The iPhone 5 is rumoured to have a larger 4″ display with a thinner, sharper display. The way Apple is set to achieve this is through the use of in-cell technology in the new, larger display. In-cell technology works by integrating capacitive touch sensors into the display circuitry itself. An in-cell display doesn’t require a separate touch digitiser layer, saving [...]
Patents made public by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office which were filed in August 2011, reveals potential plans for Apple to upgrade the SmartCover beyond the stand and case functionality it has today. The new SmartCover would act as a more intelligent accessory, having a means of communication with the iPad. The SmartCover would have multiple ways of displaying [...]
As of today, MobileMe is no longer in service as Apple has given users sufficient time to download their Gallery photos and iDisk files and switch over their Bookmarks, Contacts, Notes and more to iCloud. Now the MobileMe webpage simply informs that the service has been closed and suggests people to visit iCloud. All guides on advising users how to [...]
At WWDC 2012 in June, alongside the introduction of the new MacBook Pro with a Retina display, Apple announced they would produce two extra adapters to add Ethernet and FireWire 800 capabilities to the Retina MacBook Pro’s Thunderbolt port. The Gigabit Ethernet Adapter was made available immediately however we were still waiting on the release of the FireWire 800 adapter [...]
When Apple released iOS 5 in October 2011, it included a significant upgrade from iOS 4 including over 250 new features into the leading mobile operating system. There are still many of those 250 new features are yet to be covered. These include how to type emoticons on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Use the slideshow above and the [...]
Installing Mountain Lion from a bootable USB drive can come in very handy when you need to install the latest version of Apple’s OS X, 10.8, on multiple macs. Having an OS X Mountain Lion bootable USB drive can save you a lot of time as there is no need to download the 4.05 GB file from Apple’s servers on [...]
In a recent interview with the Daily Telegraph, Sir Jonathan Ive, the man accredited with the iconic design of the iPhone, revealed that there were “multiple times” when the creation of the iPhone was almost scrapped due to problematic design flaws and how Apple almost said goodbye to the formation of the iPhone. This was due to a number of [...]
Just in time for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, Apple has released three new adverts shown in the U.S. All three adverts, May Day, Labour and Basically advertise the concept of the Mac and run with the different scenarios of confused consumers looking to an Apple Genius to help advise them on using Mac only software iMovie, [...]
A Reuters report has revealed Apple will acquire a fingerprint sensor technology developer, AuthenTec Inc for an estimated price of $356 million. AuthenTec describes the technology they have developed on their own website: AuthenTec’s award-winning smart fingerprint sensors provide multiple touch-powered features that extend beyond user authentication to include convenience, personalization and touch control. The Company’s TouchChip area fingerprint sensors and modules [...]
At the Google maps event on 6th June 2012, scheduled just before WWDC 2012, Google promised to continue to deliver their own mapping solution for iOS, ahead of strong rumours that Apple was planning to develop their own 3D mapping software for iOS 6 in place of Google’s own mapping software which had been used in all version of iOS [...]
