The first OTA update for iOS5 is here – iOS 5.0.1

Apple released iOS 5.0.1 through iTunes and then over-the-air shortly after. This is the first public OTA update Apple has done.

In the past the fact that you had to use a PC to update your wireless devices was a major gripe among iOS users. While Google has always used wireless updates to keep Android up-to-date, Apple preferred to require a connection to a computer to do an update. With that said, Apple devices generally have the updated version of the operating system where a large majority of Android devices are using an older version of the OS.

To update your iOS device wirelessly simply go to Settings > General/Software Update, on this screen you will be presented with any and all available updates.

Advanced iOS App Logging For Easier Desktop And Even In-App Debugging

Sometimes you need to go beyond the basic logging provided by NSLog statements when debugging your apps.

This is where more the more advanced logging utilities that I’m going to mention are very handy to have around.

The first tool I’m going to mention is NSLogger which provides advanced desktop and browser viewing of log information within a very usable interface.

Here’s a brief summary of what this tool provides taken from the Github page:

NSLogger is a high performance logging utility which displays traces emitted by client applications running on Mac OS X or iOS (iPhone OS). It replaces your usual NSLog()-based traces and provides powerful additions like display filtering, image and binary logging, traces buffering, timing information, etc.

And the feature list:

– View logs using the Mac OS X desktop viewer, accept connections from local network clients (using Bonjour) or remote clients connecting directly over the internet
– Online (application running and connected to NSLogger) and offline (saved logs) log viewing
– Buffer all traces in memory or in a file, send them over to viewer when a connection is acquired
– Secure logging (connections use SSL by default)
– Advanced log filtering options
– Save viewer logs to share them and/or review them later
– Export logs to text files
– Open raw buffered traces files that you brought back from client applications not directly connected to the log viewer

You can download NSLogger on Github here.

The second tool I’ll mention is iConsole. iConsole provides in app log viewing, and simple debugging features.

The iConsole is a simple, pluggable class to enable more useful in-app logging for your iPhone apps. It enables you to check error and crash logs within a built application without needing to connect to the Xcode debugger. It also allows non-technical beta testers of your applications to submit log information to you easily.

I haven’t had a chance to test iConsole out, but it sounds like a very handy library.

You can find the Github repository here with more details and installation info.

Two very handy open source projects to help  in chasing those “impossible to find” bugs.

Source: Alex Curylo

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Touch Function in iPhone

In this application we will see how to multiple images moved using touch function. So let see how it will worked.

Step 1: Open the Xcode, Create a new project using View Base application. Give the application “TouchFunction”.

Step 2: Xcode automatically creates the directory structure and adds essential frameworks to it. You can explore
the directory structure to check out the content of the directory.

Step 3: Expand classes and notice Interface Builder created the ViewController class for you. Expand Resources
and notice the template generated a separate nib, TouchFunctionViewController.xib for the TouchFunction
application.

Step 4: we need to add resources in the application.

Step 5: Open the TouchFunctionViewController.h file and make the following changes:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface TouchFunctionViewController : UIViewController {
IBOutlet UIImageView *image;
IBOutlet UIImageView *image1;
IBOutlet UIImageView *image2;
IBOutlet UIImageView *image3;
IBOutlet UIImageView *image4;
}
@end

Step 6: Double click the TouchFunctionViewController.xib file and open it to the interface builder. First select the
view and bring up Attribute Inspector and change the background color. First drag the five ImageView from the
library and place it to the view window. Select the Image Views from the view and bring up Attribute Inspector and
select the litchi.png, raspberries.png, starfruits.png, apple.png,orange.png images. Connect File’s Owner icon to the
image views and select image, image1,image2, image3, image4. Now save the .xib file, save it and go back to the
Xcode.

