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Enjoy Live XM in Your Vehicle Using the iPod Touch or iPhone

Adrian — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:57:45 +0000

Sirius XM Radio presented today XM SkyDock, the first satellite radio controlled by an iPod Touch or iPhone using the new hardware control capabilities of iPhone OS 3.0.

Bob Law, Group Vice President and General Manager, After Market Division, SIRIUS XM Radio presents their new product: “XM SkyDock will allow millions of users to add live SIRIUS XM Radio capability to their iPod touch or iPhone while in their vehicle. XM SkyDock makes their favorite programming from XM and ‘The Best of SIRIUS’ available to iPod touch and iPhone users anywhere they drive, coast to coast.”

Installing XM SkyDock in your vehicle is very easy, thanks to PowerConnect technology. An Aux In Cable is a standard in-box accessory to facilitate Aux In connections in vehicles with Aux In capability. SkyDock’s flexible stalk optimizes the iPod touch or iPhone placement in the vehicle. Accessories include Magnetic Mount Antenna and spacers to accommodate the various iPod touch and iPhone product generations

Using SIRIUS XM Premium Online App you can receive SIRIUS XM’s Premium Internet service on your iPhone and iPod touch everywhere: at home, in your car or at the office.

You can use XM SkyDock on your iPod Toch (1^st generation or 2^nd generation), iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. Don’ t forget that you must have iPhone OS 3.0 or later installed.

XM SkyDock will be available at the price of $119.99 MSRP.

Apple releases fix for Wi-Fi or Bluetooth with iPhone or iPod touch

Adrian — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:20:09 +0000

Last week, a number of IPhone 3GS users reported inconsistent data speeds. Although they had full signal strength, the transmission speeds are inconsistent, and oftentimes exceedingly slow.

Today Apple released a Knowledge Base document with the fixes for the problems. According to Apple, the fixes are for the following symptoms:

The device shows no Wi-Fi address or Bluetooth address (Tap Settings > General > About and scroll down to Wi-Fi Address or Bluetooth).
iPhone or iPod touch appears to be connected to a Wi-Fi network but cannot use Wi-Fi for checking email, surfing the Internet, or other data transactions.
iPhone or iPod touch showing Wi-Fi or Bluetooth icon on device as grayed out.
iPhone not able to pair with Bluetooth device or accessory.
When you tap Settings > Wi-Fi and then tap > next to the network, no values or entries for IP Address, Subnet Mask, Router, or DNS appear.

First step is to reset your network settings. Go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings. After you have done that if there is a Wi-Fi address and a Bluetooh address, the problem is solved. If not, folow the next step.

Next step is to reset and erase all content and settings. Do that in Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings. If you have Wi-Fi or Bluetooth address, don`t forget to resync your settings and your media using iTunes.

The third step is to restore the iPhone or iPod touch software (this erases all data on the device) using iTunes. After that, sync your previous settings (mail settings, text messages, notes, call history, contact favorites, and so on).

The fourth step is the most painful. Go with your device to an Apple service because it needs to be repaired.

eBuddy for IPhone and IPod Touch

Adrian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:59:47 +0000

eBuddy launched today their application for IPhone and IPod Touch. If you didn’t know, eBuddy is a mobile application that combines your IM accounts (MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk, ICQ and AIM) with social network accounts (Facebook, MySpace).

eBuddy for IPhone offers a complete, smooth chat experience for IPhone! Stay online when you get a phone call or when you go back to the Home screen. Also if you quit the application, you can be notified about new messages using push notifications. This feature can only be used only if you have installed version 3 of the IPhone OS.

Using eBuddy you can have one single buddy list with all your friends from multiple accounts. You can choose which IM account you want to sign in automatically or sign in with all accounts at once. If you lost the connection, eBuddy will reconnect you and you will get the messages that were sent when you were offline.

eBuddy can be customized, if you don’t like the default settings. You can change the language for the application because eBuddy supports multi-lingual chatting. Express yourself in your chat using emoticons or sending buzzers. To send a buzzer, shake your IPhone or IPod Touch.

To navigate between chat conversations wipe your screen horizontally.You will be able to get notifications, when your buddy is typing and when you receive new messages from other friends, in the chat screen.

Download now eBuddy for IPhone from the App Store.

iPhone App Store turns one year old today

Adrian — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:30:26 +0000

Today we have a reason to celebrate. Apple’s App Store turns one year old. It seems that only yesterday we were excited with news of the opening, feeling like kids entering a brand new toy store with a lot of cool stuff. The idea of applications stores is not a new one, but Apple gave it a new spin. They made the App Store easy to use and accessible from one’s iPhone. People started to enjoy their mobile device with all the surprising uses provided by different applications.

