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iPhone 5 to Have a Dual LED Flash?

Single (Left) vs Dual (Right) LED comparison with Nokia phones by Zomgitscj
Digitimes claims that the upcoming iPhone 5 will incorporate a dual LED Flash.

Recent market rumors have indicated that Apple's iPhone 5 is likely to come with a dual-LED flash with Taiwan-based LED packaging firms Everlight Electronics, Edison Opto and Lite-On Technology being pinpointed as potential suppliers. All related companies have denied they are involved in the production of dual-LED flashes.

The advantage of a dual LED flash appears to be brighter and more expansive lighting for your photographs. Back in 2008 Zomgitscj  showed differences between the dual LED flash and a single LED flash found on his Nokia N96 and Nokia N95. One is shown above but the site has several other examples for the phone at varying distances. 

We'd already seen rumors that Apple may be separating the Flash away from the camera sensor in the iPhone 5.

Evidence in iOS 5 that Apple is Building Its Own Mapping Solution

Despite statements by Google's former CEO that Apple had "just" renewed their Map partnership with Google, there appears to be evidence that Apple has been working on its own mapping solution in iOS 5. 

It's certainly no secret that Apple is actively working on some sort of mapping solution. In the past few years, Apple has acquired two mapping companies Placebase and Poly9. The company has also been actively recruiting for job applicants with navigation software experience and has even revealed work on a future crowds-sourced traffic database. 

Now, a look at the legal disclaimers found in iOS 5 reveal a new section called "Map Data". (full text) This section lists licenses from an extensive number of third party companies that provide mapping data and related services. 


This entire section is new in iOS 5's legal section and does not appear to be related to Google's own mapping data licenses. Google's own legal terms for their map data is distinct, and many of the companies do not overlap. In fact, one of the listed traffic-data companies is a competitor to Google's Maps. 

The companies listed in iOS 5's legal notices include the following diverse companies under the "Map Data" section: 

• CoreLogic offers Parcel data which marks boundaries for of properties to provide positional accuracy in location-based solutions. 
• Getchee provides location and market data on China, India and Southeast Asia. 
• Increment P Corp provides location and traffic data for Japan. 
• Localeze provides local business listings. 
• MapData Sciences Pty Ltd. Inc provides mapping data for Australia and New Zealand. 
• DMTI provides postal code data for Canada. 
• TomTom offers global TeleAtlas mapping data which is also licensed by Google for their map solution. 
• Urban Mapping provides in-depth neighborhood data such as crime, demographics, school performance, economic indicators and more. 
• Waze offers real-time maps and traffic information based on crowd sourced data. 

The last two companies are perhaps the most interesting. Urban Mapping offers extensive additional data over traditional mapping products. The company was even a partner of Placebase's back in 2007 before Apple's acquisition. Meanwhile, Waze seems to be exactly what Apple was talking about when they hinted at crowd-sourced traffic data. Waze offers mobile apps that can be used to send data back to a central database to show realtime traffic data. 

Given the news of Apple's recent agreement with Google, it may be that Apple's own solution wasn't ready for iOS 5, so we may have to wait a while before we see what Apple's been working on. 

50% of iPhones Brought to Genius Bar Have Never Been Synced

Fifty percent of iPhone owners who have iPhones swapped at the Genius Bar have never plugged them into a computer to backup or sync. That's according to a "little birdie" that former Macworld Associate Editor David Chartier (now at AgileBits) knows. It also suggests iCloud will save a lot of headaches and lost data. 

This is a big reason, according to this birdie, for why Apple Store Geniuses are excited about iCloud. 

Backupophobes can get away with never touching iTunes after activating an iOS device. But folks obviously need to plug them into some kind of power source to recharge which, combined with a reachable WiFi network, is what triggers iCloud's automatic backup feature. Sure, these customers can manually reinstall apps one by one from the store, but they have no way to recover any of their data or media purchased on the device. That holds true for contacts, too, if users didn't sign up for MobileMe or even Google's free (and, in my experience, terrible) contact sync.

