According to AllThingsDigital Facebook blocked Apple from using the Facebook API to access user data. Using Facebook’s API is normally free, but not for large scale access and not if it’s getting used a lot. iTunes got a user base of 160million, so that would be quiet a lot. Kara Swisher writes: Sources said Apple [...]

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Wired reports that Apple has reconsidered their rejection of Mark Fiore’s App. Mark Fiore has just won the Pulitzer Prize. Apple originally said the App is in violation of their App Store policies and rejected it in december 2009. “I feel a little bit guilty because it feels like I am getting preferential treatment,” Fiore [...]

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What has been rumored for so long has finally become reality. Apple today introduced the iPad or as Apple would put it: the magic experience of the internet. Worldwide product launch will be in March 2010. Hardware The iPad is a multi-touch device with a 9.7″ TFT display, without keyboard, but with a design and [...]

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New Yorican Hip Hop / Downbeat / Lo-Fi producer Tony Simon has finished his latest album: “The Music Scene”. It is gonna be released on Monday 18th, 2010 on Ninja Tune. Until then enjoy “Music Scene”. Free album megamix available on NinjaTune.net… » Incomplete-MP3 Store: Buy “The Music Scene” here (U.S. customers)… » Incomplete-MP3 Store:  [...]

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I. Abstract As some of us have already realized: iTunes by default does not allow adding AVI files to its library. This is very sad, but there are several solutions for this problem. II. Converting or going Commercial? One might be converting all files to something that QuickTime allows to play. As this is not [...]

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A couple of days after their latest release of WebOS 1.2 Palm released WebOS 1.2.1. Now the Palm Pre is again synchronizing with Apple’s iTunes 9.0.1. Since iTunes version 8.2.1 with every update Apple is trying to stop Palm from syncing their Pre with iTunes. As we’ve seen in the past, all those attempts by [...]

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The “little Palm Apple battle” goes into its next round. A week ago Apple released iTunes 8.2.1. This update blocked Palm Pre users from synchronizing music and movies with iTunes. We reported about this update and the technical implications of the sync feature here. Palm has now released a firmware update (webOS 1.1.0) for the [...]

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With the latest update of iTunes 8.2.1 Apple eventually blocks Palm Pre users from syncing with iTunes. It seems Palm knew very carefully how to emulate the iPod verification protocol of iTunes. How comes? Some major Palm Guys are former major Apple Guys One could ask Palm’s CEO Jon Rubinstein, or Palm’s SVP of Product [...]

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In the beginning there were only rumors, now it’s a fact. The upcoming iPhone competitor “Palm Pre” will allow seamingless integration into iTunes. Thus making synchronization between photos, DRM free music and contacts almost hassle free. Moreover the “Palm Pre” will be organized as a mass storage device. Which means you can also just copy [...]

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Together with the newly seeded iPhone OS 3.0 a new iTunes 8.2 has been seeded to developers aswell. MacRumors now posted a screenshot that includes reference to BluRay support. As Apple currently does not support BluRay this step is overdue anyway as Microsoft Windows user can play BluRay movies on their computers for the last [...]

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On auction sites worldwide chinese faked iTunes gift card serials are getting sold for a lot less money than their iTunes value. Currently 200US$ gift cards cost about 3-5US$ in China. In Europe prices vary between 40-60€ per 200US$ gift card. This issue reveals that Apple seems to have at least one problem: either they [...]

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What it is Eric Castro released a beta version of his All-In-One media player named “PwnPlayer” to chose beta testers. PwnPlayer is intended to be a replacement for the iPod player included with the iPhone or iPod Touch. Features PwnPlayer’s features as follows: playback from file system – PwnPlayer reads any folder from the file [...]

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We read all over the net and found some solutions to the most common issues that occurred. If you are kinda conservative user, we’d recommend not to update to firmware 2.1 and wait until a PwnageTool and QuickPwn update has been released. Since the iPhone Dev Team is reacting very fast, this should take only [...]

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Our beloved iPhone Dev Team yesterday released updated versions of QuickPwn for Microsoft Windows (now with improved Windows 64bit handling) and PwnageTool for MacOS X (fixes the permission issue, mentioned here). If you have PwnageTool installed yet, it should bravely auto-update. We had no time yet to test neither the Windows version nor the Mac [...]

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Our fellow iPhone Dev Team is unrestingly working for the entire iPhone/iPod Touch community. The team today released a release candidate of their well known PwnageTool (version 2.0.3), that now supports firmware 2.0.2 5C1. PwnageTool 2.0.3 is only available for MacOS X. Moreover they released another Beta of the QuickPwn tool. In contrast to PwnageTool QuickPwn [...]

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english Pay attention guys when updating iTunes on your Microsoft Windows machines. iTunes will list Safari as a recommended update to your iTunes installation, although you never installed Safari before – and of course: you’d better not install it, since Paypal is about to block it anyway. More details to be found on Golem.de (german [...]

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deutsch only Die Konzertreihe (26.04. – 10.05.2008), die im vergangen Jahr in London stattfand, kommt nun nach Berlin. Karten kann man jedoch nicht kaufen, sondern nur gewinnen oder ersteigern und aber dafür immer gleich zwei Stück. Es gibt für jeden Tag 500 Plätze. Stattfinden wird das Konzert im Radialsystem V in Friedrichshain (Holzmarktstr. 33, 10243 [...]

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