Health Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar Apple cider vinegar, or cider vinegar, is one of the most popular alternative health remedies in use today. Apple cider vinegar has been used since ancient times as a remedy for many different ailments. Hippocrates is said to have used it as an antibiotic. Most of the health benefits [Read More]
Apple Keelhauls Music Streaming Services (Source: TechCrunch) Lots of hullabaloo about Apple’s iOS subscription product. The basics – everyone pays 30%, you can’t charge more on the iPhone for the product than you do on other platforms, and you can’t link out from the app to the browser to handle subscriptions without Apple being in [Read More]
HANDS ON: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Source: Mashable) Samsung just delivered another broadside against Apple in the tablet wars. After unveiling a 7-in. Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab, late last year to what became an underwhelming customer response, the Korean company upped its game, announcing a 10-in. version running a better operating system. [Read More]
Steve Jobs On The Apple Campus Is Like A Double Rainbow (Source: TechCrunch) On Friday the WSJ published an article entitled “Apple’s Jobs Calls Shots From Home” which depicted the Apple CEO as still having a generous hand in the day to day going ons of the company despite being on medical leave. Jobs involvement [Read More]
Sony: “Publishers Are Being Held To Ransom By Apple” (Source: TechCrunch) There’s much to be said in favor of a successor to iTunes. Not just the application itself, but the whole service. Things move fast, and although Apple moved faster than the music industry, it now finds itself in a distressingly similar, and vulnerable, position. [Read More]
Yes, Apple Is Lining Up For A “Surprise” This Fall And Yes, It’s Likely An “iPad 3″ (Source: TechCrunch) The following may sound a little crazy considering that the iPad 2 has not even been acknowledged or introduced by Apple yet. But from what we’re hearing, the next iteration of the iPad — let’s call [Read More]
HTML5 Is An Oncoming Train, But Native App Development Is An Oncoming Rocket Ship (Source: TechCrunch) HTML5 versus native apps. It’s a debate as old as — well, at least three years ago. And pretty much since the beginning of that debate, there has been a general underlying current among the geek community that HTML5 [Read More]
Despite Pushback From Pubs, Apple Will Make iTunes Subscription Billing Mandatory (Source: TechCrunch) When Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily launched last week, Apple’s VP Eddy Cue got on stage to announce one-click subscriptions for iPad publications through iTunes. The Daily already has the one-click billing option as a feature, and Cue promised [Read More]
Animoto Gets 10x Faster, Doubles Video Resolution, And Just Generally Rocks (Source: TechCrunch) Animoto generates custom, professional-looking slideshows from user-uploaded music and photos.Animoto continues to improve. This is one of those “must use” apps for people who don’t have a ton of time but want to put together memorable videos of [Read More]
Apple punch Apple Punch Apple punch Ingredients: 7 dl apple juice few pieces cinnamon quill 2 cloves 2-3 spoons sugar 5 dl tea ¼ l applejack 0.4 dl apple brandy Apple punch Instructions: Cook apple juice, wine and spices in a saucepan. When it comes to a boil remove spices. Then add sugar and cook [Read More]
The Verizon Vs AT&T Ads Prove One Thing: The iPhone Is Helen Of Troy (Source: TechCrunch) The most recent Verizon and AT&T commercials are awesome because everyone loves a good slap fight — especially one that is played out in public. But they’re actually even more interesting under the surface. Because it’s a fight that [Read More]
Apple: Nothing Has Changed- Except For This One Thing. (Source: TechCrunch) Last night the New York Times published a report stating that Sony’s E-Reader application had been rejected from Apple’s App Store, because it used a transaction system other than Apple’s In-App Payments. What’s worse, Apple was apparently blocking applications [Read More]
Apple Reportedly Blocks Sony Reader App, May Foreshadow War With Amazon Kindle (Source: TechCrunch) This evening the New York Times published an article titled Apple Moves to Tighten Control of App Store. An alternative title, should the report prove accurate, could be, Apple Underscores The Downsides Of Its Closed Platform. Really, things look [Read More]
“Apple Is Evil! Boycott The iPad! – Sent From My iPad” (Source: TechCrunch) Here we go again. It has been a few weeks since we had a story about how Apple is evil, or how the relatively closed system the fuels the iPad and iPhone will be the downfall of society. And tonight we got [Read More]
L.A. man sues Apple for broken iPhone 4 glass Here we go again. A Los Angeles man named Donald LeBuhn filed a class action lawsuit against Apple because his daughter dropped an iPhone 4 that he paid for and the glass cracked. LeBuhn says Apple’s advertising is misleading and that the iPhone 4‘s glass isn’t [Read More]
War Maneuvers: Android Event Will Battle iPad Event For Press Love On February 2 (Source: TechCrunch) If asked, about the timing of events is on purpose or purely coincidental, the companies not only do they almost always say that it’s purely coincidental, but they often try to claim that didn’t even realize a rival was [Read More]
