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Siri Server and iPod Touch 4G Siri Port Update

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iPod nano 6G Update adds clocks, Nike+, large icons (Review)

A look at 1.2 update for the iPod nano 5G. This update appears to bring the 2010 iPod nano up to speed with the new features announced by Apple for 2011. iPod nano 5G Update adds clocks, Nike+, large icons

i4Siri Update iPod Touch 4G Fully Functional and Server

In this video I discuss the latest status of the i4Siri Port. We have bought a server and are working on implementing the google voice api. (I explain how the api works later in the video). Also Siri does work entirely on the iPod Touch 4G. To read more check: i4siri.com To extract 4S keys follow this: i4siri.com Follow Me: twitter.com and follow @leftyfl1p for updates on the Siri Port twitter.com Official Siri news website: i4siri.com Like on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow iOS4Life: twitter.com Check out iOS4Life: ios4life.com $4.99 Unlimited Cpanel Hosting-http

‘LikeBelt’ Prototype Lets You Update Facebook with a Hip Thrust

Wear the LikeBelt to hip-thrust your way to real-world Facebook liking. Image: Deeplocal

Facebook has permeated practically every nook and cranny of the online experience. Our friends’ faces appear in Facebook widgets placed on sites we visit, and “like” buttons are attached to nearly every piece of journalism we read.

In fact, one’s attached to the article you’re reading now.

Well, get ready for Facebook ubiquity to seep into the real world. A clever hardware-hacking project called LikeBelt uses near-field communication technology (NFC) to register Facebook likes as you walk down the street. Just approach a person or thing that deserves liking, and thrust your hips in its — or his, or her — direction.

“There used to be simple ways of saying you like things, like thumbs up, high fives, or humping,” Nathan Martin, CEO of Deeplocal, told Wired.

Yes, you read that correctly: humping. Deeplocal has taken the primitive gesture — arguably, one of nature’s earliest forms of “liking” — and combined it with a wearable piece of technology in the creation of the LikeBelt.

As the video below demonstrates, the LikeBelt lets you like things in the real world by thrusting your hips at strategically placed NFC chips. The chips could be located in homes or businesses, or attached to other people. You could also check-in, add a friend, or post to someone’s profile using the belt.

“We wanted to explore NFC and think more creatively about what can be done with it besides just purchasing,” Martin said.

The LikeBelt is fairly simple, and you can make it yourself, says Deeplocal’s senior creative engineer Patrick Miller. It’s composed of a belt with a buckle, an NFC antenna attached behind the buckle, and an NFC-enabled Android phone (Deeplocal used a Nexus S). The firm detached the phone’s NFC antenna, extended the leads to keep it connected to the phone, and affixed it to the belt’s custom-designed buckle.

The belt itself interacts with inexpensive RFID tags coded in an NFC format. An Android app reads and displays your NFC-based actions. Deeplocal doesn’t have any plans to sell the LikeBelt as a finished product, but the prototype demonstrates the inevitable progression of social media as it outgrows the virtual world, and begins to invade what we’ve traditionally described as the “real world.”

Pittsburgh-based Deeplocal calls itself an “innovation studio.” Five years ago, the company spun out of Carnegie Mellon as an art group, but now houses a combination of artists, engineers and designers. The team builds prototypes for clients (often marketing firms) to show how technology can be used in new and interesting ways.

One of the group’s most recent notable projects is the Prius PXP, a bicycle that you control using mind waves via an EKG headset.

“The fun side of me wants to see the more experimental ways of playing with technology. Like with the Toyota bike, it’s arguable whether that’s a practical use of an EKG headset. But it’s a fun way to experiment,” Martin said. “And like artwork, it’s about inspiring people.”

The LikeBelt is a prototype, but can be made at home. Image: Deeplocal

The list of NFC handsets currently available isn’t especially long, particularly if you’re only counting handsets you can get in the U.S. Thus, NFC as a platform hasn’t really taken off in a big way — we’ve mostly only seen it in Google Wallet and competing payment solutions platforms. But the Deeplocal team sees NFC potential for other areas: marketing and, yes, social satire. NFC need not be limited to simple commerce applications.

