Written by Philip Roy | 02 September 2010

In the keynote today, Apple announced the release of iOS 4.1 next week for iPhone and iPod Touch users, and that, in an update to come out in November, the iPad will be included to update the product range to iOS version 4.2 and bring parity in many respects across all iDevices.

Written by Philip Roy | 02 September 2010

Apple today announced the new iPod touch, packed with incredible new features including Apple's stunning Retina display, FaceTime video calling, HD video recording, Apple's A4 chip, 3-axis gyro, iOS 4.1 and Game Center - all combined in the thinnest and lightest iPod touch ever. The new iPod touch features up to 40 hours of music playback and seven hours of video playback on a single battery charge.*

Written by Philip Roy | 02 September 2010

Apple today introduced iTunes 10 with Ping, a new music-oriented social network for following your favourite artists and friends to discover what music they're talking about, listening to and downloading. iTunes Ping lets you post your thoughts and opinions, your favourite albums and songs, the music you've downloaded from iTunes and tell your friends which concerts you plan to attend.

Written by MiniMonos Jess | 29 August 2010

MiniMonos (www.minimonos.com), the sustainability-focused virtual world for children, has launched its first iPhone app, MiniMonos Flight. Players of the game become flying monkeys, and have to tilt their iPhones left and right to swoop through the sky, collecting wind clouds and avoiding energy-sapping pollution clouds. Trampolines on the ground provide bouncing rescues to monkeys that get too low.

MiniMonos Flight is an iPhone adaptation of the game in MiniMonos.com, the popular children's virtual world. Banana chips scored on the iPhone app can be posted to your MiniMonos.com account.

Written by Philip Roy | 27 August 2010

Apple have released an update to their most recent iWorks software that (for their Pages application) includes the ability to export files in ePub format, suitable for use in the iBooks app on portable devices. Whilst users could already use PDFs with iBooks, this brings added options for users. Apple have released details of the update (which includes fixes for Keynote and Numbers also) for Mac users at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4165 and offer guidance for ePub creation at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4168

Written by Philip Roy | 12 August 2010

The NZiPhone.com and NZMac.com News app has been updated to version 1.3 and will appear in the App Store shortly, and with it comes support for the iPhone 4. The app features a slight new look in that some of the tab icons (the tab is the bottom part of the screen) have changed, and this is due to using icons that have both a standard and high-res (for the retina display) version within the app. At the same time, text and other aspects of the app should be crystal clear to those with an iPhone 4. This was all incredibly easy to do (you can read more on this in a moment), thanks in part to the amazing TapLynx framework used to build the app. So what are you waiting for? Download the free app now and keep up-to-date with all the happenings on NZMac.com and NZiPhone.com!

Written by Philip Roy | 12 August 2010

iOS 4.0.2 has been released and can be downloaded from iTunes to update your device. This update (according to Apple) "Fixes security vulnerability associated with viewing malicious PDF files", which gained notoriety as a supporting mechanism to easily jailbreak an iPhone. Obviously Apple are wanting to make jail breaking a procedure that most would be put off from doing.

Written by Philip Roy | 08 August 2010

Mark Papermaster. Interesting name, and someone that Apple went to a great deal of trouble to hire. Now it seems due to antennagate, he may no longer be wanted at Apple. Various websites are reporting this morning that Papermaster has left Apple (Engadget, New York Times, Ars Technica) after 14 months, but keep in mind that some of these sites are just repeating the news. Papermaster gained notoriety when Apple hired him from IBM, but IBM protested, leading to litigation. As the NZMac.com article of 28 January 2009 stated, it appeared to be resolved. But it appears that Papermaster has now left and that the reason speculated relates to the antenna issues of the iPhone 4.