If you want to jailbreak your iPad or iPhone to use some of those cool jailbreak hacks we showcased last year, but you already upgraded to the latest v 4.x firmware, you are in luck. An (untethered) iOS jailbreak is now out for v4.3.1.
It still doesn’t work on the iPad 2 (fix is forthcoming) or the Verizon iPhone, but covers everything else.
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Quirky have churned out some neat products recently, and they currently need your support for their new Trek Support Electric Backpack. This is a backpack for travellers to fit in their essential gadgets, and have them recharged by the internal battery as they’re going about their business. The battery can last around 7 hours depending on what devices you’re charging up and can hold gadgets of any size in its ‘gadget mesh’.
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If you’re busy talking to people all day and switching from phone to computer constantly, it would make sense to have a dual-purpose headset. Plantronics’ Voyager PRO does exactly that.
This wireless headset has bluetooth compatibility, but also has a USB receiver for your PC and when needed can swap between the 2 transmitters.
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How would you like to carry a portable music studio with you? Using the Garageband App on the iPad, you can!
This next generation iPad app provides value by allowing iPad user’s to create music content rather than just consume by turning the iPad into a collection of touch instruments including Guitars, Basses, Keyboards and Drum Sets and use the app as a full-featured recording studio that allows you to mix up to eight tracks to create songs you can easily share.
The track layout allows you to trim and place musical regions exactly where you want them to play and fine-tune individual track volumes including turning the track into a solo or muting and adjusting pan, reverb and echo. Garageband also includes 250 professional prerecorded loops to enhance your song.
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A lot of energy we use while going about our daily lives is wasted. When we charge up our phones and iPods we have to pay for the energy we use.
nPower has come up with their nPower PEG (Power Energy Generator) which offers a bridge between the two activities. All you do is pop the PEG in your backpack as you’re walking around, and the kinetic energy you generate charges up the battery inside it. You can then plug the PEG into your phone or iPod and let the juice flow.
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Steve Jobs returned from his medical leave absence to show off the latest “insanely great” product by Apple – the iPad 2. Of course the audience provided Steve Jobs with a standing ovation when he came on stage and it’s good to see him looking fairly healthy, albeit a little thin.
Jobs started the announcement talking about Random House and their 17 thousand books are joining the other publishers to provide content for iBooks. Additionally, in less than 1 year, 100 million books have been downloaded.
Always wanting to show value for the App Store developers, Jobs then mentioned that Apple now has over 200 million Apple ID accounts with credit cards linked and ready to purchase using 1-click purchasing. He questioned whether Apple or Amazon had the most accounts with a linked credit card. Next he mentioned that over $2 billion has been paid to developers cumulatively. To further drive home his point of providing a marketplace with built in consumers for Apps, Jobs mentioned that over 100 million iPhones have been shipped.
With that out of the way, Jobs then started talking about the iPad 2…
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Microsoft’s Arc Touch Mouse looks more like something Apple should be producing (except in white, of course). The key selling point is the flexibility – the mouse comes flat, and to switch it on you squeeze the mouse into an arc shape. Scrolling is by touch, so you can flick and whizz around webpages and documents in seconds.
Each movement you make on the touch-enabled scroll surface can do different things according to applications making it more versatile that an ordinary mouse. BlueTrack technology means you can use this mouse almost anywhere too.
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The latest round of rumors concerning the iPad 2 specs are in, this set courtesy of a source that Engadget regularly uses. According to them, the iPad 2 feature a dual GSM/CDMA chipset so that it can be provisioned on either an AT&T or a Verizon/Sprint carrier.
Originally, the rumors said there would be an SD card slot and a higher resolution display, but those apparently are out.
However, the new iPad should be thinner, and have a more rounded bezel, have more RAM (512MB) and quite likely a front-facing camera.
Of course, Apple has surprised before and the rumors haven’t always been 100% on the money, so don’t count on these being the final specs.
It is a fact that the iPhone (and now the iPad as well) has been one of the most successful product of the century and has become a dream purchase for many. Also the continually-increasing 3G infrastructure upgrades and growing number of WiFi networks across the globe have boosted data speeds.
In tandem with this growth, almost every broadband provider have built their own apps with various applications in mind. Here I have listed three (3) must-have apps categories with two (2) apps each for a total of 6 apps.
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Comcast announced an upgrade to the XFINITY iPad app which was released on February 1st. This new (and free) upgrade allows Comcast consumers to watch their favorite On Demand shows and movies right on the Apple iPad. This is in addition to being able to use your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch as a remote control, to search On Demand and TV listings and to schedule your DVR even when you’re away from home.
If you have Comcast and use this app, we want to know what you think. This feels like a new killer app for the iPad similar to the Netflix iPad app.