Yes, the LikeBelt concept is silly on the surface. The core concept reeks of wearable performance art, not practical utility. But that doesn’t stop Martin and Miller from imagining real-world applications with direct consumer appeal.

They say they can see NFC used for dating — in places like bars, where physical interaction is important. Director of marketing Heather Estes also envisions deployment in retail stores and other places where knowing a client’s personal preferences is a growing concern.

Scenarios that depend on “hyper-local” personalization could also benefit from NFC applications like LikeBelt. Whereas GPS technology can only tag you in a general location, NFC can pinpoint your presence in the aisle of a grocery store. You could check-in, Bump-like, to events or conferences. Or perhaps inside a room of your friend’s apartment.

Unfortunately, NFC needs to take off in a big way before we can begin hip-thrust-liking in crowded bars and conference rooms. To this point, Martin thinks that if Apple’s next iPhone adopted NFC technology, it would be “monumental.” Indeed, as more and more handsets support NFC, the more initiative there will be to deploy RFID tags in unusual places and in creative applications.

And how does Deeplocal think Facebook would feel about all this Facebook liking, humping and bumping?

“Hopefully, Facebook looks at it as a fun opportunity,” Martin said. “They should make their own physical LikeBelt.”

If Zuckerberg wants to dominate more than just the digital world, maybe the company should. But to keep the sexual harassment suits to a minimum, I think a LikeBracelet would suffice just fine.

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Jailbreak Update: iPhone 4S & iPad 2 5.0.1 Untethered, CDevReporter

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What the Latest iTunes Update Failed to Fix

Today Apple unveiled a suite of new features aimed at bringing education into the iPad era: the iBooks 2 app, iBooks Author, textbooks in the iBookstore, and the iTunes U app. Accompanying these new apps and upgrades is the iTunes 10.5.3 update, which lets you take advantage of all the new features.

Apple has updated a lot of products to great effect over the years, but somehow iTunes always comes up short whenever upgrades roll around. iTunes Match and Wi-Fi syncing, two features introduced with iTunes 10.5, are fantastic steps in the right direction, severing our dependency on the easily misplaced USB cable, as well as the need to constantly sync and update multiple devices so they hold the same digital content.

For the most part, however, iTunes is a mess to look at, and a hassle to navigate.

We know that 10.5.3 is an incremental iTunes update, but it got us thinking about a few areas in drastic need of improvement. Here are our top three iTunes gripes that we hope Apple will fix in iTunes 11.

A Messy Interface

There is a lot going on in iTunes. It manages all sorts of different media, from music, books, and TV shows to the apps on your iPhone, and the App Store itself (in the desktop version). The media density is so rich, in fact, each unique section in the iTunes Store requires its own full-fledged landing page with highlighted and featured content to differentiate hot selections from long-tail back catalogs. And then, of course, you’ve got your own library of content to deal with. It’s a lot to parse through.

Even worse: The way iTunes is currently laid out is a mess. The App Store landing page has 11 different sections of featured apps, and it seems there’s a half-dozen ways to navigate to the very same pages.

We know Apple developers can create clean, intuitive interfaces — it’s, well, what they do. Just look at the sublimely simple iOS interface, or the multitude of Apple-built iOS and Mac apps that are straightforward and pleasant to use. iTunes needs a major overhaul in usability, content discovery, and general, overall simplicity. Banish those tiny icons! Give me a big, beautiful magazine spread of content I have, and new stuff I can buy.

A Service No One Wants or Needs

Nobody uses Ping, Apple’s social network for music discovery, except for (apparently) Phil Schiller.

Ping was a great idea. iTunes has more than 160 million users, many of whom are dedicated music fans. Surely they would want to communicate with each other, explore and discover new music with one another, and interact with their favorite artists.

That was the intent of Ping, but the feature just didn’t click. Ping’s Twitter integration is nice for finding friends and colleagues — assuming they’re the sort of people whose music-buying habits you’d like to follow or emulate. But artist involvement on the service is lackluster, and the lack of Facebook integration has been a glaring omission. If Ping could mesh with our Facebook likes and tap into our friend feeds, it might offer value. But currently it’s just another sad example of another social network that never was.