Apple's iCloud, with automated wi-fi sync and instant backup to the cloud will be a welcome feature for those millions who never sync or backup their current iOS devices.

Jailbreak iOS 5 Tutorial

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Dev Team a  lansat redsn0w 0.9.8 beta 1 care face tethered jailbreak pentru iOS 5 beta 1 insa numai pe Mac OS X. Noua versiune a redsn0w NU face hacktivare deci va trebui sa aveti UDID-ul terminalului vostru inregistrat in contul unui dezvoltator de aplicatii pentru iOS. MuscleNerd avertizeaza utilizatorii care au iOS 5 instalat ca Cydia, mobilesubstrate plus alte aplicatii din iOS 5 nu functioneaza cum trebuie deci jailbreak-ul in sine va fi cel mai probabil ineficient deocamdata. Daca aveti nevoie de decodare NU faceti update la iOS 5!

redsn0w 0.9.8 beta 1 NU functioneaza cu Windows si probabil nici nu va functiona pana la lansarea versiunii finale a iOS 5 asa ca nu va asteptati la o versiune pentru Windows. redsn0w 0.9.8 beta 1 face jailbreak folosind bootrom exploit-ul din limeran si este compatibil cu :

• iPhone 3GS;
• iPhone 4;
• iPad 1;
• iPod Touch 3G;
• 4G.

Acest tutorial pleaca de la presupunerea ca aveti iOS 5 instalat in terminalul vostru. Daca nu il aveti atunci puteti cumpara un cont de dezvoltator la Apple care costa 99$ anual sau puteti cere unui dezvoltator de aplicatii pentru iOS sa va inscrie UDID-ul terminalului vostru in contul sau si sa va dea iOS 5 si iTunes 10.5. Imi pare rau dar nu va pot indruma catre un dezvoltator de aplicatii pentru iOS care poate face acest lucru.

Daca aveti Mac OS X instalat prin VMware nu incercati sa faceti jailbreak pentru ca nu se poate.

Pasul 1

Descarcati redsn0w 0.9.8 beta 1 de aici.

Pasul 2

Conectati terminalul la Mac. Deschideti redsn0w 0.9.8 beta 1, selectati firmware-ul iOS 5 pentru terminalul vostru si apsati Next. Redsn0w va inspecta si implementa modificarile necesare.

                                                                   

Pasul 3

Bifati Install Cydia si apasati next.

                                                                   

Pasul 4

Acum trebuie sa introduceti telefonul in DFU MODE. Mai intai inchideti terminalul, apoi apasati Next si redsn0w va va arata cum sa introduceti telefonul in DFU Mode.

• tineti apast butonul power 3 secunde;
• fara a da drumul butonului power apasati si pe butonul Home 10 secunde;
• dupa ce trec cele 10 secunde dati drumul butonului Power si telefonul ar trebui sa fie deja in DFU Mode iar redsn0w va incepe sa implementeze exploit-ul.

Daca totul a functionat si jailbreak-ul a fost implementat atunci ar trebui redsn0w ar trebui sa va afiseze butonul Finish.

Pasul 5

Daca totul decurge bine ar trebui sa aveti un iPhone jailbroken insa din pacate “distractia” nu se opreste aici. Terminalul vostru este jailbroken dar aplicatiile nu functioneaza pe el deoarece aveti un tethered jailbreak. Trebuie sa urmati pasii de mai jos pentru a boota in tethered mode si a putea folosi Cydia, Safari si alte aplicatii.

Pasul 6

Reintroduceti terminalul in DFU Mode urmand instructiunile de la Pasul 4.

Pasul 7

Deschideti redsn0w, selectati iar ipsw-ul pentru iOS 5.0, apasati Next si selectati optiunea Just boot tethered now.

