Filed under: Macworld, World wide web Tools, Software Update, Apple

I don’t know about you all, but considering I’m not in the market for a costly, little notebook, and I don’t need yet another thing hooked up to my Television, the ideal news I heard at the Keynote this day was about this iPhone “January update” (does that mean there’ll be one every month?) coming soon to your iTunes. Included in the free update to iPhone users:

• An updated Maps that’ll actually find your location automatically by triangulating cell towers (we saw this a while ago), and give you the option to add a pin to the map
• Web Clips, cutouts of web pages that you can attach to an icon sitting right there on the homescreen.
• A customizable homescreen and dock (just hold an icon to get them wiggling, and then move them around as you please), and up to nine homescreen pages total
• The update will also add chapter navigation for iPhone video, and subtitle/audio options as well.
• And though the readers in our IRC channel weren’t very impressed with this one, the iPhone will now feature multiple SMS sending.

Very awesome update for the iPhone, completely free and available on download in iTunes right now (!), and definitely an update that will set the stage for all the third party applications we’re supposed to see next month. Bring on the SDK!

Read

Share This

Share This

Finance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses, and organizations raise, allocate, and use monetary resources over time, …

Finance
Senate committee charged with writing tax legislation and bills affecting Social Security, Medicare, and other entitlement programs.

Henry B. Tippie College of Business :: Department of Finance
Legal Information

Share This

Share This

Filed under: iPod Family, Hacks, Internet Tools, Security, iPhone

In the “use at your own risk” department, TUAW reader Carter P. wrote in asking, “Hey, I know this is a lot to ask, but would it be possible for you to build me a simple application? All I would like the app to do is to spoof a MAC address on my iPhone.” MAC addresses are Media Access Control identifiers that are used to distinguish one network adapter from another. Spoofing involves changing your hardware’s MAC address from one setting to another. You can use spoofing to fix problems connecting to your ISP or to test your network firewall.

To help Carter out, I put together this iPhone/iPod touch utility. It prompts you to enter a new MAC address and then runs ifconfig en0 lladdr address. No further error checking is done so use the tool with all due caution.

Read

Share This

Share This

Filed under: Macworld, World wide web Tools, iPhone

The developers at Google are hot on the iPhone, due in part to something called the “Christmas cross-over.”

The number of global Google queries (say that five times fast) from iPhones surpassed queries made from Symbian-based phones for the first time in December, probably due to all the iPhones that were activated over the holiday.

Earlier this month, Google released iGoogle for the iPhone as well as an iPhone-optimized Google landing page. Today at Macworld, they announced more improvements for iPhone users (beyond those made in December).

First all, Gmail features auto-refresh. Calendar is speedier and features a month view that isn’t available at calendar.google.com, and iGoogle gadgets can be used with the iPhone. I’ve found that Picasa web albums are significantly faster, both over Wi-Fi and EDGE.

These are great changes. We don’t know just how Google is rolling this stuff out, so keep checking google.com/m today.

Read

Share This

Share This