I’m sorry Ping, but it’s time to be quietly laid to rest — right next to MobileMe.

Confusing Music Management

Overall, iTunes is a fantastic program for organizing and managing music, but it does suffer significant problems in a few areas.

First, if you’ve got music tracks from a variety of sources — burned CDs, purchased songs, Best Of albums — you’re bound to run into duplicate songs, and it’s a pain to recognize and eliminate these dupes, especially if the versions are slightly different. It would be great if iTunes could instantly recognize duplicates, and prompt users with the option to delete the older or lower quality versions.

Second, iTunes (like most Apple products) doesn’t always play nice with non-Apple-sanctioned content. Some users still have issues with iTunes not recognizing songs that weren’t purchased from directly within the software. These could be tracks burned from CDs, but saved in incompatible file formats or bearing incompatible tag information. Offending files fail to transfer to iTunes song libraries, or appear to transfer correctly, but don’t sync to attached iPhones and iPods. Worst of all: When tracks fail to transfer or sync, iTunes provides no explanation of what went wrong.

Third, users have issues with Apple’s iTunes Match service, which launched in mid-November. For songs that have counterparts that could be “matched” with existing iTunes content, a number of users have found iTunes Match uploads the user’s version rather than just using the matched version, making the upload process excruciatingly long. Indeed, lengthy sync times are often cited as a major complaint of iTunes in general.

iTunes is an incredible piece of software. Collecting your entire music, video and apps library in a single place, and offering a dead-easy purchasing platform, is no easy feat. But this is Apple we’re talking about, and we expect much more from a company that’s built its reputation on interface simplicity and “it just plain works” design.

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iOS 5.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak Update, iPhone 4S Unlock News, iPhone 4S Giveaway, iOS 5.1 & More

This is the sixty-fourth episode of BestTechInfo And Rumors! Links to the articles discussed in this episode: 1. iPhone 4S, 4, 3Gs, iPod Touch 4,3 & iPad 2,1 Jailbreak update: The Chronic Dev Team’s crash reporter: www.besttechinfo.com 2. Ac1dSn0w claims to Jailbreak iOS 5 and 5.0.1, bud does it really work? www.besttechinfo.com 3. “Very promising” iPhone 4S unlock in the works: www.besttechinfo.com 4. iPhone 4S Unlock update: baseband bottom dumped successfully: www.besttechinfo.com 5. iPhone 4S Giveaway: www.besttechinfo.com 6. iOS 5.1 beta 1 has been released: www.besttechinfo.com 7. 5.1 beta 1 features and changes: www.besttechinfo.com 8. New iPad (iPad 2,4) revealed in the iOS 5.1 firmware: www.besttechinfo.com 9. Apple’s next generation iPhone (iPhone 5,1) and iPad (iPad 3,3) are referenced in iOS 5.1: www.besttechinfo.com 10. Siri or Tellme, you decide (comparison video): www.besttechinfo.com 11. Siri can be used to watch and control videos on plea: www.besttechinfo.com 12. New Siri Proxy plugins allow for third-party texting, iTunes control, the launching of programs and remote wakeup: www.besttechinfo.com 13. Siri0us dictation (unfortunately, it was removed from Cydia): www.besttechinfo.com 14. How to try the Windows Phone 7 OS on your iPhone or Android phone: www.besttechinfo.com 15. Infinity Blade 2 overview: www.besttechinfo.com 16. Infinity Blade 2 review: www.besttechinfo.com Like my Facebook for more updates and interactions: on.fb.me Follow the Twitter …

Kindle Fire Software Update Doesn’t Fix Laggy Browser

As reported earlier Tuesday, Amazon has released a software update for its Kindle Fire tablet, promising enhanced “fluidity and performance” and improved “touch navigation responsiveness.” But nowhere in its update language does Amazon speak to improvements in the speed of its Silk browser.

As it turns out, the new software update doesn’t seem to improve browser performance to a significant degree. And that’s a shame, because laggy web-page load times are a real problem for Amazon’s tablet.

