Reports are coming in of iPhone 4s overheating and experiencing severe battery problems after updating to iOS 4.3.1.

Some users started having problems with the iOS 4.3 update, and it hasn’t been resolved with the 4.3.1 update. The problem has been resolved for a few users by removing stale sync threads in Mail or by tracking down other apps, including Ping, which are sending or receiving large quantities of data while the iPhone is in standby.

Apple issued a warning about iPhones overheating due to external temperatures back in 2009, although this time no users report seeing the famous “iPhone needs to cool down…” image yet.

Are you having overheating and/or battery problems with your iPhone? Have you managed to fix the issues? Let us know in comments.

iPhone 4 overheating continues to plague some users originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There’s a very cool story over on the MediaShift pages of the PBS website about how a radio reporter has replaced almost all of his bulky radio equipment and with an iPhone 4.

Neal Augenstein started working for WTOP in Washington 14 years ago, when just his mobile phone weighed as much as a bowling bag, he says. Since then, the size of equipment has shrunk, and now he does almost all of his reporting with nothing more than his iPhone and a few other pieces of kit — some of them homemade.

Augenstein says, “with the Apple iPhone 4 and several apps, I can produce intricate audio and video reports, broadcast live, take and edit photos, write web content and distribute it through social media from a single device.”

He uses the VC Audio Pro app to edit his audio and the same company’s 1stVideo app to edit video captured on his iPhone. He often even uses the iPhone’s built-in microphone after the Blue Mikey model he used with his old iPhone 3GS wasn’t compatible with the new phone. Photos come courtesy of the built-in camera, which he edits by simply zooming and cropping in his Camera Roll then taking a screenshot to upload.

He also carries an iPad to take notes in press conferences while his iPhone is on a press conference podium — supported by a regular mike stand with a bit of foam padding.

You can see Neal in action here doing an interview with his iPhone, and you can listen to some of his audio via the station’s “As Heard on WTOP” pages here. It’s impressive how he’s reduced his equipment down to such basics, and it’s also impressive that the iPhone 4 can produce broadcast-quality media. Good work, chap!

Radio reporter uses iPhone 4 for all of his work originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As the App Store has matured, so have the apps on it — many iOS games today are complicated, deep affairs that require strategy and finesse. But sometimes you just want to kill zombies, and that’s what Van Pershing is all about. The title is a straight-up side-scrolling shooter. All you have to do in the game is move along, shoot a variety of weapons forward or backwards at different monsters and collect the loot that drops without dying. That’s it. The action’s simple, but the graphics are well-done, and there’s enough variety and upgrades to the weapons to keep it interesting as a simple arcade game.

There is one major issue: later in the game, the upgrades don’t quite come fast enough to stay alive, and unfortunately, there’s no default weapon or attack to use; once you’re out of ammo with your various guns, you basically have to run for it and hope to survive. It’d be nice to introduce a little more skill to the game with some basic attack that you could use to get by enemies, even when you’re in trouble.

But until that point, the game’s fun and well-designed, with 40 different levels and a nice cartoony style. It also has full Game Center integration. There’s a free version to try out if you’re so inclined, but the full game is just a buck anyway. Give it a look if you just want a little straightforward shooting action.

TUAW’s Daily App: Van Pershing originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dear Aunt TUAW,

I keep hearing about applications like Skyfire working on the iPad so we can watch Flash video. But when I hop over to Hulu, it says I have to join Hulu Plus to view videos.

Why does Hulu act like this? What am I doing wrong?

Love,

Your nephew Chris W.

Continue reading Dear Aunt TUAW: Is Flash video working on iPad yet?

Dear Aunt TUAW: Is Flash video working on iPad yet? originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Most people know that there is a free Kindle app for iOS that will let you read books from Amazon’s Kindle store. Apple also offers a free iBooks app. Fewer people have heard of Project Gutenberg, where you can download over 30,000 free books, and fewer still have heard of the Magic Catalog from FreeKindleBooks.org.

The “Magic Catalog” isn’t where Harry Potter shops — it’s a “book” containing nothing except links to other books. You can use the search feature of your favorite e-book reader to look for books; with a few taps, you can have the new book on your iOS device without ever needing to go through iTunes and without spending a penny.

The easy way

If you already have the iBooks or Kindle apps installed, simply go to Magic Catalog on your iOS device and tap the appropriate link for whichever app you are using (MOBI Edition for Kindle, EPUB Edition for iBooks).

The slightly harder way

If, for some reason, you’d prefer to download the books to your computer and transfer them to your iOS device (or if you already have .epub, .mobi, or other e-books on your computer), you can do so using iTunes. If you have the Kindle app installed, it will appear under the “File Sharing” section in the “apps” tab, and you can add books there.

