We’ve heard about the upcoming iOS 5 release possibly containing the new speech-to-text feature for a while but we haven’t seen much of anything else pop up about it. Luckily for us a reader over at 9to5Mac has sent in screenshots of the new feature on how it’ll work. When the Apple Keyboard is up and you’ll see a little microphone icon next to the spacebar and by tapping this you’ll be given a microphone overlay letting you know it’s time...
Every once in a while we try to bring you decent apps or tweaks that you might want to install. After reading of a new Maps.app tweak release I thought I’d give it a try and see how it worked around downtown Portland. I am not sure how many of you out there actually use the default Map app that is force installed upon purchase, but for those of you that do, this is for you. I have a separate GPS that I use, but I do find myself using the Google Maps app quite...
Tweetbot – which is a highly loved Twitter Client here at the GS Headquarters – has been updated to include Sleep Time for Push Notifications, optional mention notifications and a whole lot more! Personally, Tweetbot was always an extremely sexy Twitter app. I always wanted to use it and only it, but the lack of native push was always a turn off for me. Recently we told you that the lovely Twitter client gave Push notifications to all with the 1.4.2 update. With...
For those of you that aren’t sure how to use Apple’s built in Disc Utility to create a bootable tool on either a flash drive or DVD a simple tool has been released to make it so much easier – not that it is difficult in the first place. Guillaume Gete has created an easy to application programmed with AppleScript to generate a bootable copy of Apple’s new OS. For those of you that aren’t sure how to extract the proper files from the download of...
Being rather enthusiastic iOS users (most of us anyway) here at GS means we’ve been quiet diligent in following the Lodsys vs. small (and now big) time developers in regards to in-app purchasing. According to patent troll Lodsys, basically Apple’s entire developer ecosystem who uses in-app purchasing and doesn’t contact them for licensing is in need of a good suing. Apple meanwhile states that their generous licensing terms already covers individual...
HTC appears to be covering all bases concerning the recent ITC ruling which found the Taiwanese company infringing on two of Apple’s patents. Earlier this week HTC said they were seeking some sort of licensing deal with Apple. But late yesterday, HTC CFO Winston Yung told Reuters that the company is in fact in the process of filing an appeal, citing a “strong case”. HTC’s recent purchase of S3 Graphics could possibly help not only in this current...
