Category: I-phone

My wife and I both have an iPhone and a Mac. We also have an Apple TV in our living room. However, sharing our iTunes content (movies, music, books, apps, etc.) between these devices can be tricky, especially since we regularly hot swap our Macs and iPhones for general purposes, depending on whatever device is nearer.

Thankfully, Apple has made this a whole lot easier with Home Sharing, particularly with the latest version in iOS 4.3. Using the same Wi-Fi connection, Home Sharing allows you to share all the media on the iTunes libraries in your home with each other, and with your iOS devices.

Here’s how to enable Home Sharing in your home.

First, make sure you have the latest version of iTunes on all the Macs in your home. Second, make sure you have the latest version of iOS on all the iOS devices in your home. Don’t forget this includes your Apple TV if you have one.

Once you’ve done all the updates, go to iTunes and enable Home Sharing by simply clicking on Advanced > Turn on Home Sharing. You’ll be prompted to enter your Apple ID (for complete instructions visit this Apple tutorial).

Now, enable Home Sharing on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad by tapping on Setting > iPod and entering the same Apple ID you used on your Mac under the Home Sharing heading (for complete instructions visit this Apple tutorial).

Make sure you also enable Home Sharing on your Apple TV by using the same Apple ID, too (for complete instructions visit this Apple tutorial).

The main thing to remember here is that you must use the same Apple ID when enabling Home Sharing on all the various devices in your household, otherwise it won’t work.

How to enable Home Sharing on Mac and iOS devices originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It may be one of the smallest countries in Europe, but Vaduz, Liechtenstein will soon host Apple’s largest European flagship Apple Store. The store, which will be located adjacent to the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein’s Museum of Modern Art) and open in September, will be even larger than London’s 28,000 square-foot Regent Street Apple Store, measuring 43,000 square feet.

The first floor will be dedicated to showcasing Apple products, while the second floor will be comprised of multiple Genius Bars and staffed by over 100 multilingual Geniuses.

The third floor will reportedly be an interesting mix of technology and art, including what might be a shared theater/gallery with the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein as well as a state-of-the-art digital library using iBooks sharing. The library was added to the plans at the last minute when Apple found out Liechtenstein is one of only two countries in the world with a 100 percent literacy rate (interestingly, this is probably the reason Apple is rumored to be requiring all future iBooks to be uploaded into the iBookstore in both English and Alemannic German).

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Apple set to open massive European flagship store in Liechtenstein originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hey, your kids are probably going to spend a lot of time in Apple Stores in the future, so why not get them started early with the new PLAYMOBIL[TM] Apple Store Play Set? ThinkGeek (purveyor of fine April 1 products such as Lightsaber Popsicles and Angry Birds Pork Rinds) is proud to bring you this fantastical set.

According to ThinkGeek, the set “introduces children to the magic of Apple technology.” There’s an entire two-level Apple Store staffed by PLAYMOBIL[TM] associates, with tiny demo tables filled with minuscule Apple gear, software shelves, and even the kid’s corner on the ground floor. Upstairs, there’s a Genius Bar and a Keynote Theater staffed by a mini Steve Jobs figure. The Store is designed so that you can use your own iPhone 4 as Steve’s screen in the theater, and there are simulated Keynote presentations available for download on the PLAYMOBIL[TM] website.

The officially-licensed store comes with over 60 accessories, and measures 28.3″ x 14.2″ x 15.7″ (72 cm x 36 cm x 40 cm). As if the coolness of the little PLAYMOBIL[TM] staffers isn’t enough, there’s even an optional Line Pack you can buy to stage your own Apple device launch parties. (See if you can spot Mini-Woz on his Segway!)

No word on availability. In the meantime, whet your appetite for playtime with a gander at our gallery!

PLAYMOBIL™ Apple Store Play Set: Ignite Apple fandom in your kids originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Photography Bay has posted a rather exciting video, taken at Adobe’s Photoshop World 2011 keynote, that demonstrates a “concept” Photoshop app for the iPad. Although you can already get Adobe’s Photoshop Express app for the iPad, what’s demoed in the video simply blows that out of the water.

With layers and filters, the video demonstrates manipulating multiple pictures without any lag or delay, and there’s a particularly nifty animation that reveals the layers you’re working with and how they all fit together. As Engadget points out, there’s no way of knowing whether these photos have been pixel-optimized for the demonstration or whether they’re straight RAW files, but either way, the demo’s got our fingers twitching for a go.

While there’s no word on a release date or even a title for the app, Adobe’s clearly investing some serious time into developing this technology for tablet devices. We look forward to seeing what comes of it!

Click here to go the video.

[Via Engadget]

Adobe demos Photoshop on the iPad originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There are many interesting, creative things you can do with a Mac mini, the over performing, underpraised hero of the Mac lineup. You can build it into your Millennium Falcon, good for shaving a parsec or two off the Kessel run; you can install Snow Leopard Server edition and use it to run your Facebook-beating social networking website; or, if you’re really, really creative, you can install it in your 2001 Chevy Tahoe and use it to shred phone books.