When I reviewed the Fire a little less than five weeks ago, I found the tablet’s browser performance to be bizarrely, inexplicably slow. The Fire, after all, has a 1GHz dual-core processor, just like the iPad 2 and all the Android/Honeycomb competitors. So on processing power alone, the Fire should have all the hardware it needs to deliver fast web browsing.

What’s more, the Fire is also supported by Amazon’s much-ballyhooed Silk technology, which splits processing and data-fetching workloads between the tablet itself and the cloud. As Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stated in a Sept. 28 press release before the Fire’s launch, “We refactored and rebuilt the browser software stack and now push pieces of the computation into the [Amazon Web Services] cloud. When you use Silk — without thinking about it or doing anything explicit — you’re calling on the raw computational horsepower of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to accelerate your web browsing.”

On paper, Silk web browsing sounds marvelous. But when I tested the Kindle Fire in November, I found page load times to be double and sometimes triple that of an iPad 2.

So, now, some five weeks later and updated for improved performance, how does the Kindle Fire stand up? After all, it’s not only received a software update to improve “fluidity and performance,” but the Silk browsing architecture has theoretically had time to “learn” the browsing behaviors of all Kindle Fire owners.

As Amazon describes it, “Traditional browsers must wait to receive the HTML file in order to begin downloading the other page assets. Silk is different because it learns these page characteristics automatically by aggregating the results of millions of page loads and maintaining this knowledge on EC2 [Elastic Compute Cloud].”

I’m sorry to report that even after updating my tablet to the 6.2.1 OS build, Fire page loads still lag significantly behind the very same loads on iPad 2.

Yes, it appears the Fire’s browsing performance has improved, and during testing I didn’t see 300 percent performance gaps between the Fire and iPad 2. But the numbers I’ve collected still indicate the Fire isn’t delivering on Amazon’s silky promises.

Below are some specific page load comparisons. Before testing anything, I cleared each tablet’s browser cache and history. For each test, I loaded a site’s URL into the browser’s address bar, and used a stopwatch to measure the time between hitting “go” on the onscreen keyboard, and when the very last object loaded in the page. Also, for the Kindle Fire, I left on the system default “Accelerate Page loading.” This toggle allows the Silk browser to tap into Amazon’s back-end cloud servers. Load times are measured in seconds; lower scores are better.

Wired.com — Fire: 7.1; iPad 2: 5.2
NFL.com — Fire: 13.6; iPad 2: 11.0
NBA.com — Fire: 13.6; iPad 2: 5.3
Microsoft.com — Fire: 5.4; iPad 2: 2.6
TheVerge.com — Fire: 13.4; iPad 2: 11.1
BoingBoing.net — Fire: 20.0; iPad 2: 13.8
Imdb.com — Fire: 9.8; iPad 2: 5.3
BBC.co.uk — Fire: 8.0; iPad 2: 6.6
Yahoo.com — Fire: 5.8; iPad 2: 2.7
Amazon.com — Fire: 8.5; iPad 2: 4.6

I’ll be the first to concede my testing lacks a number of important controls. While I tested both tablets just two feet away from a Wi-Fi router, I didn’t test each page load simultaneously, but rather sequentially — and varying server loads on the content-provider end can affect browser load times. And, of course, I used a simple stopwatch, not sensitive testing equipment, to measure page load times.

Nonetheless, my testing backs up my own anecdotal user experience: Web browsing on the Kindle Fire is still palpably slower than on the iPad 2. I’m no longer seeing page loads that take three times longer, but the performance delta still ranges from “noticeable” to some 200 percent.

Fire apologists will try to “explain away” the poor performance by reminding critics that the tablet is still only $200, a veritable impulse buy. And even I will concede that the Fire offers a nice set of features for its low entry price. Nonetheless, Amazon has celebrated Silk as breakthrough technology that supercharges browser performance, and nothing about the Kindle Fire experience delivers on that promise.

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Google+ Update Adds Subtle Tweaks, Enhancements

The new Google notifications drop-down menu contains more info on your most recent updates, letting you know whether clicking to check them out is a waste of time. Photo courtesy of Google

Not to be outdone by its peers, Google announced a series of product updates to its social network on Monday morning, catching up to a recent slew of social network makeovers.

