Well, it has come and gone. Apple’s september media event has finished. For those of you who were watching the whole live feed right here, you would have seen some awesome hardware and software as well.

Steve Jobs on stage, points out “partner in crime” Steve Wozniak in the audience. Thanks audience for coming. “Really cool stuff” to show you.
– Apple retail update: Showing off new stores in Paris, Shanghai, Covent Garden (London). Now 300 stores in ten countries with Spain coming soon. Some days see over 1 million visitors to retail stores. 80,000 One to One classes per week. Over half of Mac purchasers in retail stores are new to Mac.

– iOS update: Have now shipped 120 million iOS devices. Activating 230,000 new iOS devices per day. We think some of our friends are counting upgrades in their numbers, but we think strictly new activations is a better metric. Over 6.5 billion app downloads, 200 per second. 250,000 apps in App Store – 25,000 for iPad.

– Introducing iOS 4.1: Fixes bugs (proximity, Bluetooth, iPhone 3G performance), Adds High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos, HD video upload over Wi-Fi, TV show rentals, Game Center

– Showing off HDR photo quality. Both regular and HDR photos saved on device…choose which you prefer. Showing examples of how HDR can pull out details that are typically washed out.

– Game Center: Standalone app, as well as APIs for developers. For multi-player games, allows you to challenge friends. Showing off screenshots.

– Mike Capps of Epic Games on stage to show off Game Center on new iOS RPG game codenamed “Project Sword”. Showing off 3D virtual world in high detail. Showing Game Center-mediated multi-player action.

– iOS 4.1 due next week for iPhone and iPod touch

– Sneak peek at iOS 4.2 – “all about iPad”. Brings everything to iPad….multitasking, folders, Game Center, HDR photos, wireless printing, AirPlay

– Showing off wireless printing in Pages. “Print Center” app now shows up in multi-tasking tray to manage jobs.

– AirPlay: Formerly known as AirTunes, now allows streaming of audio, video, and photos.

– Demoing iOS 4.2 on iPad with multitasking, folders

– iOS 4.2 set for November release. Free for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

– iPods: “Our entree” for the day. We’ve sold 275 million iPods. All-new designs for every model of iPod this year. Biggest change ever.

– iPod shuffle: Highlighting history of the device. New model now has buttons, VoiceOver, and playlists, rear clip. 15 hours of music, five different colors, $49 for 2 GB.

– iPod nano: Multi-touch screen, clip, 46% smaller, 42% lighter, volume buttons, Nike+, pedometer, 24 hours of audio. Now demoing controls.

– iOS-like interface with four icons on home screen, multiple home screens with ability to reorganize icons. Album art, photos, etc. Rotatable home screen using pinch gesture.
– Same colors as shuffle, plus graphite and Product RED. $149 for 8 GB, $179 for 16 GB.

– iPod touch: In the last year, has become most popular iPod. “iPhone without the phone, and the contract”. #1 portable game player…outsells Nintendo and Sony combined.

– New iPod touch is even thinner, Retina display, A4 chip, gyroscope, iOS 4.1, front-facing camera with FaceTime, rear-facing camera with HD video recording.

– Can run iMovie on iPod touch, can FaceTime between iPod touches and iPhone 4s.

– Three models: 8 GB $229, 32 GB $299, 64 GB $399

– All iPod models (shuffle, nano, touch) available for pre-order today, shipping next week.

– Now showing new iPod nano and iPod touch ads

– iTunes: 11.7 billion songs downloaded, 450 million TV episodes, 100 million movies, 35 million books, 160 million accounts with credit cards. #1 online media store in the world.

– iTunes 10. With iTunes set to surpass physical CD sales next year, so new icon with no CD.

– New “hybrid” view. With albums of at least five songs, now shows album art right in list view.

– Social features: New feature called Ping. Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes…social network for music. Follow favorite artists and friends, find out what they’re listening to and talking about. Customized top-ten songs and albums lists based on the people you follow. Showing off artist page for Lady Gaga with posts, favorite songs, concerts, etc.

– Discussing how to be followed: can allow anyone to follow, can have approved followers, create “circle of friends”…as private or public as you want.

– Demo of Ping

– Ping available in iTunes and on iPhone, iPod touch…new button in iTunes Store app.

