iPhone news
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 |I thought I would lump the iPhone news this time, rather than spreading it out across ten different entries, as it worked out pretty well last time.
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Archive for the ‘iTunes’ Category
iPhone SDK in June
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 |
Apple’s Thursday is the new Tuesday event has come and gone, leaving behind presents stamped “Do not open until June”. It seems as though everything dealing with the iPhone has a slightly out of focus date somewhere on the horizon. Flash, the SDK, the iPhone itself.
All gripes and bitterness aside (read: Sprint customer), the iPhone SDK was announced today. What does that mean, you ask? Well, in June we’ll be seeing applications pop up on iPhones with the release of the iPhone 2.0 firmware. And more than likely something like iTunes 8.0 That’s right, you heard it here first. iTunes 8.0.
A return to basics? A blogger too lazy place in another color or look for the most recent iCon (ha) for the clip? You decide for yourself. For now, I just feel as though my dock needs more green.
So, after that lovely diversion, back to the iPhone. The SDK will be released to developers today. It uses a four tier system for creating applications for the phone. From there, there is an emulated source that acts exactly as the iPhone, or you can run applications on the iPhone from your computer to debug in real time.
Applications can be purchased through the iTunes store. The cost is decided by the developer, with Apple receiving 30% of the revenue, and the developer receiving 70%. If the application is free, Apple will not charge to host through iTunes.
The beta for the SDK program can be downloaded if you’re a developer from the Apple site. It costs $99 and unlocks the inner-child feature on your computer.
For those of you without a developer’s account that would still like to play with the new iPhone features, you can send in an application over here to be a beta tester. Unfortunately, it’s not for downloading applications yet. Just things like push email and WPA2. You know, things that would allow you to actually have your phone on the server at work since it’s secure. Ah, if only Apple manufactured a version that didn’t have the camera.
Spore? On an Apple blog? In an entry about the iPhone? Well, yes. Spore is coming to the iPhone/iPod Touch in September. It is the first official 3rd party game for the iPhone. Let’s just hope that when playing on a PC you can see characters running around tagged “Sent from my iPhone”.
Useful Tips: Backing up your iTunes Library
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 |If you have purchased music from iTunes, there is a quick and easy way to transfer it over to any other authorized Mac computer. Simply plug your iPod in, right click on it from your desktop, then select the Transfer Purchases option and follow the guided prompt. Quick and painless and now you have a backup of all your purchased songs just in case something happens to your hard drive or if you just want to have songs on another computer. While there are many applications that will do this for you (and will give your more options), none of them make the whole process as simple as this quick little tool integrated by Apple.
iTunes Updated to 7.6.1
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 |Good news for those of you having problems with iTunes and Apple TV software version 2.0. This update promises to fix those issues and will allow for much smoother compatibility between the two. The update is quite hefty at 44MB, but if you are an Apple TV user, it is almost an essential download. You can get your hands on this update by running Software Update and will probably be able to download this from Apple’s Download Center later on.