The success of the Apps Store didn’t go unnoticed as operators, mobile phone makers and independent companies began implementing this concept by building stores that can be accessed from mobile phones and that offer wireless downloads. For the Blackberry platform, RIM put into action the App World and for the phones that use Windows Mobile, Microsoft launched its own application store. Not wanting to fall behind, Nokia was urged to “open” its, much smaller, Ovi Store.

To appreciate just how popular the App Store really is, you just have to remember that in April it reached a huge number of downloads: a billion. Considering that it was in existence for less than a year, this is a huge accomplishment.

We have to acknowledge the App Store’s influence on the mobile device platform. It shaped the way we look at our mobile phones and especially our iPhones.

New features for MobileMe

Adrian — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:27:19 +0000

MobileMe is a service from Apple that pushes new email, contacts, and calendar events over the air to all your devices. So your iPhone, Mac, and PC stay in perfect sync. No docking required. And that’s just one of many ways MobileMe simplifies your life.

Apple released today a new version of MobileMe which comes with new features and more improvements. Most of the improvements are for version 3.0 of IPhone OS or for IPhone 3GS.

Now you can access help directly from me.com toolbar. In Gallery, IPhone 3GS can publish videos to a Gallery album, but if there is no Gallery album, an album is created automatically. In Mail when you forward or reply to an HTML or rich text message, the text maintains the original formatting. A new features added in Mail is that the number of unred messages is now shown next to Inbox or next to every folder.

The improvements for Push Contacts and Push Calendar require IPhone OS 3.0. If you want to delete a MobileMe account or turn off contact and calendar sync on iPhone/iPod touch, a copy of the data will be kept on the device. Another great improvement is that now you can keep ringtone associations when you synchronize your device with Mobile Me.

If you lose your IPhone you can locate it on me.com, send a message to display on the screen or you can delete your data from IPhone.

MobileMe Control Panel for Windows supports syncing of contacts, calendar, and bookmarks when connecting to the Internet via a proxy server.

IPhone 3.1 beta SDK available for download

Adrian — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:28:28 +0000

Today, the developers enrolled in the iPhone Developer Program received an email that said:

“iPhone SDK 3.1 beta and iPhone OS 3.1 beta are now posted to the iPhone Dev Center. These versions are for development and testing only and should be installed on devices dedicated to iPhone OS 3.1 beta software development. Please read the iPhone OS Pre-Install Advisory and the iPhone SDK 3.1 beta release notes before downloading and installingUse the Apple Bug Reporter if you discover compatibility or functionality issues while testing with the iPhone OS 3.1 beta release.”

One of the changes in IPhone OS3.1 beta is that you have a “Save a Copy” option For IPhone 3G S. If you want to edit a film, now you can first save a copy of the original movie. Also MMS function for AT&T carrier is activated, but is not fully functional.

Warning: if your device is unlocked using ultrasn0w’s software DO NOT UPGRADE because you will lock your IPhone. You should wait until version 3.1 will be final and then another ultrasn0w software will be released.

If you want to test IPhone OS 3.1 enroll in “The iPhone Developer Program” which provides a complete and integrated process for developing, debugging, and distributing your free, commercial, or in-house applications for iPhone and iPod touch. The registration fee is 99 dollars for the standard program and 299 for the enterprise one.

New versions of Skype for Windows Mobile and IPhone

Adrian — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:40:31 +0000

Skype launches today two new versions: 3.0 for Windows Mobile and 1.1 for IPhone/IPod Touch.

The new client for Windows Mobile includes two new great features: sending files and sending text messages (SMS). You can now use your windows mobile device to send spreadsheets, photos, music and other files to other mobile devices or to a computer.

Using the SMS feature you can send text messages to mobiles abroad at Skype’s low rates which are, sometimes, lower than your carrier’s rates. And if you are travelling abroad, you can avoid roaming charges by sending text messages from WI-FI zones.

To install Skype 3.0 you must have a compatible device with Windows Mobile Professional or Windows Mobile Standard versions 5, 6 and 6.1. You need a minimum 12MB of free storage memory on your device to install Skype or 6MB free if you are installing from a memory card.

Good news for IPhone/IPod Touch users. Version 1.1 is available for download from iTunes or from the App Store. Beside some improvements to the look and feel, particularly when calling phones using the dial pad, now you can listen to your Skype voicemail while you’re on the move, as well as send text messages to friends and family around the world.

Skype for IPhone/IPod Touch is available in the following languages: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish and Traditional Chinese as well as English.