Apple is looking for someone to oversee media streaming, according to a job advert on its website. And that can only mean one thing…
May, 2011
While we await Apple’s now almost-mythical iTunes Cloud service and cross our fingers that our dream of the iPod Cloud comes true, you can already get iPhone and iPad cloud streaming working! BoxyTunes, a new £0.59 iPhone and iPad app, turns your Dropbox account into a music locker and lets you stream music from it to your device.
While you can stream music from Dropbox in the standard app or access it using Safari’s built-in streaming smarts, BoxyTunes is a lot more elegant with multitasking, AirPlay support and a quick rewind button. It doesn’t support multiple playlists which is a bumber but otherwise it’s a great option until Apple pulls its finger out and gives us its vision of an iOS streaming service.
Out now | £0.59 | iTunes (via Lifehacker)
With the new iMac and new MacBook Pro both rocking upgraded CPUs and Thunderbolt ports, the MacBook Air looks like a prime candidate for the next overhaul…
Electricpig cordially invites you to submit pictures of your Man Cave to our Man Cave Of The Year competition. It could be a tech’ed up basement with a home cinema and a pool table, a garage tricked out with a little recording studio or some vintage arcade machines, a bedroom with an awesome TV on the wall or a lounge maxed out with a killer collection of gaming consoles. Read on to find out how to enter…
BREAKING: Take this with a huge pinch of salt but a video purporting to show an internal Nintendo demonstration of its Wii HD/ Project Cafe console has appeared on YouTube. You can’t see much up close, but as well as slides detailing the high def box, you can make out a live prototype in the corner of the screen. Read on to see it!
Intel has been talking up its smartphone plans for ages but it’s finally shown an Intel Medfield prototype onstage and is promising Intel-based plans from “major players” later this year.
It also gave Nokia a subtle dig in the wake of the Finns leaving Meego behind to Windows Phone 7. Intel CEO Paul Otellini says: “[Nokia] was, in hindsight, perhaps the wrong partner to have picked.” That’s the understatement of the year so far but while Intel’s Nokia love affair has faltered, it’s got love for Android now…
Apple slimmed down the humble SIM with the microSIM standard that arrived with the iPad and has stayed put for the iPhone 4 and iPad 2. However, it seems that drastic plastic weight loss was not enough. Apple is now pushing a proposal to produce an even smaller SIM standard to allow it to produce thinner devices and frustrate unlockers…
Rise and shine ladies and gentlemen, it’s about that time for another edition of the US Update. Kicking off the morning news is an announcement from Sony, outlining the company’s ‘Welcome Back Program’ to restore peace and harmony in the PlayStation Network. We take a look at an Android security threat current affecting 99 percent of users and then review more specs for the iPhone 5.