You may notice that iBooks does not appear in the “File Sharing” section. To transfer books to iBooks, simply drag to the “Library” section of your iTunes library (see this page at Apple.com for more details).

Two minor flaws

Kindle: When using the Magic Catalog with the Kindle app, you’ll find one glitch in the process. When you tap on a book in the catalog, the Kindle app opens a blank page with an arrow at the top left. You have to tap on that arrow to open the page in Safari, which will then show you a link to open the book in the Kindle app. Then when you go back to the Kindle app, you have to tap the “Done” button on the top right in order to see the new book. It’s a minor annoyance, at worst.

Kindle and iBooks: When you are on the web page to download the book, you will not see the name of the book; you’ll see something like “pg23.mobi” followed by the size and a button to open the book in the Kindle app (or iBooks if you have the EPUB version). Once you open the book in the appropriate application, it will show the correct name.

Magic Catalog brings free books to your iBooks or Kindle collection originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 04:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Possible confirmation of a Photo Stream service in iOS 5 has come after users spotted hidden references to the service inside the current version, iOS 4.3. We wrote about it a while ago here, but now a 9to5Mac reader has come across it while using a third-party app to browse his iPhone 4 photo albums.

The expectation is that Photo Stream will work for your photos in Photos.app the same way Playlists work for music in iTunes, allowing you to send albums of photos to friends. Its background appearance in iOS 4.3 may indicate that it was pulled at the last moment and will instead be part of the major iOS 5 upgrade, which is rumored to be out this fall.

Hopefully, Photo Stream will indeed make it into iOS 5. Sharing your photo albums via a revamped MobileMe with your friends and family, all in an easy-to-use Apple fashion, would be a great feature.

Photo Stream feature hints found in iOS 4.3 originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Minimalists looking for a task manager should take a closer look at TaskPaper for OS X, which is now on sale at US$4.99, a $25 discount off its normal $29.99. The app recently launched in the Mac App Store, and Hog Bay Software dropped the price for a limited time to celebrate TaskPaper’s debut. This $5 pricing will be available until Friday, April 8.

Developed by the same company that released WriteRoom, TaskPaper is a text editor-based task manager that mimics a handwritten list. If you are inspired to add an item to your growing to-do list, you only have to launch the app, type in your thoughts and hit Return to add it to your list. We have covered TaskPaper since version 1.0 and have been pleased with its simplicity and ease of use. If you have any interest in the application, grab it now before its price goes back up on Friday.

TaskPaper 2.2.3 in the Mac App Store with a big discount originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Major League Baseball Advanced Media is one of the most powerful developers on the App Store — every spring, when the new version of the MLB app arrives, the company picks up a sizable chunk of income just from the mobile app, not to mention the subscription service that fuels the live game streaming. Bob Bowman runs the company, and All Things Digital has a nice long interview with him about the app market and how Major League Baseball has taken advantage of mobile.

Straight off the bat (pun intended, sorry), he says that the company has seen a major difference between Android and iOS users: “The iPhone and iPad user is interested in buying content … that’s one of the reasons they bought the device. The Android buyer is different.” That’s interesting to hear — I’ve heard exactly the opposite from the makers of Pocket Legends, that Android users were more willing to spend in-app money than iOS users. We’re likely just talking about two different audiences here rather than different types of handset owners.

Bowman also says MLB is “living with” the 30 percent cut from Apple on its subscription income, but hopes that “over time, the margin will fall from 30 percent.” That’s a hope for a lot of subscription sellers on the App Store, and most of those are much smaller than the base MLB has built-up for itself on iDevices.

[via Edible Apple]

MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman talks about selling content on the iPhone originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPad 2 comes with the ability to mirror screen to an HD monitor or TV that supports HDMI or VGA using Apple’s Digital AV Adapter or VGA Adapter. But unfortunately this feature is “Officially” iPad2-only – but thanks to a jailbreak hack that lets you enable video mirroring on iPad 1.

A lesson at school. A presentation at work. Your favorite app on your HDTV. Now one iPad gets the attention of many on a big (and bigger) screen. And it’s a truly impressive performance.

Let’s enable video mirroring on iPad 1 iOS 4.3.1 using plist hack.

How to enable Video mirroring on iPad 1

Step 1

Jailbreak iPad 1 using one of the following guides:

• How to: Jailbreak iPad iOS 4.3.1 with PwnageTool 4.3
• How to: Jailbreak iPad iOS 4.3.1 with RedSn0w
• How to: Jailbreak iPad iOS 4.3.1 with Sn0wBreeze 2.5

Step 2

SSH into your jailbroken iPad 1. (How to: SSH into iPad);

Step 3

Navigate to system / library / coreservices / springboard.app and copy the K48AP.plist file on your computer;

Step 4

Edit K48AP.plist file with any plist editor and add the string display-mirroring boolean YES (see screenshot below). Then Save and close the file.

