Happy 10th Birthday, iTunes!

You’ve come a long way, baby. Back on your birthday on January 9, 2001 at Macworld Expo, you were just a music player and manager — the Apple-ized offspring of SoundJam MP, given a fresh face. Soon enough, though, you would become the conduit for iPod synchronization, the platform for music and video purchases, and now the landing zone for the iOS App Store.

Not bad for a ten-year-old. Even though we may tease you for your vanities and complain about your sluggish, do-everything approach, we still couldn’t do without you. Happy 10th birthday, iTunes!

Commenter Kevlar points to our rundown of the iTunes user interface from 1.0 to 7.0, here, and Twitter buddy MightyKenny points to a YouTube clip of the actual 2001 introduction; it’s embedded in the second half of this post.

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Redsn0w 0.9.7b6 Jailbreak Released, Fixes Skype Issues

Redsn0w 0.9.7b6, the untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak is now available for download. Redsn0w 0.9.7b6 fixes Skype issues on iOS device. The beta 6 of RedSn0w 0.9.7 is available for Mac OS X and requires iOS 4.2 beta 3 SHSH blobs.

The next release of RedSn0w 0.9.7 will add “iOS 4.1 Monte” to avoid iOS 4.2 beta 3 piracy. For now, RedSn0w is in beta testing phase.

From iPhone Dev Team blog,

The sixth beta is now available (testers ONLY please!). This version fixes Skype. Please do not pirate the 4.2b3 IPSW! Only those enrolled in the iPhone Developer program have legitimate access to that IPSW using these links (http://pastie.org/1403214) (the links won’t work unless you’re a legit developer currently logged in).

Unlike the last few betas, you can freely run beta6 over beta5 without a problem (but for testing purposes, we’d really like people to try both ways….from stock, and from already jailbroken).

Now that the sandbox, Bluetooth, and Skype issues are fixed, our next priority is porting Monte back to 4.1. We’ll also try to make the Windows version less painfully slow.

Download Redsn0w 0.9.7b6

Download Redsn0w 0.9.7b6 for Mac

Follow the guide linked below to untethered jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 with RedSn0w 0.9.7b6 (Skip Step 3):

Jailbreak iOS 4.2 untethered with RedSn0w 0.9.7b

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Core Animation Defining And Following Paths

It’s no secret that games such as the wildly popular Flight Control that allow a user to define a path, and then have an object follow that path have done well in the iOS app store.  Rightly so as these games allow users to interact with the game in a way that just wasn’t possible before the iPhone arrived.

I’ve mentioned Core Animation in the past, and recently came across an excellent tutorial displaying how to create a path with core animation, and create graphical objects that follow along that path.

Here’s a video of that tutorial in action:

The trick is to define a UIBezierPath, and use a CAKeyFrameAnimation which allows your layer to follow that path.  Full details can be found on the Mike Nachbaur’s site along with downloadable code:
Animating Interfaces With Core Animation Part 4

Definitely worth checking out if you were looking for a relatively easy way to do this.

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