Most of the updates are minor tweaks, aimed at refining the company’s product in response to user feedback — and also after eyeing development at Facebook and Twitter, no doubt.

Do you have a few Google+ friends who are obnoxiously prolific in their status updates? The new “graphic equalizer” essentially sticks a volume knob on every user, allowing you to adjust your exposure to annoying updates accordingly. So, if you’d rather not read up-to-the-minute coverage of your pal’s sick kitty, slide the equalizer button to the left and watch the offending updates dwindle (or disappear completely, if you’re really that tired of them).

Taking a cue from Facebook’s highly developed photo sharing system, Google revamped the photo viewing features of Google+. In the new version, the lightbox viewing environment gets a significant overhaul, allowing users to view pictures in full-screen mode, while one-by-one comments slowly populate the periphery.

Photo tagging is also now easier, and the traditional comment sidebar (the one that appears when not in full-screen lightbox mode) is now backlit with white, making it easier to read what friends have written. Finally, Google gives users a host of simple photo editing tools, so cropping, adding text, and overlaying goofy graphics (like antlers or santa hats) is fairly simple.

The updates come amid a veritable renaissance of social media product enhancements, as Facebook and Twitter have recently rolled out major aesthetic changes as well. Last week, Facebook finally rolled out its “Timeline” feature to users around the world — it’s a near-complete visual overhaul of how Facebook presents a user’s online activity and update history.

Similarly, Twitter reworked its own user interface in a recent unveiling. Twitter’s goal? To reduce confusion around some of its more heady product features (just try explaining what a hashtag is to your grandma, and you’ll know what the company is looking to address).

At first glance, Google’s most recent tweaks seem somewhat minor compared to other social media overhauls. But do consider that Google+ launched only six months ago, and it’s still the new kid on the block within the larger social media sphere. The Google+ team is still feeling its way around what users want from the service, and how to slowly build improvements that aren’t jarring.

In some respects, it could even be an advantage to hit the social game as late as Google has. The company has watched Facebook make a series of gaffes over the course of its development, as various updates have been met with extreme user backlash and privacy concerns. From Google’s perspective, incremental changes — deliberately doled out in response to user feedback — could serve to avoid unfortunate missteps.

While improving the average Joe’s Google+ experience is obviously key, Google is also trying to ramp up its appeal to the business crowd, offering a number of tweaks that make it easier for brands to manage their online expressions. In a perk for larger organizations, businesses can now add multiple managers to their Google+ pages. This means the burden of updating a brand’s page doesn’t fall on the shoulders of a single individual. Further, page managers can see an aggregate view of how many users are interacting with the business page.

Google’s business-focused improvements also follow similar changes at Facebook and Twitter. In February, Facebook launched a major overhaul of its “Pages” for businesses, giving page managers more granular control over what content visitors see, as well as the ability to interact with individual users as a brand page. Twitter also launched its own brand page enhancements, allowing businesses to pin content to the top of their brand page streams, and giving managers more creative control over the layout of the pages themselves.

As the social media sphere continues to heat up with more entrants to the scene every day, we expect continued enhancements and features to come. Our hope, however, is that the products aren’t “enhanced” to the point of being cumbersome, counterintuitive or no longer useful.

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‘Ship Today, Update Tomorrow’: The Modern Tablet Credo

The Kindle Fire has suffered from a clunky, sluggish UI since its launch. Photos by Jon Snyder/Wired.com

Of all the major hardware players, Amazon seemed best-equipped to battle Apple in the tablet market. Backed by Amazon’s massive resources, an online store full of content, and a very aggressive pricing strategy, the $200 Kindle Fire appealed to any consumer unwilling to spend $500 on an entry-level iPad 2.

Pre-orders were through the roof.

Unfortunately, the Fire didn’t deliver as expected. With a sluggish user interface, a poorly designed screen size for magazine viewing, and terrible performance in a browser that promised miracles, the Kindle Fire has left us rattled. Is this really the device that’s supposed to dethrone the iPad 2?

Amazon answered criticisms Monday with a solution that’s become increasingly more common for tablet manufacturers over the past year: the software update.

