Apple Macs and other hardware is very costly compared to its competitors.
However Apple does use eBay to flog its refurbished macs. This will help save you a few pennies.
Also if you are a student there are discounts on offer and the discount varies from being at college to university. University students get the biggest discounts. Only catch is you have to use the education computers. That’s how Apple verify your a student.
Software developers Panic are working on new AV software and are investigating Apple’s new-ish Lightning Digital AV Adapter. What they found is that unlike the previous 30-pin module, the Lightning adapter doesn’t carry a native 1080P signal. In fact, when mirroring, Apple says the optimum resolution is 1600 × 900 and when that signal is shown on a 1080P display, it is likely up-converted, showing artifacts consistent with streaming and uncompressing video data.
So when they split open the cable and there is a full ARM processor with 256MB of RAM to process video signals inside the adapter cable. Panic thinks that they are actually streaming an AirPlay network signal through the cable and it is being decoded by the ARM processor.
Why would Apple do this? It’s likely Apple wants to move people to AirPlay wireless streaming to Apple TV so this is just a stopgap solution. Rather than making a larger Lightning cable, it sacrificed on wired video out quality as well as HDMI (And VGA?) cable costs.
Is this being sneaky or clever?
The Blackberry Z10 has a rather clever way of screen sharing built in, but at MWC , OPTiM released news of an app for android that not only let’s you share screens, but also allows remote control over wifi. The app is called Optia for android. It works with all versions of android 2.3 upwards, has a built in chat function too.
Just for a bit of fun, I filmed the power off animation I use on my iPhone 5. I had to use my iPad Mini to film the iPhone 5 so hopefully the quality isn’t too bad.
Details of the tweak used are listed in the description within the YouTube video. Link is here.
One of the stories coming out of MWC was the new Firefox OS and the confirmation of some decent support by manufacturers.
However, Samsung has said it won’t be supporting it. With its fingers in so many pies and its interest in Tizen 2 it’s not surprising it is taking this stance.
Major League Baseball this week announced plans to expand support for Apple’s Passbook mobile ticketing app, which will be accepted at 13 ballparks this season. This is a big increase from when just four teams — the San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, Boston Red Sox and Kansas City Royals —supported the app.
It is confirmed that the latest iOS beta by Apple will break the evasion jail break. However it won’t be too long before a revised jail break will be produced.
But even it there is a gap, or even if the latest version of iOS can’t be jail broken, will people update their devices. If you think about it the latest iOS is really good. But with a jail broken device just adding a few tweaks makes the world of difference.
I for one would hold off updating my iOS software just to keep my tweaks. Would you?
An green Google settings app might have appeared in your menu of apps. Don’t panic.
The app puts your settings menu from other Google apps, like G+ and Maps, in one convenient screen.
Hopefully this will eventually get merged into the main settings app.
There are rumours that Sony plans to release a new flagship smartphone later this year that will compete with the HTC One and Galaxy S IV. According to a report from the Xperia Blog, the company’s upcoming smartphone, codenamed Xperia C670X, will be equipped with a 4.8-inch full HD display, a 1.8GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor, Adreno 320 graphics and a 13-megapixel rear camera. The device is also said to include 2GB RAM, 32GB of internal storage and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. The Xperia C670X is reportedly scheduled to launch sometime this summer.
But will it be water and dust resistant? Also why so soon. The problem of releasing a newer model so soon is that it makes your current Sony phone for obsolete too quickly.
Three UK sent me an email re the Pony.
Seeing is believing. What were they drinking!