– iTunes 10 available today…free download at apple.com

– One more thing…no, one more hobby.

– Apple TV: Never been a huge hit, but no one has made a hit in this sector. Users love the Apple TV though, so what have we learned?

– Users want Hollywood movies and TV shows whenever they want them, everything in HD, lower prices, no computer on the TV. Don’t want to manage storage or deal with syncing. Want hardware to be silent, cool, and small.

– New Apple TV…one-fourth the size of the previous model. Back has power cord, one HDMI connector, optical audio out, and Ethernet. Wi-Fi 802.11n built-in.

– Movies, TV show, and music, all HD when available. All rentals, no purchases, so no storage management. Can stream from computers, no syncing required. Photo slideshows.

– Can rent first-run HD movies for $4.99. Prices drop over time. HD TV show rentals at $0.99…commercial-free. Big step for the studios, so ABC and Fox at first. Rest of them will see the light and follow along.

– Netflix streaming included for subscribers. YouTube integration, including HD content, photos from Flickr, video and photos from MobileMe, stream from Mac or PC.

– Apple TV interface similar to existing, but simplified somewhat.

– Demoing browsing and rental process…showing off “Iron Man 2″.

– TV shows: Can list favorite shows, with icons showing how many unwatched episodes from the current season there are. Showing off “Glee”.

– Netflix: Showing Instant Queue…”by far the best implementation of Netflix”.

– Demoing streaming photos from a networked Mac.

– AirPlay coming to iOS 4.2 in November. Can stream content from an iOS device to an Apple TV. Demoing streaming Pixar’s “Up” from iPad to Apple TV…audio is quickly and easily pushed to the Apple TV.

– New Apple TV priced at $99. Available in 4 weeks, pre-order today.

– Recapping today’s topics: iPod shuffle, iPod nano, iPod touch, iTunes 10 with Ping, iOS 4.2, Apple TV

– Talking about philosophy of music focus. A lot of people at Apple love music, and we like to remind ourselves of why we do this. Special guest: Chris Martin of Coldplay. 50 million albums sold, 7 Grammy Awards. On stage to play a song. “We’ll keep goin’ until you feel like lunch.”

 

Please excuse me for this being a long blog post. Anyway, it seems that apple have warmed to the idea of live streaming their events. Who knows, possibly we will see apple doing this more often in the future. So in brief, iOS 4.1 is coming out september 8th. If you are jailbroken then stay away from it until further notice. Otherwise, you can go ahead and have at it on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. iOS 4.2 is coming out sometime in november and it is free for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

iTunes 10 is available today as well, but at the time of writing this apple has not made it available for download yet.

Of course, there is a new iPod Touch on the way, which will come pre-loaded with iOS 4.1 so no jailbreak for that until further notice. With that aside, that is one crazily thin iPod Touch and it has an A4 processor and a retina display which makes it an iPhone 4 without the phone part. On top of that, you have the iPod shuffle which has not changed at all, and the iPod nano which has a multi-touch interface like the iOS devices. And these devices will be out on the same day as iOS 4.1.

Until next time, This is Adiman423 on behalf of iPhone Tutorial Videos and iPad tutorial videos signing out.

It seems like only yesterday when anyone chomping at the bit to get their hands on an iPad had to wait a painfully long time to get one. Then the shipping time dropped down to anywhere from seven to 10 days, and new customers didn’t have the shakes of anticipation for too long.

Just recently, though, Apple has dropped the expected ship date for iPads down to as few as three days. Word is that the wait for an iPhone 4 may drop significantly by the end of September as well.

Something I’m wondering about with these wait times is whether it’s dissuaded people from purchasing. Have you ever visited the Apple store, seen that the wait time was longer than you were willing to hold out, and changed your mind?

If you are looking to buy an iPad right now, then now is the right time to do so. I should also say at this point that when buying an iPad, always consider the amount of space you are going to use. If you have a whole collection of movies, music and apps, then go for at least the 32GB Wi-Fi iPad. If you only have a small amount of content, then go for the 16GB Wi-Fi iPad.

Until next time, This is Adiman423 on behalf of iPad Tutorial Videos signing out.

Getting out of jail is free! 

