Archive for November, 2007
Seagate’s Macbook hard drives have “critical manufacturing flaw”
Via Retrodata, we’ve learned of a particularly nasty flaw in Seagate Macbook drives that could essentially destroy the data on your computer, and by that, we mean literally destroy it.
Some faulty Seagate 2.5″ hard drives from China have surfaced and, according to Retrodata, “the read/write heads appear to fail mechanically, quickly causing deep scratches [...]
UK iPhone buyers ‘misled’ at Carphone Warehouse stores
Filed under: iPhone
The iPhone launch here in the U.K. has been hotly debated over recently, with all sorts of (lacklustre) sales figures mentioned, and a fair-few inaccuracies in supposedly factual coverage. An investigation by the BBC (being aired tonight) brings the launch yet more dangerous criticism - although on this occasion it’s levelled at reseller [...]
gpSPhone v0.5.0 - improved performance, updated save states format
After seeing a huge difference in terms of screen size from the last version of gpSPhone v0.1.5, ZodTTD has released the latest version of this GBA emulator for Apple’s iPhone and iTouch with gpSPhone v0.5.0. This latest version takes care of improving the application’s general performance, as well as updating the format for its games’ [...]
NES.app v2.0.0
For those of us who want some old school retrogaming action on their Apple iPhones, then there’s nowhere else to look but Apple iPhone homebrew developers nervegas (jonz) and jordan’s brainchild, NES.app. The nifty little homebrew emulation program is now standing proudly on version 2.0.0 legs. Let’s look and see what’s changed from the previous [...]
Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics
Greenpeace has released their “Guide to Greener Electronics” which scores the 18 top manufacturers of gadgets and devices according to their policies on toxic chemicals and recycling.
Apple, which was under Greenpeace’s black books for the iPhone, got a better score this time around. Among the three console manufacturers, Sony scored [...]
Rumor: some developers getting iPhone SDK early?
Some developers are being rumored to be in possession of early versions of Apple’s upcoming iPhone and iPod touch software developer kits. This according to Electronista.
These developers are reported to have gotten more advanced yet still rough versions of the current web-only solution. The SDK will reportedly become officially available to the development community in [...]
Apple posts new iTunes ad
Filed under: iTS, Odds and ends, iTunes, Apple
If you’ve been watching TV during the last few days chances are you have already seen this: Apple has released a new iTunes commercial. The new commercial features Mary J. Blige singing ‘Work That’ out while those iconic silhouette dancers dance around with hip mounted iPods (not [...]
Greg Joswiak on iPhone applications
Filed under: iPod Family, Bad Apple, iPhone
Fortune’s Big Tech blog has posted an interview with Greg Joswiak, the head of iPod and iPhone marketing. In the interview, Joswiak talks about the evolution of new iPod features and how Apple has taken the device beyond just a simple music player.
Of particular interest (at least to me) [...]
