When news broke yesterday that Facebook’s most recent iPhone update had a secret,
All you have to do (with your jailbroken iPad) is install Facebook, then find FaceForward on Cydia, install and reboot.
Done.
No tweaking, no diving into the app to activate things, nothing. It does it all for you. Nifty, huh?
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We all know the freemium model: the game itself is extremely cheap or free, but certain items require real-world money to purchase. They might give you more turns in a day, an item to help progress through the game, something that would take hours of grinding to get otherwise, or just make your character look awesome.
What we didn’t know is just how much we’re dropping on these titles.
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He follows up by saying:
I don’t want to risk damaging my iPad. Can I get an external CD/DVD drive and plug it into my iPad. I just ripped all my CDs apart and they’re not showing up in my iTunes library. Apple should really release a fix for this!
PS: Yeah, he totally admits
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This could be a major feature for app developers looking to add some very neat new tools to their titles.
According to Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac, Apple has added face detection API in iOS 5. Apple had previously used face detection on the Mac for everything from iPhoto’s Faces feature to OS X Lion’s advanced PhotoBooth effects, and along the way bought the company behind it, Polar Rose.
We have taken a look at these iOS 5-exclusive APIs and they are highly sophisticated. The first, called CIFaceFeature, can determine through an image where a person’s mouth and eyes are located. The second API, CIDetector, is a resource within the operating system that processes images for face detection.
So while we might see the built in iOS PhotoBooth get the same feature boost as Lion, we could also see other novelty apps, and games, and perhaps one day facial recognition for security. (“Oh, hi Steve. Unlocking your passwords now.”)
The Wall Street Journal has posted renderings of the proposed Apple Store for Grand Central Station. The pictures certainly appear to do this beautiful building justice and compliment its style and iconic image.
The MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) released some information on the proposed Apple Store which could open near the terminal’s east staircase, if approval is granted at tomorrow’s meeting. Apple will start building works immediately, with a four month program of works; making an opening time of around late November or early December.
Apple is said to have paid Charlie Palmer’s Metrazur restaurant a sum of around $5 million to vacate its space eight years before the lease expires. The MTA will also get a much higher rental figure from Apple; thought to be as high as $1.1 million a year.
[WSJ]
Microsoft has updated its popular OneNote application for the iPhone and iPod touch but more importantly, it is now available outside the US App Store. From today, OneNote will be available in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Microsoft OneNote Mobile is an easy-to-use note-taking application for capturing all of your ideas and to-dos on the go, brought to you by Microsoft Office. With OneNote Mobile, create searchable notes with text, pictures, bullets, and checkboxes. Then keep your notes in sync using free Windows Live SkyDrive cloud storage to access, edit and manage them from virtually anywhere, from your PC or almost any web browser.
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