Step 7: Open the TouchFunctionViewController.m file and make the following changes:

#import "TouchFunctionViewController.h"
@implementation TouchFunctionViewController
– (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
// get touch event
UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject];
CGPoint touchLocation = [touch locationInView:self.view];
if ([touch view] == image) {
image.center = touchLocation;
}
else if ([touch view] == image1) {
image1.center = touchLocation;
}
else if ([touch view] == image2) {
image2.center = touchLocation;
}
else if ([touch view] == image3) {
image3.center = touchLocation;
}
else if ([touch view] == image4) {
image4.center = touchLocation;
}
}
– (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
[super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
}
#pragma mark – View lifecycle
– (void)viewDidUnload
{
[super viewDidUnload];
}
– (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
// Return YES for supported orientations
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}
@end

Step 8: Now Compile and run the application on the Simulator.

You can Download SourceCode from here

Estonian Hackers target iTunes users in ‘Clickjacking’ ring

Wired has an interesting report on a clickjacking scheme that hijacked prominent websites including iTunes and the IRS. The scheme was run by six Estonians and one Russian operating out of Eastern Europe. The team created several fake companies, including a bogus advertising agency, which were paid for each click on an advertisement or a visit to a website. The criminals then setup a network of malware infected computers that hijacked internet links.

The malware, called DNSChanger, would modify the DNS settings of infected computers and redirect them to a DNS server controlled by the criminals. This DNS server would then bring infected users to websites that would pay the suspects for each visit.

Infected users visiting iTunes, for example, would be directed to www.idownload-store-music.com and the suspects would be paid for each visit. The malware infected 4 million computers worldwide and a half million in the US. The scheme was in operation for almost four years and netted the criminals over US$14 million before they were caught.

Estonian Hackers target iTunes users in ‘Clickjacking’ ring originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The man who provided Siri’s voice in the UK

Despite Apple’s request that he remain anonymous, British voiceover artist Jon Briggs revealed to The Telegraph that he is the voice of Siri in the UK. Briggs received a call from an Apple PR representative last month after the iPhone 4S was launched, and was told that he should not talk publicly about Siri.

Briggs was told by the PR rep that Apple employees were not authorized to discuss products. He responded by noting that he had recorded over 5,000 sentences over three weeks for a company called Scansoft. That company merged with Nuance, which provides the voices for Siri. As a result, Briggs had never had a contract with Apple, which is why he’s gone public.

When Briggs was doing the recordings, he was told to speak a very specific way, reading “flat and even.” The recordings were then ripped apart to grab specific phonics to build the voice file that is used in Siri in the UK. Those phonics allow Siri to speak just about any word, even if Briggs hasn’t recorded a specific word.

Briggs’s Siri persona is also used to create announcements at the Kings Cross railway station in London, and is heard in other applications as well. UK readers may also recognize him as the voice in the BBC quiz show The Weakest Link.

The man who provided Siri’s voice in the UK originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Conde Nast Britain gives subscribers free iPad access

Condé Nast Britain has begun to provide existing print subscribers with access to equivalent digital editions on the iPad at no cost. According to an article published on the UK Association of Online Publishers website, Apple’s Newsstand app has increased the issue sales of British GQ by 94%, Wired UK by 169%, and Vanity Fair by a whopping 245% over the average sales per day in September.

Digital Director of Condé Nast Britain Jamie Jouning said that “Our existing readers will benefit from the ease of access to subscribe, while the prominent inclusion of our brands in Newsstand will allow an even higher level of ‘discoverability’. Ultimately this should lead to greater subscription growth.”

The magazines take advantage of the feature of Newsstand that automatically updates digital editions in the background as new issues are published. Vogue will be adding a digital edition at the beginning of December, after having two very successful iPad editions in the past.

Conde Nast Britain gives subscribers free iPad access originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iOS 5.0.1 now available for download (Updated)

The first update to iOS 5 is now available for download. iOS 5.0.1 has been released, and will be making its appearance on your iOS devices shortly.

To install the update, launch the Settings app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, tap General, and then open Software Update. If the update has made it to your part of the world, you’ll be able to do an OTA (over-the-air) update of your device without resorting to the old method of syncing it to your Mac or PC.

