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Quick Tip: Stream Audio in Background on iPhone/iPod Touch on OS 3.0

By on June 24, 2009

I’m a TWiT aficionado and always use the TWiT.am app from the App Store, however it doesn’t work in the background (a feature I LOVED when I had my iPod jailbroken) however, I got curios and tried this, and so can you!

 

  1. Go to http://twit.am/ in Safari
  2. Click on Listen Live
  3. [A Player opens – as seen below]
  4. Click the home/menu button on the front of the device and the audio keeps playing in the background.

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iPhone OS 3.0 Upgrade Wednesday

By on June 15, 2009

The day after tomorrow, June 17 (Wednesday) the world will be able to download the latest update to the iPod Touch and iPhone… here are the top 6 reasons why I am going to get it:

  1. Spotlight Searching (system wide)–with this feature you will be able to swipe to the screen left of the hope screen and you are given a search screen which searches your apps, your apps data, your songs, notes, and podcasts. So cool
  2. Landscape keyboard system wide!–enough said…
  3. Shake to shuffle–because it makes a good demo
  4. This may be the most important… APIs – The latest apps will use the new APIs which Apple will use in 3.0… meaning that if you don’t upgrade you will not be able to use the latest apps… call me blasphemous, but this does seem a lot like an issue you would see from Microsoft, not Apple.
  5. Faster Safari, hopefully using some of the Safari 4 (for desktop) javascript technology
  6. And lastly and most requested, copy and paste (with cool gestures). This will be a cool demo feature, especially because I wasn’t alive to see Steve Jobs demo the original clipboard on the macintosh in 1984, so this is just as monumental. Now I can demo this to all of my friends who may have already used a clipboard on their Blackberrys or desktops, but this is on an iPod; so it’s cool.

**A note on the many new APIs Apple has included in the SDK, of which I don’t possess as I am not a registered developer, there are thousands. It is important to talk about the APIs for notifications, which have not yet been given highlight from the media, even though it may prove to be the most influential of them all.

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Mac App: QuickPWN

By on June 10, 2009

 

QuickPwn

 

 

A few weeks ago I violated the Apple iPod Touch/OS EULA and jailbreak’d my iPod Touch.  The process for doing this varies mostly on whether you have a first generation or second generation iPod touch, thankfully I have the first generation and can use a great tool, QuickPWN.  Basically, this tool makes you plug-in your iPod, figures out what version it is, finds a copy of the iPod software (either on your hard drive from iTunes or from Apple’s servers), modifies it to be a jailbreak install, then installs it on your iPod.  This whole process took me about five minutes start to finish.  There are many great applications and abilities you inherit from jailbreaking including the ability to background an application (which is great for internet radio, like TWiT.am).

I stand behind this application and can only say that I’ve had a good experience, I do realize that this is a somewhat geeky thing to do and may cause issues with your computer or iPod (software only issues).  I have never had an issue with this on Mac OS X or on Windows (however the process is a little more involved for Windows).

Get this for free from QuickPWN.com.

 

**To do this it is recommended that you first restore the iPod to factory settings via iTunes, then disable the option Open iTunes when iPod is connected.

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