Of course, using it for phone book destruction requires that you use only certain values of the terms ‘interesting’ and ‘creative,’ values nearer the shallower end of the gene pool than when using it to control your Millennium Falcon.

But still. I’m sure a Windows-based ICE system wouldn’t have shredded that phone book nearly as well. Watch the video (sorry about the music) and let us know if you can think of an even better use for a Mac mini in the comments below.

Mac mini-powered car stereo hates phone books originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I got to see the Trainz Simulator in action at GDC this year. The Trainz series of software is extremely popular on the PC, and the company released an iPad version a little while ago to pretty high acclaim. I will admit to knowing nearly nothing about trains, either the real or the miniature kind (though I did have a small set as a kid), but I have to say I was impressed by the variety of the options available on the iPad version — you can create a full virtual train set, from locomotive to caboose and even the buildings and scenery around it, completely within the touch interface of the iPad.

It’s pretty impressive. If you’re not already schooled in the way of the model train, you might even be a little overwhelmed with all of the options available. But it is a fun way to play around with model trains without spending a ton of money on actual train items, and since the new version is coming out soon on the PC (Trainz 12 is due out in mid-April), the iPad version is on sale this weekend for just US$0.99. At that price, it’s cheap enough to just download and see what you think of all the tools available for building up your own train set.

TUAW’s Daily App: Trainz Simulator originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple has unveiled a revolutionary new product that promises to change the way we travel forever. Dubbed iWarp, Apple’s latest creation is a matter-antimatter reactor only one inch thick that can transport a crew of seven humans to Alpha Centauri and back on a single charge.

“For decades, we’ve been stuck in low Earth orbit in big, clunky spaceships. They were slow, expensive, unreliable and just not a whole lot of fun to fly. But the iWarp changes all of that. It’s interstellar travel for the rest of us,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs told reporters and tech bloggers gathered at Apple’s “data center” in North Carolina. That data center has in fact turned out to be a state-of-the-art advanced physics research facility where, over the past few years, Apple’s engineers have learned to harness Jobs’ famous Reality Distortion Field for practical applications.

“The iWarp is incredible, but it’s also very simple,” Jobs said in a brief demo. “After inserting a small amount of fuel, the user simply taps a destination on the attached Retina Display — which supports full Multi-Touch capabilities — and BOOM. iWarp does the rest.” Jobs and the assembled reporters then travelled to the Zeta II Reticuli star system, a distance of 12 parsecs, in a matter of seconds.

“And the best part is this,” Jobs said after pressing the “Home” button and bringing the awed assembly of reporters back to Earth. “We’re selling the iWarp at a price we think our competitors won’t be able to match: $999. iWarp comes in black or white, and it’ll be shipping in white from day one.”

Critics from the Android camp have already dismissed the iWarp as a “toy.” Andy Rubin in particular has lambasted Apple for its “closed ecosystem,” saying that “users can’t input their own space-time coordinates on the iWarp. You can only choose from Apple’s pre-approved star systems. This creates a ‘walled garden’ approach to interstellar travel, which doesn’t benefit users as much as Android’s open model.” When asked when Google expects to deliver a competitive Android-based device, Rubin replied, “We expect to have the Licorice version of Android ready to go in early 2012, but it’ll be up to the starship manufacturers if they want to support it.”

In a typically terse response to an email criticising Apple’s “closed” approach to interstellar travel, Jobs pointed out that “Without precise calculations, you could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova. And that’d end your trip real quick, wouldn’t it?”

Apple debuts iWarp: ‘Interstellar travel for the rest of us’ originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I liked Viber when I tested it several months ago. It’s an iPhone VoIP app that allows free phone calls to any phone that has the app installed. I thought the terrific audio quality, lack of ads and ease of setup were all positives.

Viber has been updated today to version 2.01 with free text messaging to all your Viber contacts. There are also notifications for incoming text messages, and the app has some small GUI improvements. Although Viber currently does not support the iPad or iPod touch, the developers say that is “almost here.”

Viber Media claims the app has had more than 10 million downloads. The app requires iOS 3.1 or greater. There will be Android and BlackBerry versions, but those apps have been promised for several months and are no-shows so far. The app works on both Wi-Fi and 3G networks, and best of all, it’s free.

Viber for iPhone updated with free text messaging originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There is, it has to be admitted, a market for diamond-encrusted Apple products. Having the good taste to buy something magical and revolutionary doesn’t necessarily mean you have good taste full stop.

So, for those of you with more (way, way more) money than sense who live at the blingier end of the Apple marketplace, we present the ZShock Lunatik iPod nano watch case (the clue’s in the name). Yes, for a mere US$18,000 and a three- to four-week wait, ZShock will “hand-set the diamonds into pave settings on the white gold watch case” of your iPod nano watch, Boy Genius (who seems to quite like this, strangely) tells us.

Is it just me or does the nano in this picture look sort of embarrassed?

