Regarding apps being updated to support iOS 5

We’re getting a ton of emails about apps showing up in the App Store that say they’re compatible with iOS 5, and readers/listeners wondering how that could be since iOS 5 isn’t public yet. Here’s the thing — developers are not currently allowed to upload anything to iTunes Connect (the App Store backend) that uses the iOS 5 SDK and iOS 5 APIs. However, they may be able to make changes within the iOS 4.x SDK, using iOS 4.x API, that also just so happen to fix compatibility issues with iOS 5. In other words, they might be able to code around problems in iOS 5 for existing apps, but they can’t code new iOS 5-specific functionality.

There will likely be cases where devs can’t fix something using the iOS 4.x SDK as well, regardless of how clever they are. So we’ll once again remind you, if you’re using iOS 5 and a specific app doesn’t work right, not to leave a bad review. iOS 5 is only available to developers testing apps, not to users complaining about them. Wait until after iOS 5 is released to the public this fall before you start getting on anyone’s case.

Daily Tip: How to reduce Wi-Fi interference

Experiencing more than your fair share of Wi-Fi #fail on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, and curious how to work around it? There are a lot of things which can cause Wi-Fi interference. Luckily, there are , here are some of them, and what you can do to fix them.

Here are some ways to reduce or eliminate Wi-Fi interference for your iOS devices.

Identifying the causes of interference can help as well, if you notice something always happens when you lose signal — your microwave is on, your neighbour is using their garage door opener, the elevator reaches your floor, you’re streaming over Bluetooth, anything that establishes a pattern — it can help you figure out the right fix.

NOTE: Some iPad and iPad 2 users have reported problems with Wi-Fi in general. If you think it’s not just interference but a hardware issue, take your device to the Apple Store and let the Geniuses look at, and potentially replace it.

Tips of the day will range from beginner-level 101 to advanced-level ninjary. If you already know this tip, keep the link handy as a quick way to help a friend. If you have a tip of your own you’d like to suggest, add them to the comments or send them in to news@tipb.com. (If it’s especially awesome and previously unknown to us, we’ll even give ya a reward…)

Probably not iPhone 5 cases leak

More reports are springing up that the next generation iPhone 5 will feature a thinner, tapered hardware design based off images of 3rd party silicone cases. Now this is not the first time we’ve come across rumors of what the new hardware will look like. It all started as early as April when we heard about a completely new design and then again earlier this month we heard similar reports of a thinner and lighter device.

However, iPhone 5 — assuming that’s what Apple calls it — from what TiPb has been hearing for a few months now, from very reliable sources, the next generation of iPhone hardware will look very, very close to the current iPhone 4 design. It will not take on the design of the iPhone 3GS or iPod touch. It will not be moving backwards.

Now Apple often does work on more than one concept, a more audacious design that changes a lot (like iPhone 3GS to iPhone 4) and a more conservative model if the audacious one doesn’t work out (like iPhone 3G to iPhone 3GS), so it’s possible the different rumors are based on leaks from different concepts.

It’s also possible the 3rd party cases appearing with this shape are harbingers of iPhone nano concepts instead, or simply next generation iPod touch cases (with added iPad-style mute switch).

Bottom line is do not get your hopes up for a newly redesigned iPhone 5. Expect a better camera along with the dual core A5 chip with the same externals. That way, at worst, you won’t be disappointed, and at best, you’ll be surprised.

[9to5Mac]

Another Day, Another iPhone 5 Case Rumor

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style="text-align: left;">At this stage, there’s still a huge amount of rumor swirling about what the next iPhone will look like, with some reporting a thinner, lighter model like this case would suggest, and others saying it’ll be pretty similar to the iPhone 4.

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style="text-align: left;">There’s also the possibility that both sets of rumors will be right, and we’ll see two iPhones launched at once — an iPhone 4s and an iPhone 5.

NASA Visualization Explorer for iPad hits the App Store

NASA has released an app for the iPad called NASA Visualization Explorer or NASA Viz for short. The app is designed to deliver stories from NASA’s space based Earth science research.

This is the NASA Visualization Explorer, the coolest way to get stories about advanced space-based research delivered right to your iPad. A direct connection to NASA’s extraordinary fleet of research spacecraft, this app presents cutting edge research stories in an engaging and exciting format. See the Earth as you’ve never seen it before; travel to places otherwise unavailable to even the most intrepid explorers! Download it now, tap into the power of NASA’s cutting-edge research today and check for new stories every week.