“In less than two weeks, we’re rolling out an over-the-air update to Kindle Fire that will improve performance, touch navigation, and give customers the option to choose what items display on the carousel,” an Amazon spokeswoman told Wired.com in a statement.

We’ll call it “ship today, update tomorrow.” The trend began earlier this year, when RIM first released its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in April. After learning the PlayBook wouldn’t ship with native e-mail, contacts and calendar apps, we all but pronounced the device D.O.A. But RIM continually pledged a software update, along with all the promised apps in tow. Nearly nine months later, the update is nowhere to be seen.

RIM promised a lot with the PlayBook, but ultimately failed to deliver. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com

Similarly, HP shipped its TouchPad with a number of performance issues, including a sluggish UI that often displays a “spinning wheel of death”-type icon when the user launches too many apps at once. HP also promised a series of updates that would improve performance — then, six weeks later, the company killed the tablet.

To be fair to these manufacturers, they’re a year behind Apple in the tablet arms race, and taking their sweet time isn’t exactly a luxury they can afford. The iPad beat everyone to market, capturing some 93 percent of the market in the third quarter of 2010. Today, the iPad still hovers somewhere in the 60 percent range as we close out 2011.

“The level of competition is increasing, while sales and product life cycles are decreasing,” Gartner analyst Phillip Redman said in an interview. “This puts a lot of pressure on companies to innovate quickly in order to compete.”

The problem is, when a manufacturer rushes a product to market, consumers often suffer the brunt. Whether it means cutting corners on user-experience testing, or fast-tracking hardware/software integration between the device and its OS, a quick rush to market is often self-defeating, leading to a speedy release of a half-baked product.

“The good thing is that [over the air] firmware updates make this possible,” said NPD analyst Benjamin Arnold in an interview. “But the bad news is that poor initial reviews can really hurt a product launch.”

Indeed, the PlayBook was almost universally panned, while many bemoaned the TouchPad’s hardware more than its polished software. And while a number of critics went easy on Amazon’s Fire last month, we walked away unimpressed.

What’s more, consumers generally aren’t buying the “ship today, update tomorrow” philosophy. RIM’s tablet tanked — the company claimed it shipped just 200,000 PlayBooks during the first quarter of the device’s release (and note that “shipped” does not necessarily mean “sold”). Compare that to Apple’s iPad sales that quarter, a reported 9.25 million units. And of course HP’s now discontinued TouchPad obviously went down in flames.

The now discontinued TouchPad. May it rest in peace. Jon Snyder/Wired.com

Unlike RIM and HP, however, Amazon looks like it’s escaping any real punitive damages of consumer criticism. For one thing, the Kindle Fire costs only $200, a far cry from the $500 starting points of many competitors. “With the Motorola Xoom at seven or eight hundred dollars, for instance, consumers expected a lot,” said Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps in a telephone interview. “At a price point like the Kindle Fire has, consumers are willing to be a lot more forgiving.”

And Amazon has another ace up its sleeve: An online ecosystem filled with content. The company currently hosts its own app store, a vast repository of MP3s, and more than a million different e-books for sale. Contrasted with RIM’s and HP’s meager app store offerings, Amazon’s digital environment is flourishing. “It works when you turn it on,” says Rotman Epps, “and there’s tons of content on it to use. That’s what people want.”

To be sure, while the Fire doesn’t perform very well in one’s hand, it seems to be doing well in terms of sales. While Amazon won’t share specific numbers (it never does), the company has taken to promote the tablet as “the most successful product we’ve ever launched,” having sold “millions of units” since its launch in November. Further, the company says it’s continuing to build “more to meet the strong demand,” according to an Amazon spokeswoman.

Still, other manufacturers seem to have found the sweet spot in pricing strategies, with product price tags hovering around the $200 range. If competition increases on the low-end, glitchy product releases followed by apologetic software updates may no longer cut it.

Indeed, Amazon may be preparing for as much. The company is reportedly working on a more capable version of the Fire to come the spring, according to The New York Times (Amazon declines to confirm or deny this development).

Perhaps the next credo for tablets will be “ship the first tablet today, ship the sequel tomorrow.”

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