iOS 4.3 Available March 11

Posted by LEI Mobile on Mar 2, 2011 in Apple TV, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch | 0 comments

Apple introduces iOS 4.3, the latest version of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system.

Key features:

• AirPlay enhancements—Stream additional content, including video from AirPlay-enabled apps and websites, videos from the Photos app, and previews from the iTunes app, to your HDTV.
• Faster Safari performance—The new Nitro JavaScript engine powering Safari runs JavaScript up to twice as fast for speedier page loads.
• iTunes Home Sharing—Play music, movies, and TV shows on iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch from your iTunes library on a Mac or PC over a local Wi-Fi network.
• iPad side switch—Configure the side switch in Settings to either toggle between locking the screen rotation or silencing the volume.
• Personal Hotspot for iPhone 4—Share an iPhone 4 cellular data connection with up to five devices in a combination of up to three Wi-Fi, three Bluetooth, and one USB device. Personal Hotspot for iPhone 4 requires a supporting hotspot carrier tethering plan.

Backup Your Application Data With AppBackup

Posted by LEI Mobile on Feb 7, 2011 in Applications, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Tutorials | 1 comment

AppBackup, developed by Scott Zeid, is a Cydia application that lets you backup and restore your application data on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. This includes saved settings, levels, achievements, etc. This is very handy if you are doing an upgrade to a new iOS firmware and want to setup your iDevice as a new device instead of restoring from a backup.
AppBackup DOES NOT back up the apps themselves, just the information they save like settings, game progress, etc.

How To Use AppBackup:

1.  Download it from Cydia and run the application.
2.  Backup individual apps or back them all up.
3.  Once you have backed up all the applications that you want. Use iFile or SSH into your iDevice and SAVE the folder AppBackup located at: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/AppBackup/ to you computer.
4.  Now you can restore or upgrade your iPhone and set it up as a new device. (setting up your device as a new device will fix battery issues you may be experiencing.)

5.  Download AppBackup from Cydia Again.
6.  Once you have your new device upgraded, put the AppBackup folder that you saved to your computer in the same location: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/AppBackup/
6.  Launch AppBackup and click restore all.

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[UPDATED 2X] iTunes 9.2 Now Available!

Posted by Alan Vazquez on Jun 16, 2010 in iPhone, iPod Touch | 2 comments

Hey guys, if you are anxious for iOS 4 like I am, you are going to need iTunes 9.2. Well, looks like Apple has just launched iTunes 9.2 for the public! You can now download it via Software Update on your Mac, or download it from Apple.com/iTunes if you are on a PC.

You can now update to iOS 4 if you have the leaked beta if you are on Windows XP/Vista/7.

So there you go guys! Just hang on, because Monday is just a few days away!

Here’s the full iTunes 9.2 change log:

iTunes 9.2 comes with several new features and improvements, including:

• Sync with iPhone 4 to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on-the-go

• Sync and read books with iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 and iBooks 1.1

• Organize and sync PDF documents as books. Read PDFs with iBooks 1.1 on iPad and any iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4

• Organize your apps on your iOS 4 home screens into folders using iTunes

• Faster back-ups while syncing an iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4

• Album artwork improvements make artwork appear more quickly when exploring your library

UPDATE 1: Looks like when you first open iTunes, it makes a new library file, also, it makes thumbnails of your album artwork. The artwork really loads a lot faster with no lag.

Also, it looks like Apple updated the iPhone 3G icon in iTunes. Now, the iPhone is turned on. Still doesn’t show home screen wallpaper. Does anyone with an iPhone 3G S have their icon with home screen wallpaper?

UPDATE 2: Looks like iTunes 9.2 is not Spirit friendly. You are fine if you want to jailbreak with the Pwnage Tool or redsn0w however. If you have already jailbroken your iDevice, you are fine, go ahead and update, however, you can’t rejailbreak with Spirit or jailbreak for the first time if you are on iTunes 9.2.

They are looking into a patch to fix this soon.

It’s Official: Apple Is Now Worth More Than Microsoft & Also World’s Biggest Technology Company!

Posted by Alan Vazquez on May 27, 2010 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

It’s official everyone! Apple, Inc. is now worth more than Microsoft! This is indeed a surprise. I anticipated this to happen, but not this soon. I expected this to happen in late-2010, but it looks like it’s that time.

Now, granted, it wasn’t so much Apple going up dramatically in value these lasts 60 days or so, it’s Microsoft that is tanking. Apple rose $10 Billion while Microsoft tanked with losses in over $40 Billion.