The app covers topics such as climate change, aerosols, glaciers, hurricanes, volcanoes and wildfires all from the perspective of space. The app is free and only available for the iPad; running iOS 4.3 or higher.

[Free – iTunes link]

 

Google+: What It Means for Facebook Users

Google+ is still only invite-only, but it already has snatched up tons of users in its few weeks of existence; users that most likely won’t be using Facebook anymore. The introduction of this new social network means that it won’t be such an easy ride for Facebook from now on — a good thing for us users who have been waiting for Facebook to up their mobile standards for a long time now.

Competition is always a good thing, for users anyways. With Google+ being very indirectly similar to what Facebook currently offers, both companies will be racing to get ahead of one another in the form of improvement. I’ve been using the free Google+ service for about a week now, and although it’s fairly simple at the moment, it seems much more user-friendly than Facebook has ever been.

I don’t believe that Google+ will become as popular as Facebook, for the time being, but it could become strong opposition. Currently, the Google+ application (onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/itunes.apple.com/us/app/google/id447119634?mt=8');" target="_blank" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google/id447119634?mt=8">only for iPhone for now) has been receiving a lot more praise than Facebook’s crappy 2 star application ever did, which means good for iPhone owners who have been desperately waiting for improvement on Facebook’s part.

So, again, in my honest opinion, having experience with both Google+ and Facebook now, I can say that Facebook will certainly try to get back those many people they lost. Expect to see improvements, just my two cents on the matter.

Now, where’s the real competition for Apple? I want to see some company give them something to worry about, which means better onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.cancertreatmentforums.com');" target="_blank" title="treatment" href="http://www.cancertreatmentforums.com">treatment and benefits for their customers. But there still isn’t anyone who’s making Apple sweat nervously now, and probably won’t be for awhile.

Oh, and if anyone needs a Google+ invite, let me know in the comments. Just make sure to provide a valid email in the form, and I’ll hook you up.

Rumor: Solar-Powered iOS Devices

Apple could bring us closer to the Sun, considering the newest rumor to hit the rumor mill does come true in the next few years. According to a report from onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.digitimes.com/news/a20110727PD207.html');" target="_blank" href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20110727PD207.html">Digitimes, wireless syncing and charging will eventually give way to solar-powered iOS devices – not soon, but in a few years.

How cool would it be to have an iPhone that never ran out of battery? How cool would it be to have an iPod Touch that would be able to play an infinite amount of games on end? That soon could become reality given Digitime’s newest piece of information is true. Their report for today claims that Apple and Samsung are actively working on bringing solar cells to future generations of Apple’s devices:

onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.macrumors.com/2011/07/27/apple-evaluating-solar-cell-vendors-for-future-products/');" target="_blank" href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/27/apple-evaluating-solar-cell-vendors-for-future-products/">Macrumors points out, adding to the news, that Apple has previously displayed interest in solar-power. They have even patented a process of where solar cells are placed under their device’s screens. This means that this new rumor is very likely to materialize soon enough.

This new novelty would only be making an introduction in a few years with future generations of iDevices, unfortunately. Stop complaining, though; it’s not like Apple has some sort of technology that is much more advanced than anyone else’s. Uh, scratch that…

I’m starting to wonder if by then solar-powered devices would be the norm, but regardless, I could certainly live with a device that is constantly powered by the sun’s light; it would be energy efficient, eco-friendly and of course would bring in a whole bunch more revenue in that the new technological addition to the iDevice would appeal to a larger amount of potential customers.

Your thoughts? How would you like a device like described above?

[Via onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.digitimes.com/news/a20110727PD207.html');" target="_blank" href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20110727PD207.html">Digitimes and onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.macrumors.com/2011/07/27/apple-evaluating-solar-cell-vendors-for-future-products/');" target="_blank" href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/27/apple-evaluating-solar-cell-vendors-for-future-products/">Macrumors]

The week in iPhone, July 27, 2011

Missed a compelling piece of iPhone news, a great review, or a killer how-to? We’re not collecting absolutely everything in iPhone here — you can hit up TiPb.com/iPhone for that! — but we’re carefully picking what we think is the best of the last 7 days and presenting it here for your review.

And hey! — these double as show notes for our iPhone Live! podcast tonight at 9pm Eastern. So join us at TiPb.com/live and follow along!

iPhone Serial Cable Finally Available

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Last November we covered a hacked-together href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/iphone-hacked-to-run-over-serial-port/2010/11/01/">iPhone serial cable, and then in December one was href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/iphone-serial-cables-go-into-production/2010/12/28/">set to go into production. Well, it’s finally available. href="http://redpark.com/c2db9.html">Redpark has developed an iPhone serial cable, for sale through their website. For a mere $59, you get a cable with an iOS dock connector on one side, and a male DB-9 connector on the other.

