Earlier today, Apple unveiled this year’s iPod refresh to the world. It was great to see Steve back, but he looks quite thin. We hope to see more of him in the future. In case you didn’t see the event, Engadget has a complete coverage of it here. There were no real surprises from the [...]
While the rest of the world is busy covering the announcements made by Apple this morning at its Rock’n Roll event, we bring our Canadian readers great news: Skype for iPhone is now available in Canada. Skype for iPhone allows you to perform PC-to-PC and PC-to-landline calling, but only over WiFi connections. I personally subscribe [...]
Update (9/2/2009): Nokia has since announced pricing for Booklet 3G. It will be available for 575 euros, or about $817 USD. Nokia announced its virgin entry into an already very crowded Netbook market this morning. The netbook is dubbed Nokia Booklet 3G. The mini laptop does have some differentiating features compared to other Netbooks that [...]
For all you vain people out there, Samsung has just introduced 2 cameras that will surely land on your Christmas wish list this year: TL200 and TL225. Both of these compact point-and-shoot digital cameras have a front-facing LCD so you can see what you are shooting at when you are taking self-portraits. Both cameras have [...]
Good news, Skratch List users! We have completed updating Skratch List to work with iPhone OS 3.0. As we said in a previous post, we want to apologize that Skratch List didn’t work after firmware 3.0 upgrade. Apple really screwed us on this one, as they completely changed many APIs. As a result, it led [...]
We want to apologize to those of you who have purchased Skratch List and have already updated to iPhone OS 3.0. We were naive to assume that Apple would keep a good level of compatibility between 3.0 and the previous OS versions. Boy, are we wrong. In the past week, reports of mysterious crashes and [...]
This past week, there have been renewed rumors of an upcoming Apple Tablet device. The rumors all agree on a 10” tablet device, multi-touch user interface and an approximate $800 price tag. Some claim that it will be released early next year, while some report that it may be available as early as September this [...]
The big buzz today in the tech world is that Google has announced that it is making their own operating system. A friend of SkratchBoard’s asked us to write a post on it, but why re-invent the wheel? Fake Steve Jobs already has written up a great post. We are quoting him below.
Today, Apple issued a press release, quoting company CEO Steve Jobs “Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning. With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.” Many interpret Jobs’s quote as a signal for his return to the company after his 6 months medical leave. Apple [...]
Apple’s keynote yesterday at WWDC gave us a mixed bag of goodies and disappointments. Goodies: Refreshed line of Macbook Pros at lower price points – faster, more memory, more space and cheaper! New iPhone 3G S – we knew this was coming. While it’s not a revolutionary by any means compared to the current iPhone [...]