The highly anticipated 3.0 release of the Facebook application for the iPhone has just arrived in the AppStore. Here is a quick look at the new features. And if your phone can’t find the update, delete the old version and install it from scratch until the Apple servers have updated their cache.
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iPhone App: Birdfeed
A new Twitter client called Birdfeed was just released in the App Store. There are lots of Twitter clients for the iPhone so I was skeptical on what Birdfeed could do to stand out from the crowd. But being priced at 38 SEK ($4.99), it was bound to have some unique features and a well [...]
Limit Time Machine disk usage on external drives
Time Machine is a very simple and elegant backup solution for Mac OS, with an intuitive restore browser. The problem with Time Machine however, is that it takes up all free disk space before starting to erase old backups. This is no problem if you have a dedicated Time Machine disk, but most people usually [...]
Flight Control – revisited
I recently tried out Flight Control, a game for the iPhone which puts you in charge as an air traffic controller. It is your job to route the different planes to their respective runway. With iPhone OS 3.0 came a feature for Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network), which means that the iPhone is now capable [...]
iPhone App: Flight Control
I recently bought Flight Control from the App Store, hoping to find an easy, yet challenging game. I found it.
Flight Control puts you in the air traffic controller spot, and it is your duty to route the various planes and helicopters on a safe landing route. You have to watch out for crossing trajectories, different [...]
iPhone OS 3.0 firmware announced
Apple recently announced the features in the next iPhone firmware release, dubbed 3.0. There is great anticipation as always when Apple announces new things, and this time Apple actually seem to have listened to the feedback of users.
Some new features include
Push notifications
Cut and Paste
MMS
A2DP (Bluetooth stereo sound)
Notes sync
Audio / video memos
System-wide search
Support for CalDAV
In-game commerce
This [...]
Mac OS X 10.5.6 released
OS X 10.5.6 has now been released! Lots of things has been updated, and some highlights follow:
Address Book
Airport
iChat
Graphics
Mail
MobileMe
Time Machine
Safari
… and more!
Macrumors has the details on their forum.
Some people have been reporting problems with the update as usual. If in trouble, just get the Combo Update directly from Apple.
iPhone app: Joost
Joost a internet based TV service, which has been available for Mac and Windows for a long time now. It has now come to the iPhone, bringing a wide variety of contents from many places around the world.
The interface itself is quite nice, with the standard Joost graphic and colors. There are five different [...]
iPhone app: Tap Tap Revenge
It’s time for the first iPhone game to be featured here. The game is called Tap Tap Revenge and is a music game in the spirit of Guitar Hero. The graphics are great and with the recent update, the game has become far more stable and a lot faster.
The most welcome feature in the game [...]
Changes in the released iPhone 2.2 update
So the new iPhone 2.2 firmware was released this morning, and here are the news:
Enhancements to Google Maps
Street view
Public transit and walking directions
Display address of dropped pins
Share location via email
Enhancements to Mail
Resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
Improved formatting of wide HTML email
Other
Improved stability and performance of Safari
Podcasts are now available for download in [...]