April 6, 2009 at 9:48 am   33 views

:: iTunesU: Stanford Offers Free iPhone Development Class

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Stanford is now offering free video (and PDF) downloads of iPhone Application Programming class on iTunes U. The class began this week, and will run for 10 weeks (users can also download slides and other course materials from the web site for the course, CS 193P).

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April 3, 2009 at 7:54 pm   129 views

:: AT&T Apologizes Retracts New TOS, SMILE!

att.jpgWell it went like this AT&T put up a highly restrictive new terms of service, the people screamed, getting their attention fast!

AT&T has just released this statement:
The language added on March 30 to AT&T’s wireless data service Terms and Conditions was done in error. It was brought to our attention and we have since removed it. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Now go have yourself a great weekend!

April 3, 2009 at 2:48 pm   64 views

:: AT&T New TOS Starts Firestorm with iPhone Users – UPDATE

att.jpgAT&T has decided to tweak the terms of service for its wireless users taking aggressive steps to manage network traffic. These changes forbid streaming, filesharing and data tethering. This could effect currently available apps already installed on many iPhones.

iPhone owners already a bit upset with Sling’s move yesterday that looks like forced upgrades and now wondering about SlingPlayer Mobile which was expected to launch anytime now in the App Store.

As the Public Knowledge Policy Blog points out, the AT&T Wireless terms of service now explicitly prohibit “downloading movies using P2P file sharing services, customer initiated redirection of television or other video or audio signals via any technology from a fixed location to a mobile device, web broadcasting, and/or for the operation of servers, telemetry devices and/or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition devices.”

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April 2, 2009 at 8:45 pm   97 views

:: iPhone 3.0 Streaming via Bluetooth in Car

Over at Cars.com, they setup a new Toyota Venza and an iPhone 3.0 with Bluetooth. As you can see in the video streaming audio with no wires, no annoying pairing, just hit the Bluetooth button on the iPod, choose the car’s Bluetooth source, and press play. Nice!

A2DP (stereo Bluetooth) will be included in the iPhone 3.0 firmware (not for first-gen iPhones).

April 2, 2009 at 4:03 pm   22 views

:: Palm Pre Classic Emulator Video

Pre will be able to run the legacy Palm apps.

April 2, 2009 at 2:54 pm   24 views

:: Palm Pre 3rd Party App Video Walkthrough

This video walkthrough of Fandango, SprintTV and Nascar, and a slightly updated version of Google Maps (which is now a new option in Universal Search). Looks good.

April 2, 2009 at 12:29 pm   61 views

:: SlingPlayer for iPhone Only for Newer Slingbox Owners

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In a move that will surely piss off many of their customers, Sling Media has just announced that the SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone app will ONLY work with newer Slingboxes! Seems it will work with Slingbox Pro, Slingbox Solo and Slingbox Pro-HD ONLY.

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April 2, 2009 at 12:11 pm   28 views

:: PlayStation 3 v2.70 Firmware Available Now

PlayStation 3 v2.70 Firmware brings in-game chat, external video storage and a bit more.

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April 1, 2009 at 10:24 pm   30 views

:: Mr. Jefferson Video

Must watch.

April 1, 2009 at 10:17 pm   1,130 views

:: Sweatin’ With The Socialists Video

OK, I enjoyed this.

April 1, 2009 at 9:22 pm   18 views

:: iPhone 3.0 Video Walkthrough

AppleInsider reader Thinnovation has provided the following video walk-through of iPhone Software 3.0 covering some of its more prominent features such as Spotlight search, voice memo recording, MMS messaging, copy-and-paste, landscape application mode for Notes, Web copy-and-paste, multi-photo emailing, and more.

April 1, 2009 at 9:10 pm   8 views

:: Woz To Star in New Footloose Flick

April Fools!

April 1, 2009 at 8:55 pm   85 views

:: RIM Intros App World for BlackBerry

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After watching Apple’s enormous success with the iTunes App Store with the iPhone and iPod touch, Research in Motion today unveiled its own similar store, called BlackBerry App World.

I downloaded the App World app to my BlackBerry Curve and assisted a co-worker to add it to his BlackBerry Storm. With mixed results we got it installed on both.

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April 1, 2009 at 7:32 pm   17 views

:: QuickOffice Brings Word & Excel Editing to iPhone

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Coming in the next few weeks QuickOffice for iPhone will be available in the App Store for $19.99. This app allows for Word and Excel document editing.

DataViz Documents To Go will also be coming to the iPhone soon.

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