Microsoft Still More Profitable Than Apple — Barely (Source: TechCrunch) A week and a half ago, after Apple announced their blowout earnings for the holiday quarter, I wondered if the third and final pillar of Microsoft’s financial strength over Apple was about to fall: profit. In 2010, Apple surpassed their longtime rival in market cap [Read More]
Indian Vegetarian Recipe: Apple Raisin Chutney Apple Raisin Chutney is a cooked chutney recipe that’s wonderful with simple Indian vegetarian recipes like Spicy Tofu Rice Pilaf, Simple Mung Dhal, Carrots and Peas With Cumin, and Indian flatbread – Chapatis. Chutney recipes are traditional Indian condiments, often prepared from raw [Read More]
Apple Brings The App Store To Twitter Promising Exclusive Offers (Source: TechCrunch) Apple and Twitter have had an interesting but cautious relationship over the past couple of years. Early on, the only official Apple accounts belonged to various iTunes properties, which utilized the service for promotions. Then Apple secured a deal with Twitter [Read More]
Apple’s First Verizon iPhone Commercial Also Touts AT&T: “Two Is Better Than One” (Source: TechCrunch) Two days ago, Verizon posted their first iPhone teaser commercial to their YouTube page. The tagline? “It begins.” Now, it looks as if Apple is ready to follow suit with its own marketing muscle. But they’re not just playing up [Read More]
Blatant IP Theft In App Store Garners Little Response From Apple (Source: MobileCrunch) One of the criticisms of Apple’s App Store (and application stores in general) is how it is commonplace for a popular app or game to have dozens of clones. These can be sifted through due to their low popularity and shoddy icons, [Read More]
A Sneak Peek of the MacBook of the Future Apple looks at the MacBook Air as the “MacBook of the future, shipping today,” according to COO Tim Cook. What does he mean?It’s all solid If the MacBooks of the future are like the Air shipping today, the biggest difference internally is that they’re going to [Read More]
Apple’s Cook On iPad/Mac Relationship: “If This Is Cannibalization, It Feels Pretty Good.” (Source: TechCrunch) During the earnings call following Apple’s blockbuster Q1 2011 results, a questions was asked about Apple’s Mac business as it relates to the iPad business. The iPad business, after all, is growing much faster (and just [Read More]
In SEC Filing, Apple Stresses Jobs Will “Remain Involved In Major Strategic Decisions” During Medical Leave (Source: TechCrunch) Apple just announced a blowout quarter, but what is still on everyone’s mind is yesterday’s revelation that CEO Steve Jobs will once again take a leave of absence due to medical reasons. In an SEC filing out [Read More]
Apple COO Calls Android Tablet a “Bizarre Product” (Source: Mashable) Ahead of its earning call for the first quarter of fiscal 2011, Apple announced record-breaking earnings, led by strong sales of the iPhone, Mac and iPad product lines. The iPad in particular had a phenomenal holiday season, with more than 7.3 million units sold. That’s [Read More]
iPod Touch Now Accounts for Half of iPod Sales (Source: Mashable) iPod Touch was launched on September 5, 2007, at an event called The Beat Goes On. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line. It is the first iPod with wireless access to the iTunes Store, and also has [Read More]
Apple Sells 7 Million iPads in Record-Breaking Quarter (Source: Mashable) One day after announcing that Steve Jobs was taking a leave of absence from the company, Apple has reported record-breaking earnings, with revenue of more than $26 billion for its fiscal first quarter, which includes holiday sales. During the quarter, Apple sold 7.3 million [Read More]
Steve Jobs Taking Medical Leave of Absence From Apple (Source: gizmodo.com) A memo from Steve Jobs was sent to all Apple employees today, stating that Jobs will take a medical leave of absence so that the CEO can “focus on his health.” Team, At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical [Read More]
Oversized Assets Indicate 2048×1536 Resolution On iPad 2 A couple image assets included in the latest version of iBooks seem to have the same naming convention as iPhone apps have when they must accommodate both old and new iPhone displays. In other words, the images imply that the iPad 2 will undergo a similar transformation: [Read More]
A Basic Sketch of the Next iPad (Source: Gizmodo.com) Apple is a cyclical creature, like bears, unicorns and ladyfolk. iPods in September; iPhones in June; and likely, iPads in April. April is not so far away! So, unsurprisingly, we’re starting to hear what the next iPad looks like. The brains While one generation of devices [Read More]
Verizon iPhone Launching on February 10th The Verizon iPhone launch date has been announced. Pre-orders start February 3rd and the dream phone will be available on February 10th in Apple and Verizon Stores. This does not come as a surprise as we have had rumors floating since very long. This is a welcome news for [Read More]
Apple iPhone 5 may Debut with A8 SoC Processor Apple may have contacted a few Taiwan-based suppliers for core silicon components. Apple unveiled the A4 System-on-Chip processor with the iPad launch in January last year. Later the same A4 Chip was used in the iPhone 4, fourth generation iPod touch and second generation Apple TV. [Read More]
New Multi-Touch Gestures for iPad Apple has started seeding the iOS 4.3 beta SDK to its developers with many new features. Among all the new features, most exciting features are the mobile hotspot feature as well as the new four/five finger multi-touch gestures on the iPad. The iOS 4.3 firmware will hopefully be released publicly [Read More]