Now, this moment could last for a long time, maybe for good but, the margin is so small that anything could happen starting tomorrow morning. However, this comes to us as Apple flew past Walmart to take #3 and race to the top just a few weeks ago.

Right now, Apple’s valued at $222.12 Billion and Microsoft at $219.18 billion. The only American company valued higher is Exxon Mobil, with a market capitalization of $278.64 billion.

Apple is sure to take the #1 spot by 2011. Morgan Stanley predicts that Apple stock will reach over $310 a share by the end of fiscal year 2010!

This is amazing considering that Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy in the 1990s when Apple was without Steve Jobs. Apple has gone up while Microsoft has tanked. They are worth 1/2 of what they were worth in 2000, while Apple is many times bigger.

Steve Jobs has brought Apple from the ashes by creating the world’s bees music player, the world’s best computers, the world’s best mobile phone, and now, the world’s best tablet.

The fight has turned away from Apple vs. Microsoft, and is now heading for an Apple vs. Google fight. This is a fight for the future of technology. Apple wants apps and a marriage of hardware and software, while and Google wants everything in the cloud and on the web.

Here’s a fight that may involve Apple and Microsoft to start working together very closely to fight off Google, because regardless of how underwhelming Android is, it’s proving to be a real nuisance and Google is going to be a very worthy competitor.

Apple has the lead, but they have to really keep innovating or Google’s going to turn the tables on them like Microsoft took over the commuting industry and left Apple with a measly 6% market share.

What a journey. Congratulations Steve. I’m betting we’ll hear about this at WWDC and a big crowd cheering and laughing at Microsoft.

All I can say is, unless Microsoft can pull something amazing off, I have to say the following:

Microsoft is dead.

iPhone Voted #8 Most Important Invention In Human History

Posted by Alan Vazquez on May 22, 2010 in iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch | 5 comments

Well well, the Brits have sure stirred things up again and pissed off Google, Microsoft, and their poor confused followers (sorry Apple haters, I had to do it ).

In a survey of 4,000 British people, they ranked the top 100 most important inventions/creations in human history, now, some no brainers like the wheel, which was ranked #1, and I love the iPhone, iPod, and iPad and I agree that it’s one of the important inventions in human history, but ranked #8? Not sure that it’s ranked above flushable toilets, but hey, it’s all good still.

BTW, I love how the iPhone is more important than Google or Mobile Phones. Period. (Also, where’s the iPad? It’s “revolutionary” and “magical”) On a final note, finally, what about Apple? Apple has changed the world in the last 20 or 30 years and influenced every major piece of technology that we use today, keep that in mind…

Here’s the list:

1. Wheel
2. Aeroplane
3. Light bulb
4. Internet
5. PCs (Macs included)
6. Telephone
7. Penicillin
8. iPhone
9. Flushing toilet
10. Combustion engine
11. Contraceptive pill
12. Washing machine
13. Central heating
14. Fridge
15. Pain killers
16. Steam engine
17. Freezer
18. Camera
19. Cars
20. Spectacles
21. Mobile phones
22. Toilet paper
23. Hoover
24. Trains
25. Google
26. Microwave
27. Email
28. The pen
29. Hot water
30. Shoe
31. Compass
32. Ibuprofen
33. Toothbrush
34. Hair straighteners
35. Laptops
36. Knife and fork
37. Scissors
38. Paper
39. Space travel
40. Kettle
41. Calculator
42. Bed
43. Remote control
44. Roof
45. Air conditioning
46. SAT NAV
47. Wi-Fi
48. Cats-eyes
49. Matches
50. Power steering
51. Tumble dryer
52. Bicycle
53. Sky+
54. Tea bags
55. Umbrella
56. iPod
57. Taps
58. Crash helmet
59. Wristwatch
60. eBay
61. DVD player
62. Nappies
63. Ladder
64. Sun tan lotion
65. Lawnmower
66. Make-up
67. Chairs
68. Sunglasses
69. The game of football
70. Sliced bread
71. Sofa
72. Razor blades
73. Screwdriver
74. Motorways
75. Head/ear phones
76. Towels
77. Push-up bra
78. Binoculars
79. WD40
80. Mascara
81. Hair dryer
82. Facebook
83. Escalator
84. Hair dye
85. Wellington boots
86. Spell check
87. Calendars
88. Cheese grater
89. Buses
90. Post-it notes
91. Gloves
92. Satellite discs
93. Pedestrian crossing
94. Baby’s dummy
95. Curtains
96. Bottle opener
97. Food blender
98. Dustpan and brush
99. Desks
100. Clothes peg