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Rumor Has It: Apple Sharing Tablet Info With Australian Media?

Written on October 27, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and No one has commented

The tablet rumor mill is heating up, which is in keeping with the early 2010 release date that’s been mentioned in earlier reports. The latest news to hit the web is that Apple has been talking to the Australian media about content provision for the fanboi device of legend.
The news comes via Australian paper The [...]

iTunes 9: Keeping In Sync

Written on September 17, 2009 by Chris Ryan and 10 people have commented

iTunes 9 brings about a much more flexible setup for syncing. It’s definitely an improvement, in some senses, but still far from perfect. In fact, many might be quick to term some of the options as “feature creep.” Check out some of our thoughts on the new options and look at the side by side [...]

Apple Implements App Ratings/Restrictions for iPhone, iPod Touch

Written on June 17, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 5 people have commented

The fact that they included parental controls for games in the 3.0 beta sort of hinted at this, but along with the iPhone 3.0 update today came app ratings, which appear rather inconspicuously under the app’s price and buy button on the detailed info screen. It also appears next to an app’s name in the [...]

NIMF Backs ESA on iPhone Game Ratings; ESRB Says Bring It on

Written on June 15, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 1 person has commented

Support is growing for some kind of ratings system for the games found in Apple’s App Store for its iPhone and iPod touch platform. Adding its voice to those already calling for ratings implementation, including the ESA and the ESRB, is the National Institute on Media and the Family (NIMF), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to [...]

Stuff iTunes With Videos Using VideoDrive

Written on October 29, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 7 people have commented

Are you a video junkie who loves nothing more than stuffing iTunes with videos to watch in Front Row, Apple TV, or on your iPod? If you find yourself spending more time than you should fussing with conversion and the such, VideoDrive can get those videos into your iTunes and iPod quickly and with minimal [...]

Apple DVR: Will it ever happen?

Written on August 28, 2007 by Iyaz Akhtar and 16 people have commented

With Sony announcing a DVR for the PS3, what are the odds Apple will make a similar move?  Sony and Apple are very different companies. What drives Sony may not drive Apple.
These days, Sony seems lost.  They missed out on the digital audio player market after being the dominant player in the portable audio market.  The [...]