Here’s what Apple says the update will do for your device:

iOS 5.0.1 Software Update

This update contains improvements and other bug fixes including:

o. Fixes bugs affecting battery life
o. Adds Multitasking Gestures for original iPad
o. Resolves bugs with Documents in the Cloud
o. Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation

Products compatible with this software update:

o. iPhone 4S
o. iPhone 4
o. iPhone 3GS
o. iPad 2
o. iPad
o. iPod touch (4th generation)
o. iPod touch (3rd generation)

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

Update: Here are direct links for downloading the update if you’re anxious to get the jump on the iOS 5.0.1 update (courtesy of Macstories.net):

iOS 5.0.1 build number 9A405

iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4 GSM
iPhone 4 CDMA
iPhone 4S
iPad
iPad 2 (also iPad 2 AT&T and iPad 2 Verizon)
iPod touch 3rd gen
iPod touch 4th gen

iOS 5.0.1 now available for download (Updated) originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AT&T still top iPhone carrier in US

It’s a three-way battle in the US for the iPhone and AT&T is keeping its lead as the #1 iPhone carrier, says data from analytics firm Localytics. Localytics collects device and carrier information from 1,500 mobile applications including those from Skype, Turner Broadcasting and News Corporation.

The most recent data shows that AT&T accounts for 56% of iPhone 4S handsets on its network of applications. Verizon is in second with 32%, a surprisingly high percentage for a carrier that’s only had the iPhone for less than a year. All those who bought the iPhone 4 earlier this year are still under contract which suggests most 4S owners are new Verizon iPhone owners who waited for the 4S. Sprint, which just launched the iPhone on its network in October with the 4S, accounts for 12% of Localytics measured traffic.

AT&T is also the leader for the iPhone 4 with 60% of the iPhone 4 traffic, a number that is down slightly from the 68% recorded earlier this year. This dominance is expected as AT&T has sold the iPhone almost twice as long as Verizon. AT&T started carrying the iPhone 4 sixteen months ago in June 2010 and is selling millions each quarter. Verizon is also selling millions each quarter, but it introduced the handset a relatively short nine months ago.

Time is only one factor helping AT&T keep its lead. A higher-than-expected retention rate is also contributing to AT&T’s dominance. Even though AT&T customers could switch to Verizon (and now Sprint), many are choosing to stay with the carrier, despite its network woes. Localytics believes AT&T is aggressively targeting customers who are at the end of their contract and enticing them to upgrade instead of leave.

AT&T still top iPhone carrier in US originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Swivl iPhone mount follows your movements

Swivl is one of those iPhone accessories that catches your eye because it’s so different. It’s a cellphone holder with a motorized, swiveling base that tracks your movement. It has an external marker that you can wear or place on the moving object that you want to follow. And it doesn’t move just left or right, it also tracks up and down. It’s meant for recording hands-free video during those times when you just can’t sit still and need to move.

Swivl was developed by California company Satarri and was originally called the Star. It was initially funded through IndieGoGo, a community-based funding service similar to KickStarter. After eight months of refinement, Swivl is now available for pre-order at a very reasonable US$159. It will ship in 2012 and a working prototype will be on display at CES this coming January. If it’s anything like the video below, it’s going to be an excellent companion for the iPhone 4S.

Swivl iPhone mount follows your movements originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Auto-complete keyboard found in iOS 5

It seems iOS 5 is full of hidden “gems” (aka features Apple didn’t deem worthy of making publicly available yet), like the earlier panorama camera stitching feature. This time, hacker Sonny Dickson found an Android-like word suggestion bar tucked away in iOS 5. Personally I’m not a huge fan of these, but some people feel it speeds up typing and is helpful. I think it takes up too much real estate and looks clunky.

There are instructions on how to enable this, and just like enabling the panorama mode you’ll be using iBackupBot to ensure you don’t louse anything up permanently, then editing a plist file in your Library. In our brief testing we found the feature crashed Notes and Mail, and wouldn’t show up in Safari, indicating it probably only works in Text Views, not Text Fields (like the Safari URL field).