Unfortunately, there’s no SCSI ability baked into iOS, so no apps will work with your old printer, network drive, or whatever else you want to interface with — yet. Redpark is also releasing a Serial Cable SDK, so that people can develop apps to talk between iOS and ancient hardware. Hopefully these apps will be allowed on the app store, but otherwise it’s jailbreak time!

What sort of devices can you use this on? Redpark does a nice little roundup:

Ham radios, dive computers, point of sale devices, Arduino and other micro-controller platforms, scientific instrumentation, data loggers, RFID readers, automobile engines, routers and other networking devices, glucose meters, fire alarm panels, irrigation controllers, weather stations, specialty printers, scales, temperature sensors, flight loggers, satellite radios, model cars (models boats, planes and rockets too), CNC machines and more…

Oooh, that does sound like fun. Especially the Arduino one…

[via href="http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/27/serial-cable-connects-your-ios-device-to-pre-usb-era-peripherals/">9to5Mac]

Is that a Galaxy Tab 10.1 in this iPad podcaster’s pocket?

Frequent iPad Live podcast co-host and general gadget bon vivant Seth Clifford recently purchased a Galaxy Tab 10.1 for development purposes, and has written up a blog post detailing his experience buying and using it.

I asked the sales guy for the 10.1 and the first thing he said was “What are you buying it for?” When I replied, “development”, he said “Ok, because this thing isn’t going to replace a laptop for you”. No problem, I assured him, we’re app devs, and we know what we’re doing. Then, the manager came over to verify the coupon I had and asked the same question again. Again I replied “development” and he asked “Of what?” rather indignantly.

“Uh, Android apps?” I replied incredulously.

“Oh, ok, because we’re selling a lot of these things, and we get a LOT of them back. People buy them thinking they’re getting rid of a laptop, and they all come back returning them.”

That doesn’t seem to be happening with iPads, because I think people’s expectations are set accordingly when they buy them. These are not full computing devices; they’re not built to be – and yet when you watch the commercials, what do you hear? The “full” internet. Flash. Do it all. Why wouldn’t people be disappointed when they can’t actually replace a computer with a device that promised they could?

I won’t ruin the exciting conclusion of this particular hero’s journey (no spoilers!) so make sure you tap (or click) the link below to see just how Seth fared with his new Galaxy Tab 10.1. (We’ll save our questions for the show next Sunday.)

[Seth Clifford]

Papa Penguin for iPhone free for one week!

Papa Penguin, a game by Ideal Bureaucracy, is free in anticipation of an update due to be released next week.

Papa Penguin is a cute casual arcade game for children and their parents about a caring penguin who puts all his efforts in trying to get some fish for his two little children. The kids are quite gluttonous, so hardly Papa fetches them some food, they instantly absorb it and demand more and more!

The update will include the following:

Papa Penguin is free until next week’s update release (and debut on the Mac App Store). Screenshots after the break.

[iTunes link]

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New and updated iPhone and iPad apps for Wednesday July 27

Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

Yumm: Be careful with this creature, it bites off anything and everything you put in it’s mouth! Stick your finger in and wait for the mouth to shut before removing it but remove you finger a moment earlier or later and you will lose it. [Free for iPhone - iTunes link]

The Police Story: Your goal is to arrive to the finish line in each level, you will have to pass by lot’s of obstacles and enemies. Touch the screen and jump, tilt your iPhone and increase or decrease your speed. [$0.99 for iPhone - iTunes link]

CloudAlbums: Create your photo albums, keep them in sync on all your devices and share them with your friends in just a few taps, using the Dropbox cloud services. [Free for iPhone and iPad - iTunes link]

Magic Puzzles: Full and constantly updated collection of famous Magic Puzzles is available in one application! [Free for iPad - iTunes link]

Hold It Up: Keep the ball in the air, it doesn’t matter where, it doesn’t matter the ball type, help Michael and his family to keep the ball up. [$0.99 for iPhone and iPad - iTunes link]

Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think!

Future iPhones, like Superman, to be powered by the sun?

The on again, off again Digitimes rumour-mill claims both Apple and manufacturing-partner/device competitor Samsung are looking into solar cells as a future power source.

Samsung and Apple have been evaluating the possible niche market for solar-powered consumer products and considering the inclusion of Taiwan-based solar firms in their respective supply chains. However, according to Taiwan-based solar firms, these niche markets will need a longer time to develop.

