Ipod Touch

Daily Tip: How to get your music artwork to show up on all tracks of an album when using iTunes Match

By chrisoldroyd, Wednesday, Dec 21, 2011 a 12:22 am

If you are like me and spent hours ensuring your album and track artwork is all in order in iTunes only to find that when you subscribed to iTunes Match it all went haywire, you are not alone. I signed up for iTunes Match last week when the international launch went live. I uploaded all of my music only to find that the album artwork showed up fine in album view but only the first track of each album showed any artwork, all of the other tracks had missing artwork.

Apple looking to open an R&D facility in Israel

By chrisoldroyd, Sunday, Dec 18, 2011 a 4:50 am

According to a report by Ynetnews, Apple is looking to open a research and development center in Israel. A delegation of Apple representatives headed by VP Ed Frank is currently in the country meeting with high tech companies such as Intel. The new R&D operation will apparently be lead by Aharon Aharon, the former head of Zoran Corporation’s R&D center.

Daily Tip: How to print out driving directions from the Maps app

By chrisoldroyd, Saturday, Dec 17, 2011 a 12:22 am

Going on vacation or just to someplace new and curious how to print out Maps driving directions so you can keep a hard copy handy? While the built-in iOS Maps app lacks turn by turn navigation, it does give you a visual map of your route and a list of directions. If you're driving through an area with dodgy data service, or you're just old school and want a physical copy, it's easy to print out that list of directions. They can then be handed to your passenger without the need for them to have your iPhone in their hand and it saves your battery life too.

Win the iOS device of your dreams in the TiPb holiday giveaway! [Week 3]

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Dec 16, 2011 a 1:40 pm

In case you hadn't heard -- and really, ask somebody next time! -- TiPb wants to give you the iOS device -- or devices! -- of your dreams. That's right, a brand new iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPod touch, or Apple TV, or even iPad 3 in 2012, could be yours!

And this is week 3 so you now have a third chance to win!

Revised iOS 5.0.1 update may make Siri port legally possible

By chrisoldroyd, Friday, Dec 16, 2011 a 1:15 pm

Apple's revised iOS 5.0.1 update seems to have come with decrypted ramdisks, something which could make the port of Siri to other iOS devices legally possible. Before today’s firmware update, important files to get Siri working on other devices were encrypted in Apple’s file system. Decrypting them would be illegal and infringe on copyright and that is the main reason for it not being made available.

Forums: Siri censored, Irritations, iPod Gaming

By Chris Parsons, Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011 a 7:33 pm

We've reached mid-week here at TiPb and in case you happened to miss out on anything from this week thus far -- now is a good time to skip on back and get caught up before tonight's iPhone Live! You can also take a stroll though the TiPb forums or start your own thread today -- just make sure you come on back before we get started. You can register now to get started today and make sure you check out some of threads below:

All Apple A4 SoC devices now Jailbroken untethered on iOS 5.0.1

By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011 a 5:08 pm

Famous Chronic Dev-Team member, pod2g, has confirmed that his untethered jailbreak is working on pretty much all devices with an Apple A4 system-on-a-chip running iOS 5.0.1. On top of A4 devices, he's also got an untethered Jailbreak for iOS 4.3.3 on the AppleTV 2 working.

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Bungie’s Marathon 2 arriving in the App Store on December 16

By chrisoldroyd, Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011 a 9:31 am

The second part to the hugely popular Mac gaming trilogy Marathon is set to hit the App Store on Thursday December 16. The original Marathon title was released back in July to great acclaim and better still it was free. The creators, Bungie, later went on to make Halo for the Xbox.

Marathon 2: Durandal will be arriving on December 1 according to touchArcade. Amazingly, it will not only support Retina display devices but it will also come as a universal binary. Throw in Game Center support, enhancements to use with the Fling joystick and an all new menu interface and it all adds up to a really exciting game release.

Vote now for the social networking app of the year [2011 TiPb Awards]

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 a 10:26 am

Not content with having one of the most popular apps in the history of iOS, Facebook launched a second -- Facebook Messenger to create a quicker, cleaner path to owning your conversations. While Facebook as diversifying, LinkedIn was differentiating, releasing a new version of their app with their own, finally unique take on the social experience.

Path also released a new version with a bold, breathtaking new user experience and slightly more picturesque and timeline based focus. Apple added yet another separate social network to their portfolio, this time Find my Friends which offers very fine grained privacy control wrapped it more stitched leather than a puffy couch. And Google got into the game in a huge way with Google+.

Twitter for iPhone shed it's Tweetie heritage and while power users howled, it just might have become more usable for the mainstream. Luckily power users had plenty of places to turn with Tweetbot offering an entirely different take, with that trademark Tapbots look and increasingly deep functionality, and Twittelator Neue offering eye-popping animation and amped up interactions.

Verbs also did the remarkable by showing how simply and elegantly instant messages could be handled on mobile.

Incredibly different, incredibly rich, it's hard to pick just nine, never mind one -- but that's your job. Vote up top and tell us why you voted they way you did in the comments! These are your awards, so get to it!

LunaTik Touch Pen seeks Kickstarter funding, an all in one rollerball and iPad stylus

By chrisoldroyd, Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 a 9:52 am

The LunaTik Touch Pen is currently seeking Kickstarter funding and before you assume that it is just another stylus, it does offer something quite unique. The stylus is actually a rollerball pen but with a click of a button, the ink point disappears and it becomes a capacitive stylus for your iPad.