Fantastic news today from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).  After a lot of hard work and mountains of paperwork, jailbreaking your iPhone is now explicitly a permitted fair use under the DMCA!

The first of EFF’s three successful requests clarifies the legality of cell phone “jailbreaking” — software modifications that liberate iPhones and other handsets to run applications from sources other than those approved by the phone maker. More than a million iPhone owners are said to have “jailbroken” their handsets in order to change wireless providers or use applications obtained from sources other than Apple’s own iTunes “App Store,” and many more have expressed a desire to do so. But the threat of DMCA liability had previously endangered these customers and alternate applications stores.

In its reasoning in favor of EFF’s jailbreaking exemption, the Copyright Office rejected Apple’s claim that copyright law prevents people from installing unapproved programs on iPhones: “When one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make the operating system on that phone interoperable with an independently created application that has not been approved by the maker of the smartphone or the maker of its operating system, the modifications that are made purely for the purpose of such interoperability are fair uses.”

The EFF also successfully renewed the existing DMCA exception for carrier unlocking.  More on the ruling by the Library of Congress is here and here (and many other places, since this is huge news!). The full ruling is here, and EFF’s history with this case is here (EFF’s servers are understandably getting hammered today!).

This doesn’t mean that Apple will stop their technical attempts to thwart jailbreaking, it just means that it’s now unambiguously legal under the DMCA for you the end user to both jailbreak and unlock.

Great job, EFF!

For those of you that don’t know what jailbreaking is, you can have a look at what it is by clicking here. For those of you who have jailbroken in the past, don’t upgrade to the latest version of the iOS or you will lose your jailbreak until the newest version of the jailbreaking tools have been released by people like the iPhone dev team or geohot (who’s blog is officially private at the time of writing this post). Until next time, this is Adiman423 on behalf of iPhone Tutorial Videos signing out

Getting out of jail is free! 

Fantastic news today from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).  After a lot of hard work and mountains of paperwork, jailbreaking your iPhone is now explicitly a permitted fair use under the DMCA!

The first of EFF’s three successful requests clarifies the legality of cell phone “jailbreaking” — software modifications that liberate iPhones and other handsets to run applications from sources other than those approved by the phone maker. More than a million iPhone owners are said to have “jailbroken” their handsets in order to change wireless providers or use applications obtained from sources other than Apple’s own iTunes “App Store,” and many more have expressed a desire to do so. But the threat of DMCA liability had previously endangered these customers and alternate applications stores.

In its reasoning in favor of EFF’s jailbreaking exemption, the Copyright Office rejected Apple’s claim that copyright law prevents people from installing unapproved programs on iPhones: “When one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make the operating system on that phone interoperable with an independently created application that has not been approved by the maker of the smartphone or the maker of its operating system, the modifications that are made purely for the purpose of such interoperability are fair uses.”

The EFF also successfully renewed the existing DMCA exception for carrier unlocking.  More on the ruling by the Library of Congress is here and here (and many other places, since this is huge news!). The full ruling is here, and EFF’s history with this case is here (EFF’s servers are understandably getting hammered today!).

This doesn’t mean that Apple will stop their technical attempts to thwart jailbreaking, it just means that it’s now unambiguously legal under the DMCA for you the end user to both jailbreak and unlock.

Great job, EFF!

For those of you that don’t know what jailbreaking is, you can have a look at what it is by clicking here. For those of you who have jailbroken in the past, don’t upgrade to the latest version of the iOS or you will lose your jailbreak until the newest version of the jailbreaking tools have been released by people like the iPhone dev team or geohot (who’s blog is officially private at the time of writing this post). Until next time, this is Adiman423 on behalf of iPhone Tutorial Videos signing out

In April Steve Jobs famously replied to the rumors and critics regarding the iPhone and iPod’s refusal to include Flash Plugins to it’s browsers on the mobile devices, explaining the reasoning behind it.

Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple’s mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards. HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple, Google and many others

Previously we’ve written on how to use HTML5 to make your video’s on your sites iPhone and iPad ready and it looks like Apple is slowly gaining ground.

Steve Jobs is one-quarter of the way to victory in his increasingly heated take-no-prisoners assault on Adobe Flash.