Neat, but is it really necessary? Let us know in the comments if you’ll be enabling this feature on your iPhone or iPad.

Auto-complete keyboard found in iOS 5 originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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T-Mobile USA hurt by iPhone 4S sales

T-Mobile USA will soon feel the sting of being the only carrier in the US without the iPhone 4S. As part of its quarterly earnings report, T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm said the carrier is concerned about its churn rate in the important December quarter and how it may be affected by iPhone 4S launches at Verizon Wireless, Sprint and AT&T.

T-Mobile is currently the #4 wireless carrier in the US and is struggling to compete with its bigger rivals. This past quarter the carrier added 126,000 net customers but most of those were prepay customers. The carrier lost 186,000 important, revenue-generating contract customers. This number will likely go up in the current quarter now that the iPhone 4S is available. T-Mobile is not selling the iPhone 4S because its 3G network runs on 1700MHz AWS, a band that’s not supported by the iPhone.

Up-to-date sales numbers are not yet available, but all three carriers with the iPhone 4S report that the handset is selling well, and in the case of Sprint, is selling beyond expectation. We will have to wait until early next year to gauge the true impact, but it doesn’t bode well for T-Mobile. Also on the horizon for the wireless carrier is its impending merger with AT&T, another factor that may influence its ability to add new subscribers.

[Via AllThingsD]

T-Mobile USA hurt by iPhone 4S sales originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Steve Jobs nominated to be Time’s Person of the Year

CNET reports that Steve Jobs has been nominated to be Time’s Person of the Year for 2011. NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams nominated Apple’s founder and former CEO for the honor after citing the tremendous influence Jobs had in shaping the modern world.

If Jobs is selected, he would be the first posthumous Person of the Year. Other notable tech figures who have been granted the honor over the past few decades include Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in 2010, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos in 1999, the computer itself in 1982, and “you” in 2006. According to Walter Isaacson’s biography, at age 27 Steve Jobs believed he would be Time’s Person of the Year in 1982, and he was dismayed when “the computer” was selected instead.

Most other nominations for 2011’s Person of the Year are for movements rather than individuals. “Populists” are one such nomination, with notable examples including participants in the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and Tea Party movements. A strikingly similar nomination for “angry people” covers much of the same ground. Another individual nominated is Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation in Tunisia inspired the Arab Spring movement (another nominee who, if selected, would be the first posthumous honoree). US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has also been nominated.

Steve Jobs nominated to be Time’s Person of the Year originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Daily iPhone App: W.E.L.D.E.R.

WELDER is an interesting take on the word game “genre” for iOS — it is indeed a puzzle game where you need to make and spell words to score points, but this one is sort of a weird mix of Bejeweled and Scrabble (kind of like Bookworm, actually). You get a grid of letters (and some special blocks) on the screen, and you have to move those around in different ways to line up words and get the points rolling. The game isn’t actually timed, so the focus is all on making as many words as you can in as few moves as possible.

What makes the game so unique is its premise — not only does everything in the game window look great and “feel” real (even the points counter spins and dings as if it were an actual object), but the whole aesthetic behind the game itself, highlighted in this trailer (where the title is translated as Word Examination Laboratory for Dynamic Extraction and Reassesment) really puts a whole other level of polish and fun on the whole proceeding.

The game has some really nice extras as well, including the ability to look up any words in the iOS dictionary, share any really great spellings on Facebook or Twitter, and full Game Center integration, including a “Palindrome ranking.” WELDER is really unique, and if you like word games at all, you should give it a look. It’s available for half price during the launch period, as a universal app for only $1.99.

Daily iPhone App: W.E.L.D.E.R. originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Enable Autocorrect Keyboard bar in iOS 5 on iPhone 4S/4, iPad 2/iPad, iPod Touch

Among other secret features like Panorama Mode, iOS 5 also hides android-like aurtocorrect keyboard bar. This hidden aurtocorrect keyboard bar in iOS 5 activates a bar on top of your keyboard that…

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