The technology doesn’t seem to be ready, let alone affordable or scalable, so anyone waiting for iPhone 5 and it’s “unique charging method” to start drawing Kryptonian-style power from our strong yellow sun shouldn’t get their hopes up too soon. But one day? Who knows, maybe it’ll be “up, up, and away” with cables for good.

[Digitimes]

Google Wants You To Find Local Deals With Google Shopper 1.5

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In the ongoing war between local coupons and Groupon clones, Google has just href="http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/07/find-nearby-deals-with-google-shopper.html">pushed out an update to Google Shopper with a new local deals tool. If your city is one of the handful that has href="https://www.google.com/offers/">Google Offers, you’ll be able to purchase local coupons — but right now that feature only works in New York, San Francisco and Portland.

Luckily, even other cities get some advantages, as any store that has a deal or coupon up via Google Places will also show up, so you can get some discounts that way too.

href="http://itunes.apple.com/app/google-shopper/id416091721?mt=8">Google Shopper is a free download from the app store.

iOS 4.3.5 Released to Close Another Security Hole: Redsn0w Safe!

In case you didn’t get the memo on Monday, Apple released iOS 4.3.5 a few weeks after releasing 4.3.4 that fixed a PDF exploit being used by hackers for good and evil!

Apple’s description of the new update is kind of vague. Basically, it just fixes a flaw that doesn’t check the validity chain of certificates. This security vulnerability could allow people access to your device while you’re surfing the web.

“A certificate chain validation issue existed in the handling of X.509 certificates. An attacker with a privileged network position may capture or modify data in sessions protected by SSL/TLS. Other attacks involving X.509 certificate validation may also be possible. This issue is addressed through improved validation of X.509 certificate chains.”

The redsn0w 0.9.8 jailbreak tool in unaffected by the update, but obviously, JailbreakMe 3.0 users will want to skip it. Anyone else can connect their onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.ipadngravy.com');" target="_blank" title="iPad" href="http://www.ipadngravy.com">iPad, iPod touch (3rd and 4th generation), and/or iPhone to a computer to receive the update.The Verizon update is labeled 4.2.10.

Banksy Locations Helps You Find Your Favorite Street Artworks

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Telling the difference between a legit Banksy piece and one of his legions of imitators is difficult (and perhaps that’s the point) but a new app will help you discover if the famously unknown street artist has put anything up in your city. href="http://www.banksyiphoneapp.com/">Banksy Locations is href="http://itunes.apple.com/app/banksy-locations/id450565474?mt=8">a $1.99 iPhone app that will direct you to any nearby Banksy works, give you some background information, and let you save the images to use as you will.

Obviously, it’ll be a lot more effective in the UK, but he’s done some stuff in the USA, and I assume this will have those works too.

[href="http://www.148apps.com/news/discover-banksys-artwork-banksylocations/">148apps, via href="http://gizmodo.com/5824880/banksy+locations-for-iphone-shows-you-where-banksy-art-is">Gizmodo]

Are E-Readers Going HTML5?

Apple’s standing policy has always been that if you don’t like the limites placed on the app store, you’re totally allowed to make an HTML5 web app out of anything you like. Now, in the wake of Apple’s href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/tag/in-app-purchases/">in-app purchase restrictions, RWW is reporting that href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/apples_new_rules_prompt_more_e-readers_including_k.php">a number of prominent e-readers are going HTML5.

Rather than facing trying to give Apple a 30% cut of the revenue — which they often don’t have to give — e-reader service and store Kobo has said href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kobo-developing-html5-ereading-web-app-to-serve-ios-users-broaden-reach-strengthen-commitment-to-open-ereading-126181988.html">they’re going to create an HTML5 app instead, saying:

Following recent App Store policy changes imposed by Apple, Kobo, a global leader in eReading with over 4 million readers worldwide, announced today that development is underway on an HTML5 eReading web app.  With the development of the HTML5 app, Kobo will continue to provide the most optimized experience for iOS users and users on other Kobo platforms.

[...]

Over the past weeks, Kobo has worked with Apple to create a solution that would benefit the iOS eReading community within Apple’s new App Store guidelines.  Unfortunately, Apple has mandated that Kobo, along with all eBook retailers, substantially change the eReading experience for consumers by removing in-app access to the Kobo store.

The Financial Times href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/financial-times-rejects-apples-app-store-subscription-model/2011/04/04/">did something similar earlier this year.

It’ll be curious to see if this leads to a shift in popularity of the web app, with more big companies moving that way to avoid Apple’s control over their content. Does this mean Google Books, Kindle, and Nook will do the same? What about magazines offering subscriptions? And will they work offline?