Step 5

Copy  the modified K48AP.plist file back to the iPad and restart the device;

Step 6

That’s it! Now enjoy video mirroring from ipad 1 to any Monitor or TV that supports HDMI or VGA using Apple’s Digital AV Adapter or VGA Adapter.

iPad 1 Video Mirroring demo video

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This is the “Soundplay” example. There are many ways to implement the sound in iPhone. I am going to show you the simplest way to play the sound.

Step 1: Open the Xcode and create a new Xcode project using View base application template. Give the application name “soundplay”. As shown in the figure below:

Step 2: Expand classes and notice Interface Builder created the SoundplayViewController.h and SoundplayViewController.m class for you. Expand Resources and notice the template generated a separate nib, SoundplayViewController.xib.

Step 3: In this application, we need to add two frameworks.So select Frameworks -> Add -> Existing Framework -> then select AVFoundation.framework and AudioToolbox.framework.

Step 4: We need to add sound files in the Resources folder. Give the name of the sound files “play.wav”.

Step 5: Open the SoundplayViewController.h file and we have to add IBOutlet UIButton *Soundstart to display the button and mention two IBAction to perform the given action. So make the following changes in the file.

Step 6: Double click the SoundplayViewController.xib file and after that make the following changes.
A) Open the view window, first drag the RoundRect Button from the library and place it to the view window and select the button.

B) Connect File’s Owner icon to two button and select “View”.
Once this is done, save the SoundplayViewController.xib file, close it and go back to the Xcode.

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

Step 8: Now build and run the code and view the Output in the Simulator.

You can download source code from here SoundPlay

Today, Elgato released version 1.2.3 of its iOS EyeTV software. Now available for download from iTunes, the $4.99 EyeTV app finally adds the highly-requested AirPlay support so many customers have been looking for.

EyeTV’s iOS app works with your home computer, allowing you to view programs recorded by hardware connected to your Macintosh. TUAW has extensively covered EyeTV’s hardware/software tuner solutions.

The new AirPlay feature allows you to transmit both live and recorded TV from your iPhone or iPad and route that video to Apple TV (or to third-party receiver applications that support the AirPlay protocol).

Now you can enjoy your TV recordings on the road, not only on your relatively small iPhone or iPad screen but also on any Apple TV/AirPlay receiver, with their large monitor and HDTV support.

EyeTV for iOS 1.2.3 released, introduces AirPlay support originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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One of the most popular music services, Pandora, has revealed that a federal grand jury is examining information sharing by mobile apps.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Pandora was served with a subpoena to produce documents relating to “information sharing processes of certain applications that run on the Apple and Android mobile platforms.” A Pandora spokesperson says it does not “believe the company is a target of the investigation”, and added “we believe that similar subpoenas were issued on an industry-wide basis to the publishers of numerous other smartphone applications.” That would make sense — if a grand jury were seeking information on what’s shared in iOS, it would look for information at multiple developers, including Pandora.

This latest action follows reports of a December class action suit against Apple and a number of App Store developers over the sharing of personal information with advertisers. Since grand jury proceedings are secret, it can’t be determined if the two actions are related.

[Via LoopInsight]

Pandora says grand jury looking into Apple and Android apps originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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One very popular and fun iPhone / iPad app that I love to use is Avatron Software’s Air Display. As we described in a First Look back in May of 2010, Air Display turns an iOS device into a small wireless monitor that can be used to display app windows from a Mac or Windows computer.

Now Avatron has made Air Display even more useful by creating a Mac app to do the same thing. Air Display for Mac (US$19.99 in the Mac App Store) is a bit more expensive than its iOS sibling, but it’s also more capable than the mobile device version — especially if you have a second Mac with a large screen.

Similar to Air Display for iOS, Air Display turns a Mac into a wireless display for extending the desktop of your other Mac or Windows computer. Air Display is available in the Mac App Store, and needs to be installed on the Mac that you want to turn into a secondary display. You then need to visit the Avatron website to download the host software for your primary computer. As noted, that computer can be either a Mac (running Snow Leopard) or a Windows PC (running XP, Vista, or 7). You do have to reboot the host computer during the installation process. The same host software works with both iOS and Mac extended displays.

Continue reading Air Display for Mac: Turn another Mac into an extended display

Air Display for Mac: Turn another Mac into an extended display originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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