>According to a survey conducted by video aggregator MeFeedia, 26 per cent of all web video is now available for playback withthe HTML5 tag and the H.264 codec. That means that 26 per cent of web video is now viewable on the iPhone/Pod/Pad. And, of course, Steve Jobs asserts that it’s the most important 26 per cent.

MeFeedia’s CEO Frank Sinton tells The Reg that the survey’s was a large one: content from over 30,000 sources. Sites in the MeFeedia Video Index include Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo, and DailyMotion, plus music videos from Vevo and MTV, and news from AP, ABC, CBS, and CNN.

ESPN

ESPN uses HTML5 to play audio and video for fans browsing ESPN.com on iPad. Site navigation and live scoring have also been optimized for the iPad Multi-Touch display.

Apple has listed a growing list of high profile sites that have already converted over or provide the HTML5 code to directly play video on Mobile devices with ease.

 

In April Steve Jobs famously replied to the rumors and critics regarding the iPhone and iPod’s refusal to include Flash Plugins to it’s browsers on the mobile devices, explaining the reasoning behind it.

Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple’s mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards. HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple, Google and many others

Previously we’ve written on how to use HTML5 to make your video’s on your sites iPhone and iPad ready and it looks like Apple is slowly gaining ground.

Steve Jobs is one-quarter of the way to victory in his increasingly heated take-no-prisoners assault on Adobe Flash.

>According to a survey conducted by video aggregator MeFeedia, 26 per cent of all web video is now available for playback withthe HTML5 tag and the H.264 codec. That means that 26 per cent of web video is now viewable on the iPhone/Pod/Pad. And, of course, Steve Jobs asserts that it’s the most important 26 per cent.

MeFeedia’s CEO Frank Sinton tells The Reg that the survey’s was a large one: content from over 30,000 sources. Sites in the MeFeedia Video Index include Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo, and DailyMotion, plus music videos from Vevo and MTV, and news from AP, ABC, CBS, and CNN.

ESPN

ESPN uses HTML5 to play audio and video for fans browsing ESPN.com on iPad. Site navigation and live scoring have also been optimized for the iPad Multi-Touch display.

Apple has listed a growing list of high profile sites that have already converted over or provide the HTML5 code to directly play video on Mobile devices with ease.

 

[Salary Magician via Luismiranda via LitmanLive]

Another magician called Oz Pearlman from Penguinmagic has previously released a whole DVD where you can use your iPhone or iPod touch to do similar nice tricks.

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Introducing the very first DVD dedicated to the iPhone and iPod Touch! Enjoy an interactive ride into the magic of iPhone with your host, Nick Byrd. A full-length, full-feature DVD that makes learning iPhone magic easy!

A Japanese street Magician named Shinya who goes by the alias of “Salary Magician” today wowed some of us with his innovative usage of technology, Camera angles, miss direction and sleight of hand using the iPad to tell a story of how communication has evolved.

I can see how this will turn out into a great TV presentation if he can get a graphic designer to spice up the graphics used a bit.

In April Steve Jobs famously replied to the rumors and critics regarding the iPhone and iPod’s refusal to include Flash Plugins to it’s browsers on the mobile devices, explaining the reasoning behind it.

Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple’s mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards. HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple, Google and many others

Previously we’ve written on how to use HTML5 to make your video’s on your sites iPhone and iPad ready and it looks like Apple is slowly gaining ground.

Steve Jobs is one-quarter of the way to victory in his increasingly heated take-no-prisoners assault on Adobe Flash.

>According to a survey conducted by video aggregator MeFeedia, 26 per cent of all web video is now available for playback withthe HTML5 tag and the H.264 codec. That means that 26 per cent of web video is now viewable on the iPhone/Pod/Pad. And, of course, Steve Jobs asserts that it’s the most important 26 per cent.

MeFeedia’s CEO Frank Sinton tells The Reg that the survey’s was a large one: content from over 30,000 sources. Sites in the MeFeedia Video Index include Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo, and DailyMotion, plus music videos from Vevo and MTV, and news from AP, ABC, CBS, and CNN.

ESPN

ESPN uses HTML5 to play audio and video for fans browsing ESPN.com on iPad. Site navigation and live scoring have also been optimized for the iPad Multi-Touch display.

Apple has listed a growing list of high profile sites that have already converted over or provide the HTML5 code to directly play video on Mobile devices with ease.