Browsing October, 2011 archives.

Worried about Photo Stream leaks?

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

There’s been a number of articles about the possibility of Apple’s new iOS 5 Photo Stream service spreading the “wrong” photos around, and the option to avoid this is generally “reset the Photo Stream“. An alternate I proved today – set your i device to airplane mode (or otherwise disable uploading); now go through and [...]

Apple service, nothing better!

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Last week, on vacation, I discovered that my iPad 2 was not recording sound; I tried recording some sounds and just got static; I then tried the Skype Test Call service and that also was silent. Tonight I booked and visited the Genius Bar at my local Apple store. The “genius” tried to record using [...]

40 million, here it comes?!

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Last quarter, Apple sold just less than 10 million iPads, leaving me still doubting they could sell 40 million for the year as predicted back in January. Of course that same prediction was for a higher resolution iPad 2 display, which didn’t happen. But now, the latest quarterly figures from Apple announce sales of more [...]

Steve Jobs

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Zite highlights Steve Jobs tributes on his “magic” iPad tonight …