iPod and iPhone fingerprint scanners for law enforcement

US government agencies including Federal Bureau of Investigation are testing Apple’s iPhone and iPod for mobile fingerprint scanning needs. FBI is using a device called FbF mobile one which is then connected with an iPhone or iPod Touch with a cable, allowing the device to be added and removed quickly as needed during routine checks and other law enforcement actions.

iPhone gets Flipboard app

Flipboard is a well known iPad reading app and now it finally comes as an iPhone app too. Here are some of the features of the new iPhone app:

Now compatible with all iPhone models.
Cover stories supporting smaller iPhone screen.
Pages flipping now smooth and fast.
Use the same account for the app as on your iPad.

Biography of Steve Jobs became best selling book of 2011 on Amazon

Few people could dispute the influence Apple’s co founder Steve Jobs had on high tech industry and thus on the rest of the whole world. Despite him being a giant of technology and business, he had somehow also embodied a certain level of inspiration, hope and personal magic for many people around the world. He practically became a superstar and a inspiration to many geeks and entrepreneurs, budding to reach at least a part of success he had with all the different projects he was involved with.

iBooks reading app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad upgraded to version 1.5

Best reading app for iOS, Apple’s own iBooks app, has just being upgraded to version 1.5. This new upgrade offers some really useful features and options for more pleasant and efficient book reading.

Here are some of the most important new features of iBooks 1.5:

You can now choose the annotation colors so you can customize the color of highlighted text.
Nighttime reading feature, which enables you to read books without too much eye strain.
Full screen layout which helps you to focus on the text without unnecessary distractions.
A set of new covers for books which are freely available (public domain books).
And more.

Museum opens Steve Jobs exhibit

Well known Computer History Museum based in Mountain View, CA has just launched an online exhibit about Steve Jobs, cofounder and mastermind behind Apple’ stellar success. “Steve Jobs: from garage to worlds most valuable company” is following Steve Jobs footsteps from his beginning in Cupertino high school and the legendary Homebrew computer club which was dedicated to first microcomputers, his education and his first steps in building up what we known today as Apple.

Siri now ported on iPhone 4, how to video available

Ever since Apple released Siri for the first time, many users and developers lounged to see Siri on other platforms. Apple was decidedly against this kind of development for their own reasons, but iOS developers were not completely satisfied with such approach. So after some hard work, a group of developers had finally succeeded in porting Siri voice assistant over to iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G.

iFaith for downgrading your iOS version back to iOS 5.0

While we are still waiting for a promised untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 which could be released in the near future as @MuslceNerd and @Pod2g have recently announced, you should be aware of the fact that the jailbreak will work only for iOS 5.0. This means that if you have already upgraded to iOS 5.0.1 you’ll be out of lack as this jailbreak is iOS 5.0.compatible only.

With older iOS firmware versions, you could always go back to iOS 4.0, but after Apple released iOS 5.0, they have redesigned the process, and now if you have gone to iOS 5.0.1 you wont be able to simply restore back to iOS 5.0. But as always, if you cant beat them, you certainly can always jailbreak them!

iPhone 5 battery drain bug still not solved with iOS 5.0.1

Apple is working really hard to clear out the problem which is known as the iOS 5 battery drain bug. The bug is causing unexplainable levels of energy loss in iPhonećs running on iOS 5. As a quick antidote, Cupertino has seeded iOS 5.0.1 which should have cleared out this problem. But after only a day or two it became clear that Apple still didn’t squash this bug. So Apple’s problems are continuing and they have now released the beta version of iOS 5.1 to certified Apple developers, which offered a number of new solutions which should prevent the fast battery drain. Unfortunately, it seems that the whole embarrassing situation is repeating itself. No matter the upgraded iOS version,developers are reporting that iPhone batteries are still being drained at an unacceptable level.

iPhone 4S launch in Russia imminent

Apple will launch iPhone 4S in Russia on December 16th. With the pre orders already available for Russian customers at some retail stores. Siri is at the time not available for Russian language but nonetheless, Russians who speak some other language like English,German or French will be able to use Siri at their will as soon as they get their new devices. And Apple has already promised to make Siri available in other languages, so we wont be too much surprised if Russian becomes one of the next Siri supported languages.

Kindle Fire, the best competitor to iPad

The only tablet that comes relatively close to Apple iPad is the recently launched Kindle Fire, made by Amazon. But according to this research done by market analysts in iSuppli probing the market demand for this quarter, it seems that the Amazon’s Fire is already having slight sales numbers decline. So no matter the formidable competition by Amazon, Apple iPad still has a large advantage when it comes to tablet sales numbers. Cupertino has already shipped more than 18.5 million of tablets in this quarter only. Although Amazon’s new Kindle Fire product is the second best tablet out there, Amazon has netted only 3.9 million sales during the same quarter.