Cydia like app store for Mac

Cydia is a already a well known name in the world of iPhone and iPad jailbreaking. It has already proved itself in the real world, so far beating all its wannabe competitors. It became a trusted and reliable source for large number of jailbreak apps, tweaks, themes and other stuff which aren’t available for various reasons in Apple’s App Store.

Apple upgrades OSx to remove Flashback Malware threat on Mac Osx

Nobody is perfect, including currently the best company in the world, Apple. Only recently we have seen for probably the first time a kind of malware infection on massive scales, which infected hundreds of thousands of Mac computers worldwide. To prevent this malware making more damage to Apple users, Cupertino has just released an upgrade for OSx Java, which removes almost all variants of this malware.

According to the upgrade release note, the plug in will be configured to disable Java applets from starting automatically, which will become another barrier for the Flashback malware to spread further. All Mac users which have Java installed are advised to install this upgrade as soon as possible. The 66 MB large upgrade is available within Software Updates in OSx.

iPad 3 magic used in demonstration

Two chaps, Erik Rosales and Charles Caper have performed their cool tricks at a conference in Cannes. Their presentation was quite interesting, mostly due to the equipment they used. It was about beauties and advantages of living in the capital of Sweden, Stockholm. This creative presentation was performed in combination with 7 brand new, superb, iPad 3  tablets.

You can see the demo for yourself in this Youtube video bellow.

Apple launches iBook for iPad, a new kind of textbooks

Apple just took another giant step into the future. This time, the relentlessly innovative fruit company from Cupertino, California is introducing iBooks textbooks to the world. This is a whole new world for education, which helps students and teachers alike to get best available and most updated textbooks from anywhere, at any time. And this is not all: besides other obvious advantages of price, mobility, adaptability, textbooks upgrading options, you can also note your textbooks, bookmark important pages and use it like never before!

OnLive app adds Microsoft’s Windows 7 on your iPad

OnLine is a service mostly known in the gaming community, but it has now launched a really interesting app and service which offers Windows 7 for iPad owners. With OnLive Desktop app you can try out Microsoft’s best Windows OS nowadays, directly on your iOS tablet device. This app works only within the cloud without any intermediary Vnc apps necessary.

New book “Inside Apple”, coming soon

“Inside Apple” is a new book authored by Adam Lashinsky which should hit the market  end of this month. This book will delve in into Apple’s business culture and the secret of today’s most successful company in the world. It will also mention Apple University and the secretive retreat for Apple’s upper management which takes place every year. According to the book promotional material,the book will cover Apple’s way of innovative leadership and continual product and services improvement.

Apple to held Media event in New York later this month

Sources inside Apple have leaked plans about some small scale media event which should be held in New York at the end of this month. Could this mean that iPad 3 tablet  announcement is near? Or will Tim Cook and his crew use this opportunity to announce some other mayor step like a new iOS version or perhaps the rumored Apple TV set? Nobody knows for sure, although Apple has never missed the opportunity to point the public attention to some new interesting developments whenever possible. So while it is certain that this event will be media oriented, it could also become an opportunity projecting new trends for upcoming Apple products and services.

iPhone alarms works if you have updated your iPhone iOS version

Many iOS users have voiced their concern and dissatisfaction with the fact that iPhone alarm didn’t sound off after the New Years eve. This bug rosed its ugly head first time last year, but it was later supposedly fixed with iOS 5 upgrade. One reason for so many people criticizing Apple about this issue could be that a number of users actually did not upgrade their iOS firmware.

Apple working on iPad 3 tablet with much larger battery capacity

According to Digi Times, which is a well known Taiwanese Apple blog with good inside sources, Apple is working on a new battery for the next iPad 3 model. According to this rumor, new iPad 3 will have battery capacity twice larger than what is now possible. The same blog is also a source of the speculations about Apple releasing as much as three new tablet models, which would supposedly cater to different market segments: low, middle and high end tablets. The most expensive and best tablet could have this new battery, with significantly increased capacity.

Apple working on two new different iPad tablets?

After different rumors on  a possible new 7.85” iPad tablet, we now heard another rumor mentioning at least two new models, coming with larger screens of 9.7” which will have QXGA graphic resolution and a unique light bar design. According to this rumor, which isn’t convincing in our opinion, these iPad models could be announced on 26 January already, at Apple’s annual iWorld event. Some analysts claim Apple’s strategy is based on forking out their tablet products to cover wide range of users. Essentially, Apple wants to announce different tablets which should cover entry, middle and high end market segments.