apple KB article
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