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What you need to know about Apple iOS 4
June 29th, 2010
While the release of Apple’s snazzy new iPhone 4 on Thursday slightly overshadows the significance of the operating system’s latest feature bump, iOS 4 brings some of the most requested, surprising and welcome tweaks yet to Apple’s fleet of mobile devices.
It will be available to download this evening for your iPhone and iPod touch, through iTunes. Here’s the lowdown of everything you’ll need to know to get the most out of iOS 4.
1. The iPhone gets multitasking
Apple’s brand of mobile multitasking will offer up multiple apps without draining your battery or eating up memory. By saving an app’s state to memory, it will instantly jump back to life when loaded again. You can check out what’s running in the background by double tapping the home button.
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Change Icons on iPhone Home Screen
June 3rd, 2010
Change iPhone Home screen icons
A nice way to personalise your iPhone is by customizing the appearance of the home screen. A variety of icons with different functions are included and immediately available for your use on the iPhone, such as the calendar, text message feature, iPod music and video player and web browser.
Follow a few simple steps to change and rearrange the way the icons appear on your home screen.
Yes it’s Here – The iPad Launches to Media Frenzy!
January 27th, 2010
Apple iPad
Apple has put an end to weeks of speculation by unveiling its tablet device, which it has called the iPad. Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive unveiled the touchscreen device at an event in San Francisco. Mr Jobs described the tablet, which will cost between $499 and $829 in the US, as a “third category” between smartphones and laptops.
The device, which looks like a large iPhone, can be used to watch films, play games and browse the web.
The firm has also done a deal with publishers including Penguin, Macmillian and Harper Collins to allow e-books to be downloaded directly to the device through a new iBook Store. “You can download right onto your iPad,” said Mr Jobs. He also showed off magazines and newspapers on the device.
WPtouch Mobile Plugin & Theme for WordPress
January 13th, 2010
More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple’s app store design specs, WPtouch makes your WordPress website load lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show your content beautifully, all while not interfering with your regular theme.
WPtouch: WordPress Mobile Plugin
WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application experience when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch or Android touch mobile device. It comes complete with all the standard WordPress blog features: search, login, categories, tags, archives, photos & more. WPtouch also offers many customization features through a beautifully designed WordPress admin panel.
I thought the iPhone/iPod touch/Android shows my
website just fine the way it is now?
Not all websites are created equal, with some sites failing to translate well in the viewport of a small mobile device. Many WordPress sites today make heavy use of different javascripts which significantly increase the load time of pages, and drive your visitors on 3G/EDGE batty. So enter the WPtouch, a lightweight, fast-loading, feature-rich and highly-customized “theme application” which includes an admin interface to let you customize many aspects of your site’s presentation.