Diamonds plus nano plus watch equals this $18k monstrosity originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Eric Jackson at Forbes has written a piece with some astounding numbers about Apple’s business in China. Most impressively, Jackson thinks that because of Apple’s China business, Apple shares will hit $547 per share by January 2012, which is only nine months away. That’s an impressive upswing from AAPL’s closing price of $348.51 yesterday.

Jackson opines that Apple’s four current Chinese Apple stores bring in US$1.3 billion per year, per store. With Apple set to open as many as 25 retail stores in China, and the Chinese “gaga for Apple,” that means Apple’s Chinese retail stores alone could draw in another US$32bn a year for the company. That’s not counting iPhone sales through carrier stores, Apple’s online China store or Cybermart, Apple’s largest third-party retailer (owned by Foxconn). Cybermart has only 34 retail outlets today, but it’s planning on building up to 500 locations in the future, each with its own special Apple Shop within the store (much like Best Buy’s Apple Shop store-within-a-stores).

With the second largest economy on the planet, it’s no wonder that Jackson sees China as key to Apple’s future growth. And it’s likely that China will propel Apple to its first $100bn+ net revenue fiscal year ever when Apple’s fiscal year ends in September.

Disclaimer: The author holds a position in AAPL. TUAW does not provide investment advice; consult an expert before buying or selling equities.

Forbes: China growth will propel AAPL shares to $547 in the next nine months originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The magical, revolutionary iPad is not just in and of itself magical and revolutionary, of course; it also inspires people to be magical and revolutionary, as in this marvellous stop-motion video of a plasticine iPad produced by 26-year-old Ukrainian Svetlana Shokhanova. It was made for the “Post Digital Brief at the British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow), Interactive and New Media course.” We really love this.

Of course, as commenters say on YouTube, a plasticine iPad does have its advantages-while it has a pretty lousy FPS, it can be jailbroken with Play-Doh. Read on for the video (as commenters note, it looks even better in YouTube 1911 mode).

[Via Mashable]

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Stop-motion iPad also magical, revolutionary originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Time Warner’s TWCable TV app has been forced to drop several channels after some programmers demanded it do so. The app allows Time Warner subscribers to watch TV shows on their iPads without paying any additional fees, and that “no additional fees” part is apparently what some programmers weren’t okay with.

Time Warner’s email to customers detailing the change is full of some great zingers against the programmers who forced this change upon it, and we’ve reprinted some of them on the next page. Meanwhile, the following channels have been removed from Time Warner’s app:

• Discovery channels: Animal Planet, Discovery, TLC
• Fox channels: FX, National Geographic
• Viacom channels: BET, CMT, Comedy, MTV, Nickelodeon, Spike, VH1

Time Warner assures its customers that no other channels are expected to be dropped, and it’s working to add channels to replace those it’s been forced to remove.

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Time Warner Cable iPad app drops channels under programmer pressure originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ngmoco has surprised us with some updates. Rolando and its sequel Rolando 2 have both been updated for the iPhone 4’s Retina Display and have had a few bug issues fixed. To celebrate the update, they’re both on sale for just US$0.99. Either one of these is a bargain at that price. They’re both very solid, original platformers, designed specifically for the iOS system.

What’s most interesting about this, though, is that Ngmoco has updated these at all. Rolando was one of the first big titles for the now gigantic iOS developer, but when Ngmoco moved into the We Rule freemium model, the Rolando series was more or less abandoned in favor of games that could use more microtransactions and attract more “DAUs” (daily active users). A lot of Rolando fans were disappointed with that direction, though Ngmoco’s We Rule and other freemium games have seen plenty of success anyway.

Rolando creator Simon Oliver’s HandCircus has been working on a PSN game instead, but maybe with these updates, there’s a possibility we could finally see Ngmoco return to the little rolling hero and his series.

Rolando and Rolando 2 updated with Retina Display, on sale now originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This is the “TableView” example. There are many ways to display the “TableView” in iPhone. I am going to show you the simplest way to execute the TableView.

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

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

Step 3: Open the TableViewViewController.h file and make the following changes in the file.

Step 4: Double click the Table_ViewViewController.xib file and after that make the following changes.
A) Open the view window, first drag the table view from the library and place it to the view window and select the table.

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

Step 5: If you want to add some image in table, then you have to go to Resources folder and add image in resource folder.

Step 6: Open the TableViewViewController.m file and make the following changes in the file.

Step 7: Now build and run the code and view the Output in the Simulator.

You can download source code from here TableView

This is going to make our readers in The Natural State very happy. Apple is set to open its first retail store in Arkansas. The store will be located in The Promenade at Chenal Mall in Little Rock, reports ifoAppleStore. While there is no hard opening date yet, all signs point to an October launch.

In 2007, a year before the Chenal Mall opened, “Apple” was listed as a tenant, but the store failed to materialize by the time the mall opened in 2008, despite Apple filing for a building permit in November 2007 and posting job listings in January 2008. However, after new job postings for the Little Rock Apple Store surfaced last week, it appears the store is back on.

After the opening of the Arkansas store and a store in Anchorage, AK in September, as MacRumors notes, there will only be six states in the US still without an Apple retail store: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Arkansas to get its first Apple Retail Store originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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