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Filed under: App Store The iTunes App Store has been more than a little embattled in the last couple of months, but at least one app developer is soldiering on: according to Engadget , the maker of Slingbox, Sling Media, has recently submitted SlingPlayer Mobile 1.1 to Apple for approval. The most significant changes involve true 16:9 widescreen support that utilizes all 3.5 glorious inches of the iPhone or iPod touch screen, and a new browser for Dish Network users that has touch support and is native to iPhone OS, as opposed to pushing through the standard browsing screen used on TVs
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5 Aug 2009Filed under: iPhone , iPod touch There are at least 27 Netflix related iPhone apps according to Macworld . Their purposes differ but most of them are designed to let you manage your movie queue. A new player is about to enter the arena: Netflix itself, who intends to bring “Watch Instantly” video streaming to the iPhone/iPod touch and the Nintendo Wii. At present Netflix streams over 12,000 movies and TV shows over a large variety of devices including Intel-based Macs . Todd Spangler of Mutichannel.com speculates, and I agree with him totally, that when released, streaming will be limited to Wi-Fi only
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22 Jul 2009Filed under: Software , Odds and ends , Other Events , Developer , iPhone , iPod touch iPhone developers who weren’t able to make it to this year’s WWDC are in luck — the 360 | iDev Conference is planned for September 27 – 30, 2009 at the Curtis Hotel in downtown Denver, Colorado. The conference is being organized by 360 | Conferences, the team that presented the highly successful 360 | iDev conference in San Jose, CA earlier this year
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19 Jul 2009Filed under: Software , WWDC , iPhone , iPod touch I guess you could say I’m an armchair foodie. Strangely enough, once I started working at home I rarely got the chance to cook a proper meal. It doesn’t help that my kids have typical kid palates, and attempts to “get fancy” with the ingredients are met with wrinkled noses and frowning faces
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24 Jun 2009Filed under: iPod Family , Software Update , iPhone , Apple TV Apple has quietly pushed out software updates for both the Apple TV and the Remote application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The update, identified as version 2.4 for the Apple TV, and version 1.3 (24) for the Remote app, adds gesture support for controlling Apple TV from your iPhone or iPod. Our in-house Apple TV geeks, Megan Lavey and Christina Warren , both installed the updates and gave them a try
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21 Jun 2009Filed under: Podcasts , iPhone , iPod touch It’s on the master list of 3.0 features , but we’ve been sent enough tips and suggestions about it to conclude that the advanced podcast/audiobook controls came as a pleasant surprise for lots of iPhone and iPod touch owners who upgraded.
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18 Jun 2009Filed under: iPod touch iPod touch users are finally getting a taste of what iPhone users have had since iPhone OS 2.2 : Google Street View. iPhone 3.0 Software Update for iPod touch includes an update to the Maps application that enables Google Street View, and it works just like it does on the iPhone.
The outside of the box said "Windows base machine or better", so I bought a Mac.