New Apple TV screensaver

Apple is well known by superior designing capabilities and great user interfaces in their devices. And from time to time they tend to release a small but really nice feature for their products or services. Not surprisingly, this happened with their last upgrade for Apple TV too. They have added an interesting screensaver named PhotoWall. If you choose this screensaver, your Apple TV will rotate your photos in different frames sliding slowly across your TV screen. It looks quite nice, and we bet many users will agree with us.

iCloud introduces “Drop Box” like syncing for Mac users

It seems that iCloud will enable “Drop Box” like document sharing for Mobile Documents. Short exploration of / Library directory reveals that it contains a Mobile Documents folder . This folder will be probably used for syncing your documents created with iWork. Another great news is that this wont be restricted to iWorks docs anymore, especially if you need to access files only across your Mac computers.

Hulu Plus comes to Apple TV?

The app for Hulu Plus is already made and works perfectly for Apple TV. All features are working as expected and Apple has prepared everything except one important issue. It seems that now Apple is evaluating the need for this app and that some factions inside the company actually oppose the release of this app.

Foxconn to use robots in their facilities

Apple’s Chinese manufacturing partner is preparing the ground for a new technological revolution. It seems that the management of the company intends to build its robot workforce to an unprecedented level. More than million of these robots will be used in Foxconn plants in the near future.

The project should cost more than $220 million and was announced by the company on Saturday when the CEO of the company appeared on a ceremonial opening of a constructions site for an R&D facility in Taichung on Taiwan.

Apple releases their Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) into open source Apache license

Cupertino Company has jut taken another move which will be probably greeted by the wider community. Audio Codec developed by Apple’s engineers has being now republished as an open source software under the Apache license. Audio Codec supports all Apple devices including iOS devices like iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch but also Mac computers and iTunes. ALAC is basically a sophisticated method of data compression which can easily reduce the size of audio files, which size would otherwise be prohibitive especially for hand held iOS devices. Compressed files will keep their audio quality at the same level, so no data is being lost during the data compression. Uncompressed ALAC stream is exactly the same as the original, uncompressed file.

iPad 3 rumors: display resolution

Apple is already working secretly on iPad 3 tablet devices and now we have fresh rumors on the iPad 3 display. According to this rumors iPad 3 could have a 264 PPI quality display. Previously,many analysts predicted that the next generation of iPad will have a 2048 x 1536 screen resolution, that is if Samsung and LG can provide enough displays for Apple. According to the same rumors it seems that both Samsung and LG have encountered bottlenecks as the number of screens needed by Apple is higher than what they currently can provide.

Famous Apple designer creating a new kind of Thermostats

Perhaps on of the greatest features of Apple products are their exceptional designs. Now the same designers responsible for such great devices like iPod are spreading the Apple like design philosophy to other areas of industrial design. Tony Fadell which is also known as the “father of iPod” has announced the release of a new product : the Nest Learning Thermostat. His new thermostat will learn from your actions and choices and from inputs from the environment in order to create a highly customized temperature schedule for your home or office. O basically the designing goal Tony Fadell had in mind was to keep your place comfortable and cozy but keep it energy efficient as well.

Official biography of Steve Jobs now available for download

After a long wait Steve Jobs biography as available to all devoted Apple fans worldwide. It has been published in booth printed version and in ebook version. Ebook version is available for both Kindle and iBook ebook readers. To remind you this is the only official biography of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs. It is written by Walter Isaacson, who has by the way authored biographies of some other famous historical figures like Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.

Steve Jobs: Android is a stolen idea!

We are somehow sure that the upcoming biography of Steve Jobs will reveal many interesting facts and ideas valuable and intriguing to Apple users and fans. Author of this biography, Walter Isaacson was authorized by Steve Jobs himself to write this biography, as Jobs wanted to reveal more about himself to his family and his friends as wells as to all Apple users and fans.

Apple updates their Apple TV to 4.4.1

Only a week ago Apple has released their update containing Air Play mirror capabilities. But now they have released an additional update which removes some freshly discovered bugs and adds small technical improvements. This release 4.4.1 was launched today but afterwards it was quickly removed as Apple received some troubling reports on devices completely blocked and disabled due to some unknown bug.