                                                                   

Dupa ce terminalul porneste ar trebui sa aveti acces la toate aplicatiile fara nici o problema. Acest pas trebuie repetat de absolut fiecare data cand terminalul se reseteaza pentru ca altfel nu va mai porni absolut deloc. Aceasta solutie de jailbreak este temporara asa ca daca nu doriti sa va bateti capul cu un tethered jailbreak mai puteti astepta.

Apple Presented the iCloud Service

Steve Jobs returned from his medical leave to present in San Francisco more novelties, including the iCloud service through which users’ files can be stored on Apple’s servers, they being able to easily access them from anywhere, usingiPhone, iPad, iPod touch or other Apple products.

Companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft have massively promoted the cloud computing, and Apple hopes to catch them up, helped by their efficient marketing.

“The iCloud stores your content in the cloud and wirelessly pushes it to all your devices," saidSteve Jobs, who held a presentation in his style. He admitted that it's annoying to have to synchronize with your PC order to transfer various files on them and added that iCloud is the solution because if the user buys a song from iTunes for example, it will be loaded automatically "in the cloud" and a user can easily access it via internet using any Apple device, without needing to synchronize these devices separately.

Jobs says that iCloud was necessary because the PC is no longer the center of the "digital life", the PC drops in rank, being a simple device. He added that iCloud “is not only a hard disk in the sky", but is wanted to be "the latest great idea of us".

iCloud is free except for an option that an iTunes version, called Match, scans and then sends into the cloud songs that users owned on their Apple devices without being bought from iTunes. Users will be able to listen to those songs anywhere, on any Apple terminal, but will have to pay an annual subscription fee of $ 25 for the privilege of listening to these songs.

The free iCloud services include:

• The former MobileMe services—Contacts, Calendar and Mail—all completely re-architected and rewritten to work seamlessly with iCloud. Users can share calendars with friends and family, and the ad-free push Mail account is hosted at me.com. The inbox and mailboxes are kept up-to-date across all user's iOS devices and computers.

• The App Store and iBookstore now download purchased iOS apps and books to all your devices, not just the device they were purchased on. In addition, the App Store and iBookstore now let you see your purchase history, and simply tapping the iCloud icon will download any apps and books to any iOS device (up to 10 devices) at no additional cost.

• iCloud Backup automatically and securely backs up your iOS devices to iCloud daily over Wi-Fi when you charge your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Backed up content includes purchased music, apps and books, Camera Roll (photos and videos), device settings and app data. If you replace your iOS device, just enter your Apple ID and password during setup and iCloud restores your new device.

• iCloud Storage seamlessly stores all documents created using iCloud Storage APIs, and automatically pushes them to all your devices. When you change a document on any device, iCloud automatically pushes the changes to all your devices. Apple’s Pages, Numbers and Keynote apps already take advantage of iCloud Storage. Users get up to 5GB of free storage for their mail, documents and backup—the storage for music, apps and books purchased from Apple, and the storage required by Photo Stream doesn’t count towards this 5GB total. Users will be able to buy more storage, with details announced when iCloud ships this fall.

• iCloud’s Photo Stream service automatically uploads the photos you take or import on any of your devices and wirelessly pushes them to all your devices and computers. Photo Stream is built into the photo apps on all iOS devices, iPhoto on Macs, and saved to the Pictures folder on a PC. To save space, the last 1,000 photos are stored on each device so they can be viewed or moved to an album to save forever. Macs and PCs will store all photos from the Photo Stream, since they have more storage. iCloud will store each photo in the cloud for 30 days, which is plenty of time to connect your devices to iCloud and automatically download the latest photos from Photo Stream via Wi-Fi.