I guess we’ll have to wait and see,

Stay Cool This Summer With The iPhone 4 Fan

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With the nation still gripped in one of the worst heatwaves in decades, how about a bit of Chinese Apple fakery to help you stay cool this summer? This awesome iPhone 4 fan href="http://micgadget.com/14073/the-thickest-iphone-4-in-the-world/">comes via MIC Gadget, and looks like a super-fat iPhone 4. Inside the Apple-like case is a small fan and a special compartment for a sponge — soak the sponge, plug the fan into your USB port, and enjoy a refreshing cool breeze to help survive the Summer misery.

You can buy these online href="http://store.kogadget.com/product.php?id_product=14">for about $10, definitely worth the look on your friends’ faces when you start cooling yourself with a comically oversized iPhone.

1 out of 3 Shoppers Already Plan to Buy iPhone 5

We may not have any concrete details about the iPhone 5. Except it may have an A5 chip. Or jump ahead to an A6. Maybe the screen will get a bump to 3.7″. Its design may be completely redesigned. Or tapered. Possibly thinner and lighter. Who knows, maybe it will print money (it will for Apple, but that’s beside the point) and bake cookies. Other than the last two, the rumor mill mentions all of those being real possibilities thus absolutely nothing is 100% set in stone. Oh, and it may or may not be introduced in September then released sometime afterwards. Knowing nothing about it does not stop shoppers from wanting it, however.

PriceGrabber.com conducted a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/thirty-five-percent-of-consumers-will-purchase-iphone-5-following-its-release-according-to-pricegrabber-survey-126109483.html');" target="_blank" href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/thirty-five-percent-of-consumers-will-purchase-iphone-5-following-its-release-according-to-pricegrabber-survey-126109483.html">survey, which 3,000 people participated in, to find out just how popular the prospect of a new iPhone is among customers. They found that 35% of customers are intrigued enough to already have plans in place to purchase the device once it does become available.

Interestingly enough, half of the prospective iPhone 5 customer base plan to purchase it within a year. The rest seem to lack market knowledge since they want iPhone 5 by the end of 2012. At that point, its superior successor will more than likely have launched, making the fifth-generation device outdated though discounted.

While 35% are interested in iPhone 5, 48% prefer iOS leading to the conclusion that many are happy with their current iPhone and do not see the latest-and-greatest as being necessary. The one in three statistic beats that of any other phone, which adds fuel to the argument that more customers would own an iPhone rather than sticking to the popular Android devices mainly due to price. In fact, 55% cited a lower price as their most-desired feature and 59% would like better battery life.

I wonder just how many customers would even be compelled by significant additions or speedier hardware considering the mundane requests. Then again, the more geeky specifications we appreciate at sites like iPhone Alley do not appeal to consumers without a translation.

The 35% demonstrate a trust of the iPhone and Apple brand considering how they do not even need to know anything about the next iPhone in order to make purchasing decisions regarding it. Let’s just hope that the delay in production means that supply can at least come close to meeting demand. Well, on launch day if possible.

BookBook case makes your iPhone 4 look like a vintage book [video]

Well known Mac accessory manufacturer Twelve South has taken a step into the iPhone case making business and released a wallet case which it is calling the BookBook. The BookBook case has been modelled on a vintage leather book cover and really does look the part; if you are into vintage type book covers!

Protect your iPhone 4 between two hard-back covers. Fold the covers back-to-back to talk. It feels great in your hand. BookBook allows edge-to-edge iPhone access. No frames in the way of your thumbs here. You can access all iPhone controls and ports with BookBook. Charge, sync and use the headphone jack while your iPhone is safe and sound in its phone book.

The BookBook case is also a wallet so you only need to carry one thing with you when you go out. It doess appear to be a very nice looking case but I am just not sure if I want my iPhone to look like an old book. The BookBook case is only available for the iPhone 4 at a price of $59.99. Take a look at the video after the break to see it in all its glory!

[Twelve South]

iStandard Clock for iPad now available

eFUSION has released a new clock app for the iPad.

iStandard Clock” is designed for everyone looking for simplicity and functionality as iPhone standard clock application to fill the gap of missing clock application on their iPad.

It really is baffling why Apple did not include a standard clock app on the iPhone. Since iStandard Clock is identical to the standard clock app on the iPhone, it feels like it belongs natively on the iPad.

iStandard Clock is available on the iPad for $0.99. Screenshots after the break.

[iTunes link]

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