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We put together a primer for iOS 4 , and then we hold you a comprehensive iOS 4 revue of the most significant new features . Now it ’s metre to search more of the okay details of iOS 4 — the new features and polish that may not make it to Apple ’s product Sir Frederick Handley Page , but may still make someone ’s day . Home screen As usual , Apple sneak a number of new feature into almost every aspect of iOS , so let ’s get going with the first thing that most people see when they habituate an iPhone : the dwelling screen ....

With Thursday ’s launch of theiPhone 4 , Apple look poised to have another megahit on its handwriting . And Peter Fader , for one , could n’t be more perplexed . “ It ’s a very dainty phone , but it ’s not revolutionary . It ’s incremental , ” tell Fader , a merchandising professor in the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania . “ As much as it seems like a big equipment , with unexampled features and function , it does n’t seem like there ’s any one of them that was deserving waiting for ....

Adobe Systems plans to free the final edition of Flash Player 10.1 for smartphones on Tuesday , but very few the great unwashed will be able to habituate it in good order away . Flash Player 10.1 is designed to offer a consistent user experience across laptop computer , desktops , tablets , phones and televisions . The player for desktop became available June 10 . Users of earpiece running Android 2....

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict In the course of brush up a pair of mobile audio transcription apps — Audiofile Engineering ’s FiRe Field Recorder and the barren Blue FiRe — I had the opportunity to put Alesis ’s ProTrack through its tempo . The hand-held stereo system fipple pipe make with the iPod to help you seize high - tone audio on the go . Unlike mobile microphones such as Blue ’s Mikey ( ) which take a simplified approaching to capturing audio frequency , the Alesis ProTrack goes in a more complex , but still portable , commission ....

Expecting to take some prison term on Thursday to drop in at an AT&T Store and foot up the freshly ship iPhone 4 ? Better maker alternative architectural plan . That ’s the wordstraight from AT&T , which enounce on Tuesday that its computer storage wo n’t be able-bodied to sell newfangled iPhones to customer who have n’t already placed orders for the iPhone 4 . In fact , AT&T does n’t expect to sell the iPhone 4 to take the air - up customers until June 29 ....

Apple ’s discharge of iOS 4 on Monday grabbed most of the attention , but it was n’t the only iPhone - centric product to come out of Cupertino that Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . The caller also released iBooks 1.1 , a general app that brings Apple ’s formerly - iPad - only take on e - reading to the iPhone . I spent some time with the iPhone rendering of iBooks , both peruse the aisles of its virtual iBookstore and doing some light reading on my iPhone ....

Ah , summertime . The chance to take a break from occupy about workplace , go on vacation , and pass your time worrying about start secure pictures . luckily , your photographic life sentence does n’t have to be as stressful as your body of work life , as long as you follow a few tips and pack the right cogwheel . Top vacation photo pitfalls and fixes When shooting vacation pictures you need to consider the same thing you do when shooting anywhere else : exposure , composition , adequate sunblock ....

Apple has confirm that FaceTime , iPhone 4 ’s new video chat feature of speech , will not consume any minutes of cellular airtime once activate . A companionship spokespersontold Business Insiderthat all cellular voice exercise is terminate as shortly as a FaceTime connection is establish between two earphone , and all subsequent communicating happen through Apple ’s own transmitting protocol over Wi - Fi . FaceTime , which is was introduced as a unexampled feature article inthe forthcoming iPhone 4 , allows two phones to connect to each other and turn a phone call into a video New World chat ....

In the time since the first iPhone was turn , I ’ve been one of Mobile Mail ’s adult fans and its biggest critics . I ’m a devotee because , for an tocopherol - mail client on a roving phone , Mail is amazingly usable . But I ’m a critic because , as good as Mail is , it ’s long had a number of glower feature omissions that hamper its usefulness , and some of my boastful indirect request for Io 4 included meet those hole ....

Intel ’s next - genesis mainframe code - named Westmere - EX may admit more core than the ship’s company ’s current server chip , according to the title of a paper about the buffalo chip announced on Sunday . Intel will present a paper , called “ Westmere - x : A 20 Thread Server CPU , ” at theHot Chips 22 group discussion , which will be held at Stanford University in Palo Alto , California between August 22 and 24 ....

The Macalope gets close out in his iPhone 4 purchase attempts ( no , there is no express lane for mythical beasts — but thereshouldbe ) . Meanwhile , he ’s wondering if it is n’t time to commence talking about “ Google fanbois . ” And , while the hirsute one is above sell his torso for an iPhone 4 , he is n’t above mocking netbooks , which the iPad may have on the ropes ....

Wi - Fi traffic intercepted by Google ’s Street View cars include passwords and Es - mail , grant to the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty ( CNIL ) . CNIL launch an investigation last calendar month intoGoogle ’s transcription of dealings carried over unencrypted Wi - Fi networks , and has begun examining the data Google handed over as part of that investigation . Google give away on May 14 that the fleet of vehicle it operates to compile panoramic image of city streets for its Google Maps website had unknowingly memorialise traffic from unencrypted Wi - Fi networks ....

other Friday morning , Apple released an anticipated update to its MobileMe Web apps , as well as a Modern Find My iPhone app . TheMobileMe Mail betathat we take a first flavour at last calendar month is now available to all members , and Apple even add up some surprisal . Besides a redesigned planetary house - in page , Mail received the most significant update , profit both a major interface redesign and some novel feature ....