• iTunes in the Cloud lets you download your previously purchased iTunes music to all your iOS devices at no additional cost, and new music purchases can be downloaded automatically to all your devices. In addition, music not purchased from iTunes can gain the same benefits by using iTunes Match, a service that replaces your music with a 256 kbps AAC DRM-free version if Apple can match it to the over 18 million songs in the iTunes Store, it makes the matched music available in minutes, and uploads only the small percentage of unmatched music. iTunes Match will be available this fall for a $24.99 annual fee.

According to Apple, they are ready to ramp iCloud in its three data centers, including the third recently completed in Maiden, NC. Apple has invested over $500 million in its Maiden data center to support the expected customer demand for the free iCloud services. 

Jailbreak iOS 5

MuscleNerd of iPhone dev-team confirms today that jailbreak iOS 5 has successfully ported to iPod touch 4G but it still tethered boot so far which means that you should connect to your computer on every reboot. Thanks dev-team.

And as we know that Apple has announced iOS 5 yesterday in the WWDC 2011, you can see iOS 5 feature video by clicking here, You have to know that iOS 5 is still available in beta version you can download iOS 5 from direct links From Here.

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iOS 5 Presentation! Funny!

What do you expect from the new iOS 5 launched tomorrow? Here's what these 2 have in mind! Enjoy!

Blogging from iPhone

If you always wanted to use Blogger on your iPhone because you have a Blooger account or simply because you like it, now you can using this App called Blogpress!

Download it from Cydia™ if you have a jailbroken iPhone or the AppStore if not! Thanks and watch the description!

Highlighted features

• Just A better editor design for blog editing:BlogPress support text-image mixed layout and it is as easy as Word. Placing your photos anywhere in the text is now a few taps away!! even you don't know html code. The posts will look the same as your editing.
• No limitation and easy-to-use photo uploader:You can upload MORE THEN ONE photo in a single post to any supported platform. Photos will be uploaded either to your own Flickr, Picasa Web Album or to BlogPress Public Album hosted by us. Thumbnails will be auto generated and link to the full size images.

• Youtube video upload integration: You can also upload MORE THEN ONE video to Youtube and insert the player into the post directly.
• Simple HTML Quick Insert: a very convenience to create links, bold text, italic text and event font and color. Make you a professional blogger!
• Work with Twitter and Facebook: Update the status on Twitter and Facebook, notify all your friends your blog updated.

• Write once, multiple posts: By just one click!! you can send the same post to multiple blogs at various platforms. If you have more than one blog, this will definitely be a handy feature for you.
• TextExpender Supporting:BlogPress support the magic appTextExpender which can make you much more fast writing on iOS

• Landscape Editing Mode: 
  allow you input your article with "big finger" landscape keyboard. When your keyboard is showed up, rotate your iPhone/iPod touch to enter landscape editing mode. When you finish editing, just rotate it back.
  

• Support Emoji icons: 
  Writing your article with more fun. BlogPress support iPhone OS Emoji icons. You can add more then 450 interesting icons to you every article. Such as:
  
  
  
  
  (Need iPhone OS 2.2 or later, you need to enable Emoji keyboard in Setting)
  

Other features:

• Support most of the mainstream blog platforms: 
  - Blogger / BlogSpot
  - MSN Live Spaces
  - WordPress
  - Movable Type
  - TypePad
  - LiveJournal
  - Drupal
  - Joomla
  - Tumblr
  - Squarespace
  - My Opera
• Support full options of blog: Labels/tags, categories, publish date and online draft(private post)
• Support full thumbnails attributes: Resize, alignment and links
• Simple and elegant desinged: Clear and no confusing interface, easy to use, no need to learn. The buttons display only when you need it.
• Support Draft Auto Saving:save writing text every minute to iTunes shared document folder, easy to recover if app quit abnormally.
• Save drafts & Preview: Write on the way, save and preview in any time. Post them when you are online.
• Manage multiple blogs Easily write, edit and delete your posts and drafts.
• Signature customization Setup your personal signature for every post from your iPhone.
• Other: Support secure HTTPS connection, support WiFi, 3G and EDEG networks