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March, 2011
There’s an Apple software glitch creeping around, and it’s affecting new MacBook Pros, and some 2011 MacBook Pros. The problem is in the connection between an iOS device and the Macbook Pro. Read on for more info.
The Nintendo 3DS is the most pre-ordered console ever according to Amazon. The Nintendo 3DS is due to hit shelves at the end of next week, with a midnight opening event happening at HMV stores across the country.
While there’s still one week left until its release, the Nintendo 3DS has already beaten the PS3 and the Nintendo Wii. The Nintendo 3DS has beaten the PS3 by 20%, and has 56% more pre-orders than the Nintendo Wii.
Remember Richard Branson’s Project magazine? The one we haven’t heard much more than a peep out of since its launch? Well, if you were put off because you had to pay, you might want to take another look at Project. The debut had some technical problems, but the interactive Jeff Bridges cover looked slick, and now, thanks to a whopping great big sponsorship deal from American Express, Project magazine will be free for all, for the forseeable future.
Could this have something to so with the Apple subscription model? Branson’s sponsorship deal means that because he can give away Project magazine for free, he doesn’t have to give Apple its 30% cut.
Could more iPad magazines follow suit? Click through to shout out in the comments!
If you’re a Virgin TiVo customer you’ll now be able to get your digital mitts on the third Virgin TiVo tuner. The new tuner activation means Virgin TiVo customers can record two programmes, and watch a third, all at the same time, giving some multitasking smarts to your TiVo box that other set top boxes can only dream of.
At the maximum TV capture you can push the TiVo box to record three live programmes at the same time, whilst watching something stored on your Virgin TiVo box hard drive.
Out now | Free | Virgin
It’s Thursday lunchtime, so we reckon it’s time for an impromptu celebration. Kick back right here with a roundup of all the latest news and views in gadgetry and games from this fine AM.
The iPhone 4 personal hotspot feature that popped up with iOS 4.3 is more useful than we first realised.
It turns out that tethering an iPhone with the personal hotspot feature to a WiFi-only iPad or iPad 2 will give you almost the same GPS smarts as you’d get with the iPad 3G+WiFi. It’s largely restricted to the native Maps apps but you can use your iPhone to send GPS data to you iPad and enjoy checking out the map on that bigger, more easily read screen. You can see the iPhone + iPad GPS sharing smarts in action after the break…
Here’s an intriguing little feature set to appear in Mac OS X Lion: an interactive iTunes screensaver. The current Album Cover screensaver is due for an upgrade with the ability to hover your mouse over an album cover and play it there and then.
The new screensaver will give you the option to change iTunes tracks, pause, play and stop them and there’s talk that those functions will be opened up to developers which would mean we’d get a slew of interactive music-enabled screensavers. If you’re intrigued about what else to expect from the next Mac OS X, try our Mac OS X Lion guide.