The device supposedly physically looks like Apple’s current Thunderbolt or LED Cinema Display monitors, complete with an iSight camera that will be used for FaceTime video calls, except “much larger.” Those monitors feature 27-inch displays, which would be fairly modest for the TV market. Apple’s virtual assistant Siri will make an appearance, which can be used to start a FaceTime call and presumably other functions that weren’t mentioned specifically.
After the launch of the much-hyped iPad 3 and a good dose of iPhone 5 rumours, if there’s one thing that’s still a well-kept secret at the Cupertino-based Apple, it’s the timing of the launch of its smart watch – the iWatch.
The watch, obviously, syncs with any Android phone and vibrates for received text messages, phone calls and emails. And if you’re too busy to take your smartphone out of your pocket, the watch even display messages on its 1.42-by-1.42-inch screen.
One such device that will offer dual connectivity (to both the iOS and Android platforms) is the Pebble which, in fact, has already managed to raise a neat $6.44 million in funding pledges on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter from 43,771 backers (and counting) who’d like to see the technology become commercially viable and available.
Then there are offerings from Fossil and something called I’m Watch, which claims to be the world’s first real smartwatch.
So when Apple launches its iWatch, it will be in competition with these and no doubt numerous others that will precede and follow the Apple device.
The cybersecurity community raked Apple Inc over the coals now, saying the company had dragged its heels on eradicating malware that experts say may have infected up to 600,000 Macintosh computers and can be used to ferret out sensitive user information.
The consumer electronics company said it was working on finding and ridding “Flashback” malware that exploits a flaw in Oracle Corp’s Java software. Apple has issued patches and is now developing software to detect and eliminate Flashback, it said on its website. The company declined to elaborate.
For the first time ever, a widespread computer virus is infecting machines thought to be immune.
Apple is scrambling, amid criticism, to fix the problems.
A red perfectly legit looking Adobe pop up screen tells you to update your flash player.
It could allow attackers to get all of your personal information.
It is a real wake up call for so many of us who assumed our Mac’s are virus proof. Many are criticizing apple for being slow to admit there is a problem and warning mac users.
A type of virus, called “Flashback,” already infected at least 600,000 Macs.
One catches this by surfing and so you surf to a website and it suggests that you need to update your flash.
This is what you’ll see: When you click on it..the virus installs a “keylogger” on your computer.
So it will track your user name and passwords.The virus also connects you to a remote host, giving it invisible control of your computer.Its said that the virus gets in through java and javascript.
There are free anti-virals you can download for Mac online.
Apple is offering a patch, but only for its latest operating systems.
Experts call this the most sophisticated attack on Macs ever.
It is possible that the spotlight will stop indexing the files when you cancel the indexing. You can reinitiate the indexing of files by following the following steps :
Method 1
Step 1 : Go to Spotlight preferences from the spotlight option which occurs or open System Preferences and click on the Spotlight preference.
Step 2 : Select the Privacy tab from the window which appears.
Step 3 : Now check whether your hard drive is listed under the ‘Prevent Spotlight from searching these locations:’ section.
Step 4 : If your hard drive is listed, then click on the hard drive and press the minus(-) button at the bottom of the list to remove it from the list.
Step 5 : Now quit the Spotlight Preferences and thats it. Spotlight should now go back to indexing your files.
Method 2
If your hard drive is not listed in the list of prevented locations, then :
Step 1 : Add your hard drive to the list by pressing the plus(+) button at the bottom of the list or by dragging the hard drive folder from your finder to the list.
Step 2 : Now quit the Spotlight preferences.
Step 3 : Now perform the steps in Method 1 and it will do the trick.
The following are the steps for downloading the sales report from iTunesConnect.
In iTunesConnect, you can create test users for testing of InApp purchases. This is how you can do it.
Login to your iTunesConnect Developer account.
Choose Manage Users from the options that are available.
Select AddNewUser button.
Fill the required details.
Click the save button.
Now your test user account is ready for use.
Apple is back with their new iOS 5 SDK. A special feature in the new SDK is the availability of location simulation in the Simulator. That means we can now test location-based features in your app without leaving your desk. In this we can select from preset locations and routes within the iOS Simulator and pick a custom latitude and longitude with accuracy while we’re running our simulated app.
Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) for Objective-C makes memory management the job of the compiler. By enabling ARC with the new Apple LLVM compiler, we will never need to type retain or release again, thereby simplifying the development process, while reducing crashes and memory leaks. So the compiler will smartly handle the release of objects once it is no longer user. This will do a world of good to the speed and performance of the xcode.
For inserting a string at a particular index use the following code,
NSMutableString *largeString; largeString = [NSMutableString stringWithString: @"That is a string"]; [largeString insertString: @"was and still " atIndex: 5];
